Our Goals to Achieve

Our company, AZUL Energy Inc., is established on July 11th, 2019 in order to:

• Optimise the possibility of 'Air Battery' with our AZUL technology,
• Realise the Circular Economy by promoting clean energies with our clean AZUL technology.

Why AZUL Energy Inc. is Established?

Batteries, as you know well, have been developed since the 18th century, Italy. An Italian physicist, Luigi Galvani, conceived the fundamental idea of electricity and his friend, Alessandro Volta, succeeded in inventing a 'Voltaic Pile’ as the first battery in the world.

However, in spite of that long-long history of development, the battery itself is being excluded from innumerable innovations found in the field of modern electronics, such as mobile devices, digital technologies.

If current batteries could become lighter in weight, thinner in scale and smarter in use,they would contribute to change our society into the real 'Sustainable Society'.

We believe that they 'Can'. And in fact, we discovered a new, clean and safe biomaterial 'AZUL' in the laboratory. 'AZUL' has an immense amount of possibilities, which can re-design the batteries to be harmless, pollution-free and cheaper in price.

Reference

For further scientific evidences, please refer to the following paper, published on the journal ‘NPG (Nature Publishing Group) Asia Materials’:

Fe azaphthalocyanine unimolecular layers (Fe AzULs) on carbon nanotubes for realizing highly active oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalytic electrodes.

Applicable Fields of AZUL Technology

As we mentioned above, AZUL technology can pull out the possibility of 'Air Battery' up to its maximum. And furthermore, AZUL technology can fulfill the current needs in the next-generation services below:

• Air Battery Production/Development,
• Wearable Devices,
• IoT (Internet of Things).

To realise these objectives, we made decision to establish our company and run our own business for ourselves.

We would like to show our gratitude for the support provided by the Tohoku University Business Incubation Program to establish AZUL Energy Inc. as well.

MEMBERS of AZUL

Hiroshi Yabu

Koju Ito

Hiroya Abe

Chief Executive Officer

Koju Ito formerly served at FUJIFILM Japan. He played an active role on R&D (Research and Development) in collaboration with researchers in various universities to develop products from the ground zero. He established AZUL Energy Inc. with Hiroshi Yabu (Chief Scientific Officer) and Hiroya Abe in 2019.

Chief Scientific Officer

Hiroshi Yabu Doctor of Science
is a Professor/PI at WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University. He has been collaborating with Koju Ito for over the 10 years to drive forward the project. He would like to spread 'AZUL' technology on behalf of sustainable future and to realise his vision as a genuine business product. Co-Founder at AZUL Energy Inc..

Director & Co-Founder

Hiroya Abe Ph.D
is an Assistant Professor at Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University. He served as a core researcher in collaboration with Hiroshi Yabu in the YABU Laboratory to discover AZUL. Co-Founder at AZUL Energy Inc..