Activities:
2025. 11. 7 The 2nd Japan–Korea–China Battery Science Workshop was held from November 7–8 at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Katahira Campus, Sendai. The workshop featured cutting-edge presentations by leading researchers from Japan, Korea, and China on the latest advances in battery science. We also enjoyed a great workshop gathering at an izakaya in Ichibancho.
2025. 11. 6 I took Prof. Simon Fleischmann from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Prof. Xunda Feng from Donghua University (DHU) to a local beef tongue restaurant, a signature specialty of Sendai. It was the first visit to Sendai for both of them.
2025. 11. 5 As a member of the Kato Lab football team at IMR, we won our first institution-level
championship in more than a decade.
2025. 11. 4 We were honored and delighted to host Prof. Shusuke Yagi (University of Tokyo), Prof. Hengxing Ji (University of Science and Technology of China), Prof. Weijiang Xue (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Prof. Simon Fleischmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Prof. Shuo Wang (Wuhan University of Technology), and Prof. Sareeya Bureekaew (VISTEC) at the Energy Session of our MSSp2025 symposium, held from November 4–7, 2025, at the Katahira Campus. We also enjoyed a lunch break together at the Katahira cafeteria.
2025. 10. 24 We held a farewell gathering for Mr. Jing Wei, who joined our group on October 26, 2024, from Wuhan University of Technology as a joint PhD student. He spent a full year with us, contributing to three published papers. We sincerely appreciated his valuable contributions to our group.
2025. 10. 5 Prof. Xiangyu Zhong, Prof. Zihao Wang, Prof. Peng Chen from Tohoku University joined me in hosting a welcome gathering for Prof. Fei Chen, Editor of Materials Science and Engineering A, from Wuhan University of Technology, along with his two students, Dr. Lijie Zou and Mr. Guangshuai Gu.
2025. 7. 13 This Sunday we visited the Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium, followed by a nearby sushi restaurant. Our understanding of aquatic plants and animals has deepened—through both careful observation and seafood exploration.
2024. 12. 06 Year End Celebration and Farewell party
2024. 10. 13 Together with Prof. Zhiqiang Mao from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), our group visited Yamadera Temple in the mountains northeast of Yamagata City. After climbing the steep stone steps, we were rewarded with sweeping views of the valley below.
