Research field (1)：
Bio-, chemical, and soft-matter physics
Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：
2020 - 2024 Experimental and theoretical survey of diverse far-red O2-evolving photosynthesis
2020 - 2023 Theoretical analysis of primary processes in diverse photosynthetic reaction centers
Papers (38)：
Akihiro Kimura, Hirotaka Kitoh-Nishioka, Toru Kondo, Hirozo Oh-oka, Shigeru Itoh, Chihiro Azai. Experimental and Theoretical Mutation of Exciton States on the Smallest Type-I Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex of a Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobaclum tepidum. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2024. 128. 3. 731-743
Setsuko Nakagawa, Akihiro Kimura, Yuko Okamoto. Polarizable Molecular Block Model: Toward the Development of an Induced Dipole Force Field for DNA. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2022. 126. 50. 10646-10661
Akihiro Kimura, Hirotaka Kitoh-Nishioka, Toshimichi Aota, Tasuku Hamaguchi, Koji Yonekura, Keisuke Kawakami, Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh, Natsuko Inoue-Kashino, Kentaro Ifuku, Eiki Yamashita, et al. Theoretical Model of the Far-Red-Light-Adapted Photosystem I Reaction Center of Cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina Using Chlorophyll d and the Effect of Chlorophyll Exchange. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2022. 126. 22. 4009-4021
Akihiro Kimura, Hirotaka Kitoh-Nishioka, Yasuteru Shigeta, Shigeru Itoh. Comparison between the Light-Harvesting Mechanisms of Type-I Photosynthetic Reaction Centers of Heliobacteria and Photosystem I: Pigment Site Energy Distribution and Exciton State. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2021. 125. 15. 3727-3738
Kimura Akihiro, Fujihashi Yuta. 8aAQ-3 Improvement of Variational Master Equation Describing Excitation Energy Transfer III : Higher Order Correction of Rate Constant. Meeting abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2014. 69. 2. 201-201
Fujihashi Yuta, Kimura Akihiro. 27pAB-7 Improvement of Variational Master Equation Describing Excitation Energy Transfer II. Meeting abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2014. 69. 1. 396-396
Fujihashi Yuta, Kimura Akihiro. 26aXC-5 Analysis of exciton states in PSII based on search of minimal state of free energy. Meeting abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2013. 68. 1. 415-415
Fujihashi Yuta, Kimura Akihiro. 26pAH-9 Modification of variational master equation describing excitation energy transfer. Meeting abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2012. 67. 1. 413-413
27pYW-1 Dynamical model of electron tunneling route in proteins. Meeting abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2005. 60. 1. 374-374
