Publications_MolecularSpectroscopyLab

2024

"Water orientation on platinum surfaces controlled by step sites" Naoki Nagatsuka, Takumi Otsuki, Shota Kamibashira, Takanori Koitaya, Kazuya Watanabe, J. Chem. Phys. 161, 094705 (2024). (Selected as Editor's Pick)
"Low-temperature dissociation of CO₂ molecules on vicinal Cu surfaces" T. Koitaya, Y. Shiozawa, Y. Yoshikura, K. Mukai, S. Yoshimoto, J. Yoshinobu, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 26, 9226-9233 (2024).
"Sub-Tip-Radius Near-Field Interactions in Nano-FTIR Vibrational Spectroscopy on Single Proteins" J. Nishida, A. Otomo, T. Koitaya, A. Shiotari, T. Minato, R. Iino, T. Kumagai, Nano Lett., 24, 836–843 (2024).
"Deciphering cooperative effects in plexciton formation between Ag nanocluster and fullerene" Tatsuya Yoshida, Kazuya Watanabe , Fumiharu Nishita, Daiki Yamamoto, Hiroshi Okuyama, and Tomokazu Yasuike, Phys. Rev. B 109, 195412 (2024).
"Mechanochemical Synthesis of Non‐Solvated Dialkylalumanyl Anion and XPS Characterization of Al(I) and Al(II) Species" S. Kurumada, R. Yamanashi, K. Sugita, K. Kubota, H. Ito, S. Ikemoto, C. Chen, T. Moriyama, S. Muratsugu, M. Tada, T. Koitaya, T. Ozaki, M. Yamashita, Chem. Eur. J., 30, e202303073 (2024).

2023

"Hydrogen-induced Sulfur Vacancies on the MoS₂ Basal Plane Studied by Ambient Pressure XPS and DFT Calculations" F. Ozaki, S. Tanaka, Y. Choi, W. Osada, K. Mukai, M. Kawamura, M. Fukuda, M. Horio, T. Koitaya, S. Yamamoto, I. Matsuda, T. Ozaki, J. Yoshinobu, Chemphyschem, 16, e202300477 (2023).
"Stacking of a Cofacially Stacked Iron Phthalocyanine Dimer on Graphite Achieved High Catalytic CH₄ Oxidation Activity Comparable to That of pMMO" Y. Yamada, K. Morita, T. Sugiura, Y. Toyoda, N. Mihara, M. Nagasaka, H. Takaya, K. Tanaka, T. Koitaya, N. Nakatani, H. Ariga-Miwa, S. Takakusagi, Y. Hitomi, T. Kudo, Y. Tsuji, K. Yoshizawa, K. Tanaka, JACS Au, 3, 823-833 (2023).
"Superoxide Dismutase-like Activity of Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework Nanoparticles Comprising Biomimetic Imidazolato-bridged CuZn Units" H. Nakahara, A. Nomura, S. Tokuda, M. Okamura, K. Fujisawa, T. Koitaya, Y. Yoshida, S. Furukawa, Y. Hitomi, Chem. Eur. J., 29, e202300881 (2023).
"Hydroxyl Formation on Pt(553)" N. Nagatsuka, S. Kamibashira, N. Shibata, T. Koitaya, K. Watanabe, J. Phys. Chem. C, 127, 8104-8112 (2023).
"Operando Characterization of Copper-Zinc-Alumina Catalyst for Methanol Synthesis from Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen by Ambient-Pressure Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy" T. Koitaya, K. Yamamoto, T. Uruga, T. Yokoyama, J. Phys. Chem. C, 127, 13044-13054 (2023).
"Pt-17 nanocluster electrocatalysts: preparation and origin of high oxygen reduction reaction activity" T. Kawawaki, Y. Mitomi, N. Nishi, R. Kurosaki, K. Oiwa, T. Tanaka, H. Hirase, S. Miyajima, Y. Niihori, D.J. Osborn, T. Koitaya, G.F. Metha, T. Yokoyama, K. Iida, Y. Negishi, Nanoscale, 15, 7272-7279 (2023).
"In Situ Electrical Detection of Methane Oxidation on Atomically Thin IrO2 Nanosheet Films Down to Room Temperature" Y. Ishihara, T. Koitaya, Y. Hamahiga, W. Sugimoto, S. Yamamoto, I. Matsuda, J. Yoshinobu, R. Nouchi, Adv. Mater. Interfaces, 10, 2300258 (2023).

