2025

We held a welcome party for those who joined the lab in April at Kirin Beer Garden Susukino Sapporo Genghis Khan.

We had all-you-can-eat and our stomachs were full.

（2025/4/11）

 

We held a safety education session for the new year.

We also took a lab group photo.

（2025/4/11）

 

 

We held a farewell lunch party for Dr. Dong, a postdoctoral researcher who will be leaving at the end of March.

We wish her the best of luck in her new job from April.

（2025/3/27）

 

 

We took stock of the reagents in the laboratory, which is a regular event at the end of the fiscal year.

We held a party to thank everyone for their hard work with sweets that Pro. Takakusagi bought for us.

（2025/2/28）

2024

 

The 2nd Joint Symposium of Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University and SR Center, Ritsumeikan University was held at the main conference room on the 5th floor.

Associate Prof. Takeyasu gave an invited lecture.

Title: “Beyond limitations of Carbon Electrocatalysts Based on Electronic State Design”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/116GqUYwL8OP2pZTrGjsnBqYQFgZkWb2S/view

（2024/12/25）

 

 

From December 11th (Wed) to December 19th (Thu), we conducted synchrotron radiation experiments at Photon Factory (PF), Institute of Materials Structure Science (IMSS) , High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK).
We conducted experiments on three themes: in situ XAFS measurements of plasma catalytic reactions, NEXAFS measurements of carbon-based fuel cell catalysts, and total-reflection DXAFS measurements of SUS surfaces (joint research with AIST).

（2024/12/19）

 

 

Prof. Takakusagi, Associate Prof. Takeyasu, and Mr. Hayashida (D2) attended the AVS 70th International Symposium and Exhibition (AVS 70, November 3-8) held at Tampa Convention Center (Tampa, Florida), and gave an oral presentation.

https://avs70.avs.org/greetings/

Prof. Takakusagi「Effect of Surface Diffusion of Methoxy Intermediates on Methanol Decomposition on Pt/TiO2(110)」

Associate Prof. Takeyasu「Kinetic Theory of Mixed-Potential-Driven Catalysis and the Experimental Proof」

Mr. Hayashida (D2) 「Mechanism of Activity Decrease in ORR on Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Catalysts Based on Acid-Base Equilibrium」

（2024/11/8）

 

 

 

Mr. Hayashida (D2) gave an oral presentation at the 10th Southeast Asia Collaborative Symposium on Energy Materials (SACSEM 10th) held at Tsukuba University from October 2nd to 4th, and received the STAM Award. Congratulations!

Presentation title「Activation mechanism of carbon catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction」
（2024/10/4）

 

 

 

From August 26th to September 13th, Mr. Utashiro Okumura, a first-year student in the Department of Materials and Environmental Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Hakodate College, undertook an internship at our laboratory.
He worked on four research themes, and achieved high-level results in all of them.

We also held a send-off party for him on September 13th.

（2024/9/13）

 

 

From June 29 to July 8, an operando PTRF-XAFS experiment and a joint research with AIST were conducted at Photon Factory (PF) of the Institute for Materials Structure Science (IMSS) of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK).

The photo was taken at an Italian restaurant near the facility.

（2024/7/8）

 

 

　　

　

We had a welcome Genghis Khan party for Associate Prof. Kotaro Takeyasu, Mr. Kenji Hayashida, and Mr. SINGH Ravi.

We enjoyed it and also had a great time playing frisbee and soccer.

（2024/6/6）

 

 

A JEOL UHV scanning tunneling microscope with liquid-nitrogen cooling tank has been transferred to our laboratory from the laboratory of Professor Hiroshi Onishi at Kobe University.

The number of UHV scanning tunneling microscopes in our laboratory is now three, and one of the three will be used as an operando STM/AFM under high pressure.

（2024/3/11）

 

 

A 144-hour operando PTRF-XAFS experiment was conducted at Photon Factory (PF) of the Institute for Materials Structure Science (IMSS) of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) from Feb. 14 (Wed) to Feb. 20 (Tue).

The results show the new potential of this method!

（2024/2/21）

2023

We held a joint year-end party with the Asakura Lab.

(2023/12/25)

 

 

Prof. Takakusaki and Assistant Prof. Lu gave presentations at the “2023 Australia -Japan Symposium on Plasma Catalysis (AJSPC)” held at the University of Adelaide, Australia on Nov. 23-24.

Prof. Takakusagi「Development of synchrotron X-ray and surface science techniques for characterizing plasma catalysis」(invited lecture)

Assist. Prof. Lu「Plasma-assisted nitrogen fixation and ammonia synthesis on Co surface at room temperature」(poster presentation)

（2023/11/24）

 

 

We had a welcome party for Mr. Lu Bang and a farewell lunch for Mr. Yoshinobu Inagaki.

（2023/10/11）

 

 

Keisuke Kuroda, a first-year student in the Department of Applied Chemistry at Asahikawa National College

of Technology, participated in our laboratory’s internship program.

(2023/09/29)

 

We had a birthday party for August.

Congratulations to Professor Takakusagi and Ms. Saito!

(2023/08/30)

 

We organized the conference on “Utilization of Advanced Synchrotron Radiation for Catalyst Chracterization”.(2023/07/21, 22)