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Hanada Lab
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The lab develops materials and processes that store and transport hydrogen compactly.
AboutAbout the lab
Turning hydrogen into a form that can be stored and transported
The Hanada Lab develops materials and processes to make hydrogen energy practically usable.
Hydrogen is a secondary energy source from which electricity and heat can be efficiently extracted in fuel cells and other devices, and which can be transported in large quantities and stored for long periods.
However, because hydrogen is a gas at room temperature, it is stored compactly by converting it into a liquid chemical compound or by incorporating it into solids as hydrogen atoms.
Based on materials science, the lab controls matter at the nanoscale, and based on chemical engineering, it proposes large-scale synthesis methods and processes for using hydrogen.
Key terms
- Hydrogen storage material
- A substance that takes hydrogen into itself and releases it when needed. It allows hydrogen to be carried in a smaller volume than as a gas.
- Ammonia
- A compound made of nitrogen and hydrogen. It is easy to liquefy and is attracting attention as a container for carrying hydrogen.
- Electrolysis
- Passing electricity through a substance to separate it and extract the desired component. Here, it is used to extract hydrogen from ammonia.
NewsLab news
A master's student won the Outstanding Student Award at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan
A master's student won the 2025 Encouragement Award of the Japan Institute of Energy
A lab student won the Student Encouragement Award at the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, Hachinohe Meeting 2025
An undergraduate student won the Outstanding Young Researcher Award at the 2nd Meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals for Sharing Challenges in Materials Science Involving Hydrogen
Associate Professor Hanada won the Waseda University Teaching Award, President's Prize
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops substances for compact hydrogen storage by controlling them at the nanoscale based on materials science. It also aims to propose, based on chemical engineering, methods for synthesizing them on a large scale and processes for actually using hydrogen.
*Illustrative imageMaterials for Storing Hydrogen
Hydrogen, a gas at room temperature, can be stored compactly by converting it into a liquid chemical compound or by incorporating it into solids as hydrogen atoms. The lab develops substances for hydrogen storage by controlling them at the nanoscale.
*Illustrative imageExtracting Hydrogen from Ammonia
The lab focuses on ammonia as a liquid hydrogen storage medium because of its high hydrogen density per volume and per mass. It has proposed and demonstrated a method of extracting hydrogen from ammonia by electrolysis, which is easy to control at room temperature, and is developing electrodes and electrolytes.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorNobuko Hanada
- Assistant ProfessorKeisuke Yoshida
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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: “Propane tanks” Tomascastelazo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Materials for Storing Hydrogen: “Titanium powder 3N” Leiem / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Extracting Hydrogen from Ammonia: “Ammonium-hydroxide-3D-vdW” Hoa112008 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Sekine Lab): “Colonne distillazione” User:Luigi Chiesa / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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