Purpose and Overview

Since 2009, the University has expanded its research facilities, and accumulated research techniques and results with competitive research funds from various programs including: JST-CREST and JST-ALCA-SPRING; NEDO-SOLiD-EV, RISING2, and RISING3; MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Science on Interfacial Ion Dynamics for Solid State Ionics Devices”; and the JSPS KAKENHI, “Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research S, A, and B.”

Established in 2020 within the University, the All-Solid-State Battery Research Center is a Joint Usage / Research Center certified by MEXT. Its purpose is to form a base for joint research activities specializing in all-solid-state battery research with universities and other academic research institutions in Japan and overseas, and to play a central role in such research activities in cooperation with the Equipment Sharing Center for Advanced Research and Innovation.

A further aim is to advance academic research in this field and create new research areas through the fusion of different fields.

The Joint Research Center promotes basic and academic joint research on all-solid-state battery materials, which are difficult to manage in the atmosphere, with the aim of facilitating close interactions among researchers involved in all-solid-state battery research, to train young researchers, to solve various basic and academic issues regarding the practical application of all-solid-state batteries, and to contribute to the development of all-solid-state battery research from the perspectives of new material development, material evaluation analysis, and material process development.

Through the following activities, the Joint Research Center promotes basic and academic research regarding all-solid-state batteries and provides research education and training for young researchers.

  1. Develop research facilities that offer environments without exposure to the atmosphere, which is indispensable for materials research related to all-solid-state batteries.
  2. Conduct joint usage / research projects using research facilities that offer environments without exposure to the atmosphere, which is indispensable for materials research related to all-solid-state batteries.
  3. Provide experimental guidance to young researchers and undertake analysis on a contract basis.
  4. Organize seminars and workshops to promote exchanges among researchers in different fields and between public and private universities, and to foster young talents.