Research theme for competitive and other funds (2):
2022 - 2025 Fabrication of a highly selective photocatalyst for methane conversion by controlling photocatalyst surface structures combined with operando spectroscopy
2019 - 2021 Catalytic conversion of ethane to ethylene and aromatic hydrocarbons
Papers (14):
Hikaru Saito, Hiromasa Sato, Taisuke Higashi, Toshiki Sugimoto. Beyond Reduction Cocatalysts: Critical Role of Metal Cocatalysts in Photocatalytic Oxidation of Methane with Water**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2023. 62
Hiromasa Sato, Atsushi Ishikawa, Hikaru Saito, Taisuke Higashi, Kotaro Takeyasu, Toshiki Sugimoto. Critical impacts of interfacial water on C-H activation in photocatalytic methane conversion. Communications Chemistry. 2023. 6. 1. 8
Miho Yamauchi, Hikaru Saito, Toshiki Sugimoto, Shogo Mori, Susumu Saito. Sustainable organic synthesis promoted on titanium dioxide using coordinated water and renewable energies/resources. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 2022. 472. 214773-214773
Yukiko Hosono, Hikaru Saito, Takuma Higo, Kosuke Watanabe, Kazuharu Ito, Hideaki Tsuneki, Shun Maeda, Kunihide Hashimoto, Yasushi Sekine. Co-CeO2 Interaction Induces the Mars-van Krevelen Mechanism in Dehydrogenation of Ethane. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2021. 125. 21. 11411-11418
Hikaru Saito, Yasushi Sekine. Catalytic conversion of ethane to valuable products through non-oxidative dehydrogenation and dehydroaromatization. RSC Advances. 2020. 10. 36. 21427-21453
Hikaru Saito, Hiromasa Sato, Taisuke Higashi, Toshiki Sugimoto. Beyond reduction cocatalysts: critical role of metal cocatalysts in photocatalytic oxidation of methane with water. Angewandte Chemie. 2023
Hikaru Saito. Critical impacts of interfacial water on the photocatalytic C-H conversion of methane. ChemRxiv. 2022
Kojima Kiria, Saito Hikaru, Ogo Shuhei, Hirayama Haruaki, Tanaka Yukio, Sekine Yasushi. Dehydrogenative aromatization of ethane over metal-supported zeolite catalyst. Proceeding of Annual/Fall Meetings of the Japan Petroleum Institute. 2016. 2016. 122-122
Saito Hikaru, Higo Takuma, Sugiura Yukihiro, Kubo Koichi, Ogo Shuhei, Sekine Yasushi. The effect of Ba addition to Ni/LaAlO3 catalyst for steam reforming of toluene. Proceeding of Annual/Fall Meetings of the Japan Petroleum Institute. 2015. 2015. 39-39
Effects of Cocatalyst on Product Selectivity in Photocatalytic Steam Reforming of Methane
(The 15th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Molecular Science 2021)