2022

"Coordination-Induced Trigger for Activity: N-Heterocyclic Carbene- Decorated Ceria Catalysts Incorporating Cr and Rh with Activity Induction by Surface Adsorption Site Control" S. Ikemoto, T. Koitaya, Y. Tsuji, M. Das, K. Yoshizawa, F. Glorius, S. Muratsugu, M. Tada, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145, 1497-1504 (2022).
"Proton Configuration in Water Chain on Pt(533)" Naoki Nagatsuka, Noboru Shibata, Toya Muratani, and Kazuya Watanabe, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 2022, 8, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01378 .
"Ultrafast Spectral Diffusion in Organic Thin Films" Kazuya Watanabe, The Review of Laser Engineering, vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 11-16 (2022) (in Japanese).
"Ultrafast Plasmonic Response Ensured by Atomic Scale Confinement" Shunsuke Tanaka, Tatsuya Yoshida, Kazuya Watanabe, Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, Tomokazu Yasuike, Dino Novko, Marin Petrovic, Marko Kralj ACS photonics 2022, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01454

2021

"Spectral Diffusion of Excitons in 3,4,9,10-Perylenetetracarboxylic-diimide (PTCDI) Thin Films", Tatsuya Yoshida and Kazuya Watanabe, The JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 2021, 125, 32, 9350–9356 　https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c02589

2020

"Linewidth Narrowing with Ultimate Confinement of an Alkali Multipole Plasmon by Modifying Surface Electronic Wave Functions with Two-Dimensional Materials", Shunsuke Tanaka, Tatsuya Yoshida, Kazuya Watanabe, Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, Tomokazu Yasuike, Marin Petrović, and Marko Kralj, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 125, 126802　DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.126802
"Anomalous Temperature Dependence of Exciton Spectral Diffusion in Tetracene Thin Film",Tatsuya Yoshida, Kazuya Watanabe, Marin Petrović, and Marko Kralj, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 2020, 11, 13, 5248–5254: DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01537"
"Decoupling from a Thermal Bath via Molecular Polariton Formation", Shota Takahashi and Kazuya Watanabe, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 2020, 11, 1349-1356: DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03789
"Thickness dependent homogeneous crystallization of ultrathin amorphous solid water films", Kuniaki Harada, Toshiki Sugimoto, Fumiaki Kato, Kazuya Watanabe, and Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 2020, 22, 1963-1973: DOI: 10.1039/c9cp05981d

2019

"Unveiling two deuteration effects on hydrogen-bonsd breaking process of water isotopomers", Fumiaki Kato, Toshiki Sugimoto, Kuniaki Harada, Kazuya Watanabe, and Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, 2019, 3, 112001: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.112001
"Enhanced Structural Disorder at Nanocrystalline Ice Surface", Yuji Otsuki, Kazuya Watanabe, Toshiki Sugimoto and Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019, 21, 20442 - 20453
"Singlet fission of amorphous rubrene modulated by polariton formation", Shota Takahashi, Kazuya Watanabe and Yoshiyasu matsumoto, J. Chem. Phys. 151, 074703 (2019).
"Topologically disordered mesophase at the topmost surface layer of crystalline ice between 120 and 200 K", Toshiki Sugimoto, Yuji Otsuki, Tatsuya Ishiyama, Akihiro Morita, Kazuya Watanabe and Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, Phys. Rev. B, 99, 121402 (2019).

2018

"Origins of emergent high-Tc ferroelectric ordering in heteroepitaxial ice films: Sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy of H2O and D2O ice films on Pt(111)", Norihiro Aiga, Toshiki Sugimoto, Yuji Otsuki, Kazuya Watanabe, and Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, Phys. Rev. B 97, 075410, 2018.
“Conformational Planarization vs Singlet Fission: Distinct Excited-State Dynamics of Cyclooctatetraene-Fused Acene Dimers”, Takuya Yamakado, Shota Takahashi, Kazuya Watanabe, Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, Atsuhiro Osuka, and Shohei Saito, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 5438-5443, 2018.
“Water-Assisted Hole Trapping at the Highly Curved Surface of NanoTiO2 Photocatalyst”, Kenji Shirai, Gianluca Fazio, Toshiki Sugimoto, Daniele Selli, Lorenzo Ferraro, Kazuya Watanabe, Mitsutaka Haruta, Bunsho Ohtani, Hiroki Kurata, Cristiana Di Valentin, and Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 1415−1422 (2018).

2017

"Unveiling subsurface hydrogen-bond structure of hexagonal water ice", Y. Otsuki, T. Sugimoto, T. Ishiyama, A. Morita, K. Watanabe, and Y. Matsumoto, Phys. Rev. B, 96, 115405, (2017).
"Coherent singlet fission activated by symmetry breaking", K. Miyata, Y. Kurashige, K. Watanabe, T. Sugimoto, S. Takahashi, S. Tanaka, J. Takeya, T. Yanai, and Y. Matsumoto, Nature Chemistry, 9, 983–989 (2017).
"Particle Size Dependence of Carrier Dynamics and Reactivity of Photocatalyst BiVO4 Probed with Single-Particle Transient Absorption Microscopy", Mitsunori Yabuta, Atsuhiro Takeda, Toshiki Sugimoto, Kazuya Watanabe, Akihiko Kudo, and Yoshiyasu Matsumoto J. Phys. Chem. C, 121, 22060–22066 (2017).

