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• April 2026, Welcome to Yiwen Ke, Vivian Ebube, Yousuke Okuda, and Yuga Koura to Harada Research Gourp.
• March 2026, Congratulations to Hirokazu Naito, Yidi Wang for their successful graduation fromf master's course, Alan Joy for his accomplishments of study in Harada research group, Tsubasa Ando and Kouki Iketani for their graduation from undergrad.
• Dec. 2025, David's latest paper titled,"High-Capacity Carbon Capture via Steam-Based Regeneration using Molten Alkali Borates" has been published in npj Materials Sustainability(Springer Nature). Congratulations, David!!
• Nov. 2025, Jun Hang's paper titled "Development of Borate-Based Basic Ionic Liquid for Room Temperature CO2 Capture" has been accepted for publication in ACS Omega (ACS). Congratulations, Jun Hang!!
• Oct. 2025, Welcome to Zhongjie Gu and Alan Joy to Harada Research Group.
• Sep. 2025, Congratulations to David, now Dr. David Unnervik, on his successful thesis defense and graduation with Ph.D.
• Sep. 2025, Congratulations to Jun Hang Chia and Keigo Roji on their successful graduation of master's degree.
• April 2025, David's latest work elucidated the details of crystalline structure for a peculiar 6-membered nonplanar borate ring, which can be produced through CO2 absorption by lithium-sodium molten borates. The paper reporting this new important scientific insight is now published in ACS Journal, Inorganic Chemistry, with the title "CO2-Promoted Assembly of Nonplanar B12O24-Ring as a Fundamental Building Block in Lithium–Sodium Alkali Borates during Carbon Capture". Great work, David!
• April 2025, Welcome to Byron Barahona Solis, Mioko Murashima, Tsubasa Ando, and Kosei Iketani to Harada Research Group.
• Mar. 2025, David's latest paper titled "Advancing Molten Alkali Borate Sorbents for High-Temperature Carbon Capture by Structural Elucidation of the Ionic-Oxide Reaction Mechanism" has been accepted to Advanced Sustainable Systems (Wiley). Congratulation, David!
• Mar. 2025, Shiyi's latest paper titled "Optimal Operating Windows for CO2 Capture in Lithium-Sodium Borates: Phase Transition and Composition Effects" has been accepted to the ACS Journal, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. Congratulation, Shiyi!
• Oct. 2024, Moin's latest paper titled "High-throuput screening of nano-hybrid metal-organic-frameworks for photocatalytic CO2 reduction" has been selected as a Materials Horizons HOT Paper by Royal Society of Chemistry. Congratulation, Moin!!
• Oct. 2024, Welcome to Szymon Herdzik from TU Munich to Harada Research Group as a Visiting Junior Fellow.
• Oct. 2024, Welcome to Sze Qi Lung, Conglin Wang, Juzheng Bai, and Zonglin Yang to Harada Research Group.
• April 2024, Welcome to Hideaki Yamaguchi and Yidi Wang to Harada Research Group
• Oct. 2023, Welcome to Jun Hang Chia to Harada Research Group.
• April 2023, Welcome to Moin Khwaja, Nozomi Shibasaki, Hirokazu Naito, and Tomoya Koyanagi to Harada Research Group.
• Oct. 2022, Our molten oxides-based technology was featured as a cutting-edge approach to open next generation of carbon capture in Advanced Science News.
• Sep. 2022, Welcome to Shiyi Zang and Seyon Park to Harada Research Group.
• August 2022, "Mantel Capture Inc. ", a new startup venture company, was launched for the developments and commercialization of our molten oxides-based technology as the first high temperature liquid phase carbon capture process. (Press release)
  
• May 2022, Welcome to David Unnervik from Swizerland to Harada Research Group ！
• April 2022, Welcome toTakumu Yasuda, Toshiki Yasutake, Ryoya Fukusawa, Hiroki Yamaguchi to Harada Research Group！
• January 2022, Welcome to Tatsuya Fujita as a new member to Harada reserach group.
• October 2021, Welcome to Keigo Roji to Harada research group.
• September 2021, Welcome to Yuma Nagao to Harada research group.
• September 2021, Research activity at Harada research group was featured in "Environmental Report 2021" of Tokyo Tech.
• April 2021, Welcome to Yusuke Furuta, Takashi Ito, and Tadashi Kawamura to Harada research group.
• April 2020. Welcome toRyota Utsumi, who is joing us as the first B4 student to Harada research group.
• March 2020. Harada research group was launched at Tokyo Institute of Technology.