Portrait of Yohei Cho

Yohei Cho 張葉平

Assistant Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo
Photocatalysis / Photoelectrochemistry / High-Throughput Experimentation

Background

2025 – Present
Assistant Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo
2025
Research Assistant Professor (JSPS-PD), Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
2024 – 2025
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (PD), Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
2023 – 2024
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (PD), Tokyo Institute of Technology
2022
Visiting Student, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
2021 – 2023
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2019 – 2021
M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2015 – 2019
B.Sc. in Inorganic Materials Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Research Areas

Photocatalysis, Photoelectrochemistry, High-throughput Experimentation, Oxide Photocatalysts, Kinetic Analysis, Materials Discovery

Publications

  1. Hiroki Nagai, Hiroaki Kaneko, Yohei Cho, Akira Yamaguchi, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Selective oxidation of polyolefins to carbon monoxide by photo assisted catalysts," Sustainable Energy & Fuels, accepted in press (2026). doi:10.1039/D6SE00038J
  2. Yohei Cho, Kyo Yanagiyama, Emi Sawade, Sunao Nakanowatari, Toru Wada, and Toshiaki Taniike, "High-Throughput Experimentation on Oxide Photocatalyst: From Large-Scale Screening to Kinetic Insights," ChemRxiv (2026). doi:10.26434/chemrxiv.15000260/v2 (Preprint)
  3. Sho Uchida, Yuta Sekine, Yohei Cho, Akira Yamaguchi, Toyokazu Tanabe, Kenji Yamaguchi*, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Computational and Experimental Realization of Metal-Ion-Doped Orthorhombic Sn3O4 for Visible-Light-Active Photocatalysis," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 148 (6), 6036–6044 (2026). doi:10.1021/jacs.5c15962
  4. Kyo Yanagiyama, Yohei Cho, Krishnamoorthy Sathiyan, Daisuke Ito, Hiroki Takahashi, and Toshiaki Taniike*, "Discovering descriptors linking catalyst film uniformity to oxygen reduction reaction performance," Science and Technology of Advanced Materials: Methods, 6 (1) (2026). doi:10.1080/27660400.2026.2613940
  5. Yohei Cho*, Osamu Tagami, Kyo Yanagiyama, Kazuma Gotoh, Emi Sawade, Toru Wada, and Toshiaki Taniike*, "A Simple Microplate Assay for Accelerated Photocatalytic Activity Evaluation," ACS Environmental Au, 6 (1), 134–143 (2026). doi:10.1021/acsenvironau.5c00200 (Front Cover)
  6. Hiroaki Kaneko, Shusaku Shoji, Yohei Cho, Tomotaka Sugimura, Ayako Hashimoto, Hideki Abe, Akira Yamaguchi, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Overcoming thermodynamic incompatibilities with photons: multi-carbon hydrocarbons from methane and carbon dioxide via a hybrid photocatalytic dry reforming/Fischer–Tropsch process," Green Chem., 27, 15056–15060 (2025). doi:10.1039/D5GC04326C
  7. Poulami Mukherjee*, Yohei Cho, Panitha Phulkerd, and Toshiaki Taniike*, "Accelerated Perovskite Discovery: Screening New Catalysts for Photocatalytic Methylene Blue Degradation," Materials Advances, 6, 4680–4686 (2025). doi:10.1039/d5ma00345h
  8. Yohei Cho*, Kyo Yanagiyama, Poulami Mukherjee, Panitha Phulkerd, Krishnamoorthy Sathiyan, Emi Sawade, Toru Wada, and Toshiaki Taniike*, "Identifying Rate-Limiting Steps in Photocatalysis: A Temperature-and Light Intensity-Dependent Diagnostic of Charge Supply vs. Charge Transfer," Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 13, 16204–16211 (2025). doi:10.1039/D5TA00415B
  9. Yohei Cho, Mengya Yang, Junyi Cui, Yue Yang, Surya Pratap Singh, Salvador Eslava, Daniele Benetti, James R. Durrant, Akira Yamaguchi, Masahiro Miyauchi, and Fumiaki Amano*, "Analysis of TiO2 Photoanode Process Using Intensity Modulated Photocurrent Spectroscopy and Distribution of Relaxation Times," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147, 7703–7710 (2025). doi:10.1021/jacs.4c17345
  10. Aya Fujiwara, Sunao Nakanowatari, Yohei Cho, and Toshiaki Taniike*, "Acquiring and transferring comprehensive catalyst knowledge through integrated high-throughput experimentation and automatic feature engineering," Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 26 (1), Article 2454219 (2025). doi:10.1080/14686996.2025.2454219
  11. Yohei Cho, Tianhao He, Benjamin Moss, Daniele Benetti, Caiwu Liang, Lei Tian, Lucy Jessica F Hart, Anna A Wilson, Yu Taniguchi, Junyi Cui, Mengya Yang, Salvador Eslava, Akira Yamaguchi, Masahiro Miyauchi, and James R. Durrant*, "Analyzing the Temperature Dependence of Titania Photocatalysis: Kinetic Competition between Water Oxidation Catalysis and Back Electron–Hole Recombination," ACS Catalysis, 14, 16543–16550 (2024). doi:10.1021/acscatal.4c03685
