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Yasuhiro Shiraishi

Yasuhiro Shiraishi

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D-Index
75
Citations
19788
World Ranking
4445
National Ranking
250

Overview

Yasuhiro Shiraishi is a researcher affiliated with Osaka University in Japan, focusing on materials science and energy fields. Their work predominantly addresses renewable energy, sustainability, and materials chemistry, with a special emphasis on advanced photocatalysis techniques.

Their research covers several interconnected subfields, including materials chemistry, polymers and plastics, electrical and electronic engineering, and catalysis. The primary topics of their work include:

  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
  • Copper-based Nanomaterials and Applications
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis

Shiraishi has published extensively in reputable scientific journals. The most frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • JACS Au
  • Chemical Communications
  • Langmuir
  • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry

Among recent papers by Yasuhiro Shiraishi are:

  • Polythiophene-Doped Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Resin Photocatalysts for Solar-to-Hydrogen Peroxide Energy Conversion, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Photocatalytic Dinitrogen Fixation with Water on Bismuth Oxychloride in Chloride Solutions for Solar-to-Chemical Energy Conversion, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide splitting on metal-free powders assisted by phosphoric acid as a stabilizer, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Solar-to-hydrogen peroxide energy conversion on resorcinol-formaldehyde resin photocatalysts prepared by acid-catalysed polycondensation, 2020, Communications Chemistry

Frequent collaborators in Shiraishi's research include Takayuki Hirai, Shunsuke Tanaka, Satoshi Ichikawa, Wataru Hiramatsu, and Koki Yoshida. These collaborations have contributed to a range of studies primarily within the same research fields and publication venues.

Best Publications

  • Photocatalytic Conversion of Nitrogen to Ammonia with Water on Surface Oxygen Vacancies of Titanium Dioxide

    Hiroaki Hirakawa;Masaki Hashimoto;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Takayuki Hirai

  • Highly Selective Production of Hydrogen Peroxide on Graphitic Carbon Nitride (g-C3N4) Photocatalyst Activated by Visible Light

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Shunsuke Kanazawa;Yoshitsune Sugano;Daijiro Tsukamoto

  • Resorcinol-formaldehyde resins as metal-free semiconductor photocatalysts for solar-to-hydrogen peroxide energy conversion.

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Takahiro Takii;Takumi Hagi;Shinnosuke Mori

  • Gold Nanoparticles Located at the Interface of Anatase/Rutile TiO2 Particles as Active Plasmonic Photocatalysts for Aerobic Oxidation

    Daijiro Tsukamoto;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Yoshitsune Sugano;Satoshi Ichikawa

  • Sunlight-Driven Hydrogen Peroxide Production from Water and Molecular Oxygen by Metal-Free Photocatalysts†

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Shunsuke Kanazawa;Yusuke Kofuji;Hirokatsu Sakamoto

  • Carbon Nitride-Aromatic Diimide-Graphene Nanohybrids: Metal-Free Photocatalysts for Solar-to-Hydrogen Peroxide Energy Conversion with 0.2% Efficiency.

    Yusuke Kofuji;Yuki Isobe;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Hirokatsu Sakamoto

  • Photocatalytic H2O2 Production from Ethanol/O2 System Using TiO2 Loaded with Au–Ag Bimetallic Alloy Nanoparticles

    Daijiro Tsukamoto;Akimitsu Shiro;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Yoshitsune Sugano

  • Cu(II)-selective green fluorescence of a rhodamine-diacetic acid conjugate.

    Xuan Zhang;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Takayuki Hirai

  • Selective organic transformations on titanium oxide-based photocatalysts

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Takayuki Hirai

  • Au Nanoparticles Supported on BiVO4: Effective Inorganic Photocatalysts for H2O2 Production from Water and O2 under Visible Light

    Hiroaki Hirakawa;Shingo Shiota;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Hirokatsu Sakamoto

  • Adsorption-Driven Photocatalytic Activity of Mesoporous Titanium Dioxide

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Naoya Saito;Takayuki Hirai

  • A rhodamine-cyclen conjugate as a highly sensitive and selective fluorescent chemosensor for Hg(II).

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Shigehiro Sumiya;Yoshiko Kohno;Takayuki Hirai

  • Desulfurization and Denitrogenation Process for Light Oils Based on Chemical Oxidation followed by Liquid−Liquid Extraction

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Kenya Tachibana;and Takayuki Hirai;Isao Komasawa

  • Graphitic Carbon Nitride Doped with Biphenyl Diimide: Efficient Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Peroxide Production from Water and Molecular Oxygen by Sunlight

    Yusuke Kofuji;Satoshi Ohkita;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Hirokatsu Sakamoto

  • Effects of Surface Defects on Photocatalytic H2O2 Production by Mesoporous Graphitic Carbon Nitride under Visible Light Irradiation

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Yusuke Kofuji;Hirokatsu Sakamoto;Shunsuke Tanaka

  • Highly sensitive cyanide anion detection with a coumarin-spiropyran conjugate as a fluorescent receptor.

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Shigehiro Sumiya;Takayuki Hirai

  • Selective Nitrate-to-Ammonia Transformation on Surface Defects of Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysts

    Hiroaki Hirakawa;Masaki Hashimoto;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Takayuki Hirai

  • Pt–Cu Bimetallic Alloy Nanoparticles Supported on Anatase TiO2: Highly Active Catalysts for Aerobic Oxidation Driven by Visible Light

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Hirokatsu Sakamoto;Yoshitsune Sugano;Satoshi Ichikawa

  • One-Pot Synthesis of Benzimidazoles by Simultaneous Photocatalytic and Catalytic Reactions on Pt@TiO2 Nanoparticles

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Yoshitsune Sugano;Shunsuke Tanaka;Takayuki Hirai

  • Polythiophene-Doped Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Resin Photocatalysts for Solar-to-Hydrogen Peroxide Energy Conversion.

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Masako Matsumoto;Satoshi Ichikawa;Shunsuke Tanaka

  • Selective Hydrogen Peroxide Formation by Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis with Benzylic Alcohols and Molecular Oxygen in Water

    Yasuhiro Shiraishi;Shunsuke Kanazawa;Daijiro Tsukamoto;Akimitsu Shiro

Frequent Co-Authors

Takayuki Hirai
Takayuki Hirai Osaka University
Shunsuke Tanaka
Shunsuke Tanaka Kansai University
Bunsho Ohtani
Bunsho Ohtani Hokkaido University
Tetsuro Majima
Tetsuro Majima Osaka University
Mamoru Fujitsuka
Mamoru Fujitsuka Osaka University

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