About Lab.

We are studying "Creating new materials contributing to the carbon neutrality", "surface physics and chemistry at atomic scale", "surface reaction dynamics", and "new two-dimensional materials such as boron containing sheets".
KONDO Laboratory, University of Tsukuba

News

  • 2024/3/25
  • Takeyama-san, Takeshita-san, Shimozato-san, Kang-san, Watanabe-san, Noguchi-san, and Li-san graduated! Congratulations!


    Li-san got Esaki-award!
    Congratulations!


    Watanabe-san got a Graduate school of Science and Technology Director's Award!
    Congratulations!


    Noguchi-san got a Best Thesis Award (left) and a scholarship (right)!
    Congratulations!
     

    Takeshita-san and Takeyama-san got an Outstanding performance award, respectively!
    Congratulations!

  • 2023/12/16
  • At MRM2023/IUMRS-ICA2023 held in Kyoto International Conference Center
    Ito-san, Hikichi-san, Yuan-san, Watanabe-san, Kang-san, Yasuda-san, and Fukuda-san presented their works in poster-session and
    Li-san and Noguchi-san presented their works at oral session.
    Publication|KONDO Laboratory, University of Tsukuba
  • 2023/12/8
  • Noguchi-san (M2) got a award for her presentation in JVSS 2023.
    (Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science 2023)
    Natsumi Noguchi (Univ. of Tsukuba)「Reduction of hydrogen release temperature by loading MgH2 on Ni/HB nanocomposites」
    Natsumi Noguchi, Kazuho Goto, Shin-ichi Ito, Takeshi Fujita, Hideo Hosono, Shin-ichi Orimo, Takahiro Kondo
    2023年日本表面真空学会学術講演会 講演奨励賞 受賞者決定のお知らせ

    Congratulations!

  • 2023/11/23
  • Li-san, Noguchi-san, and Prof. Kondo visited to Institut Teknologi Bandung, ITB
    and participated in SACSEM 9th (The 9th Southest Asia Collaborative Symposium on Energy Materials).
    Li-san and Noguchi-san gave oral presentations and Prof. Kondo gave an invited talk.
    Development of a highly stable nickel-foam-based boron monosulfide–graphene electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction
    Linghui Li, Satoshi Hagiwara, Cheng Jiang, Haruki Kusaka, Norinobu Watanabe, Takeshi Fujita, Fumiaki Kuroda, Akiyasu Yamamoto, Masashi Miyakawa, Takashi Taniguchi, Hideo Hosono, Minoru Otani, Takahiro Kondo
    Li-san received "Student Best Presentation Award"!

    Congratulations!


    Publication|KONDO Laboratory, University of Tsukuba
  • 2023/11/7
  • Prof Kondo visited to Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
    INSTITUTO DE QUIMICA FISICA BLAS CABRERA and gave an invited talk.
    Publication|KONDO Laboratory, University of Tsukuba
  • 2023/11/3
  • Li-san, Kang-san, and Watanabe-san Presented in oral session and Yuan-san, Noguchi-san, Yasuda-san, Fukuda-san presented in poster session at
    JVSS2023 (Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science 2023)
    Publication|KONDO Laboratory, University of Tsukuba
  • 2023/10/1
  • Two new students joined our lab.
  • 2023/9/25
  • Yuan-san completed master's degree and graduated.

    Congratulations!!


    Publication|KONDO Laboratory, University of Tsukuba
  • 2023/9/24
  • Ito-san, Yuan-san, Watanabe-san, Noguchi-san, Kang-san, Yasuda-san, and Fukuda-san presented their research results in
    The 84th JSAP Autumn Meeting 2023 (Kumamoto-jo Hall)
    Publication|KONDO Laboratory, University of Tsukuba
  • 2023/9/4
  • Research results by Hikichi-san et al. has been published inAdvanced Materials Interfaces!
    Controlling Photoinduced H2 Release from Freestanding Borophane Sheets under UV Irradiation by Tuning B–H bonds
    Miwa Hikichi, Junpei Takeshita, Natsumi Noguchi, Shin-ichi Ito, Yukihiro Yasuda, Luong Thi Ta, Kurt Irvin M. Rojas, Iwao Matsuda, Satoshi Tominaka, Yoshitada Morikawa, Ikutaro Hamada, Masahiro Miyauchi,* and Takahiro Kondo*
    Advanced Materials Interfaces 10 (2023) 2300414.
    It is selected as a Front cover picture!
    Publication|KONDO Laboratory, University of Tsukuba
  • 2023/8/9
  • Prof. Kondo gave an invited talk at "The 2023JACKS Hydrogen Forum"

  • 2023/8/2
  • Yuan-san (M2) and Prof. Kondo attended at "2023 China-Japan International Symposium on Photonic Materials" and gave a poster presentation and an invited talk, respectively.

  • 2023/7/27
  • Kondo-lab and Takeyasu-lab conducted joint camp-meeting of "2023 Catalyst and Surface Science group summer workshop".

  • 2023/7/11
  • Research results by Li-san (D3 student) et al. has been published in Chem. Eng. J.

    【Press release】

    https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/research-news/20230711140000.html
    Univ. Tsukuba TUAT Kochi Univ. Tech.

    【Paper】

    Boron monosulfide as an electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction
    Linghui Li, Satoshi Hagiwara, Cheng Jiang, Haruki Kusaka, Norinobu Watanabe, Takeshi Fujita, Fumiaki Kuroda, Akiyasu Yamamoto, Masashi Miyakawa, Takashi Taniguchi, Hideo Hosono, Minoru Otani, Takahiro Kondo*
    Chemical Engineering Journal 471 (2023) 144489.

  • 2023/5/24
  • Research results by Ito-san et al. has been published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics!
    Effective treatment of hydrogen boride sheets for long‐term stabilization
    Shin‐ichi Ito, Miwa Hikichi, Natsumi Noguchi, Mei Yuan, Zihao Kang, Kosei Fukuda, Masahiro Miyauchi, Iwao Matsuda, Takahiro Kondo*
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 25 (2023) 15531-15538.
  • 2023/5/24
  • Li-san (D3 student) and Yoshioka-san (graduated at this March) got awards

    Congratulations!



     
  • 2023/4/6
  • Three new students joined our lab.