Open Innovation Center of Hydrogen Science for Green Transformation (GX)

Implementing AIMR's comprehensive fundamental research capabilities into hydrogen science

The center aims to expand AIMR's comprehensible basic research capabilities into hydrogen science and to reinforce collaborations with domestic & international institutes and industrial circles.

News & Research

2026.05.25Research
Fusing Physics and AI to Generate Blueprints for Advanced Hydrogen Storage Solutions: Overcoming Capacity and Pressure Bottlenecks（Tohoku Univ.）
2026.03.19Research
The Distance Between Hydrogen Atoms in the Interlayers of Hydrogen Boride Nanosheets Determines the Hydrogen Release Temperature（Univ. of Tsukuba/Tohoku Univ.）
2026.03.17Research
Low Temperature Chemical Looping for Methane Steam Reforming was Developed for Syngas and Hydrogen Production（Tohoku Univ.）
2026.02.19Research
Discovery of a New Principle for Ammonia Synthesis Utilizing Hydrides and Light（Science Tokyo）
2026.02.03Research
"DIVE" into Hydrogen Storage Materials Discovery with AI Agents（Tohoku Univ./The Univ. of Tokyo/JST）
2026.01.01Research
Tuning Stability of AB₃-Type Alloys by Suppressing Magnetism（Tohoku Univ.）
2025.12.12Research
New Theory Visualizing the "Concerted Ion Migration" in Battery Materials: Jamology for Vehicles Unveils the Physical Chemistry of Fast Ion Conduction and Group Motion of Ions（The Univ. of Tokyo）
2025.11.27Research
Harnessing Real-World Dynamics for Energy-Efficient AI（Tohoku Univ.）
2025.10.26Research
By Doping with Carbon, the Hydrogen Release Properties from Hydrogen Boride Nanosheets are Improved（Univ. of Tsukuba/Tohoku Univ.）
2025.10.20Research
Crystal Structural Characterizations of New La-Ni Hydrides Synthesized by High-Pressure Techniques（Tohoku Univ.）
2025.09.12Research
The Calcium on the Surface is Replaced with Hydrogen（Univ. of Tsukuba/Tohoku Univ.）
2025.07.01Research
Development of Functional Hydrogen Materials via Mechanochemical Reactions（Science Tokyo）
2025.03.29Research
New Hydrogenation Reaction Mechanism for Superhydride Revealed by Machine Learning（The Univ. of Tokyo/Tohoku Univ./JST）
2024.07.01
2024 DTU-AIMR Catalyst Workshop:Catalyst Design for a Greener Tomorrow
2024.03.19
Hydrogen in Materials:Process-Microstructure-Properties Relationships.
2025.02.17Research
Breakthrough in Catalyst Design Paves the Way for Eco-Friendly Ammonia Production（Science Tokyo）
2024.02.07
Lecture announcement regarding a cuttingedge research on "Hydrogen Storage"
2025.02.02Research
Developments of a New Hydrogen Storage Material with High Hydrogen Density and High Durability（Tohoku Univ.）
2024.02.01Research
Towards a Better Way of Releasing Hydrogen Stored in Hydrogen Boride Sheets（Tohoku Univ.）
2024.01.12Research
Unraveling the pH-Dependent Oxygen Reduction Performance on Single-Atom Catalysts in Hydrogen Fuel Cell（Tohoku Univ.）
2024.01.06Research
Active Machine Learning Model for the Dynamic Simulation and Growth Mechanisms of Carbon on Metal Surface（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.12.18Research
A New Nanocomposite for Efficient Oxygen Evolution in Hydrogen Production（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.12.07Research
An Integrated Approach to Discovering Stable and Low Cost Electrocatalysts（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.12.04Research
Advocating and Exemplifying the Concept of "Computation Harvesting"（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.12.01Research
Research Found that Gluconic Acid Can Significantly Promote the CO₂ Reduction Performance of Cu towards C2 Product Formation（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.11.29Research
A New Catalyst Design Strategy to Improve the Perovskite's Oxygen Reduction Performance in Hydrogen Fuel Cell（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.11.20Research
Developing a Superbase-Comparable BaTiO3−xNy Oxynitride Catalyst（Tokyo Tech）
2023.11.20Research
Development of a Highly Stable Nickel-Foam-Based Boron Monosulfide–Graphene Electrocatalyst with a High Current Density for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction（Univ. of Tsukuba/Tohoku Univ.）
2023.11.10Research
A New Benchmark for High-Performance Carbon Cathodes in Lithium-Oxygen Batteries（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.11.09Research
Design a Pd-Gd₂O₃ Catalyst for Highly Effective Oxygen Reduction in Hydrogen Fuel Cell（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.11.09Research
