AIMS

Toward the development of environmental-friendly energy conversion devices
Scientists and engineers in the 21st century have a great responsibility to solve environmental and energy problems for achieving a sustainable society. Our laboratory contributes to solve above-mentioned problems throughout fundamental and application researches on environmental-friendly energy-conversion devices, such as solid oxide fuel cells and lithium ion secondary batteries. In particular, focusing on solid-state ion-conducting materials, we are challenging to establish an academic discipline on “solid-state ionics”, and applying this to develop novel materials and to improve performance/reliability of the energy conversion devices. We are also working for the development of advanced in situ analytical techniques for solid-state ionic devices.

Improvement of performance and reliability of solid oxide fuel cells/lithium-ion secondary batteries Development of advanced in situ analytical techniques for electrochemical energy conversion devices Basic research on electrochemical phenomena at hetero-interfaces Design and synthesis of novel solid state ionic conductors

Figure, Schematics of our research