2025, September 18
Mr. Ishibashi (PhD candidate) has won the Best Oral Presentation Award-2nd prize at 20th International Conference on Microwave and High Frequency Applications (AMPERE 2025)!
2025, September 3
Manuscript ”Focused Thermal Energy at Atomic Microwave Antenna Sites for Eco-catalysis” has been accepted in Science Advances!
2025, August 2
Review “A Review on the Thermometry of Microscopic Hot Spots Induced by Microwave Energy” has been accepted in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. This is a co-authored work with Prof. Xin Gao of Tianjin University and others.
2025, July 18
Manuscript “In situ reductive transformation of indium oxides on zeolites towards efficient microwave heating” has been accepted in Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan.
2025, June 18
Our project has been selected for the NEDO program “Carbon Recycling and Next-Generation Thermal Power Generation Technology Development / Technology Development at CO₂ Utilization Centers.” In collaboration with Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. and Tokyo University of Science, we have launched the project “Research and Development of Large-Scale Production Technology for High-Energy-Efficiency Conductive Carbon Materials Derived from CO₂ without Using Hydrogen.” The Kishimoto Group is responsible for developing the CO2 → CO reaction using microwave catalytic reaction technology. (Press release from the School of Engineering, University of Tokyo)
2025, June 6
Our project has been selected for the NEDO program “NEDO Pioneering Research Program / Unexplored Challenges,” and we have launched the project “Research on Improving the Yield of Direct-FT Reaction.”