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Junko Yano is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Materials Science, with particular focus on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, as well as Radiation.

The scientist's work covers multiple interconnected topics, including:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Junko Yano has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Nature Communications
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Chemistry of Materials

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on advanced characterization methods and catalytic processes relevant to energy conversion and photosynthesis. Selected publications include:

  • "Oxidation State and Surface Reconstruction of Cu under CO2 Reduction Conditions from In Situ X-ray Characterization," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Untangling the sequence of events during the S2 → S3 transition in photosystem II and implications for the water oxidation mechanism," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Random forest machine learning models for interpretable X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectrum-property relationships," 2020, npj Computational Materials
  • "Investigation and mitigation of degradation mechanisms in Cu2O photoelectrodes for CO2 reduction to ethylene," 2021, Nature Energy
  • "Structural evidence for intermediates during O2 formation in photosystem II," 2023, Nature

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Junko Yano include:

  • Jan Kern
  • Vittal K. Yachandra
  • Ruchira Chatterjee
  • Isabel Bogacz
  • Franklin D. Fuller

Best Publications

  • Where water is oxidized to dioxygen: structure of the photosynthetic Mn4Ca cluster.

    Junko Yano;Jan Kern;Kenneth Sauer;Kenneth Sauer;Matthew J. Latimer

  • Structure and valency of a cobalt-phosphate water oxidation catalyst determined by in situ X-ray spectroscopy.

    Matthew W. Kanan;Junko Yano;Yogesh Surendranath;Mircea Dincă

  • Structure–Activity Correlations in a Nickel–Borate Oxygen Evolution Catalyst

    D. Kwabena Bediako;Benedikt Lassalle-Kaiser;Yogesh Surendranath;Junko Yano

  • X-ray damage to the Mn4Ca complex in single crystals of photosystem II: A case study for metalloprotein crystallography

    Junko Yano;Jana Kern;Klaus−Dieter Irrgang;Matthew J. Latimer

  • Mn4Ca Cluster in Photosynthesis: Where and How Water is Oxidized to Dioxygen

    Junko Yano;Vittal Yachandra

  • High-Performance Overall Water Splitting Electrocatalysts Derived from Cobalt-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks

    Bo You;Nan Jiang;Meili Sheng;Sheraz Gul

  • Electrodeposited cobalt-sulfide catalyst for electrochemical and photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation from water.

    Yujie Sun;Chong Liu;David C. Grauer;Junko Yano

  • In situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy investigation of a bifunctional manganese oxide catalyst with high activity for electrochemical water oxidation and oxygen reduction.

    Yelena Gorlin;Benedikt Lassalle-Kaiser;Jesse D. Benck;Sheraz Gul

  • Structures of the intermediates of Kok's photosynthetic water oxidation clock.

    Jan Kern;Ruchira Chatterjee;Iris D. Young;Franklin D. Fuller

  • Subsurface oxide plays a critical role in CO2 activation by Cu(111) surfaces to form chemisorbed CO2, the first step in reduction of CO2

    Marco Favaro;Hai Xiao;Tao Cheng;William A. Goddard

  • Simultaneous Femtosecond X-ray Spectroscopy and Diffraction of Photosystem II at Room Temperature

    Jan Kern;Jan Kern;Roberto Alonso-Mori;Rosalie Tran;Johan Hattne

  • Bimetal–Organic Framework Self-Adjusted Synthesis of Support-Free Nonprecious Electrocatalysts for Efficient Oxygen Reduction

    Bo You;Nan Jiang;Meili Sheng;Walter S. Drisdell

  • Oxidation of ethane to ethanol by N2O in a metal–organic framework with coordinatively unsaturated iron(II) sites

    Dianne J. Xiao;Eric D. Bloch;Jarad A. Mason;Wendy L. Queen

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy

    Junko Yano;Vittal K. Yachandra

  • Electronic Structure of Monoclinic BiVO4

    Jason K. Cooper;Sheraz Gul;Francesca M. Toma;Le Chen

  • Signature of Metallic Behavior in the Metal–Organic Frameworks M3(hexaiminobenzene)2 (M = Ni, Cu)

    Jin-Hu Dou;Lei Sun;Yicong Ge;Wenbin Li

  • Structure of photosystem II and substrate binding at room temperature

    Iris D. Young;Mohamed Ibrahim;Ruchira Chatterjee;Sheraz Gul

  • Highly-selective and reversible O2 binding in Cr3(1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate)2.

    Leslie J. Murray;Mircea Dinca;Junko Yano;Sachin Chavan

  • Unravelling the electrochemical double layer by direct probing of the solid/liquid interface

    Marco Favaro;Beomgyun Jeong;Beomgyun Jeong;Philip N. Ross;Junko Yano

  • Redox-inactive metals modulate the reduction potential in heterometallic manganese–oxido clusters

    Emily Y. Tsui;Rosalie Tran;Junko Yano;Theodor Agapie

Frequent Co-Authors

Vittal K. Yachandra
Vittal K. Yachandra Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jan Kern
Jan Kern Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Uwe Bergmann
Uwe Bergmann SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Johannes Messinger
Johannes Messinger Umeå University
Athina Zouni
Athina Zouni Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dimosthenis Sokaras
Dimosthenis Sokaras SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Pieter Glatzel
Pieter Glatzel European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Paul D. Adams
Paul D. Adams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kenneth Sauer
Kenneth Sauer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Holger Dobbek
Holger Dobbek Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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