Catalysts can play an essential role in solution to environmental and energy problems. This laboratory develops novel catalysts, especially photocatalysts for water splitting in order to produce hydrogen and oxygen from water using the sunlight. The production of hydrogen energy from sunlight enables us to have sustainable and renewable energy source.
Another progress in this laboratory is the developments of fuel cell catalysts and solid acid catalysts. In addition, to understand the reaction mechanisms at catalyst surfaces in the atomic or molecular scale, this group performs several surface spectroscopic and microscopic techniques