News

FY2023

2023-09-22	Invited Talk at 1st Quantum Beam Analysis Alliance Meeting.
2023-09-21	Invited Topical Talk at 17th Catalysis Dojo.
2023-09-04	Invited Talk at 26th Japanese XAFS society annual meeting.
2023-08-19	The very alpha version MDR XAS Viewer is out.
2023-07-14	Invited Talk at 17th academic lecture, Kansai branch, The Ceramic Society of Japan.
2023-04-01	The second year at Kindai University.

2023-01-08	Invited talk at JSSRR 2023.
2023-01-01	Happy New Year!
2022-10-18	Invited talk at ICEAN 2022.
2022-08-19	A collaboration work on high entropy alloy catalysts with Prof. Furukawa and Mr. Nakaya at Hokkaido University is accepted by Journal of American Chemical Society.
2022-07-15	Received Dale Sayers Award from International X-ray Absorption Society.
2022-04-01	Moved to Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University as a Senior Lecturer.

2022-03-31: I leave the ESICB project. I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart, Prof. Tsunehiro Tanaka and all.
2021-07-09: An ESICB work, "Real-time Observation of the Effect of Oxygen Storage Material on Pd-based Three-Way Catalysts under Ideal Automobile Exhaust Conditions: An Operando Study" is accepted by Catalysis Science & Technology.

2021-06-08: A personal work, "Local structure and L1- and L3-edge X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structures of Middle Lanthanoid Elements (Eu, Gd, Tb, and Dy) in Their Complex Oxides" is accepted by Inorganic Chemistry.

2021-05-10: An ESICB project work, "Oxygen Release and Storage Property of Fe−Al Spinel Compounds: A Three-Way Catalytic Reaction over a Supported Rh Catalyst" is accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

2021-02-05: A highlight review, "Recent Applications of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Combination with High Energy Resolution Fluorescence Detection" is accepted by Chemistry Letters.
2020-11-23: An ESICB project work, "Self-Regeneration Process of Ni-Cu Alloy Catalysts during Three-Way Catalytic Reaction - An Operando Study" is accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
2020-10-29: An ESICB project work, "Fe-Modified CuNi Alloy Catalyst as a Nonprecious Metal Catalyst for Three-Way Catalysis" is accepted by Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

2019-07-27: An ESICB project work, "Quantum Chemical Computation Driven Development of Cu-Shell-Ru-Core Nanoparticle Catalyst for NO Reduction Reaction", is accepted by The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
2019-06-07: A collaboration work, "Deactivation Mechanism of Pd/CeO2-ZrO2 Three-Way Catalysts Analyzed by Chassis-Dynamometer Tests and in Situ Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy", is accepted by ACS Catalysis.
2019-06-04: An ESICB project work, "Self-Regeneration of Ni-Cu Alloy Catalyst during Three-Way Catalytic Reaction" is accepted by Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
2019-05-24: A collaboration work, "Preparation of Partial Crystalline Mesoporous Zeolite TS-1 for Epoxidation of Unsaturated Fatty Acid Ester", is accepted by Catalysis Today.
2019-04-29: A collaboration work, "Atomically Dispersed Pt1-Polyoxometalate Catalysts: How Does Metal-support Interaction Affect Stability and Hydrogenation Activity?", is accepted by Journal of the American Chemical Society.
2019-04-12: An ESICB project work, "xTunes: a new XAS processing tool for detailed and on-the-fly analysis" is accepted by Radiation Physics and Chemistry as a proceeding on XAFS17.

2019-02-16: A collaboration work, "In situ Spectroscopy-Guided Engineering of Rhodium Single-Atom Catalysts for CO Oxidation", is accepted by Nature Communicaion.
2018-11-13: My review, "Local Structure Study of Lanthanoid Elements by X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure" is accepted by The Chemical Record.

2018-02-13: Our project work, "Behavior of Rh species during three-way catalytic reactions" is highlighted on the Kyoto University website.
2017-12-11: Our project work, "Dynamic Behavior of Rh Species of Rh/Al2O3 Model Catalyst During Three-Way Catalytic Reaction - An Operando XAS Study" is accepted by Journal of the Americal Chemical Society.
2017-10-27: My own work, "A feasibility study of "range-extended" EXAFS measurement at Pt L3-edge of Pt/Al2O3 in the presence of Au2O3" is accepted by Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.
2017-05-09: A collaboration work, "Atomically Dispersed Rhodium on Self-Assembled Phosphotungstic Acid: Structural Features and Catalytic CO Oxidation Properties", covered the front page of I&EC research Volume 56 Issue 13.

2017-03-10: A collaboration work, "Direct aerobic oxidative homocoupling of benzene to biphenyl over functional porous organic polymer supported atomically dispersed palladium catalyst", is published online.
2017-01-28: A collaboration work, "Translocation of 133Cs administered to Cryptomeria japonica wood", is published online.