Masaei ITO

Masaei ITO Ph.D.
Senior Researcher,
Schlumberger K. K.
Fuchinobe 2-2-1, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0206 Japan
Tel:  (81) 42-759-5262; Fax: (81) 42-759-5489; Email:

EDUCATION:
B.S South China University of Technology, (China)
M.S.  The University of Tokyo, (Japan)
Ph.D.  Shinshu University, (Japan)

RESEARCH CAREER: 
Dr. Ito joins to Schlumberger in 1992, works on the development of oil exploration and exploitation technology, since 2006, through the joint research with Prof. Morinobu Endo of Shinshu University to development of high performance material Nanocomposites technology. From 2007, Dr. Ito becomes a key researcher of three Japanese national projects, funding by METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology) and JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency). In 2010, Dr. Ito successfully commercialized the HTHP (high temperature high pressure) sealing system using this newly developed innovative Carbon Nanotube/rubber composite material, and applied to HTHP reservoirs and deep water [1].  He marks first successful story in the world to introduce the nanotechnology for oilfield, to enables quantum leap in oil recovery, to detente the energy crisis.

Patents:
Filed 27 patents related to Nanocomposites technology from 2008.
• Granted one: US 7919554 B2
• Pubishied 10: PCT/WO 2009/125503 A1, EP 2275720 A1, PCT/WO 2011077598 A1, US 20110160375 A1, PCT/WO 2011077595 A1, US 20110160375 A1, PCT/2011077596 A1, US 20110156355 A1, PCT/WO 2011077597 A1, US 20110156356 A1.
• Pending 16 patents.

JOURNAL PAPERS and Present in Conference:
• Published refeed jounal paper: 9 (three samples)
[1]  Masaei Ito, Toru Noguchi, Hiroyuki Ueki, Kenji Takeuchi, Morinobu Endo: “Carbon Nanotube enables quantum leap in the oil recovery”, Materials Research Bulletin, Vol.46 (2011), p1480-1484.
[2]  Fei Deng, Masaei Ito, Toru Noguchi, Lifeng Wang, Hiroyuki Ueki, Ken-ichi Niihara, Yoong Ahm Kim, Morinobu Endo & Quan-Shui Zheng: “Elucidation of the Reinforcing Mechanism in Carbon Nanotube/Rubber Nanocomposites”, ACS_NANO, Vol.5 (2011), p3858-3866.
[3]  M. Endo, T. Noguchi, M. Ito, K. Takeuchi, T. Hayashi, Y. A. Kim, H. Jinnai, M. Terrones, M. S. Dresselhaus: "Extreme-Performance Rubber Nanocomposites for Probing and Excavating Deep Oil Resources Using Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes", Advanced Functional Materials,Vol. 18 (2008), p3403-3409.
• Keynote, present and poster in conference 19 times,
• Lecture and present in internal conference 12 times.