Our laboratory is engaged in the development of functional materials based on composite plating. Plating is an essential technology underpinning all electronic and semiconductor devices, including personal computers, mobile phones, and smartphones. In our laboratory, we fabricate materials such as metal/CNT composite films using carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and explore their applications in display materials, wear-resistant materials, thermal and electrical conductive materials, and energy storage materials (e.g., current collector substrates). In addition, we are working on the development of roughened substrates for metal–polymer bonding aimed at multimaterial integration, which is expected to contribute to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions through the weight reduction of automobiles.

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　In recent years, we have also expanded our research to electrochemical devices. This includes metal electrodeposition from aqueous and non-aqueous electrolytes (including room-temperature molten salts), intercalation reactions of multivalent ions (e.g., graphite intercalation compounds), and the development of proton batteries (active materials and electrolytes) and magnesium secondary batteries (artificial SEI).

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Keywords:

composite plating, electrodeposition, intercalation (graphite intercalation compounds),

ionic liquids, Mg/Ca/proton batteries, ion removal

 

Department of Materials Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University
Arai & Shimizu Laboratory (Applied Electrochemistry Laboratory)

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