Dr Ryusuke specialises in material science for energy conversion: (photo)electrochemistry, hydrogen production and CO2 conversion
Dr Ryusuke is an overseas research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at UQ School of Chemical Engineering, working with Professor Lianzhou Wang. His main research interests rotate around artificial photosynthesis for solar energy conversion, specifically photoelectrochemical water splitting for hydrogen production and CO2 conversion to valuable chemicals, and developments of photoelectrodes and electrocatalysts for the reactions. Now, he is deeply interested in designing artificial leaf by combining the photoelectrodes to realize a stand-alone system driving the energy conversion using only solar energy as a flexible and monolithic device like natural leaves. He completed his PhD from Institute of Science Tokyo in Japan, where his research focused on photoelectrochemical and electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction in water splitting with a new series of inorganic materials of mixed anion compounds (Supervised by Prof Kazuhiko Maeda).
Key Publications
Mizuochi, R.; Sugawara, Y.; Oka, K.; Inaguma, Y.; Nozawa, S.; Yokoi, T.; Yamaguchi, T.; Maeda, K. Iron-Based Layered Perovskite Oxyfluoride Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution: Insights from Crystal Facets with Heteroanionic Coordination. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146 (47), 32343-32355. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c05740
Mizuochi, R.; Hirayama, N.; Maeda, K. Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation over Pb2Ti2O5.4F1.2 Photoanodes Prepared by the Particle Transfer Method. J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127 (44), 21544-21551. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c04906
Mizuochi, R.; Oka, K.; Inaguma, Y.; Maeda, K. A two-dimensional perovskite oxyfluoride Pb3Fe2O5F2 as a catalyst for electrochemical oxidation of water to oxygen. Sustain. Energy Fuels 2022, 6 (10), 2423-2427. DOI: 10.1039/D2SE00282E
Mizuochi, R.; Izumi, K.; Inaguma, Y.; Maeda, K. A bifunctional lead–iron oxyfluoride, PbFeO2F, that functions as a visible-light-responsive photoanode and an electrocatalyst for water oxidation. RSC Adv. 2021, 11 (41), 25616-25623. DOI: 10.1039/d1ra04793k