Prof. Akihiro Furube

Tetsuro Katayama, Yuya Kako, Tatsuya Fujii, Akihiro Furube
“Unraveling the Nonlinear Emission Dynamics in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Perovskite Crystal by Femtosecond Transient Absorption Microscopy”
IL 1C-09, Sep. 5, 16:30–16:50, Room C (3F)
Mukund Shivajirao Ekunde, Pankaj Koinkar, Akihiro Furube
“Plasmonic and Co-catalytic Enhancement of BiVO₄/TiO₂ Photocatalyst for PEC Hydrogen Evolution”
1P-06, Sep. 5, 18:30–20:00, Poster (2F)
Sota Abe, Shoko Ueta, Atsushi Tabata, Tetsuro Katayama, Akihiro Furube, Shunta Nakamura, Fumitoshi Yagishita
“Preparation and Photophysical Properties of Naphthalene-Fused Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridinium Salts”
1P-58, Sep. 5, 18:30–20:00, Poster (2F)
Akihiro Furube, Ryo Masuhara, Tetsuro Katayama
“Carrier Dynamics in CsPbBr₃–Au Hybrid Nanostructures Fabricated Using Laser-Ablated Au Nanoparticles”
IL 2A-13, Sep. 6, 15:45–16:05, Room A (3F)
Vikas Nandal, Dharmapura H.K. Murthy, Hiroyuki Matsuzaki, Ryuzi Katoh, Takashi Hisatomi, Kazunari Domen, Akihiro Furube, Kazuhiko Seki
“Uncovering the Origin of Improved Water Splitting Activity in Al Doped SrTiO₃ Photocatalyst by Transient Optical Spectroscopy”
IL 2C-13, Sep. 6, 16:15–16:35, Room C (3F)
Tianci Wang, Bhagyashree Mahesha Sachith, Yifei Xia, Xu Shi, Takuya Okamoto, Tetsuro Katayama, Akihiro Furube, Syoji Ito, Li Wang, Naoto Tamai, Hiroshi Miyasaka, Hiroaki Misawa, Vasudevanpillai Biju
“Surface Plasmon Resonance-Assisted Excitons and Biexcitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots”
IL 2A-16, Sep. 6, 17:30–17:50, Room A (3F)
Junnosuke Azuma, Akihiro Furube
“Plasmon-Enhanced Reactive Oxygen Species Generation in Au–TiO₂ Composite Nanoparticles for Photodynamic Therapy Applications”
2P-01, Sep. 6, 18:30–20:00, Poster (2F)

3. 2026年光化学討論会 (2026年9月8~10日, 神戸大学)

Hossain Md Minhaj, 片山哲郎, コインカーパンカジ, 古部昭広
「Au/Ptナノ粒子配置によるTiO₂のホットエレクトロン移動制御と可視光水素生成」
3A06, Sep. 10, 10:40–11:00, A会場（D311）
片山哲郎, 賀好侑也, 古部昭広
「ライン観測フェムト秒顕微過渡吸収分光法を用いたハロゲン化鉛ペロブスカイト結晶におけるキャリア拡散ダイナミクス観測」
3A08, Sep. 10, 11:20–11:40, A会場（D311）
賀好侑也, 片山哲郎, 古部昭広
「高波長分解能の顕微時間分光計測によるハロゲン化鉛ペロブスカイト結晶のキャリアダイナミクス観測」
3P008, Sep. 10, 13:00–14:40, ポスター（D棟）
岩泉滉樹, 武田和樹, 古部昭広
「電位制御過渡吸収分光によるナノ秒レーザー加工金属表面の界面電荷ダイナミクス評価」
3P048, Sep. 10, 13:00–14:40, ポスター（D棟）
菱沼雄太, アクシェイコラテ, 鈴木涼真, 岩泉滉樹, 片山哲郎, パンカジーコインカー, 古部昭広
「過渡吸収分光法による black TiO₂ / rGO 複合光触媒のキャリアダイナミクス」
3P061, Sep. 10, 13:00–14:40, ポスター（D棟）
益田英典, 古部昭広
「生体模擬環境における近赤外高繰り返しフェムト秒レーザーを用いた金ナノ構造体の深部二光子励起評価」
3P075, Sep. 10, 13:00–14:40, ポスター（D棟）

