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2009

  • M. Matsuo
    Best Poster Award ; KINKEN-WAKATE 2009 6th Materials Science School for Young Scientists. (Dec. 3-4, 2009)
    Title: Stabilization of Lithium Super-Ionic Conduction Phase of LiBH4 by Lithium Halide Addition
  • One new member joined our lab. (Dec. 1, 2009)
  • S. Orimo
    Invited Lecture in 2009 MRS Fall Meeting "Session : Hydrogen Storage Materials"
    (Nov. 30-Dec. 4 2009, Boston)
    Title: Stability and Dynamics of Metal Borohydrides
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  • H. Oguchi
    Best Poster Award ; 118th IMR Seminar (Autumn 2009)
    (Nov 26, 2009)
    Title: Enhanced Lithium-Ion Conductivity of a LiBH4 Complex Hydride by LiI Addition
  • S. Orimo
    Key-note Lecture in 5th IUPAC International Symposium on Novel Materials and Synthesis (NMS-V) & 19th International Symposium on Fine Chemistry and Functional Polymers (FCFP-XIX) & 3rd Symposium on Power Sources for Energy Storage and their Key Materials (PS-III: International)
    (Oct. 18-22 2009, Shanghai, China)
    Title: High-Density Hydrogen Storage and Lithium Super-Ionic Conductivity in Metal Borohydrides
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  • H. Oguchi
    New position (Kuwano-Nagasawa Laboratory, Assistant Professor) Congratulations! (Oct. 16, 2009)
  • Dr. Bednorz (IBM Zurich, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987) visited our laboratory. (Oct. 9, 2009)
  • Prof. Andreas Züttel (EMPA Materials Sciences and Technology, Switzerland.) Guest Professor in our laboratory. (Sep. 28, 2009)
  • H. Oguchi
    Best Poster Award ; Paving the Future through Materials Science, The Interdisciplinary Science of Nanomaterials
    (Sep. 24-25 2009, Sendai, Japan)
    Title: Experimental and Computational Studies on Structural Transitions in the LiBH4-LiI Pseudobinary System
    * Prof. Orimo also made a key-note lecture at this conference.
  • Y. Yan
    Accepted as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow. Congratulations! (Sep. 1, 2009)
  • S. Orimo
    Invited Lecture in 42nd IUPAC CONGRESS "Chemistry Solutions, Materials, Hydrogen Storage"
    (August 2-7 2009, Glasgow, UK)
    Title: Metal Borohydrides for Energy Storage
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  • M. Matsuo
    Best Poster Award ; 117th IMR Seminar (Spring 2009)
    (May 14, 2009)
    Title: Stabilization of lithium superionic conduction phase in LiBH4
  • 4th UK - Japan Workshop on Solid-State Hydrogen Storage was held.
    (May 10-13 2009, IMR and Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku Univ.)
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    Group photo
  • Three new member joined our lab. (Apr. 1, 2009)
  • S. Orimo
    Promoted (IMR, Tohoku University, Professor). Congratulations! (March 1, 2009)
  • T. Sato
    Move to Yamada Lab., IMR, Tohoku University (WPI, Assistant Professor). Congratulations! (March 1, 2009)
  • Imparting room-temperature lithium fast-ion conductivity to a complex hydride LiBH4 by chemical modification (collaborated with Assoc. Profs. H. Maekawa and H. Takamura (Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University)).
    Published in Journal of American Chemical Society (131, 894, 2009), and reported in Nikkei NET (online, Jan. 23, 2009), Nikkan-Kougyo Shimbun. (Jan. 27,2009)
    IMR URL
  • Co-authoring article on complex hydrides by S. Orimo et al. was selected "Hot Papers (last 2 years)" in ISI Web of Knowledge (Essential Science Indicators, updated on Jan. 1, 2009). (Jan. 1, 2009)
    A. Züttel, A. Borgschulte, S. Orimo
    Tetrahydroborates as New Hydrogen Storage Materials, Scr. Mater. 2007, 56, 823-828.

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