2017/04/01

Group Leader / グループ長


Tohru Kawamoto Ph. D / 川本徹 (博士(理学))

[Curriculum Vitae]  PDF file

[Brief Biography]
05/1969 Born in Osaka, Japan
03/1997 Ph.D in Science, Osaka University, Japan. 
04/1997 Researcher, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan
04/2001 Researcher, AIST, Japan
10/2005 Senior Researcher, AIST, Japan
04/2010 Group Leader, AIST, Japan
04/2022 Prime Senior Researcher, AIST, Japan

[Specialty]
Core Material : Porous coordination polymer
Function : adsorption of small molecules and ions, electrochemical reaction
Application :  environmental decontamination, color switchable devices
Motto : Do all design from material to plant

[Important Papers]
  1. Trace Ammonia Removal from Air by Selective Adsorbents Reusable with Water,
    Akira Takahashi, Kimitaka Minami, Keiko Noda, Koji Sakurai, and Tohru Kawamoto,ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020, 12, 15115-15119 (Mar. 3, 2020), 
    DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22384
  2. Cobalt hexacyanoferrate nanoparticles for wet-processed brown–bleached electrochromic devices with hybridization of high-spin/low-spin phases,
    Elghool Kholoud, Hiroshi Watanabe, Akira Takahashi, Mahmoud M. Emara,  Bashir A. Abd-El-Nabey,  Masato Kurihara, Kazuki Tajima,  Tohru Kawamoto,
    Journal of Materials Chemistry C2017, 5, pp8921-8926(Jul. 16, 2017)
    DOI:10.1039/C7TC02576A
  3. Historical pigment exhibiting ammonia capture beyond standard adsorbents with adsorption sites of two kindsAkira Takahashi, Hisashi Tanaka, Durga Parajuli, Tohru Nakamura, Kimitaka Minami, Yutaka Sugiyama, Yukiya Hakuta, Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, and Tohru Kawamoto,  Journal of the American Chemical Society2016, 138(20), pp6376-6379.  (05/05/2016) doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b02721
  4. Comparative study of the factors associated with the application of metal hexacyanoferrates for environmental Cs decontamination,
    Durga Parajuli, Akira Takahashi, Hiromi Noguchi, Akiko Kitajima, Hisashi Tanaka, Mikihiro Takasaki, Kazunori Yoshino,and Tohru Kawamoto,
    Chemical Engineering Journal2016, 283(1), pp1322-1328. (28/08/2015)
    DOI:10.1016/j.cej.2015.08.076
  5. Novel Mechanism of Photoinduced Reversible Phase Transitions in Molecule-Based Magnets, Tohru Kawamoto, Yoshihiro Asai, and Shuji Abe,  Physical Review Letters 2001; 86(2):348-51. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.348 
[Contact]
Email: tohru.kawamoto@aist.go.jp
Phone: +18-29-861-5141