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NOTICE: (1) Professor Amalendu Chandra (specializing in MD calculations for solutions, interfaces, and biological systems) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur will be staying at our group on sabbatical leave from March 2025 to February 2026. We can expect to strengthen our MD calculation research. (2) Prof. Michiel Sprik (specializing in electrochemistry and solution theory), Emeritus Professor at the Yusef Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK, will be staying at our group in the summer of 2025 and 2026 for the purpose of joint research. We are looking forward to new developments in interface science and ionics. (3) Assist. Prof. Sasaki will be studying abroad at Professor Debra Bernhardt‘s group at The University of Queensland in Australia for about three months from January 2025, working on the extension of the non-equilibrium MD that is currently under development.

2024/11/14: The second young researchers’ seminar for the Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas “Ion Jamology” (A01, Assoc. Prof. Ando is the PI of Planned A01 group) will be held at the Suzukakedai Campus of Science Tokyo. Assoc. Prof. Ando and Assist. Prof. Sasaki are helping organization.

2024/10/28-30: SA Assist. Prof. Huu-Duc Luong and D2 student Dan Ito gave a poster presentation at The 25th Asian Workshop on First-Principles Electronic Structure Calculations (ASIAN-25) held at University of Ulsan in Korea. Prof. Tateyama was also elected as a member of the international organizing committee for this ASIAN Workshop series. In addition, it has also been decided that he will be the local organizing committee chair for ASIAN-26, which will be held in Japan next year. It is becoming a research laboratory that represents Japan in computational physics, chemistry, and materials science.

2024/10/24-25: Prof. Tateyama, a PL of Fugaku “Materials Physics and Chemistry (MPC)” project, presented reports of “Fugak Usage” in the HPCI report meeting held in Shinagawa, Tokyo

2024/10/17-18: Dr. Hong-Kang Tian, an assistant professor in the Department
of Chemical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan visited our group with his three students. He gave an invited talk of the CLS seminar and we had extensive discussions about our possible future collaborations.

2024/10 /16-17: Dr. Seong-Hoon Jang, an SA assistant professor of Kumagai group in the Institute of Materials Research (IMR) at Tohoku University stayed in our group and had discussion about our program “EwaldSolidSolution”.

2024/10/12: A paper on theoretical calculations by Dr. Seong-Hoon Jang (currently a SA 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 NASICON-type solid electrolyte, has been published in Adv. Energy Sustainability Res. Congratulations, Seong-Hoon-san!

2024/10/11: D3 student Qianli Si in Tateyama group (Waseda) gave an oral presentation in PRiME 2024, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, and had lots on intensive discussions.

2024/10/01: Feye-Feng LU, a D1 student under IGP(C), and Riku KITANO, a B4 student under the batcheler thesis, joined our group. We look forward to working with you.

2024/10/01: Our group has become the Tateyama-Ando Group, Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science (CLS), Institute of Integrated Research (IIR), Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo). The homepage URL and email address will be changed in the future, but for the time being, you can also use titech.ac.jp (we will use it).

2024/09/01: Dr. Takeshi Nakashima was appointed as an Assistant Professor in our group as of September 1, 2024. We look forward to working with you.

2024/09/01: SA Assist. Prof. Zizhen Zhou 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.

2024/08/28: An experiment-simulation collaboration paper with Dr. Kawai and Prof. Masashi Okubo in Waseda Univ., “Proton Intercalation into an Open-Tunnel Bronze Phase with Near-Zero Volume Change” was published in Angewandte Chemie, International Edition.

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 SA Assist. Prof. Zizhen Zhou,  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, Assoc. Prof. Ando, Assist. Prof. Sasaki, SA Assist. 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.)