Nagahiro Hoshi
Chiba University, Japan
Biography
Nagahiro Hoshi is a professor of Department of Applied Chemistry and Bio-technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan. He has his expertise in surface electrochemistry. The main target of the study is the elucidation of surface structures of electrocatalysts that have high activity and selectivity.in electrochemical reactions He can prepare well-defined single crystal electrodes of Pt, Pd, Ir, Rh, Au, Cu, Pt alloys and TiO2 etc. in his laboratory. He can also synthesize shape controlled nanoparticles of Pt and Pt alloys. The real surface structures of the well-defined electrodes are determined using surface X-ray diffraction, vibrational spectroscopy and probe microscopy. His present research projects are the reduction of Pt loading in electrocatalysts of fuel cells, enhancement of conversion efficiency of dye sensitized solar cell.
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