The latest news from Professor Yoshitaka Tateyama (Click).
The latest news from Associate Professor Yasunobu Ando (Click).
News
2025/11/18:[PAPER] A paper by PD Che-an Lin et al. elucidating the Na cluster formation mechanism and Na ion diffusion mechanism in sodium-ion battery hard carbon anodes using DFT calculations was published in Adv. Energy Mater. (IF=26). This work was also featured as a major achievement of the JST-GteX research in a press release from Science Tokyo and JST. Congratulations, Che-an-san!
2025/11/10:[PAPER] A collaborative research paper on AI-based automatic analysis of complex spectra by Professor Masato Kotsugu of Tokyo University of Science, Professor Iwao Matsuda of the University of Tokyo, Professor Takehiro Kondo of the University of Tsukuba, and Associate Professor Ando was published in Sci. Rep. (IF=3.9). A press release was also issued by Tokyo University of Science, Science Tokyo, JST, the University of Tokyo, and the University of Tsukuba.
2025/11/01:[INTERNATIONAL,PRESENTATION] Professor Tateyama delivered a keynote lecture at the 2025 ICGET-TW held at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan. He also had dinner with NIMS Principal Researcher Randy Jalem (invited speaker), an alumnus of the Tateyama Lab, NCKU Associate Professor Hong-Kang Tian, and members of Tian group. We thank Prof. Tian for his hospitality! [Photo: Dinner with Principal Researcher Jalem, Associate Professor Tian, and members of the Tian Group]
2025/10/30: [INTERNATIONAL, PRESENTATION] The kick-off meeting for CECAM-TW (Taiwan node) (led by Academia Sinica, with Prof. Jer-Lai Kuo as Director) was held at Academia Sinica, IAMS in Taipei, Taiwan. Professor Tateyama gave an invited lecture as the Japanese representative. Prof. Amalendu Chandra also participated.
2025/10/29: [INTERNATIONAL] We held a research exchange meeting at a meeting room within Haneda Airport with Pror. Karsten Reuter, Director of the Fritz-Haber Institute・Theory Department in Berlin, Germany, who was invited as a Plenary Speaker for ASIAN-26. Professor Tateyama, Associate Professor Ando, Assistant Professor Nakashima, D3 student Dan Ito, D2 student Feye-Feng Lu, and M1 student Rikiya Mizobuchi participated. Future research collaboration is anticipated. [Photo: Group photo with Prof. Reuter @ Haneda Airport]
2025/10/27:[INTERNATIONAL,WORKSHOP] The 26th Asian Workshop on First-Principles Electronic Structure Calculations (ASIAN-26) was held at the Tsukuba International Conference Center from Monday, October 27 to Wednesday, October 29, 2025. Professor Tateyama served as Co-chair. Associate Professor Ando, Assistant Professor Sasaki, PD Che-an Lin, PD An Niza El Aisnada, PD Ying Dou, D3 student Dan Ito, D2 student Feye-Feng Lu, M1 student Riku Kitano, and M1 student Rikiya Mizobuchi presented posters. Additionally, Assistant Professor Nakashima and B4 student Taro Sakaguchi participated. This workshop is one of the final-year international conferences for the “Fugaku” Materials Physics and Chemistry Project. [Photos: ASIAN-26 Group Photo]
2025/10/26: [INTERNATIONAL] A mini reunion was held in Tsukuba among current members of the Tateyama Group (Professor Tateyama, Assistant Professor Sasaki, PD Dou, D2 student Lu, M1 student Mizobuchi, M1 student Kitano, B4 student Sakaguchi) and Tateyama Group alumni including Associate Professor Bo Gao from Jilin University and Principal Researcher Randy Jalem from NIMS.
2025/10/21: An interview article featuring Associate Professor Ando was published on the “Creating the Future with People, Knowledge, and Materials: Crossover Alliance” website.
2025/10/07: [PRESENTATION, INTERNATIONAL, AWARD] At the leading international conference on Na-ion batteries, ICNaB (10th), held in Sydney, Australia, Professor Tateyama gave an invited talk, and PD Che-an Lin presented a poster. Che-an also received the Poster Award. Congratulations! [Photo: Conference Photo, Professor Tateyama’s Lecture, Che-an’s Award Ceremony]
2025/10/01:[STUDENT] M1 student Rikiya Mizobuchi passed the qualification review for the Materials and Information Excellence Course. Rikiya-san, congratulations!
