Member
| Name | Research topic | |
| Associate Professor | Yuki Orikasa | |
| Assistant Professor | Takeshi Shimizu | |
| PhD Students | Nur Chamidah | Lithium-ion battery |
| Graduate Students | Yuki Omote | Lithium-ion battery |
| Graduate Students | Naoki Takada | Hydrogen energy |
| Graduate Students | Shintaro Tachibana | Future battery |
| Graduate Students | Mayu Morimoto | Lithium-ion battery |
| Graduate Students | Iori Takashima | Multivalent-ion battery |
| Graduate Students | Tomoki Tsukamoto | Future battery |
| Undergraduate Student | Ryogo Ohashi | |
| Undergraduate Student | Naoto Ono | |
| Undergraduate Student | Soshi Kondo | |
| Undergraduate Student | Yusuke Sakurai | |
| Undergraduate Student | Yuya Sakka | |
| Undergraduate Student | Narumi Sato | |
| Undergraduate Student | Misaki Toshii | |
| Undergraduate Student | Ryo Muraoka | |
| Undergraduate Student | Ayako Murakami | |
| Undergraduate Student | Chikayuki Yanagawa | |
| Undergraduate Student | Mariya Yamagishi | |
| Undergraduate Student | Misaki Yamamura | |
| Staff | Keiko Ushio | Ceramics |
| Staff | Miho Muramoto | Synchrotron |
Summary of our research
In order to determine the rate-determining reactions achieve higher performance in electrochemical devices such as lithium ion batteries and fuel cells, it is important to understand reaction hierarchies over wide temporal and spatial ranges (from the nanometer to the centimeter scale) that proceed sequentially within the device. Research and development of new advanced analysis technologies to enable operando observation during electrochemical reactions is necessary to understand the structure of these hierarchies. In this study, we established an operando measurement technique that enables analysis of the electrode/electrolyte interface of the reaction site, phase transitions of active materials, and macro reactions within real electrodes over various spatial and temporal scales. We also provided fundamental knowledge of the dynamic behavior of the lithium ion battery. This analytical technique is a dramatic step forward in that it pioneers a new way of performing kinetic analysis by introducing space and time axes for reaction analyses. It is also applicable to reaction analysis of various types of electrochemical devices. Moreover, we successfully designed and developed materials for innovative batteries by integrating information obtained using this technique.
Yuki ORIKASA Associate Professor
Profile
◾️Education
2010 PhD in Human and Environmental Studies
Kyoto University, Japan
Supervised by Prof. Yoshiharu Uchimoto
Due for submission March 2010
Thesis Title: Material Design for Mixed Conducting Perovskite Type Oxide Cathodes of High Temperature Electrochemical Devices
2009 Visitng Student, Electrochemical Energy Lab,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007 M.A., Department of Interdisciplinary Environment, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
2005 B.A., Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
◾️Employment
2016- Associate Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University
2011-2016 Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
2010-2011 Assistant Professor, Office of Society-Academia Collaboration for Innovation, Kyoto University, Japan
2008-2010 Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science