4. Asian Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena 2026 (Nov. 8 - 11, 2026, Seoul, Korea)

To be announced

RECENT ARTICLES

1. Demystifying the interplay between extended π-conjugation and nitrogen vacancies in photocatalytic H₂ evolution on copolymerized carbon nitride

Simon Joyson Galbao, Sujana Chandrappa, Stephen Nagaraju Myakala, Shunsuke Yuyama, Shalini Tomar, Yury G. Kolyagin, Dirtha Sanyal, Maya Marinova, Tetsuro Katayama, Seung-Cheol Lee, Dominik Eder, Satadeep Bhattacharjee, Alexey Cherevan, Akihiro Furube, Vitaly Ordomsky, and Dharmapura H. K. Murthy

Materials Chemistry Frontiers (2026), DOI: 10.1039/D6QM00392C

2. Spatial Ordering of Au/Pt Co-Catalysts on TiO2 Modulates Hot- Electron Transfer and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution
Md Minhaj Hossain, Shunsuke Yuyama, Pankaj Koinkar, Tetsuro Katayama, and Akihiro Furube

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, accepted

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6c00296

3. Plasmon-Assisted MoS2@Au nanocomposite for enhanced photocatalysis of organic dye degradation

N Paul, T Katayama, S Sugano, A Furube, P Koinkar
International Journal of Modern Physics B 40, 2640015, 2026

DOI: 10.1142/S0217979226400151

4. Investigating the Photocatalytic Performance of Ternary Nanocomposite Pd/rGO/MoO₃ Under Visible Light

Akash Sawate, Gaurav Kumar Yogesh, Matin Patel, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Tetsuro Katayama, Rungsima Yeetsorn, Akihiro Furube, Pankaj Koinkar

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 1050, 185512 (2026)

5. qMaLioffG: A genetically encoded green fluorescence lifetime-based indicator enabling quantitative imaging of intracellular ATP
Satoshi Arai, Hideki Itoh, Cong Vu, Mizuho Nakayama, Masanobu Oshima, Atsuya Morita, Kazuko Okamoto, Satoru Okuda, Aki Teranishi, Madori Osawa, Yoshiteru Tamura, Shigeaki Nonoyama, Megumi Takuma, Toshinori Fujie, Satya Sarker, Thankiah Sudhaharan, Taketoshi Kiya, E. Birgitte Lane, Tetsuya Kitaguchi, Akihiro Furube, Tetsuro Katayama, Loan Nguyen
Nature Communications, 16 (1), 9972 (2025)

6. A red fluorescent genetically encoded biosensor for in vivo imaging of extracellular L-lactate dynamics
Yusuke Nasu, Yuki Kamijo, Philipp Mächler, Natalie Ness, Cong Vu, Tsukasa Kusakizako, Jamsad Mannuthodikayil, Zaneta Ku, Marc Boisvert, Ekaterina Grebenik, Ikumi Miyazaki, Rina Hashizume, Haruaki Sato, Rui Liu, Yukiko Hori, Taisuke Tomita, Tetsuro Katayama, Akihiro Furube, Gabriela Caraveo Piso, Marie-Eve Paquet, Mikhail Drobizhev, Osamu Nureki, Satoshi Arai, Marco Brancaccio, Robert Campbell, David Kleinfeld
Nature Communications, 16 (1), 9531 (2025)

7. Photoluminescence enhancement by exciton–plasmon coupling in MAPbI₃ quantum dots on gold nanorods
Vasudevanpillai Biju, Tianci Wang, Tetsuro Katayama, Xu Shi, Akihiro Furube, Takuya Okamoto
NPG Asia Materials, 17 (1), 43 (2025)

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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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12. 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, 39, 2550170 (2025)

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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