Rhombohedral Boron Monosulfide as a Metal-Free Photocatalyst（Univ. of Tsukuba/Tohoku Univ.）
2023.10.31Research
We Developed an Online Digital Platform (the CatMath) for Predicting Catalysis on-the-Cloud（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.10.19Research
Electrocatalytic Mechanisms for an Oxygen Evolution Reaction at a Rhombohedral Boron Monosulfide Electrode/Alkaline Medium Interface Were Examined（Univ. of Tsukuba/Tohoku Univ.）
2023.10.16Research
Promotion Effect of Barium Oxynitride on the Ammonia Synthesis Activity of Ru Catalyst（Tokyo Tech）
2023.10.11Research
Elucidation of Reaction Pathways of Ammonia Synthesis on Alkaline Earth Imides Supported Metal Catalysts（Tokyo Tech）
2023.10.10Research
Hydride Superconductivity Exhibit Near-Room Temperature Superconductivity under High Pressure（Osaka Univ.）
2023.10.06Research
N₂ Activation by Electron in the Absence of Any Transition Metals（Tokyo Tech）
2023.09.30Research
Review on Influence of Renewable Energy's Power Fluctuation on Water Electrolyzers（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.09.22Research
Topological Insulator Catalysts for High-Yield Room-Temperature Synthesis of Organoureas（Tokyo Tech）
2023.09.10Research
A Dynamic Database of Solid-State Electrolyte (DDSE) Picturing All-Solid-State Batteries（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.09.04Research
Theory Identified 2D Planar Electrocatalysts with Strong OCHO* Binding for CO₂ Hydrogenation toward High-Value Products（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.09.04Research
Controlling Photoinduced H₂ Release from Freestanding Borophane Sheets Under UV Irradiation by Tuning B–H Bonds （Univ. of Tsukuba/Tohoku Univ.）
2023.08.15Research
Improving Performace of Oxide-Supported Water Electrolysis Catalysts by Inserting Interlayer（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.08.13Research
Experiments and Theory Found that Dextran is a Multifunctional and Universal Electrolyte Additive for Aqueous Zn Ion Batteries（Tohoku Univ./The Univ. of Sydney）
2023.08.03Research
The First in Situ Observation of Ammonia Formation on Ruthenium Catalyst Surface by Modulated Excitation IR Spectroscopy（Kyushu Univ./Tohoku Univ.）
2023.07.28Research
Development of Co-Based MOF for Efficient OER in Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.07.26Research
Explore the Origin of the High Activity of ZrN for Oxygen Reduction in Hydrogen Fuel Cell(Tohoku Univ.）
2023.07.26Research
A New Framework to Precisely Explore the Ionic Conductivity on Divalent Complex Hydride Electrolytes(Tohoku Univ.）
2023.07.25Research
Water-Durable Perovskite-Oxynitride Supported Nickel Catalysts for Ammonia Decomposition(Tokyo Tech）
2023.07.24Research
Composition Dependence of Carbon Dioxide Reduction Properties of PdCu Alloy Nanoparticles（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.07.18Research
Elucidating the Key Process to Assemble 3D Graphene Frameworks（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.07.12Research
Revealing an Effect of Polymer Network Size on Ionic Conductivity of Solid Polymer Electrolytes（Tohoku Univ./Rikkyo Univ.）
2023.07.10Research
Explore the Bottlenecks of C–C Coupling in CO₂ Reduction on Dual-Atom Electrocatalysts(Tohoku Univ.）
2023.07.08Research
Development of a Highly Active Alkaline Water Electrocatalyst Using Typical Elements(Univ. of Tsukuba/Tohoku Univ.）
2023.06.27Research
Successful Synthesis of Ternary Superhydroxide, LaBeH8, with Tc around 110 K at 80 GPa(Osaka Univ.）
2023.06.16Research
Advancements in Freestanding Hydrogen Boride Sheets: Unraveling the Novel Properties of Borophane Polymorphs（Univ. of Tsukuba/Tohoku Univ.）
2023.05.31Research
Unveiling the Nanoscale Frontier: Innovating with Nanoporous Model Electrodes(Tohoku Univ.）
2023.05.27Research
Promotion of Ammonia Synthesis over Supported Fe Catalyst by Nitrogen Vacancy Site on Barium Titanate Oxynitride with a Hexagonal Structure(Tokyo Tech）
2023.05.19Research
Researchers Develop Calcium Rechargeable Battery with Long Cycle Life（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.05.09Research
Durability Improvement of Water Electrolysis Electrodes for Green Hydrogen Production（Tohoku Univ./Yokohama National Univ.）
2023.04.27Research
Record Ammonia Production Achieved with Inexpensive Cobalt Catalyst at Low Temperatures（Tokyo Tech/Chongqing Univ. etc.）
2023.04.24Research
Boosting the Capacity and Voltage of Zinc-Air Batteries（Tohoku Univ./AZUL Energy Inc.）
2023.04.21
The 3rd Workshop was held in a hybrid format.
