Publications

  1. Andi Mauliana, Osamu Oki, Akira Yamaguchi, Yohei Cho, Miwa Hikichi, Takahiro Kondo*, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Distinct Solvent Effects on Dispersibility and Photoinduced Hydrogen Release of Hydrogen Boride Sheets," Small, Early View (2026). doi:10.1002/smll.75650
  2. Yohei Cho*, Kyo Yanagiyama, Emi Sawade, Sunao Nakanowatari, Toru Wada, and Toshiaki Taniike*, "Element-Dependent Charge-Supply and Charge-Transfer Balance in Oxide Photocatalysts Identified by High-Throughput Kinetic Screening," Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 14 (50), 34411–34421 (2026). doi:10.1039/D6TA04494HPressJAIST · Tokyo University of Science · Science Tokyo
  3. Masaki Imura, Yuta Yamamoto, Yohei Cho, Akira Yamaguchi, Shin-ichi Ito, Yasuyuki Hikita, Takahiro Kondo*, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Boosted hydrogen production via binder-assisted immobilization of hydrogen boride sheets on cathodes," Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 10 (10), 2478–2485 (2026). doi:10.1039/D6SE00145A
  4. 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, 10 (8), 2021–2027 (2026). doi:10.1039/D6SE00038J
  5. 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.5c15962PressScience Tokyo
  6. 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
  7. 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)PressJAIST · Science Tokyo
  8. 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 Chemistry, 27 (47), 15056–15060 (2025). doi:10.1039/D5GC04326C
  9. Poulami Mukherjee*, Yohei Cho, Panitha Phulkerd, and Toshiaki Taniike*, "Accelerated Perovskite Discovery: Screening New Catalysts for Photocatalytic Methylene Blue Degradation," Materials Advances, 6 (14), 4680–4686 (2025). doi:10.1039/d5ma00345h
  10. 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 (21), 16204–16211 (2025). doi:10.1039/D5TA00415BPressJAIST
  11. 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 the TiO2 Photoanode Process Using Intensity Modulated Photocurrent Spectroscopy and Distribution of Relaxation Times," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147 (9), 7703–7710 (2025). doi:10.1021/jacs.4c17345PressJAIST · Science Tokyo · Tokyo Metropolitan University · Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
  12. 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
  13. 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 (21), 16543–16550 (2024). doi:10.1021/acscatal.4c03685
  14. 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 (75), 10406–10409 (2024). doi:10.1039/D4CC03088E
  15. 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 (1), 255–261 (2023). doi:10.1039/D2CP02994D
  16. 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 (23), Article 8261 (2022). doi:10.3390/molecules27238261
  17. 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
  18. 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 (2), 321–329 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.checat.2021.11.015
  19. 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 (3), 275–281 (2021). doi:10.1002/cptc.202000228
  20. Yohei Cho, Akira Yamaguchi, and Masahiro Miyauchi*, "Photocatalytic methane reforming: recent advances," Catalysts, 11 (1), Article 18 (2021). doi:10.3390/catal11010018
  21. 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 (38), 19788–19792 (2020). doi:10.1039/d0ta04223d
  22. 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 (23), Article 231101 (2020). doi:10.1063/5.0012330
  23. 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 (1), Article 1900067 (2020). doi:10.1002/gch2.201900067
  24. 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 (6), Article 2000041 (2020). doi:10.1002/adsu.202000041
  25. 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 (33), 4611–4614 (2020). doi:10.1039/d0cc00729c
  26. 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 (2), 148–153 (2020). doi:10.1038/s41929-019-0419-z
  27. 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 (1), Article 15454 (2019). doi:10.1038/s41598-019-51817-2
  28. 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 (12), 16651–16657 (2018). doi:10.1021/acsomega.8b02023