Akira Fujishima

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Akira Fujishima

Akira Fujishima ( Japanese 藤 嶋 昭 , Fujishima Akira ; born March 10, 1942 in Aichi Prefecture ) is a Japanese chemist, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo . He is considered a pioneer in the field of research on artificial photosynthesis .

Fujishima graduated from Yokohama State University with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1966 and received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 1971 with Ken'ichi Honda . He was then an assistant professor at Kanagawa University , moved to Tokyo University in 1975 as an assistant professor, where he became an associate professor in 1978 and was given a full professorship in 1986 and retired in 2003.

As a post-doctoral student, he was at the University of Texas at Austin in 1976/77 .

While working on his dissertation at Honda, he discovered the photocatalytic splitting of water on titanium dioxide electrodes (Honda-Fujishima effect). Although the uses for hydrogen generation turned out to be limited, Fujishima found another useful application in the self-cleaning of coated glass and tiles, where it repels water and bacteria. It is z. B. used in street lights and car windows. The breakthrough at Fujishima with the discovery of titanium dioxide as a catalyst in water splitting led to titanium dioxide and other semiconductors being the focus of research in this area.

In 1982 Fujishima received the Asahi Prize together with Ken'ichi Honda . In 2004 he received the Japan Prize with Honda and in 2003 he received the first Heinz Gerischer Award of the European section of the Electrochemical Society. He became president of the Japanese Chemical Society in 2006, the Japanese Photochemical Society in 1998, and the Electrochemical Society of Japan in 2003. In 2010 he was named the Person of Special Cultural Merit . He has been an external member of the Academia Europaea since 2009 . In 2017 he was awarded the Order of Culture .

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  1. ↑ 第八回: 本 多 健 一 様 、 藤 嶋 昭 様 . University of Tokyo, accessed October 18, 2013 (Japanese, interview with Ken'ichi Honda and Akira Fujishima).
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Akira Fujishima at academictree.org, accessed on February 6, 2018th
  3. ^ Fujishima Electrochemical Photolysis of Water at a Semiconductor Electrode In: Nature. Vol. 238, 1972, pp. 37-38, abstract .
  4. ↑ Lowe, Das Chemiebuch, Librero 2017, p. 512
  5. ^ Membership directory: Akira Fujishima. Academia Europaea, accessed October 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Fujishima, Akira
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 藤 嶋 昭 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Aichi prefecture