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2024/09/01: Dr. Zizhen Zhou, a specially appointed assistant professor, will be staying at Prof. Yue Qi’s group at Brown Univ. for about three months (short-term study abroad) to conduct computational research on all-solid-state battery interfaces.

2024/08/23: The graduate school entrance examination for admission to the master’s programme in April 2025 has ended.

2024/08/19-20: Ph.D Student, Konstantin Köster from Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, who is staying at Prof. Abe group, Kyoto Univ. as a participant of JSPS Summer Program (same program as Lukas Ketter takes), visited Tateyama group and discussed computational studies on batteries.

2024/08/19-23: D2 student Dan Ito in Tateyama group organized and was in charge of the first section meeting ‘First-principles calculations of electrochemical reactions: Dr. Ryosuke Jinnouchi (Senior Fellow, Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.)’ at the 63rd Summer School of the Young Society of Molecular Science (2024/08/19-23@IMS). Thank you for your hard work, Dan-san.

2024/08/05: A paper on theoretical calculations by Dr. Seong-Hoon Jang (currently a special assistant professor at the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University), a former postdoctoral researcher in Tateyama group, using the EwaldSolidSolution program developed in our group to search for Na-ion sulfide solid electrolytes with high stability and ion conductivity, has been published in J. Mater. Chem. A. Congratulations, Seong-Hoon-san!

2024/08/05: A paper on theoretical calculations of ion transport at the interface between the cathode and coating layer in all-solid-state batteries (using the HI-CALYPSO method developed in Tateyama group) by Dr. Zizhen Zhou, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, was published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations, Zizhen-san!

2024/08/01: Prof. Yasunobu Ando gave a talk as the representative of the research project A01 at the 1st open symposium of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Transformative Areas A ‘Ion Jamology’ held at the Hongo Campus of the University of Tokyo.

2024/07/21-23: Prof. Yoshitaka Tateyama visited 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, with whom he had previously collaborated.

2024/07/20: D2 Dan Ito and Prof. Yoshitaka Tateyama gave invited talks at the ‘UK-Japan Next-Generation Batteries Seminar’ held at King’s College London in London, UK.

2024/07/18: D2 student Dan Ito gave a poster presentation at Solid State Ionics 2024, held at the QEII Centre in London, UK, and won the Poster Award. Congratulations, Dan-san!  Dan Ito and Professor Tateyama (oral presentation) attended Solid State Ionics 2024.

2024/07/02-03: Lukas Ketter, who was staying at Tateyama-Ando group as part of the JSPS Summer Program, visited the laboratory of Associate Professor Saneyuki Ohno in Tohoku University, and gave a presentation at a research meeting.

2024/07/01: Dr. Zizhen Zhou, a researcher, was promoted to a specially appointed assistant professor in Tateyama-Ando group  as of 2024/7/1. Congratulations!

2024/06/27: We held a workshop with all-solid-state battery material researchers (Dr. Kanno, Dr. Hirayama, Dr. Suzuki, etc.) from the Suzukakedai Campus and Prof. Yue Qi, who was visiting us, entitled ‘Workshop bridging between theory and experiment on all-solid-state battery materials at Tokyo Tech’. From our group, Prof. Tateyama, Associate Prof. Ando, Assistant Prof. Sasaki, Specially Appointed Assistant Prof. Luong, Researcher Zhou, and Dr. JALEM Senior Researcher from NIMS gave talks.

2024/06/27: A paper by D2 Qianli Si on the construction of a machine learning prediction model for the lifetime of Li metal batteries was published in Adv. Sci. (Impact Factor=14.3). Congratulations, Qianli! This paper was also released as a press release at NIMS (https://www.nims.go.jp/press/2024/07/202407240.html) and was also introduced in several newspapers.

2024/06/24 & 25: The JST-ASPIRE Okubo Project (Representative: Prof. Masashi Okubo, Waseda University) kick-off meeting and young researchers’ meeting (both international conferences) were held at the Ono Memorial Hall, Waseda University, and almost all of the members of our laboratory participated, with Prof. Tateyama and Assistant Prof. Sasaki giving invited lectures.

2024/06/24: Prof. Yue Qi from Brown University, who is a world leader in computational materials science for all-solid-state batteries, stayed at our laboratory (6/26-7/2) with two of our students (Harsh D. Jagad & Gregory Pustorino). We have started an international collaborative research project.

2024/06/21: Lukas Ketter, a Ph.D student in the group of Prof. Wolfgang Zeier in the University of Münster, was selected for the JSPS Summer Program and is staying in Tateyama group to start an international collaboration on theoretical calculations of solid electrolyte interfaces. Lukas will be with us until 13th September.

2024/06/16-21: Researcher Dr. Zizhen Zhou and D2 Qianli Si gave a poster presentation at IMLB2024, an important international conference on battery technology held in Hong Kong. (Prof. Tateyama gave an invited talk)

2024/06/06-07 & 12-13: D2 Masato Torii from Prof. Akitoshi Hayashi group in the Osaka Metropolitan University, stayed at Tateyama group to learn first-principles MD calculations and carry out joint research.

2024/06/04 & 12: Mr. Haruka Yamamoto (M2), a student from Prof. Kazuhiko Maeda’s group at Ookayama, Tokyo Tech, came to Tateyama-group to learn first-principles calculations as part of the lab rotation curriculum at the TAC-MI.

2024/06/01: Dr. Che-an Lin, a postdoctoral researcher from Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University, has joined Tateyama group as a postdoctoral researcher (mainly in charge of the GteX project). Let’s work hard together.

2024/05/31-06/01: The ‘Ion Jamology’ project meeting was held. Associate Professor Ando, the leader of the A01 group (computational and mathematical research) of the planned research project, gave a lecture.

2024/05/16: A workshop was held at the CLS, Tokyo Tech for the JST-CREST ‘Exploration of Untapped Materials’ Hitosugi Project. Many students and young researchers from the Hitosugi group in the University of Tokyo and the Moriya group in  the Shizuoka University participated.

2024/04/12, 5/11, 6/1: Graduate School Entrance Exam Information Sessions held at Suzukakedai Campus or via Zoom (Group visits accepted)

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 batteries and solid electrolytes, visited Tateyama group. Here they are in a commemorative photo under the cherry blossoms in full bloom.

2024/04/09: Prof. Tateyama started teaching Quantum Chemistry I (1Q) for the second-year students in the Department of Applied Chemistry.

2024/04/01: Tateyama-Ando group begins. Associate Professor Yasunobu Ando, Assistant Professor Ryoma Sasaki, Specially-Appointed Assistant Professor Huu Duc Luong, Researcher Zizhen Zhou, Researcher Takeru Nakashima, Yoko Saito (temporary staff), and Kaori Shida (administrative support staff) have joined the group. (Administrative support staff Mami Sukigara has continued from last year.)