On July 3^rd, a delegation of scientists coming from French National Research Institutions and French companies came to the School of Engineering of Tohoku University. Their visit followed the France-Japan Symposium on “Advanced Materials for Energy Future” held in Tokyo on June 30^th and July 1^st and co-organized by the Science Council of Japan, the French Embassy and the French Academy of Science. Their one-day trip in Sendai consisted of visiting laboratories conducting the same research as theirs on various themes such as high temperature materials, storage energy, and metallurgy…