Battery Materials Group
 Masanobu NAKAYAMA, Ph.D Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology
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■Our project
Large-scale rechargeable batteries are amongst the most suitable power sources for electric vehicles and storages for surplus electricity at night. They have been expected as well to address environmental issues in our modern society, specifically towards reducing carbon footprint arising from fossil fuel use. Recently, two battery concepts have been proposed: (1) all ceramics batteries which can provide safety and reliability, and (2) multivalent cation batteries which can meet high energy capacity requirement (Figure 1). Our group develops efficient material search/screening methods by integrating database-driven informatics techniques to state-of-art material computations (Figure 2), building workflows that lead to the accelerated discovery of new and optimized materials and a much shorter research and development period prior to new material deployment. |
Figure 1 All ceramics battery and multivalent batteries as post lithium ion battery.
Figure 2 Acceleration of materials search by combining state-of-art material simulation and database driven approaches.
