Taketoshi Minato

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Taketoshi Minato
Born
Alma mater Tokyo Institute of Technology (2005, Ph.D. Science)
Known for Fluoride battery
Electrochemical Scanning Probe Microscopy
Titanium dioxide
AwardsThe Japan Society of Applied Physics Incentive Award for Excellent Presentation (The Japan Society of Applied Physics)

Young Scientist Award (The Physical Society of Japan)
The Incentive Award, The Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award (Japan Association for Chemical Innovation)
The Special Prize, The High Technology Award for Originality (FujiSankei Business i.)
Docomo Mobile Science Award (Mobile Communication Fund)

The RIEC Award

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Scientific career
Fields Surface Science
Interface
Scanning Probe Microscopy
Battery
Institutions RIKEN
Tohoku University
Kyoto University
Institute for Molecular Science

Taketoshi Minato is a Japanese physicist and chemist, at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences. His research focuses on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy as well as Fluoride battery.

Education, research and career

Taketoshi Minato is a scientist specializing in surface and interface science, as well as physical chemistry and chemical physics. He received his Ph.D. in Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2005, where he investigated the electronic structure of titanium dioxide and its interactions with gold nanoclusters. [1] After completing his doctorate, he joined the Surface Chemistry Laboratory at RIKEN as a Special Postdoctoral Researcher, expanding his works on metal oxides. [2] In 2007, he moved to Tohoku University as an assistant professor, where he applied fundamental theory and advanced experimental techniques to the complex phenomena occurring at electrode–electrolyte interfaces. He later returned to RIKEN as ASI Research Scientist in Surface & Interface Science Laboratory [3] , and subsequently became an associate professor at Kyoto University. His research there focused on the analysis and functional exploration of electrode/electrolyte interfaces in fluoride battery. [4] [5] [6] Since 2020, he has been a Senior Researcher at Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, where he continues to advance his research on energy conversion systems and interfacial phenomena. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Awards and honors

References

  1. Minato, Taketoshi (2014). "Atomic Defects in Titanium Dioxide". The Chemical Record. 14 (5): 923–934. doi:10.1002/tcr.201402038. ISSN   1528-0691.
  2. Minato, Taketoshi; Kajita, Seiji; Pang, Chi-Lun; Asao, Naoki; Yamamoto, Yoshinori; Nakayama, Takashi; Kawai, Maki; Kim, Yousoo (2015-07-28). "Tunneling Desorption of Single Hydrogen on the Surface of Titanium Dioxide". ACS Nano. 9 (7): 6837–6842. doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b01607. ISSN   1936-0851.
  3. "Surface and Interface Science Laboratory @ RIKEN". www2.riken.jp. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
  4. Konishi, Hiroaki; Minato, Taketoshi; Abe, Takeshi; Ogumi, Zempachi (2018-11-01). "Improvement of cycling performance in bismuth fluoride electrodes by controlling electrolyte composition in fluoride shuttle batteries". Journal of Applied Electrochemistry. 48 (11): 1205–1211. doi:10.1007/s10800-018-1241-z. ISSN   1572-8838.
  5. Konishi, Hiroaki; Minato, Taketoshi; Abe, Takeshi; Ogumi, Zempachi (2019-04-25). "Influence of Electrolyte Composition on the Electrochemical Reaction Mechanism of Bismuth Fluoride Electrode in Fluoride Shuttle Battery". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123 (16): 10246–10252. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b00455. ISSN   1932-7447.
  6. Minato, Taketoshi; Umeda, Kenichi; Kobayashi, Kei; Araki, Yuki; Konishi, Hiroaki; Ogumi, Zempachi; Abe, Takeshi; Onishi, Hiroshi; Yamada, Hirofumi (2021-07-13). (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Citoid/WMF (mailto:noc@wikimedia.org)&ssu=&ssv=&ssw=&ssx=eyJfX3V6bWYiOiI3ZjkwMDBjMTcyNDFlYi1mYWU5LTQ2MDAtYmY5Yy0xMTA4N2E1NWI3YjQxLTE3NjUwNDIzMzAyMTkwLTAwMTQwZTRhODVjYTllMTUzZDkxMCIsInJkIjoiaW9wLm9yZyIsInV6bXgiOiI3ZjkwMDA0MDcxYmZmYy1lMWE1LTQyYzItYjZlMC01ODczMjNhOWY3ZDcxLTE3NjUwNDIzMzAyMTkwLTE4ZTM5MmJjYmYyODQ0MmQxMCJ9 "Atomic-level nature of solid/liquid interface for energy conversion revealed by frequency modulation atomic force microscopy". Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 60 (SE): SE0806. doi:10.35848/1347-4065/abffa2. ISSN   0021-4922.{{cite journal}}: Check |url= value (help)
  7. Nakano, Hiroyuki; Matsunaga, Toshiyuki; Mori, Takuya; Nakanishi, Koji; Morita, Yoshiyuki; Ide, Kazuto; Okazaki, Ken-ichi; Orikasa, Yuki; Minato, Taketoshi; Yamamoto, Kentaro; Ogumi, Zempachi; Uchimoto, Yoshiharu (2021-01-12). "Fluoride-Ion Shuttle Battery with High Volumetric Energy Density". Chemistry of Materials. 33 (1): 459–466. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04570. ISSN   0897-4756.
  8. Konishi, Hiroaki; Takekawa, Reiji; Minato, Taketoshi; Ogumi, Zempachi; Abe, Takeshi (2022). "Interactions among solvent, anion acceptor, and supporting electrolyte salt in fluoride shuttle battery electrolyte based on nuclear magnetic resonance". Energy Storage. 4 (6): e403. doi:10.1002/est2.403. ISSN   2578-4862.
  9. Aizawa, Hiroki; Sato, Takuro; Maki-Yonekura, Saori; Yonekura, Koji; Takaba, Kiyofumi; Hamaguchi, Tasuku; Minato, Taketoshi; Yamamoto, Hiroshi M. (2023-07-28). "Enantioselectivity of discretized helical supramolecule consisting of achiral cobalt phthalocyanines via chiral-induced spin selectivity effect". Nature Communications. 14 (1): 4530. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40133-z. ISSN   2041-1723.
  10. Minato, Taketoshi; Umeda, Kenichi; Kobayashi, Kei; Araki, Yuki; Konishi, Hiroaki; Ogumi, Zempachi; Abe, Takeshi; Onishi, Hiroshi; Yamada, Hirofumi (2021-07-13). (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Citoid/WMF (mailto:noc@wikimedia.org)&ssu=&ssv=&ssw=&ssx=eyJyZCI6ImlvcC5vcmciLCJ1em14IjoiN2Y5MDAwZmQ4NGY2MzUtM2EzNC00YjMwLWI0NDMtMDkzMTkwOTUzMWQxMS0xNzY1MDQyNTYwMTA5MC03ZTM3NjU3OTRkMzljMjYxMTAiLCJfX3V6bWYiOiI3ZjkwMDBiNGIzMmQyYS0yYjdhLTQxNDgtOWE5ZS0yMjY5MTFlNjRhYzIxLTE3NjUwNDI1NjAxMDkwLTAwMTk4MzYyYzQ5MjFmZGMwYjYxMCJ9 "Atomic-level nature of solid/liquid interface for energy conversion revealed by frequency modulation atomic force microscopy". Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 60 (SE): SE0806. doi:10.35848/1347-4065/abffa2. ISSN   0021-4922.{{cite journal}}: Check |url= value (help)