The research team including Associate Professor Maekawa (Graduate School of Engineering and Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Tohoku University), Associate Professor Takamura (Graduate School of Engineering), Associate Professor Orimo (Institute for Materials Research) co-workers developed new lithium superionic conductors based on LiBH4 and metal halides. They have succeeded in imparting room-temperature high lithium ion conductivity to a hydride system that had not been considered a lithium ion electrolyte. Chemical modification technique for metal hydride described is expectedto be useful and can be extended to obtain new and valuable ionic and storage devices.This research achievement was published in "Journal of the American Chemical Society" on online version on 2 January, 2009.

 

Contact:

Associate Professor Hideki Maekawa

Graduate School of Engineering,Department of Metallurgy (and Center for Interdisciplinary Research), Tohoku University

Phone: +81 22-795-3763

E-mail: maekawa_AT_material.tohoku.ac.jp

 

Associate Professor Hitoshi Takamura

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Center for Advanced Inter-Departmental Studies in Science and Technology

Phone: +81 22-795-3938

E-mail: takamura _AT_material.tohoku.ac.jp

 

Associate Professor Shinichi Orimo

Center for Materials Research, Tohoku University

Phone: +81 22-215-2093

E-mail: orimo _AT_imr.tohoku.ac.jp (Replace _AT_ to @)