Akihiro FURUBE, PhD

1. Evidencing Prominent Involvement of Bi Orbitals of BiFeO3 in Eliciting Charge-Transfer Excitation

Syeda Reha Khadri, Florian Schrenk, Ryoma Suzuki, Jonathan Rollenitz, Shunsuke Yuyama, Akihiro Furube, Christoph Rameshan, and Dharmapura H. K. Murthy

ACS Phys. Chem Au, accepted.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphyschemau.6c00108

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2. Synthesis and evaluation of g-C3N4/BiOI S-scheme photocatalyst for photodegradation of Rhodamine B
Yasuyuki Maeda, Akihiro Furube, Chang-Mou Wu, Pankaj Koinkar
ChemPhotoChem, 10, e70287 (2026)

3. Visible-light driven photocatalysis of black TiO₂/rGO nanocomposite for efficient pollutant degradation
Akshay Khorate, Mukund Ekunde, Yuta Hishinuma, Ryoma Suzuki, Masatsugu Oishi, Hiroki Iwaizumi, Tetsuro Katayama, Akihiro Furube, and Pankaj Koinkar
Physica B: Condensed Matter, 742, 419260, 2026

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4. 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 10, 3510–3521 (2026), DOI: 10.1039/D6QM00392C

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5. 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

J. Phys. Chem. C (2026) 130 (24): 8304–8316.

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

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6. 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

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7. 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)