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Industrial Electrochemistry Lab
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The lab focuses on the interfaces of batteries and fuel cells to master energy conversion.
AboutAbout the lab
The role of interfaces in converting energy
The Industrial Electrochemistry Lab studies mechanisms for converting energy with high efficiency from an electrochemical perspective.
Its goal is to improve clean, efficient fuel cells and batteries that store and release electricity.
In particular, the lab focuses on the interface, where conversion reactions take place, and seeks guidelines for increasing reaction rates and reversibility there.
Its basic research covers a wide range, from electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries to next-generation batteries and fuel cells.
Key terms
- Electrolyte
- The liquid through which ions move back and forth inside a battery. It connects the two electrodes
- Solvation
- The state in which solvent molecules surround a dissolved ion
- Graphite intercalation compound
- A material formed when other atoms or ions enter between the layers of graphite
NewsLab news
A student won the Excellent Student Presentation Award at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Electrochemical Society of Japan
A student received the Kansai Electrochemistry Encouragement Award
ResearchResearch themes
The lab believes that converting limited energy resources cleanly and raising their overall utilization efficiency is the way to address environmental and resource problems. Aiming to advance fuel cells and rechargeable batteries, it conducts basic research on electrochemical energy conversion, especially on the interface where reactions take place.
*Illustrative imageElectrolytes for lithium-ion batteries
To find high-performance electrolytes, the lab focuses on the structure in which lithium ions are surrounded by solvent. It found that in highly concentrated solutions with a large amount of dissolved salt, lithium ions can be inserted and extracted even in solvents that would otherwise exfoliate graphite.
*Illustrative imageIon movement across interfaces
Batteries for electric vehicles must charge quickly, so identifying the step that determines the reaction rate is important. The lab showed that there is a large barrier to lithium-ion transfer at the interface between the electrode and the active material, and that it comes from desolvation.
*Illustrative imageBatteries to follow lithium
The energy density of lithium-ion batteries is approaching its theoretical limit. Toward new secondary batteries using magnesium or calcium, the lab focuses especially on electrolytes and searches for systems that work efficiently and safely.
*Illustrative imageIonic liquids and graphite intercalation compounds
Current lithium-ion batteries use flammable organic solvents, which raises safety concerns. The lab focuses on ionic liquids, which are liquid at room temperature and hard to burn, and examines in detail how their cations and anions are inserted into and extracted from graphite electrodes.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Industrial Electrochemistry Lab consist of faculty, support staff, faculty of the collaborative research chair, researchers, doctoral and master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakeshi Abe
- Program-Specific ProfessorShinji Inazawa
- Assistant ProfessorYuto Miyahara
- Assistant ProfessorRyo Sakamoto
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Bumblebeeelectroplating” Huravaleriia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries: “Salt Crystals macro” Prosthetic Head / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Ion movement across interfaces: “Portcullis Bootham Bar York Oct25” Malcolmxl5 / CC0 (cropped)
- Batteries to follow lithium: “Magnesium ribbon burning” Capt. John Yossarian / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Ionic liquids and graphite intercalation compounds: “Sheet mica, Namibia” Olga Ernst / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (界面エネルギープロセス): “Molten salt extraction line” United States Department of Energy / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (機能固体化学): “U.S. Department of Energy - Science - )” U.S. Department of Energy from United States / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (有機分子変換化学): “Iron(III)-chloride-hexahydrate-sample” Benjah-bmm27 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (環境プロセス工学): “Waste recycling plant, Industrial Park, 2018 Karcag” Globetrotter19 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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