2025/10/01:[NEWCOMER] Researcher (PD) SI Qianli (司千里) and M1 student WANG Zhen (王臻) have joined our group. Welcome!
2025/10/01:[PAPER] A collaborative paper by former Tateyama Group member NIMS Principal Researcher Randy JALEM on Li-ion conduction at all-solid-state battery interfaces was published in Small Methods (IF=9.1). Randy-san, congratulations!
2025/09/29:[INTERNATIONAL] Dr. Simone Piccinin (CNR-IOM) gave a lecture at the CLS Seminar. [Photo: Seminar scene & Party scene]
2025/09/25:[INTERNATIONAL,NEWCOMER] Dr. Simone Piccinin, Principal Researcher (Specialty: DFT Calculations, Surface/Interface Reactions) from CNR-IOM – Trieste, Italy, will be visiting our group for collaborative research until October 16. [Photo: Dr. Simone Piccinin]
2025/09/09:[PRESENTATION,AWARD] At the 19th Molecular Science Symposium held in Hiroshima, M1 student Riku Kitano gave a poster presentation, and D3 student Dan Ito made his oral presentation debut. Assistant Professor Sasaki also gave a poster presentation. Furthermore, Prof. Amalendu Chandra gave an invited lecture and delivered remarks at the banquet, and Professor Tateyama received the 10th Molecular Science International Academic Award. [Photos: Riku’s poster, Dan’s oral presentation, reception scene including Prof. Chandra’s speech, Dr. Shiga (JAEA) and Prof. Tateyama who jointly received the International Academic Award, award ceremony scene]
2025/08/25: [PRESENTATION, INTERNATIONAL] Professor Tateyama, Assistant Professor Sasaki, Assistant Professor Nakashima, PD An Niza El Aisnada, D3 Student Haru Ito, and D1 Student Feye-Feng Lu presented posters at the Psi-k Conference 2025 held at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Associate Professor Ando also attended. [Photo: Group Photo in front of the venue]
2025/08/05:[PRESENTATION] D3 student Dan Ito and M1 student Rikiya Mizobuchi participated in the 19th Solid State Ionic Materials Seminar held in Matsushima Town, Miyagi Prefecture. Dan was also selected as a Young Invited Speaker. (Last year, Assistant Professor Sasaki gave the Young Invited Talk.)
2025/07/30:[PAPER] A collaborative research paper with Associate Professor Gao Bo of Jilin University (formerly in the Tateyama Gr) on the Li-ion conduction mechanism in perovskite-type solid electrolytes using “on-the-fly machine learning potentials” was published in J. Mater. Chem. A. Congratulations, Bo-san!
2025/07/28: [PRESENTATION, INTERNATIONAL] At the international conference on all-solid-state batteries and solid electrolytes, LLZO5WC, held at Stanford University in the United States, Professor Tateyama gave an invited talk, and D1 student Feye-Feng Lu presented a poster. Additionally, we reunited with Mr. Lukas Ketter, a Ph.D. student from Wolfgang Zeier Group in University of Münster, who had previously participated in the JSPS Summer Program at our group in 2024, and engaged in discussions regarding collaborative research. [Photos: Feye-Feng in front of his poster / Feye-Feng, Lukas, and Professor Tateyama]
2025/07/15:[PAPER] A joint research paper on Na-ion battery cathodes by Prof. Shinichi Komaba, Dr. Shinichi Kumakura, Prof. Tateyama, and Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Huu Duc Luong has been published in Adv. Mater. A press release was also issued by Tokyo University of Science and Institute of Science Tokyo.
2025/07/07:[INTERNATIONAL] Prof. Michiel Sprik (Univ. of Cambridge) gave a talk in the CLS seminar series (Organizer = Prof. Tateyama).
2025/07/07:[INTERNATIONAL,NEWCOMER] Emeritus Prof. Michiel Sprik (Yusef Hamied Department of chemistry, Univ. of Cambridge, UK), an authority in theoretical and computational electrochemistry, stays in Tateyama-Ando Group as a specially appointed Professor for 7-30 July 2025. [Photo: Prof. Michiel Sprik] 
2025/06/30: [PAPER] A paper of Mr. Dan Ito (D3 student) & Prof. Yoshi Tateyama, on ion transport in Prussian Blue crystals, was published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. It’s also press-released from Science Tokyo, JST, Waseda Univ. & Yamagata Univ. It’s also introduced at HPCI portal-site & 「富岳百景」site. Congrats, Dan!
