An academic paper by our student Mr. Wengcong Wang et al. on oxygen reduction catalysts has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Chemistry.
Lowering the overvoltage required for the oxygen reduction reaction to proceed is one of the most important themes for the practical application of fuel cells. In this study, we clarified that the overvoltage is significantly lowered by adding Sr to the perovskite oxide LaMnO3, and elucidated the mechanism of this reduction.
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Assoc. Prof. Yagi reported on “NEWS Kanto Branch: Branch Activities in the “with Corona” Era” in Denki Kagaku, the Electrochemical Society of Japan.
Associate Professor Yagi was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for Journal of Materials Chemistry A, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2021.
Associate Professor Yagi received the 2021 Meritorious Service Award from the Kanto Branch of the Electrochemical Society of Japan.
An academic paper by our student Mr. Liu Wei et al. on oxygen evolution catalysts has been accepted for publication in RSC advances.
Using the method of depositing cobalt hydroxide on substrates by electrolysis, we have succeeded in depositing amorphous cobalt oxide on carbon paper modified with VS2 to facilitate the surface reconstruction reaction and improve the catalytic activity for the oxygen evolution reaction.
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An academic paper on positive electrode active materials for magnesium rechargeable batteries by our student Mr. Jonghyun Han et al. has been accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
How to suppress the oxidative decomposition of electrolyte is one of the key issues to be solved for the practical use of magnesium batteries. In collaboration with Prof. Ichitsubo at Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University and Prof. Nakayama at Nagoya Institute of Technology, we have clarified the mechanism by which positive electrode active materials exhibit different catalytic activities for the oxidative decomposition of electrolyte, and proposed a new concept of “positive electrode active materials that suppress the oxidative decomposition of electrolyte”. >Read (open access)
Associate Professor Yagi received the 2020 Director’s Award from the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Science.
For his research “Electrochemical Catalysts for the Improvement of the Efficiency of Electrolytic smelting process”.
Our joint research with DLX Design Lab was introduced in “Toyoshima Virtual Pavilion”.
Mr. Liu, a D3 student, won a Student Award at the international conference Interfinish2020.
For his poster presentation “Surface Modification of Co3O4 by VS2 for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Catalysis, Wei Liu, Ikuya Yamada, Shunsuke Yagi”. >Interfinish2020 site