Prof. Seiji Ogo (Advanced Energy Materials Thrust) is awarded the Gold Medal of the Precious Metals Research Grants from the TANAKA Memorial Foundation on March 29, 2024.

This research grant is awarded to research where precious metals can make contributions to the research and development of new technologies, and research and development can be applied to precious metals.

Research Title: “Development of precious metal hydrogen energy electron carriers”
Reason for the selection: This research seeks to create a single hydrogen-derived electron (precious metal complex) that can extract electrons from hydrogen under mild conditions and directly use the electrons when needed, as an unprecedented concept. It was highly rated not only as innovative energy carriers for the realization of carbon neutrality, but also as a potential for direct use in various catalytic reactions.