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Inorganic Materials Chemistry Lab
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A lab that researches catalysis and hydrogen storage with nanomaterials that take advantage of the characteristics of elements.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating new nanomaterials by making use of the characteristics of various elements.
The Inorganic Materials Chemistry Lab (Yamauchi Lab) researches the creation of new functional substances and materials by making use of the characteristics of various elements.
To build energy-saving, resource-saving, sustainable chemical processes, the lab is developing nanoscale materials.
The properties it focuses on are catalysis that converts energy and substances, hydrogen storage, and the diffusion of ions and atoms.
Key terms
- Catalyst
- A material that makes a chemical reaction proceed more easily. In this lab, it is used as electrodes and particles
- Carboxylic acid
- A group of organic compounds that includes acetic acid and oxalic acid
- Nanoalloy
- A material made of tiny particles on the nanometer scale that mixes multiple metals
- Hydrogen poisoning
- A drop in a catalyst's performance caused by the effect of hydrogen
NewsLab news
A paper on electrochemical CO reduction on nanowires, with a research fellow of the lab as first author, was accepted in Inorg. Chem. Front.
Associate Professor Kobayashi's paper on CO2 electrolysis on Cu cubes with platinum-group surface alloys was accepted in Chem. Sci.
Results of joint research with the University of Tokyo under GteX were accepted in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces
A master's student's paper on tandem CO2RR catalysts was accepted in Nanoscale
A master's student received the Kyushu Branch Chair's Award of the Chemical Society of Japan for FY2025 (Reiwa 7)
ResearchResearch themes
To build energy-saving, resource-saving, and sustainable chemical processes, the lab develops nanoscale materials that show high performance in catalysis for converting energy and substances, hydrogen storage, and the transport of ions and atoms. The research page introduces the electrochemical conversion of oxalic acid and alcohols, catalysts for ammonia synthesis, and spectroscopic measurements during catalytic reactions.
*Illustrative imageCatalysts for Producing Glycolic Acid from Oxalic Acid
The lab studies catalysts that convert biomass-derived carboxylic acids into alcohols using electricity from renewable energy. By comprehensively screening catalysts for oxalic acid reduction, it showed that only Ti or TiO2 is active.
*Illustrative imageNanoalloy Catalysts for CO2-Free Power Generation
The lab studies electrocatalysts for fuel cells that generate electricity from ethylene glycol as fuel without emitting CO2. It prepared iron-group nanometal catalysts by a new method and succeeded in generating power from ethylene glycol with an FeCo/C anode.
*Illustrative imageNanoalloy Catalysts for Ammonia Synthesis
Ammonia is a raw material for fertilizer and is also attracting attention as a fuel that does not emit CO2. The lab made nanoalloy catalysts in which Ru is mixed with Fe, which has a low affinity for hydrogen, and confirmed that the hydrogen poisoning that occurs on Ru is suppressed.
*Illustrative imageSpectroscopic Measurements During Catalytic Reactions
The lab investigates the state of catalysts and the processes of surface reactions during catalytic reactions. It combines in situ and operando spectroscopy with infrared spectroscopy and X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and uses modulation excitation spectroscopy to make it possible to follow fast surface reactions as well.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Yamauchi Lab consist of faculty, research fellows, technical staff, visiting scholars, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorMiho Yamauchi
- Associate ProfessorHirokazu Kobayashi
- Assistant ProfessorMasaki Donoshita
- Assistant ProfessorTomohiro Noguchi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Hydrogen supply system at DLR Cologne” DLR / CC BY 3.0 de (cropped)
- Catalysts for Producing Glycolic Acid from Oxalic Acid: “Oxalic acid, anhydrous” Leiem / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Nanoalloy Catalysts for CO2-Free Power Generation: “PtFe1.2 nanoparticle” Ji-Hoon Jang et al. / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Nanoalloy Catalysts for Ammonia Synthesis: “Ammonia-3D-vdW” Benjah-bmm27 / Public domain (cropped)
- Spectroscopic Measurements During Catalytic Reactions: “Solutions of organic substances for NMR analysis” Ryabitskii / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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