Research Groups

List of Research Groups

Advanced Electrochemical Device Research Group  » Group page

Leader	OKUMURA Toyoki
Staff	TAKEUCHI Tomonari, MORINO Yusuke, OTOYAMA Misae, GAMO Hirotada, FUJITA Yushi, KOBAYASHI Hironori*
Brief Introduction	Our group is developing battery materials such as solid electrolytes and high-capacity metal polysulfide electrodes, and also conducting R&D of energy storage devices with energy density, safety, and reliability (all-solid-state batteries, innovative batteries, etc.).

Advanced Battery Research Group  » Group page

Leader	YOSHII Kazuki
Staff	SIROMA Zyun, KUBOTA Keigo, MAEYOSHI Yuta, YAMAMOTO Hiroki, ITO Yuta, SANO Hikaru*
Brief Introduction	Our research topics mainly focused on electrode materials and interface control between the electrode and electrolyte to realize advanced rechargeable battery.

Molecular Function Energy Device Research Group  » Group page

Leader	YAO Masaru
Staff	SANO Hikaru, KATO Minami, FUKUMA Saki, AKAI Ryota
Brief Introduction	The demands for batteries are ever growing with respect to their energy density, safety, life-cycle, cost, concern for the resource and environment, etc. We are exploring the potential of key new material systems that can replace the current battery materials.

Research Group of Functional Material for Energy  » Group page

Leader	KATAOKA Riki
Staff	FUJIWARA Naoko, MASESE Titus Nyamwaro, ISHIDA Naoya, INOUE Yuta, TAKEICHI Nobuhiko*, TSUDA Yuki*
Brief Introduction	We engage in the creation of new functional materials and the development of technologies for the characterization of these materials with consideration of cost and resource supply risk. Based on the development of functional materials, we would like to design new type of devices that are clean and have low resource risk.

Materials Science Research Group  » Group page

Leader	MAEDA Yasushi
Staff	OZAKI Hiroyuki, HINUMA Yoyo, KITTA Mitsunori, YAMAGISHI Yuji, TANAKA Shingo*, KIYOBAYASHI Tetsu*
Brief Introduction	In order to contribute to the development of new devices, this research group is engaged in basic research on surface and interface phenomena of functional materials via a combination of microscopic observation using electron microscopy and scanning-probe microscopy and first-principles calculation.

Battery System Research Group  » Group page

Leader	TAKEICHI Nobuhiko
Staff	MATSUMOTO Hajime, UCHIDA Satoshi, ICHIHARA Fumihiko, YOSHIDA Luna, ISHII Yusuke, KURATANI Kentaro*, SENOH Hiroshi*, OZAKI Hiroyuki*
Brief Introduction	This group has long experience in a range of materials technologies to develop hydrogen batteries, lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells, evaluation and analysis technologies, and integrated technologies. Our joint research with industry and university partners has promoted development of new practically-oriented materials and performance evaluation in actual battery and fuel cell systems.

Advanced Fuel Cell Research Group  » Group page

Leader	IOROI Tsutomu
Staff	YAMAZAKI Shin-ichi, ASAHI Masafumi, NAGAI Tsukasa, CHIDA Yoshihiro, SIROMA Zyun*
Brief Introduction	Advanced fuel cell research group is mainly engaging in the development of new materials and concept regarding polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs), which can be used for fuel cell vehicles (FCV) and stationary fuel cell cogeneration systems (ENE-FARM), and polymer electrolyte water electrolyzers, which enables highly efficient hydrogen production from renewable energy.