Overview

Purpose

All-solid-state batteries are the ultimate next-generation rechargeable batteries that do not use flammable organic liquid-state electrolytes, and are characterized by safety, high energy density, and long service life, and their practical application is being actively studied. Osaka Metropolitan University has a large number of researchers involved in all-solid-state battery research and is in a position to lead the field worldwide.

Working across multiple graduate schools, researchers had been conducting research separately, leveraging their respective fields of expertise. The All-Solid-State Battery Research Center was established to bring together these researchers to explore joint research for the development of cutting-edge battery materials and evaluation and analysis technologies, and to put in place a collaborative system for the acquisition of research funds for large-scale national projects and the formation of consortiums with local companies and public institutions.

It also serves as a center for fostering all-solid-state battery research personnel who can play an active role in society through learning that transcends the boundaries of research fields.

Summary of Research

In order to realize all-solid-state batteries, it is necessary to efficiently advance wide-ranging research from fundamentals to applications, including the development of new constituent materials, advanced analysis of material properties and structures, construction of solid-solid interface formation and processes for battery applications, elucidation of all-solid-state battery mechanisms, and sheet and device fabrication.

The Center consists of researchers in applied chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, and chemistry and bioengineering at the Graduate School of Engineering, and those in physical sciences at the Graduate School of Science, who can share information with one other about the research areas they have pioneered and their research results, and develop and advance research through personal exchanges, involving students as well.

Academic research topics for the practical application of all-solid-state batteries

As a point of contact for collaboration with companies interested in all-solid-state batteries, the Center also facilitates opportunities for new joint research and personnel exchanges, while actively promoting the use of intellectual property rights held by the University’s researchers.

In doing so, the Center aims to become a center of innovation for all-solid-state batteries in order to create a virtuous cycle through the complementary functions of securing external research funding, fostering high-level human resources, and strategically utilizing intellectual property.

Contribution to the SDGs

Osaka Metropolitan University is contributing to the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through research and educational activities.

Of the 17 SDGs, the Center is striving to contribute to Goal 7 “Affordable and clean energy” and Goal 9 “Industry, innovation and infrastructure.”