Seminar by Toyota "Fascinated by amorphous materials for next generation battery application"

We are delighted to be hosting Dr. Fuminori Mizuno, from Toyota, for his seminar on amorphous materials for next generation battery application. For more information on the speaker, please see the below bio. We hope to see you at the seminar!

Dr. Fuminori Mizuno is currently a general manager at Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC).  He received a PhD (2006) in applied material science from the Osaka Prefecture University (Japan).He majored in inorganic material science and wellstudied the uniqueness of amorphous materials.His research thesis was titled “sulfide-based lithium-ion conducting solid electrolytes and their application to all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries”.In 2005, he studied abroad at Arizona State University (USA) to learn about protonic ionic liquids under guidance of Prof. Angell.Since 2006, Dr. Mizuno has been employed at TMC. He was mainly engaged in the research of non-aqueouslithium-air batteries, with particular emphasis on understanding the cathode reaction mechanism.In 2012, Dr. Mizuno was dispatched to Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRI-NA)where he servedas the leader of post lithium-ion battery technologies such as magnesium battery, sodium batteryand innovative lithium-air battery.In 2016, he returned to Japan, leading the research & development of the all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries with sulfide solid electrolytes as a project manager.  Now, he has been managing R&D activities of next generation battery materialsto support carbon neutral society.