Chief Scientist Laboratories Solid State Chemistry Laboratory
Chief Scientist: Genki Kobayashi (Ph.D.)
Research Summary
Effective utilization of renewable energy and a shift away from mass consumption of fossil fuels are essential for building a sustainable society, which requires new technologies that enable highly efficient energy and material conversion and high-density energy storage. Based on inorganic solid-state chemistry, we explore outstanding ionics materials, including electrodes and solid electrolytes with innovative functions. We are researching a wide range of topics, from elucidating the mechanisms of physical properties and functions to developing energy storage/conversion and material conversion devices based on new operating principles.
Main Research Fields
- Chemistry
Related Research Fields
- Engineering
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
- Inorganic Materials Chemistry
- Energy-related Chemistry
- Inorganic Materials and properties
Keywords
- Solid State Ionics
- Exploration for New Functional Materials
- Energy Storage & Conversion
- Material Conversion
- Ceramics
Selected Publications
Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.
- 1.
Yaguchi, H., Takeiri, F., Komurasaki, S., Kobayashi, T., Saito, T., Hosokawa, S., Mori, K., Kobayashi, G.:
"Palmierite‐Type Oxyhydride Ba3V2H0.5O7.5 With Vanadium Charge Ordering"
Small Structures, 7, e202500630 (2026). - 2.
Takeiri, F., Oshime, N., Muhammady, S., Uchimura, T., Yaguchi, H., Haruyama, J., Machida, A., Watanuki, T., Saito, T., Mori, K., Ohwada, K., Kitano, M., Kobayashi, G.:
"Mechanochemical Synthesis of H– Materials: Hydrogen-Rich Perovskite Oxyhydrides with Lattice Strain as an Ammonia Synthesis Catalyst"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 147, 24482-24490 (2025). - 3.
Izumi, Y., Takeiri, F., Okamoto, K., Saito, T., Kamiyama, T., Kuwabara, A., Kobayashi, G.:
"Electropositive Metal Doping into Lanthanum Hydride for H− Conducting Solid Electrolyte Use at Room Temperature"
Advanced Energy Materials, 13, 2301993 (2023). - 4.
Okamoto, K., Takeiri, F., Imai, Y., Yonemura, M., Saito, T., Ikeda, K., Otomo, T., Kamiyama, T., Kobayashi, G.:
"Impact of Na Concentration on the Phase Transition Behavior and H− Conductivities in the Ba-Li-H-O Oxyhydride System"
Advanced Science, 10, 2203541 (2023). - 5.
Okamoto, K., Takeiri, F., Imai, Y., Yonemura, M., Saito, T., Ikeda, K., Otomo, T., Kamiyama, T., Kobayashi, G.:
"Stabilization of a high H−- conducting phase via K doping of Ba-Li oxyhydride"
J. Materials Chem. A, 10, 23023-23027 (2022). - 6.
*Takeiri, F., Watanabe, A., Okamoto, K., Bresser, D., Lyonnard, S., Frick, B., Ali, A., Imai, Y., Nishimura, M., Yonemura, M., Saito, T., Ikeda, K., Otomo, T., Kamiyama, T., Kanno, R., Kobayashi, G.:
"Hydride-Ion-Conducting K2NiF4-Type Ba-Li Oxyhydride Solid Electrolyte"
Nature Materials, 21, 325-330 (2022). - 7.
*Uchimura, T., Takeiri, F., Okamoto, K., Saito, T., Kamiyama, T., Kobayashi, G.:
"Direct Synthesis of Barium Titanium Oxyhydride for Use as a Hydrogen Permeable Electrode"
J. Materials Chem. A, 9, 20371-20374 (2021). - 8.
*Nawaz, H., Takeiri, F., Kuwabara, A., Yonemura, M., Kobayashi, G.:
"Synthesis and H– Conductivity of New Oxyhydride Ba2YHO3 with Anion-Ordered Rock-Salt Layers"
Chem. Commun., 56, 10373-10376 (2020). - 9.
*Kobayashi, G., Hinumra, Y., Matsuoka, S., Watanabe, A., Iqbal, M., Hirayama, M., Yonemura, M., Kamiyama, T., Kanno, R.:
"Pure H– Conduction in Oxyhydrides"
Science, 351, 1314-1317 (2016). - 10.
*Kobayashi, G., Irii, Y., Matsumoto, F., Ito, A., Ohsawa, Y., Yamamoto, S., Cui, Y., Son, J.-Y., Sato, Y.:
"Improving Cycling Performance of Li-Rich Layered Cathode Materials Through Combination of Al2O3-Based Surface Modification and Stepwise Pre-cycling"
J. Power Sources, 303, 250-256 (2016).
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Genki Kobayashi
- Chief Scientist
Core members
- Masuki Kawamoto
- Senior Research Scientist
- Masafumi Jo
- Senior Research Scientist
- Osamu Yamamuro
- Research Scientist
- Jun Haruyama
- Research Scientist
- Shibghatullah Muhammady
- Research Scientist
- Hiroshi Yaguchi
- Special Postdoctoral Researcher
- Qianqian Chen
- Special Postdoctoral Researcher
- Keiko Kusumoto
- Student Trainee
- Menghan Zhang
- Student Trainee
- Shun Sato
- Student Trainee
- Masato Konuma
- Student Trainee
- Yu Machida
- Student Trainee
- Fengling Feng
- Student Trainee
- Isaki Sunohara
- Student Trainee
- Noriko Tanaka
- Assistant
- Tomoko Kobayashi
- Temporary Staffing
Contact Information
N505 Chemistry and Materials Physics Building
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Email: genki.kobayashi@riken.jp
