Computational and data science research on storage batteries at Tateyama Group is at the cutting edge, even on a global scale. Therefore, we have friendly research exchanges with top researchers around the world, while also engaging in detailed (and sometimes heated) research discussions. We are also conducting various cutting-edge research in theoretical calculations in the fields of electrochemistry, surface science, and ion dynamics. We have a wide network with both the theoretical calculation researcher community and the experimental researcher community for batteries and catalysts (electrochemistry).

Latest research, Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science (CLS), Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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Projects:

• MEXT ‘Fugaku’ Acceleration Program for Creating Results, Large-scale Collaborative Research Project ‘Exploration and Control of High-performance, Long-life Materials for Sustainable Growth through Physics-Chemistry Collaboration’ (Fugaku Materials Physics and Chemistry Project:Fugaku-MPC Project) Project Leader. Project website
• MEXT DxMT ‘Research Centre for Electrochemical Materials for Maximum Introduction of Renewable Energy (The University of Tokyo) DX-GEM’ Theoretical Calculation Group, Group Leader
• JST GteX, Battery Storage Domain, ‘Development of Sodium-ion Batteries with No Resource Constraints’, Mechanism Elucidation Group, Group Leader
• JST CREST (Kitagawa area) ‘Creation of molecular crystal all-solid-state batteries’ (Hitosugi CREST), Principal Investigator
• NEDO SOLiD-Next (Evaluation and development of fundamental technologies for next-generation all-solid-state battery materials) Satellite research and development organisation Academia (Principal Investigator (PI))
•  JST ASPIRE ‘Fundamental Innovation in Energy Storage Technology and Net-Zero Society Realised by a Distributed International Network’ Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, ‘Revolutionary Materials Design through the Understanding of Non-Equilibrium and Collective Motion of Ion Flow’ (Ion Traffic Theory) Planned Group A01 (Ando Group) Research Collaborator
• JST Co-creation of Innovation Program (COI-NEXT): NIMS Advanced Battery Research and Development Centre (ABC) Computational Science Team Team Leader
•  Joint researches wit 3 companies
•  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas ‘Science of Interface Ionic Dynamics for Creation of Energy Storage Solid Devices’ (Energy Storage Solid Interface Science) Planned Theoretical, Computational and Data Science Group (A03) Group Leader. Completed successfully on 31 March 2024.

Invited talks:

2024/11/10-14: Prof. Tateyama will give an invited talk at the international conference on Na-ion batteries, ICNaB, to be held at Pacific North-Western National Lab. in Washington State, USA.

2024/09/04-07: Prof. Tateyama gave an invited talk at the Japan-France International Conference on Batteries, to be held in Matsue City.

2024/08/05-08: Prof. Tateyama gave an invited talk at the small-group ‘Workshop on Interfacial Chemistry and Charge Transfer for Energy Storage and Conversion’ held in Telluride, Colorado, USA, and had in-depth discussions with the participants. (Group photo, Telluride Science & Innovation Center, hiking with Prof. Yue Qi)

2024/07/31: Prof. Tateyama and Assistant Prof. Sasaki attended and gave presentations in the meeting held in Shizuoka Univ. for Hitosugi Project “Development of Molecular-Crystal Solid-State Batteries” in JST CREST [Exploring Unknown Materials]Exploring Innovative Materials in Unknown Search Space region.

2024/07/21-23: Prof. Tateyama visited the University of Cambridge. He had discussions with Prof. Clare P. Grey PI and Prof. Michael De Volder GL of the Faraday Institution, a virtual institute for rechargeable batteries in UK. He also had discussions with Prof. Michel Sprik of theoretical chemistry, with whom he had previously collaborated. (Last photo = with Prof. De Volder in front of the Bridge of Sighs after dinner at St. John’s College)

2024/07/15-20: Prof. Tateyama gave an oral presentation at Solid State Ionics 2024 (15-19 July 2024, QE II Centre, London, UK), a leading international conference on solid state ionics. He also gave an invited lecture at the ‘UK-Japan Next-Generation Batteries Seminar’ held at King’s College London on 20 July. (Dinner on the first day at Pizza Express (with Prof. Amezawa (Tohoku U.), Prof. Hitosugi(U. Tokyo), Prof. Moriya (Shizuoka U.), Prof. Yamazaki (Kyushu U.), Prof. Kobayashi (RIKEN), Prof. Kawai (Waseda U.); Dinner on the second day at a pub (with Prof. Ohno (Tohoku U.), Prof. Taminato (Mie U.), Prof. Hikima(Tohoyashi U. of Technology), Prof. Kasamatsu (Yamagata U.), Prof. Yamazaki (Kyushu U.), Prof. Nasu (Hokkaido U.), Prof. Okubo (Waseda U.))

2024/06/27: We held a workshop with Prof. Yue Qi, who was visiting us, and all-solid-state battery material researchers (Prof. Kanno, Prof. Hirayama, Prof. Suzuki, etc.) at the Suzukakedai Campus. Prof. Hirayama and Prof. Suzuki of Tokyo Tech and Prof. Yue Qi gave invited lectures. (Launch party in Shin-Yokohama)

2024/06/24: Prof. Tateyama gave an invited talk at the JST-ASPIRE Okubo Project Kick-off International Meeting (Waseda University).

2024/06/21-7/5: Prof. Yue Qi (Brown Univ. USA), who is world-renowned for his computational research on storage batteries, and two of his ph. D students, Gregory Pustorino and Harsh Jagad, visited the Tateyama-Ando Laboratory, and together with Prof. Tateyama and Assistant Professor ZHOU, they started full-scale international joint research.

2024/06/21-9/13: Lukas Ketter, a Ph.D student in Prof. Wolfgang Zeier’s group at the University of Münster, was selected for the JSPS Summer Program and stayed in the Tateyama-Ando Group to begin international collaborative research on theoretical calculations of solid electrolyte interfaces.

2024/06/18: Prof. Tateyama gave an invited talk at the IMLB (2024/6/17-21: Hong Kong), a leading international conference on battery research, entitled ‘Microscopic Elucidation of Ion Transport in Cathodes, Solid Electrolytes and Their Interfaces Via Atomistic Simulations’. (At the venue, at the reception table with Prof. Kisuk Kang (SNU) and Dr. Alex Zhang (a colleague from Cambridge University), Chief Editor of Nature Energy)

2024/06/12: Prof. Tateyama gave an invited talk at the 421st Battery Technical Committee meeting, held at Waseda University, on the topic of ‘Microscopic ion transport mechanisms in cathodes, solid electrolytes, and their interfaces suggested by first-principles calculations’.

2024/05/16: We hosted a workshop for Hitosugi Project “Development of Molecular-Crystal Solid-State Batteries” in JST CREST [Exploring Unknown Materials]Exploring Innovative Materials in Unknown Search Space region, in Suzukakedai Campus, Tokyo Tech.

2024/04/22-26: Prof. Tateyama gave an invited talk at the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit in Seattle, USA, in the ES01 Next-Generation EV Battery Materials—Bridging Academic, Government and Industry Research session. (With Prof. Jie Xiao of PNNL at the dinner)

2024/04/10: Prof. Wolfgang Zeier and student Johannes Hartel from the University of Münster, who are at the forefront of research into all-solid-state battery solid electrolytes, visited the Tateyama-Ando Laboratory.