Materials Science toward novel electrochemical devices

Kobayashi Laboratory

On the basis of inorganic solid state chemistry and electrochemistry, our research group attempts to create novel ion conductive materials, and is aiming to develop next-generation electrochemical devices beyond Li-batteries and fuel cells.
Keywords:Inorganic Solid State Chemistry, Solid State Ionics, Ion Conductor, Li battery, Fuel Cell, Material Synthesis, Structural Analysis

RESEARCH

NEWS & TOPICS

2022.04.01
New member, Ms. Kusumoto joined our group.
2022.03.15
Prof. Kobayashi was awarded the NAGAI Foundation for Science & Technology Academic Award.
2022.01.31
Our HP has been updated.
2022.01.13
Our paper was published in Nat. Mater..
2021.11.04
Our HP has been updated.
2021.09.30
Ms. Ayu received her PhD at SOKENDAI and move to Tokyo Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher.
2021.09.10
Our paper was published in J. Mater. Chem. A.
2021.07.05
Our HP has been updated.
2021.06.03
Our collaboration work with Kyoto Univ. was published in Science Advances.(Press Release)
2021.04.01
Our members have been updated.
2020.09.29
Mr. Haq received his PhD at SOKENDAI.
2020.09.01
Prof. Kobayashi gave a presentation as an invited speaker at 71st Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (Belgrade Online).
2020.07.30
Our paper was published in Chemical Communications.
2020.04.30
Our paper published in J. Am. Ceram. Soc. was awarded TOP DOWNLOADED PAPER 2018-2019.
2020.04.01
Our members have been updated.
2019.12.01
Mr. Hasin (Kasetsart University) stays in our group as an IMS-IIPA2019 for five months.
2019.11.01
2019.11.01 Ms. Chang (University of Malaya) stays in our group as an IMS-IIPA2019 for six months.
2019.09.02
Prof. Kobayashi was awarded the Morino Foundation for Molecular Science.
2019.06.17
Prof. Kobayashi and Asst. Prof. Takeiri gave a talk at the 22nd International Conference on Solid State Ionics (SSI-22) in PyeongChang, Korea.
2019.03.29
Prof. Kobayashi was awarded the Tagawa Memorial Solid-State Chemistry Awards.
2019.02.08
Our paper was accepted in Inorganic Chemistry.
2018.12.18
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk at 29th Annual Meeting of MRS-J.
2018.11.12
Prof. Kobayashi was awarded the 7th Ishida Award.
2018.11.01
Dr. Takeiri became an Assistant Professor of our group. Ms. Lee Pui Kee (University of Malaya, Malaysia) joined our group as an exchange student and stays for 6 months.
2018.05.29
Prof. Kobayashi was awarded the 39th Honda Memorial Young Research Award.
2018.04.01
New members (Dr. Fumitaka Takeiri, Mr. Kei Okamoto, Mr. Asad Ali) joined our group.
2018.02.22
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk at the 1st DGIST Workshop on Energy Materials in DGIST, Korea.
2018.02.06
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk at the 3rd Element Strategy Initiative: To Form Core Research Centers Symposium on the Elements Strategy Large-scale Research Facilities.
2017.10.20
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk at 3rd Solid State Chemistry & Ionics (SCI) Workshop: Bulk diffusion and surface of oxides in Kyushu University.
2017.10.17
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk at the 7th CSJ Chemistry Festa 2017.
2017.10.04
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk at Q-PIT Seminar, INAMORI Frontier Research Seminar in Kyushu University.
2017.10.01
Mr. Haq Nawaz joined our group as a SOKENDAI student.
2017.08.31
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk at IUMRS-ICAM 2017 15th International Conference of Advanced Materials in Kyoto University.
2017.07.20
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk at 2017Gordon Research Conference - Hydrogen metal Systems – in Stonehill College, USA.
2017.06.20
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk in 21th International Conference on Solid State Ionics in Padua, Italy.
2017.05.29
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk at 8th International Conference on Electroceramics in Nagoya University.
2017.04.01
Masako Nishikawa joined our group as the technical staff.
2017.03.31
Mr. Watanabe, the special collaboration with research students received PhD at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and moved out to Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
2017.03.03
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk at Workshop on Materials Science under Ultra-High Pressure 2017 in Ehime University.
2016.09.18-23
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk at Solid State Protonic Conductor-18 in Oslo, Norway.
2016.08.04
Prof. Kobayashi gave an invited talk at the Ceramic Society of Japan, the 29th Fall Meeting.
2016.03.18
Our paper was published in Science.
2016.03.14
Prof. Kobayashi gave a presentation as an invited speaker at The 2nd Workshop on the Structure Science and Novel Materials: Present Status & Perspective (Waseda Univ.).
2016.02.23
Prof. Kobayashi gave a presentation as an invited speaker at 10th JST/NEDO Joint Symposium (Tokyo).
2015.06.19
Prof. Kobayashi gave a presentation as an invited speaker at 20th International Conference on Solid State Ionics (Keystone, USA).
2015.04.01
Akihiro Watanabe joined our group as the special collaboration with research students.
2014.09.16
Prof. Kobayashi gave a presentation as an invited speaker at Solid State Protonic Conductor-17 (Seoul, Korea)
2014.02.25
Prof. Kobayashi gave a presentation as an invited speaker at Asian CORE Winter School on Frontier of Molecular, Photo-, and Material Sciences (Taipei, Taiwan)
2014.06.01
Akiko Kubota joined our group as the technical staff.
2014.04.01
Yumiko Imai joined our group as the technical staff.
2013.09.01
Our research group started.

CONTACT

Department of Materials Molecular Science,
Institute for Molecular Science
S303, 38 NIshigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
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E-mail: gkobayashi@ims.ac.jp
TEL: +81-564-55-7440 (Office)
: +81-564-55-7244 (Lab.)
FAX: +81-564-55-7245