Dr Kenta Yoshida
"Dynamic wet-ETEM observation of deactivation processes of platinum electrode catalysts in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell"
Biography:
Professor Yoshida received his Ph.D. based on an engineering thesis in 2006 from Nagoya University. After working at the University of York, United Kingdom, he started his career at Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University, as an Assistant Professor. Professor Yoshida has also been a member of the environmental transmission electron microscope group at Japan Fine Ceramics Center since 2007. He has been developing in-situ microscope equipment for environmental materials such as photocatalysts, fuel cell catalysts and hydrogen storage materials. His optical and electrochemical holders have been given Wakashachi Young Scientists Award from Aichi Prefecture and fellowships/funding from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Nagoya University and Toyota Motor Corporation.