  12. Hiroaki Kaneko, Yohei Cho, Tomotaka Sugimura, Ayako Hashimoto, Akira Yamaguchi, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Sustaining syngas production at a near-unity H2/CO ratio in the photo-induced dry reforming of methane independent of the reactant gas composition," Chemical Communications, 60, 10406–10409 (2024). doi:10.1039/D4CC03088E
  13. Yue Yang, Masayuki Toyoda, Akira Yamaguchi, Yohei Cho, An Niza El Aisnada, Hideki Abe, Shigenori Ueda, Sayuri Okunaka, Susumu Saito, Min Liu, Hiromasa Tokudome, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Bandgap widening through doping for improving the photocatalytic oxidation ability of narrow-bandgap semiconductors," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25, 255–261 (2023). doi:10.1039/D2CP02994D
  14. Natsumi Noguchi, Shin-ichi Ito, Miwa Hikichi, Yohei Cho, Kazuho Goto, Atsushi Kubo, Iwao Matsuda, Takeshi Fujita, Masahiro Miyauchi, and Takahiro Kondo*, "Highly dispersed Ni nanoclusters spontaneously formed on hydrogen boride sheets," Molecules, 27, Article 8261 (2022). doi:10.3390/molecules27238261
  15. Yohei Cho, Akira Yamaguchi, Aaron Syahronitua Sinaga, Yue Yang, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Photocatalysis under thermally shifted bandgap," Applied Catalysis A: General, 643, Article 118772 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.apcata.2022.118772
  16. Shusaku Shoji, Abdillah Sani Bin Mohd Najib, Min-Wen Yu, Tomokazu Yamamoto, Sou Yasuhara, Akira Yamaguchi, Xiaobo Peng, Syo Matsumura, Satoshi Ishii, Yohei Cho, Takeshi Fujita, Shigenori Ueda, Kuo-Ping Chen, Hideki Abe*, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Charge partitioning by intertwined metal-oxide nano-architectural networks for the photocatalytic dry reforming of methane," Chem Catalysis, 2, 321–329 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.checat.2021.11.015
  17. Masaru Kushida, Akira Yamaguchi, Yohei Cho, Takeshi Fujita, Hideki Abe, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Gas-Phase Photoelectrocatalysis Mediated by Oxygen Ions for Uphill Conversion of Greenhouse Gases," ChemPhotoChem, 5, 275–281 (2021). doi:10.1002/cptc.202000228
  18. Yohei Cho, Akira Yamaguchi, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Photocatalytic methane reforming: recent advances," Catalysts, 11, Article 18 (2021). doi:10.3390/catal11010018
  19. Abdillah Sani Bin Mohd Najib, Muhammad Iqbal, Mohamed Barakat Zakaria, Shusaku Shoji, Yohei Cho, Xiaobo Peng, Shigenori Ueda, Ayako Hashimoto, Takeshi Fujita, Masahiro Miyauchi, Yusuke Yamauchi*, and Hideki Abe*, "Active faceted nanoporous ruthenium for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution," Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8, 19788–19792 (2020). doi:10.1039/d0ta04223d
  20. Yohei Cho, Akira Yamaguchi, Ryo Uehara, Satoru Yasuhara, Takuya Hoshina, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Temperature dependence on bandgap of semiconductor photocatalysts," The Journal of Chemical Physics, 152, Article 234706 (2020). doi:10.1063/5.0012330
  21. Kazu Takeda, Akira Yamaguchi, Yohei Cho, Oruganti Anjaneyulu, Takeshi Fujita, Hideki Abe, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Metal carbide as a light-harvesting and anticoking catalysis support for dry reforming of methane," Global Challenges, 4, Article 1900067 (2020). doi:10.1002/gch2.201900067
  22. Hikari Nishiguchi, Abdillah Sani Bin Mohd Najib, Xiaobo Peng, Yohei Cho, Ayako Hashimoto, Shigenori Ueda, Takeshi Fujita, Masahiro Miyauchi, and Hideki Abe*, "Intertwined nickel and magnesium oxide rival precious metals for catalytic reforming of greenhouse gases," Advanced Sustainable Systems, 4, Article 2000041 (2020). doi:10.1002/adsu.202000041
  23. Yohei Cho, Shusaku Shoji, Akira Yamaguchi, Takuya Hoshina, Takeshi Fujita, Hideki Abe, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Visible-light-driven dry reforming of methane using a semiconductor-supported catalyst," Chemical Communications, 56, 4611–4614 (2020). doi:10.1039/d0cc00729c
  24. Shusaku Shoji, Xiaobo Peng, Akira Yamaguchi, Ryo Watanabe, Choji Fukuhara, Yohei Cho, Tomokazu Yamamoto, Syo Matsumura, Min-Wen Yu, Satoshi Ishii, Takeshi Fujita*, Hideki Abe*, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Photocatalytic uphill conversion of natural gas beyond the limitation of thermal reaction systems," Nature Catalysis, 3, 148–153 (2020). doi:10.1038/s41929-019-0419-z
  25. Yongzheng Zhang, Yohei Cho, Akira Yamaguchi, Xiaobo Peng, Masahiro Miyauchi, Hideki Abe, and Takeshi Fujita*, "CO2 oxidative coupling of methane using an earth-abundant CaO-based catalyst," Scientific Reports, 9, Article 15454 (2019). doi:10.1038/s41598-019-51817-2
  26. Takeshi Fujita, Xiaobo Peng, Akira Yamaguchi, Yohei Cho, Yongzheng Zhang, Kimitaka Higuchi, Yuta Yamamoto, Tomoharu Tokunaga, Shigeo Arai, Masahiro Miyauchi, and Hideki Abe*, "Nanoporous nickel composite catalyst for the dry reforming of methane," ACS Omega, 3, 16651–16657 (2018). doi:10.1021/acsomega.8b02023

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