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Kanno-Suzuki-Matsui Lab
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The lab creates new materials for batteries and fuel cells from solid-state chemistry.
AboutAbout the lab
Materials make the devices of the future possible.
The Kanno-Suzuki-Matsui Lab studies materials for batteries and fuel cells at the interface of solid-state chemistry and electrochemistry.
The lab synthesizes new inorganic solids, examines their structures and properties, and develops them into electrochemical devices.
It focuses in particular on developing solid electrolytes, in which ions move quickly through the solid, and also works on all-solid-state batteries, in which every component of the battery is solid.
In addition to a wide range of synthesis techniques, the lab uses machine learning and simulation to search for new materials.
Key terms
- All-solid-state battery
- A battery that uses a solid electrolyte instead of a liquid electrolyte, so that all of its components are made of solids.
- Superionic conductor
- A material that is solid, yet in which ions move around as fast as in a liquid. Also called a solid electrolyte.
- Intercalation
- A reaction in which ions such as lithium move in and out of a crystal while its framework is preserved.
NewsLab news
Research results by a master's student published in Small Structures
Specially Appointed Professor Kanno awarded the 67th Fujiwara Prize
Specially Appointed Professor Kanno named a recipient of the NIMS Award 2026
Associate Professor Suzuki and colleagues awarded the 2026 Electrochemical Society of Japan Paper Award
Specially Appointed Professor Kanno honored as an ECS Fellow
ResearchResearch themes
The lab creates the materials that make up energy conversion devices such as lithium batteries, fuel cells, and all-solid-state batteries, and investigates their properties. Because the properties of the materials determine the properties of the devices, the lab aims to create entirely new substances and draw out new functions from them.
*Illustrative imageDesign and Synthesis of Battery Materials
Starting from the required function, the lab considers combinations of elements and crystal structures, synthesizes new inorganic solids by methods such as high-pressure synthesis and electrochemical methods, and investigates their properties.
*Illustrative imageAnalysis of Ions Moving In and Out of Crystals
Using synchrotron radiation and neutrons, the lab investigates in detail how structures and properties change during intercalation reactions, in which lithium or hydrogen moves in and out of a crystal.
*Illustrative imageNew Electrode Materials for Fuel Cells
To operate solid oxide fuel cells at lower temperatures, the lab is developing new pyrochlore-type electrode materials, optimizing electrode structures, and elucidating electrode reactions.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping Solids with Fast-Moving Ions
The lab pursues, in an integrated way, research to elucidate the mechanisms of superionic conductors, in which ions move rapidly through a solid, and research to create new substances.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kanno-Suzuki-Matsui Lab consist of faculty, researchers, technical staff and technical support staff, administrative staff, and doctoral and master's students (including working professionals and international students).As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorKota SuzukiPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorNaoki MatsuiPublications ↗
- Specially Appointed ProfessorRyoji KannoPublications ↗
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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: “Maarja Paalo uses a glovebox” Tavoromann / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Design and Synthesis of Battery Materials: “Lithium-cobalt-oxide-3D-polyhedra” Ben Mills / Public domain (cropped)
- Analysis of Ions Moving In and Out of Crystals: “IMAGINE diffractometer at HFIR ( )” Oak Ridge National Laboratory / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- New Electrode Materials for Fuel Cells: “Solid oxide electrolyser cell 2x60cell stack” EERE / Public domain (cropped)
- Developing Solids with Fast-Moving Ions: “Iodargyrite (GeoDIL number - 187)” Shannon Heinle / CC0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Fukushima-Shoji Lab): “Emerging geometry in life building blocks” FedeCaimi / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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