2025/06/23: [PRESENTATION] Prof. Yoshi Tateyama gave a plenary talk in International Symposium on AI for Electrochemistry (iSAIEC 2025), held in Xiamen Univ., China. [Photos: Group photo, Prof. Jun Cheng+ organizing committee members +Prof. Hyungjun Kim]
2025/06/17: [STUDENT] Mr. Qianli Si (D3 student) completed his ph.D defense. He will soon get a ph. D degree. Congrats, Qianli!
2025/06/16: [MEETING] The 90th Solid-State Ionics Meeting (in Japan) “Recent progress of ionics theory and calculation”(Organizer = Prof. Yoshi Tateyama) was held in Ookayama Campus of Science Tokyo. We appreciate many participants and extensive discussions. [Photos: Group photo, photo of the final party]
2025/05/08: [INTERNATIONAL] Prof. Amalendu Chandra (IIT Kanpur / Science Tokyo(sabbatical)) gave a talk in the CLS seminar series (Organizer = Prof. Tateyama).
2025/05/05: [PAPER] A paper of Mr. Qianli Si (D3 student) & Prof. Yoshi Tateyama, on ML model development for cycle life prediction of Li-metal battery with EIS data, was published in Adv. Sci. Congrats, Qianli!
2025/03/01: [INTERNATIONAL,NEWCOMER] Professor Amalendu Chandra (specializing in MD calculations of solutions, interfaces, and bio-systems) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur will be working in Tateyama-Ando Group as a specially appointed professor for one year until February 2026. We are currently planning various international collaborative research projects.[Photo: Prof. Amalendu Chandra]
Highlight
2025/06/30: A paper by D3 student Dan Ito et al., elucidating the underlying mechanism of fast Na-ion diffusion in Prussian Blue cathode for Na-ion battery, was published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Besides, press releases were issued by Institute of Science Tokyo, JST, Waseda University, and Yamagata University.
2025/05/05: A paper by D3 student Qianli Si et al., developing a novel machine learning model for the capacity degradation curve of Li metal batteries based on “electrochemical impedance data”, which has rarely been used before, was published in Adv. Sci.
2025/03/29: A paper by Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Huu Duc Luong et al., proposing a new mechanism leading to battery cathode degradation ~Simultaneous transition-metal and oxygen migration~ based on the first-principles calculation results, was published in J. Power Sources.
2025/02/19: A paper by Assistant Professor, Ryoma Sasaki et al., developing a new method “Constant Current Non-Equilibrium MD Method” that enables high-speed, high-precision ion conductivity calculations, was published in PRX Energy. Besides, press releases were issued by Institute of Science Tokyo, JST. 
2024/11/29: A paper by D1 student Feye-Feng Lu et al., elucidating the negative and positive effects of protons on the Li-ion conductions in Garnet LLZO solid electrolyte, under collaboration between Prof. Tian group (National Cheng Kung U.) and Prof. Tateyama group, was published in J. Power Sources.
2024/08/28: A joing research paper with Prof. Masashi Okubo and Prof. Kosuke Kawai in Waseda University, with Prof. Tateyama and Postdoc Dr. Seong-Hoon Jang was published inAngew Chem. Int. Ed. “EwaldSolidSolution”, developed mainly by Dr. Seong-Hoon Jang, was extended to proton configuration search, and largely contributed to the paper.
Activity
2025/07/25: Farewell lunch for Prof. Michiel Sprik, with Prof. Amalendu Chandra, Dan, Takeru, Ryoma, and Yoshi.
2025/07/07: Welcome party for Prof. Michiel Sprik and Congrats party for some members.
2025/04/15: Welcome “Yakiniku” party for Specially Appointed Professor Amalendu Chandra (IIT Kanpur) and new B4 and M1 students.
2025/04/10: FY2025 group photos under cherry trees!
2024/12/20: Year-end party (a tradition in Japan)!. Welcome, Icha (An Niza El Aisnada, PD), Dan (Dan Ito, D2 student in Waseda U.): Welcome back, Zizhen (from USA), and good luck, Ryoma (to Australia)!
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