The research of the “Water Splitting Group” focuses on investigation and study about production of highly active thin Films and increasing of Photochemical and photoelectrochemical activities of semiconductors and using these films for special application as Photocatalytic splitting of water to Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Efficient use of the freely available resource of solar energy by conversion of solar energy to electricity and chemical compounds is very important. Conversion of radiant energy into chemical energy by semiconductor Photocatalysis is one of major works we do in this group.
Recently, many studies have been devoted to water splitting reaction to produce H2 and O2 by using various types of powdered photocatalysts aiming at the utilization of abundant solar energy sources and the production of clean H2. However, such powdered photocatalytic systems always yield a mixture of H2 and O2. The second-generation titanium oxide thin film photocatalysts which absorb UV-visible light and work as efficient photocatalysts under irradiation of light in the UV and visible light carried out in our group in the beginning years of the Millennium.
In recent years many research had been done by the members of the group and many Scientific Papers published in this field. The most papers in this field belongs to one of the hard working person I had ever met, “Dr. Masaaki Kitano” whom I had the chance to work with him here, is a highly active scientist with a great scientific ability and working attitude who initiated many works here.
In the photo you can see him beside me; I missed him as I missed the other previous member “Mr. Kazushi Iyatani” who recently joined to one of famous Japanese companies.
This photo took last year and in one of the following posts I will introduce our current members.
Mr. Shohei Fukumoto
Mr. Kazushi Iyatani
Dr. Masaaki Kitano
and me
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