Akihiro FURUBE, PhD

1. Highly efficient solar light-driven Au-doped BiOCl@ black TiO2 nanocomposites for photocatalytic treatment of Rhodamine B

Yasuyuki Maeda, Chang-Mou Wu, Kebena Gebeyehu Motora, Pankaj Koinkar, Akihiro Furube

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 36 (2025)1-14

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2. Superior photocatalytic properties of WO3/GO/Ag nanocomposite produced by laser ablation and hydrothermal methods

Niloy Paul, Tetsuro Katayama, Akihiro Furube &Pankaj Koinkar

J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 36, 982 (2025).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-025-15045-x

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3. Enhanced photocatalytic activity of TiO2/Au/TiO2/Au stacked nanostructures synthesized via sputtering and subsequent annealing

Retsuo Kawakami ,Yuki Miyaji ,Shin-ichiro Yanagiya ,Akihiro Shirai, Pankaj Koinkar, Akihiro Furube, Yoshitaka Nakano, Masahito Niibe

​Applied Surface Science 702 (2025) 163328

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4. Laser-Ablation Synthesis of Novel Tungsten Disulfide Nanostructures in Liquid and Their Charge Transfer Dynamics with Gold Nanoparticles

Kohei Sasaki, Pankaj Koinkar, Tetsuro Katayama, and Akihiro Furube

Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences (2025) 24:803–811

https://doi.org/10.1007/s43630-025-00728-5

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5. Optimizing boron nitride nanostructures using femtosecond laser ablation for enhanced material properties

SM Tonape, T Katayama, P Koinkar, A Furube

International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2550170

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6. Particle size dependence simulation analysis of the transient absorption charge recombination dynamics in titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticle attached with gold nanoparticle

Junli Wang, Akihiro Furube, Qi Gao

Molecular Simulation, 51 (2025) 291-297

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7. Synthesis of naphthalene-fused imidazo [1, 2-a] pyridinium salts showing green luminescence with high quantum yields and large Stokes shift

Sota Abe, Tetsuro Katayama, Akihiro Furube, Atsushi Tabata, Yasushi Yoshida, Shoko Ueta, Yukihiro Arakawa, Keiji Minagawa, Yasushi Imada and Fumitoshi Yagishita

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2025,23, 4355-4359

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8. Formation of WO3/MoS2/rGO composite prepared by integration of pulse laser ablation and hydrothermal method to enhance optical and photocatalytic activity

Niloy Paul, Akash Sawate, Satoshi Sugano, Tetsuro Katayama, Akihiro Furube, and Pankaj Koinkar

Surface Review and Letters | Vol. 32, No. 07, 2540005 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218625X25400050

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9. Quantifying the prospect of a visible-light-absorbing oxysulfide photocatalyst by probing transient absorption and photoluminescence

Ryota Shoji, Vikas Nandal,  Kazuhiko Seki, Xiaoping Tao, Akihiro Furube, Takashi Hisatomi, Hiroaki Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Takata, Masanori Kaneko, Koichi Yamashita, Kazunari Domen and Hiroyuki Matsuzaki

EES Catalysis, 3, 274-285, 2025 [Open Access]

https://doi.org/10.1039/D4EY00187G

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