Prof. Akihiro FURUBE
Institute of Post-LED Photonics, Tokushima University
2-1, Minamijosanjima-cho, Tokushima, 770-8506, Japan
古部 昭広
徳島大学 教授
〒770-8506 徳島市南常三島町2丁目1番地
所属:
ポストLEDフォトニクス研究所 [光基礎研究部門長]
理工学部 理工学科 [副学部長]
フォトニクス健康フロンティア研究院（光工学領域）
・産業技術総合研究所 客員研究員（2015〜）
・JCP Editorial Advisory Board (2023〜)
・Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews
Associate Editor (19th June 2024 〜)
UPCOMING Presentations
- Au/Pt-Modified TiO₂ vs SiC Ternary Photocatalysts: Comparative Performance in Visible-Light Hydrogen Evolution, Md Minhaj Hossain, Shunsuke Yuyama, Pankaj Koinkar, Tetsuro Katayama and Akihiro Furube
- Design and Development of MoS₂/BiOCl/Pt Ternary Nanocomposite via Combined Hydrothermal and Laser Ablation Techniques for Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity, Niloy Paul, Tetsuro Katayama, Akihiro Furube, Pankaj Koinkar
2. Symposium on Frontier of Terahertz Science XII (S-FTS 2025) | October 15-17, Tokushima
[Invited Talk] Ultrafast Charge Dynamics in Plasmonic Metal–Semiconductor Photocatalysts for Visible/NIR Photocatalysis
Akihiro Furube
3. 13th Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Conference (2025 Oct 21 - 25, Kerala, India)
[Invited Talk & 3 Posters]
- Plasmon-enhanced hydrogen evolution via Au/TiO₂ nanostructures: Insights from femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy
Furube, Akihiro; Hossain, Md. Minhaj; Totsuka, Koudai; Ito, Keiki; Katayama, Tetsuro; Koinkar, Pankaj
- Design of NiCo₂O₄/Fe-doped MoS₂ nanostructured photoelectrode for enhanced hydrogen evolution in photoelectrochemical cells
Ekunde, Mukund; Furube, Akihiro; Sathe, Bhaskar
- Photocatalytic hydrogen production using Ag nanowire/MoS₂ composite
Matsuoka, Yuki; Sugano, Satoshi; Katayama, Tetsuro; Koinkar, Pankaj; Furube, Akihiro
- Spectrally resolved interfacial carrier dynamics in CsPbBr₃–gold nanocomposites containing laser-ablated gold nanoparticles
Masuhara, Ryo; Sugano, Satoshi; Katayama, Tetsuro; Koinkar, Pankaj; Furube, Akihiro
RECENT ARTICLES
1. Highly efficient solar light-driven Au-doped BiOCl@ black TiO2 nanocomposites for photocatalytic treatment of Rhodamine B
Yasuyuki Maeda, Chang-Mou Wu, Kebena Gebeyehu Motora, Pankaj Koinkar, Akihiro Furube
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 36 (2025)1-14
2. Superior photocatalytic properties of WO3/GO/Ag nanocomposite produced by laser ablation and hydrothermal methods
Niloy Paul, Tetsuro Katayama, Akihiro Furube &Pankaj Koinkar
J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 36, 982 (2025).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-025-15045-x
3. Enhanced photocatalytic activity of TiO2/Au/TiO2/Au stacked nanostructures synthesized via sputtering and subsequent annealing
Retsuo Kawakami ,Yuki Miyaji ,Shin-ichiro Yanagiya ,Akihiro Shirai, Pankaj Koinkar, Akihiro Furube, Yoshitaka Nakano, Masahito Niibe
Applied Surface Science 702 (2025) 163328
4. Laser-Ablation Synthesis of Novel Tungsten Disulfide Nanostructures in Liquid and Their Charge Transfer Dynamics with Gold Nanoparticles
Kohei Sasaki, Pankaj Koinkar, Tetsuro Katayama, and Akihiro Furube
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences (2025) 24:803–811
https://doi.org/10.1007/s43630-025-00728-5
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5. Optimizing boron nitride nanostructures using femtosecond laser ablation for enhanced material properties
SM Tonape, T Katayama, P Koinkar, A Furube
International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2550170
6. Particle size dependence simulation analysis of the transient absorption charge recombination dynamics in titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticle attached with gold nanoparticle
Junli Wang, Akihiro Furube, Qi Gao
Molecular Simulation, 51 (2025) 291-297
7. Synthesis of naphthalene-fused imidazo [1, 2-a] pyridinium salts showing green luminescence with high quantum yields and large Stokes shift
Sota Abe, Tetsuro Katayama, Akihiro Furube, Atsushi Tabata, Yasushi Yoshida, Shoko Ueta, Yukihiro Arakawa, Keiji Minagawa, Yasushi Imada and Fumitoshi Yagishita
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2025,23, 4355-4359
8. Formation of WO3/MoS2/rGO composite prepared by integration of pulse laser ablation and hydrothermal method to enhance optical and photocatalytic activity
Niloy Paul, Akash Sawate, Satoshi Sugano, Tetsuro Katayama, Akihiro Furube, and Pankaj Koinkar
Surface Review and Letters | Vol. 32, No. 07, 2540005 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218625X25400050
9. Quantifying the prospect of a visible-light-absorbing oxysulfide photocatalyst by probing transient absorption and photoluminescence
Ryota Shoji, Vikas Nandal, Kazuhiko Seki, Xiaoping Tao, Akihiro Furube, Takashi Hisatomi, Hiroaki Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Takata, Masanori Kaneko, Koichi Yamashita, Kazunari Domen and Hiroyuki Matsuzaki
EES Catalysis, 3, 274-285, 2025 [Open Access]
https://doi.org/10.1039/D4EY00187G