2023.04.18Research
Theory-Guided Design of Ce-Doped Co Oxides for Highly Effective Oxygen Evolution in Water Splitting（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.04.13Research
Reproduction of Complex Ion Migration by Topological Data Analysis（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.04.07Research
Edge-Site-Free and Topological-Defect-Rich Carbon Cathode for High-Performance Lithium-Oxygen Batteries（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.04.04
The 2nd Workshop was held online.
2023.03.30Research
Opening a New Frontier: PdMo Intermetallic Catalyst for Promoting CO₂ Utilization（Tokyo Tech/Tohoku Univ. etc.）
2023.03.11Research
Theoretical Design of Effective Dual-Atom Catalysts for Electrocatalytic Ammonia Synthesis（Tohoku Univ.）
2023.02.27Research
Direct Imaging of Band Structure for Powdered Rhombohedral Boron Monosulfide by Microfocused ARPES（Tohoku Univ./Univ. of Tsukuba etc.）
2023.02.24Research
Improvement of Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reaction by Organic Molecule Surface Modification（Tohoku Univ./Kyushu Univ.）
2023.02.10
The 1st (Kickoff) Hydrogen Science Workshop was held online.
2022.12.15Research
Integrating Data-Mining, Theoretical Modeling, and Experiments to Identify a Highly Effective Hydrogen Fuel Cell Catalyst（Tohoku Univ.）
2022.11.29Research
Heterogeneous Molecular Co–N–C Catalysts for Efficient Electrochemical H₂O₂ Synthesis（Tohoku Univ.）
2022.11.26Research
Highly Dispersed Ni Nanoclusters Spontaneously Formed on Hydrogen Boride Sheets（Univ. of Tsukuba/Tohoku Univ.）
2022.11.18Research
Fast Multivalent-Ion (Zn, Mg) Conducting Complex Hydrides for All Solid-State Ion Battery（Tohoku Univ.）
2022.11.15Research
Chemisorption of CO₂ on Nitrogen-Doped Graphitic Carbons（Univ. of Tsukuba/Tohoku Univ.）
2022.11.09Research
Hydrogen Entry into an Fe Sheet is Visualized during Corrosion under a Droplet（Tohoku Univ./RCSM）
2022.11.08Research
Structural and Electronic Evidence of Boron Atomic Chains（Univ. of Tsukuba）
2022.11.06Research
Trifunctional Rare-Metal-Free Electrocatalysts Prepared Entirely from Biomass（Tohoku Univ.）
2022.11.03Research
Homotopic Analysis of Quantum States in Two-Dimensional Polymorphs by a Herringbone Lattice Model（Univ. of Tsukuba）
2022.11.02Research
Noble Metal Free, Water Durable Catalyst for Ammonia Synthesis
A New Material Design Approach for Green Ammonia（Tokyo Tech）
2022.10.31Research
Temperature Affects the Transformation-Induced Microcracks and their Arrest（Tohoku Univ.）
2022.10.04Research
Carbon Dioxide Adsorption and Conversion to Methane and Ethane on Hydrogen Boride Sheets（Univ. of Tsukuba）
2022.10.02Research
Low-Temperature Methanol Synthesis by a Cu-Loaded LaH_2+x Electride（Tokyo Tech）
2022.10.01
A press release was published regarding “Establishment of the Sumitomo Metal Mining × Tohoku University GX Materials Science Co-Creation Research Center”.
2022.10.01
Open Innovation Center of Hydrogen Science for Green Transformation (GX) was established.