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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.