Vol.15 No.1 <2017 Jan-Feb>
The challenge of the rechargeable battery revolution
2017.03.14 Published
-putting better batteries into practical use-
Contents
Special tripartite talk
Out-of-the-box thinking led to the invention of lithium ion batteries
Koichi Mizushima
(Executive fellow, Toshiba Research Consulting Corporation)
Akira Yoshino
(Advisor, Asashi Kasei Corporation)
Kohei Uosaki
(Fellow, Director of Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, NIMS)
Koichi Mizushima
(Executive fellow, Toshiba Research Consulting Corporation)
Akira Yoshino
(Advisor, Asashi Kasei Corporation)
Kohei Uosaki
(Fellow, Director of Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, NIMS)
Basics of batteries
What are batteries?
What determines battery performance?
How do chemical batteries work?
Revolutionary lithium batteries.
Basic battery structure.
History of battery development
What determines battery performance?
How do chemical batteries work?
Revolutionary lithium batteries.
Basic battery structure.
History of battery development
Next-generation Battery 1
All-solid-state batteries
Kazunori Takada
(Deputy director-general, Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials)
Kazunori Takada
(Deputy director-general, Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials)
Next-generation Battery 2
The Li-air battery
Yoshimi Kubo
(Team Leader, Lithium Air Battery Specially Promoted Research Team, GREEN,
Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials)
Computational Science
Computational approaches change the common sense of rechargeable batteries
Yoshitaka Tateyama
(Group Leader, Interface Computational Science Group, Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials)
Characterization Technology
Single Particle Measurement -key to the enhancement of battery performance
Kei Nishikawa
(Senior Researcher, Interfacial Energy Conversion Group, Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials)
Kei Nishikawa
(Senior Researcher, Interfacial Energy Conversion Group, Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials)
What is ALCA-SPRING?
What is the NIMS Battery Research Platform?
What is the NIMS Battery Research Platform?
Science is even more amazing than you think (maybe…)
High performance rechargeable batteries will ease Japan's electric power issues
written by Akio Etori
illustration by Joe Okada (vision track)
written by Akio Etori
illustration by Joe Okada (vision track)

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