Nakamura Laboratory
Head of Nakamura Laboratory
Shinichiro NAKAMURA (Ph.D.)
The mechanism of OEC by Mn cluster is the biggest ever solved problem in natural photosynthesis. The purpose of our research is to develop the idea for a new catalyst system in artificial photosynthesis through clarification of the reaction mechanism. The focus is on the design of nano-size electrode which reflects the natural mechanism of OEC in PSII. Quantum chemistry, molecular simulation, signals processing with fluctuation analysis are the main tools of our theoretical approach, together with tight collaborations with researches in semiconductor physics, electrochemistry and molecular biology.
- Theoretical study on the mechanism of OEC
- Photo electrochemistry and semiconductor physics
- Quantum chemsitry of photoresponsive materials
- Signals Processing and Fluctuation Anyalysis
- K. Uchida, N. Nishikawa, N. Izumi, S. Yamazoe, H. Mayama, Y. Kojima, S. Yokojima, S. Nakamura, K. Tsujii, and M. Irie
"Phototunable Diarylethene Microcrystalline Surfaces: Lotus and Petal Effects upon Wetting"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2010, 49, 5942-5944. - K. Masui, R. Takagi, Y. Sesumi, S. Nakamura and T. Tsujioka
"Selective metal deposition for a structure with a thin intermediate layer on a photochromic diarylethene film"
Journal of Materials Chemistry,2009,19,3176-3180 - G. Treboux, S. Nakamura
"35 Fusing C60 units without Stone-Wales bond rotaion"
Monatsh Chem, 2009 - S. Nakamura, S. Yokojima, K. Uchida, T. Tsujioka, A. Gordberg, A. Murakami, K. Shinoda, M. Mikami. T. Kobayashi, S. Kobatake, K. Matsuda, M. Irie
"Theoretical investigation on photochromic diarylethene: A short review"
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry,2008, 200, 10-18.
Principal Investigator
- Shinichiro NAKAMURA
- Head of Nakamura Laboratory
Staff Scientist
- Koji OGATA
- Research Scientist
Technical Assistant
- Masamitsu WAKABAYASHI
- Technical Staff I