多元材料科学研究所（简称多元研究所）是整合传统不同领域的前三个实验室（材料工程实验室、科学测量实验室和反应化学实验室）于2001年4月成立的，其宗旨是建立“多元材料科学及其应用研究”。

从2010年开始，作为开创性网络型联合利用和联合研究中心的“物质与设备领域联合研究中心”，（除了多学科研究所外，与北海道大学电子科学研究所、东京工业大学化学生命科学研究所、大阪大学工业科学研究所和九州大学领先材料化学研究所的合作项目），也与基地用户一起取得了许多研究成果。从2022财年开始，网络活动进入第三阶段，作为“以人、知识和物质创造未来的交叉联盟”业务的总部，MyoroKen将高效、先进地开展合作活动。

另一方面，自2016财年以来，作为促进下一代同步辐射设施规划的核心部门，Drikuri实验室积极向国内外宣传其重要性，并与大学、宫城县和东北经济团体联合会合作，作为下一代创新的关键高亮度软X射线光源。2019年3月底，东北大学青叶山新校区开工建设。同年10月，国际同步辐射创新与智能研究中心成立，这是一个利用同步辐射的学术组织，多个研究小组从多元实验室转移，以支持其活动。

多元研究所积极开展跨学科研究，创造和开发新的物质科学技术研究，改变物质和材料领域的成见，传播对社会有贡献的成果。此外，该研究所还积极促进产业-学术-政府合作，并作为向社会开放的实验室开展活动。此外，根据与20多个海外研究机构的协议，开展了许多国际联合研究，以促进研究，目标是成为国际材料科学和技术研究中心。

近年来，它被认证为网络型的全国联合使用和联合研究中心，并跃升为向全国研究人员社区开放的组织。

The Institute of Multivariate Materials Science (hereinafter referred to as the Multivariate Institute) was established in April 2001 by integrating the first three laboratories (Materials Engineering Laboratory, Scientific Measurement Laboratory and Reaction Chemistry Laboratory) that integrate traditional different fields, with the purpose of establishing "Multivariate Materials Science and Its Applied Research".

Since 2010, the "Joint Research Center in the Field of Materials and Equipment" (a joint project with the Institute of Electronic Science of Hokkaido University, the Institute of Chemical and Life Sciences of Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Institute of Industrial Science of Osaka University, and the Institute of Advanced Materials Chemistry of Kyushu University) as a pioneering network-based joint utilization and joint research center, has also achieved many research results together with site users. Starting from FY2022, the network activity enters the third phase, and MyoroKen will carry out cooperative activities efficiently and advanced as the headquarters of the "cross-alliance business that creates the future with people, knowledge, and materials".

On the other hand, since FY2016, Drikuri Laboratory has been actively promoting its importance both domestically and overseas as a core department that promotes the planning of next-generation synchrotron radiation facilities, and has collaborated with universities, Miyagi Prefecture, and the Tohoku Economic Groups Federation as a key high-brightness soft X-ray light source for next-generation innovation. At the end of March 2019, the construction of Tohoku University's Aobayama New Campus began. In October of the same year, the International Synchrotron Radiation Innovation and Intelligence Research Center was established, an academic organization that uses synchrotron radiation, and several research groups were transferred from multidisciplinary laboratories to support its activities.

The Multidisciplinary Research Institute actively conducts interdisciplinary research, creates and develops new material science and technology research, changes stereotypes in the field of materials and materials, and disseminates results that contribute to society. In addition, the institute actively promotes industry-academia-government cooperation and conducts activities as a laboratory open to society. In addition, under agreements with more than 20 overseas research institutions, many international joint research is carried out to promote research, with the goal of becoming an international materials science and technology research center.

In recent years, it has been certified as a network-based national joint use and joint research center, and has leapt to become an organization open to the national community of researchers.