2016

"Disentangling Multidimensional Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Adsorbates: CO Desorption from Cu(100)" K.-I. Inoue, K. Watanabe, T. Sugimoto, Y. Matsumoto & T. Yasuike Phys. Rev. Lett., 117, 186101 (2016).
"Emergent high-Tc ferroelectric ordering of strongly correlated and frustrated protons in a heteroepitaxial ice film" T. Sugimoto, N. Aiga, Y. Otsuki, K. Watanabe & Y. Matsumoto Nature Physics, 12, 1063-1068 (2016).
"Enhancement of the Exciton Coherence Size in Organic Semiconductor by Alkyl Chain Substitution", S. Tanaka, K. Miyata, T. Sugimoto, K. Watanabe, T. Uemura, J. Takeya & Y. Matsumoto, J. Phys. Chem. C, 120, 7941-7948 (2016).
"Effect of Water Adsorption on Carrier Trapping Dynamics at the Surface of Anatase TiO2 Nanoparticles" K. Shirai, T. Sugimoto, K. Watanabe, M. Haruta, H. Kurata & Y. Matsumoto Nano Lett., 16, 1323-1327 (2016).

2015

"Microscopic hole-transfer efficiency in organic thin-film transistors studied with charge-modulation spectroscopy" K. Miyata, S. Tanaka, Y. Ishino, K. Watanabe, T. Uemura, J. Takeya, T. Sugimoto & Y. Matsumoto Phys. Rev. B, 91, 195306 (2015).

2014

"Effects of Cocatalyst on Carrier Dynamics of a Titanate Photocatalyst with Layered Perovskite Structure" M. Yabuta, T. Takayama, K. Shirai, K. Watanabe, A. Kudo, T. Sugimoto & Y. Matsumoto J. Phys. Chem. C, 118, 10972-10979 (2014).
"Vibrational Dynamics of Adsorbates on Metal Surfaces Induced by Nonadiabatic Excitation" K. Watanabe & Y. Matsumoto HyoumenKagaku (in Japanese), 35(2014).
"Coherent phonon dynamics in singlet fission of rubrene single crystal" K. Miyata, S. Tanaka, T. Sugimoto, K. Watanabe, T. Uemura, J. Takeya & Y. Matsumoto K. Yamanouchi; S. Cundiff; R. de Vivie-Riedle; M. Kuwata-Gonokami & L. DiMauro (Eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena XIX, 162(2014).
"Ultrafast exciton dynamics in dinaphtho[2,3-b:2[prime or minute]3[prime or minute]-f]thieno[3,2-b]-thiophene thin films" Y. Ishino, K. Miyata, T. Sugimoto, K. Watanabe, Y. Matsumoto, T. Uemura & J. Takeya Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 16, 7501 - 7512 (2014).

2013

"All-optical control and visualization of ultrafast two-dimensional atomic motions in a single crystal of bismuth", H. Katsuki and J. Delagnes and K. Hosaka and K. Ishioka and H. Chiba and E. Zijlstra and M. Garcia and H. Takahashi and K. Watanabe and M. Kitajima and Y. Matsumoto and K. Nakamura and K. Ohmori, Nat. Commun., 4 , 2801(7 pages) (2013).
"Electron-Phonon Coupling Dynamics at Oxygen Evolution Sites of Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalyst: Bismuth Vanadate", N. Aiga and Q. Jia and K. Watanabe and A. Kudo and T. Sugimoto and Y. Matsumoto, J. Phys. Chem. C, 117,9881-9886 (2013).
"Retrieval of Electronic Spectra of Charge Carriers in Organic Field-Effect Transistors from Charge Modulation Reflectance Spectra Distorted by Optical Interference", K. Miyata and Y. Ishino and K. Watanabe and K. Miwa and T. Uemura and J. Takeya and Y. Matsumoto, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 52, 062401(4 pages) (2013).

2012

"Instantaneous vibrational frequencies of diffusing and desorbing adsorbates: CO/Pt(111)", K.-I. Inoue and K. Watanabe and Y. Matsumoto, J. Chem. Phys., 137, 024704(6 pages) (2012).
"Nuclear Wavepacket Dynamics of Alkali Adsorbates on Metal Surfaces Studied by Time-Resolved Second Harmonic Generation", K. Watanabe and Y. Matsumoto, Physics Research International, 2012,172987(8 pages) (2012).

2011

"Mechanism of enhancement in absorbance of vibrational bands of adsorbates at a metal mesh with subwavelength hole arrays", J. Etou, D. Ino, D. Furukawa, I. F. Nakai, K. Watanabe, and Y. Matsumoto, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 13, 5817-5823 (2011).
"Adsorbate-Localized versus Substrate-Mediated Excitation Mechanisms for Generation of Coherent Cs-Cu Stretching Vibration at Cu(111)", K. Watanabe, Y. Matsumoto, T. Yasuike, and K. Nobusada, J. Phys. Chem. A., 115, 9528-9535 (2011).

2010

"Nonadiabatic coupling between C-O stretching and Pt substrate electrons enhanced by frustrated mode excitations", K. Watanabe, K.-i. Inoue, I. F. Nakai, and Y. Matsumoto, Phys. Rev. B., 81, 241408 (2010).
"Photoinduced Coherent Nuclear Motion at Surfaces: Alkali Overlayers on Metals", Y. Matsumoto and K. Watanabe Dynamics at Solid State Surfaces and Interfaces, U. Bovensiepen and Hrvoje Petek and Matin Wolf (Eds.), Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Chap. 11 239--262 (2010).

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