Innovative Polymer Electrolyte Design Group
GREEN Leader
Takaya Sato
(Professor, National Institute of Technology, Tsuruoka College)
Research
By molecular design of concentrated polymer brushes and ionic liquids, we will develop multiuse polymer electrolytes, which can be applied to polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells operating under nonhumidified and moderate-temperature conditions as well as electric double layer capacitors, rechargeable batteries and solar cells.
A solid type of electrolyte is developed by three-dimensionally self-assembling hybrid particles, in a crystal, with the concentrated brush of ionic-liquid polymers containing a small amount of ionic liquid. The operation of a bipolar lithium-ion rechargeable battery is successfully demonstrated.
Solid electrolyte using hybrid particle decorated with ionic liquid-type polymer brush
Member
GREEN Open-lab Guest Researcher
Yoshinobu Tsujii
(Professor, Kyoto University)
GREEN Open-lab Guest Researcher
Takashi Morinaga
(Associate Professor, National Institute of Technology, Tsuruoka College)