PUBLICATIONS

"微生物燃料電池によるエネルギーと物質生産の同時実現へ向けて": Akihiro Okamoto; Bioindustry, Vol 35, 7, 75-83 (2018)
"Inter-Kingdom Microbial Consortia Mechanisms to Guide Biotechnological Applications": Shu Zhang, Nancy Merino, Akihiro Okamoto, Phillip Gedalanga; Microbial Biotechnology, published online (2018)
"Energy Acquisition via Electron Uptake by the Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Desulfovibrio ferrophilus IS5": Xiao Deng, Akihiro Okamoto; Extremophiles, (2018)
"Self-standing Electrochemical Set-up to Enrich Anode-respiring Bacteria On-site": Akihiro Okamoto, Annette Rowe, Xiao Deng, Kenneth H. Nealson; J. Vis. Exp.(2018) e57632, doi:10.3791/57632
"Electrochemical Detection of Deuterium Kinetic Isotope Effect on Extracellular Electron Transport in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1": Yoshihide Tokunou, Kazuhito Hashimoto, Akihiro Okamoto; J. Vis. Exp.(2018) e57584, doi:10.3791/57584
"Tracking Electron Uptake from a Cathode into Shewanella Cells: Implications for Energy Acquisition from Solid-Substrate Electron Donors": Annette R. Rowe, Pournami Rajeev, Abhiney Jain, Sahand Pirbadian, Akihiro Okamoto, Jeffrey A. Gralnick, Mohamed Y. El-Naggar, Kenneth H. Nealson; American Society for Microbiology, mBio (2018) Vol 9, No.1
"Multi-heme cytochromes provide a pathway for survival in energy-limited environments": Xiao Deng, Naoshi Dohmae, Kenneth H. Nealson, Kazuhito Hashimoto, Akihiro Okamoto; Science Advances (2018) Vol 4, No.2
"An approach to the research on ion and water properties in the interphase between the plasma membrane and bulk extracellular solution”: Hiroshi Hibino, Madoka Takai, Hidenori Noguchi, Seishiro Sawamura, Yasufumi Takahashi, Hideki Sakai, Hitoshi Shiku; J. Physiol. Sci (2017) 67(4), 439-445.
“Nanoscale Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Individual Bacterial Cells Reveals Feedback from Extracellular Electron Transport to Upstream Reactions”: Junki Saito, Kazuhito Hahsimoto, Akihiro Okamoto; Electrochemistry (2017) Vol 85, 444-446.
“Proton Transport in the Outer-Membrane Flavocytochrome Complex Limits the Rate of Extracellular Electron Transport”: Akihiro Okaamoto, Yoshihide Tokunou, Shafeer Kalathil, Kazuhito Hahsimoto; Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2017) Vol 56, 9082-9086.
“Organic Molecular Layer with High Electrochemical Bistability: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of a Dynamic Redox System with Lipoate Units for Binding to Au(111)”: Eisuke Ohta, Hiromitsu Uehara, Ying Han, Kazuhisa Wada, Hidenori Noguchi, Ryo Katoono, Yusuke Ishigaki, Hiroshi Ikeda, Kohei Uosaki, Takanori Suzuki; ChemPlusChem (2017) Vol 82(7), 1043–1047.
“An approach to the research on ion and water properties in the interphase between the plasma membrane and bulk extracellular solution”: Hiroshi Hibino, Madoka Takai, Hidenori Noguchi, Seishiro Sawamura, Yasufumi Takahashi, Hideki Sakai, Hitoshi Shiku; J. Physiol. Sci. (2017) Vol 67(4), 439-445.
“In situ electrochemical enrichment and isolation of a magnetite‐reducing bacterium from a high pH serpentinizing spring”: Annette R. Rowe, Miho Yoshimura, Doug E. LaRowe, Lina J. Bird, Jan P. Amend, Kazuhito Hashimoto, Kenneth H. Nealson, Akihiro Okamoto; Environmental Microbiology, (2017) vol. 19, 2272-2285.
“Broader energy distribution of CO adsorbed at polycrystalline Pt electrode in comparison with that at Pt(111) electrode in H2SO4 solution confirmed by potential dependent IR/visible double resonance sum frequency generation spectroscopy”: Shuo Yang, Hidenori Noguchi, Kohei Uosaki; Electrochim. Acta 235(1), 280-286 (2017) .
“Pioneer the Physical Chemistry of Biological Electron Transfer based on Bacterial Ext racellular Electron Transport”: Akihiro Okamoto, Shuji Nakanishi, Ryuhei Nakamura, Kazuhito Hashimoto; Impact, vol 2017-2, 65-67 (2017)
“Highly Efficient Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction at Insulating Boron Nitride Nanosheet on Inert Gold Substrate “: Kohei Uosaki, Ganesan Elumalai, Hung Dinh, Andrey Lyalin, Tetsuya Taketsugu, Hidenori Noguchi; Sci. Rep., 6, 32217 (2016).
“Biofunctionality of Calmodulin Immobilized on Gold Surface Studied by Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy ? Ca2+ Induced Conformational Change and Binding to a Target Peptide”: Hidenori Noguchi, Tatshiko Adachi, Akiko Nakatomi, Michio Yazawa, Kohei Uosaki; J. Phys. Chem. C, 120(29), 16035-16041 (2016).
“Gold Nanoparticle Decoration of Insulating Boron Nitride Nanosheet on Inert Gold Electrode Towards an Efficient Electrocatalyst for the Reduction of Oxygen to Water”: Ganesan Elumalai, Hidenori Noguchi, Andrey Lyalin, Tetsuya Taketsugu, Kohei Uosaki; Electrochem. Commun. 66, 53-57 (2016).
“Ligand effect of SnO2 on a Pt?Ru catalyst and the relationship between bond strength and CO tolerance”: Tatsuya Takeguchi, Akane Kunifuji, Napan Narischat, Miko Ito, Hidenori Noguchi, Kohei Uosaki, and Shin R. Mukai; Catal. Sci. Technol. 9, 3214-3219 (2016)
“Spectroelectrochemical evidence of the role of viologen moiety as an electron transfer mediator from ITO substrate to a Pt complex acting as a confined molecular catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction”: Cepi Kurniawan, Hidenori Noguchi, and Kohei Uosaki; Electrochem. Commun. 62, 56-59 (2016).
“Flavin as an Indicator of the Rate-Limiting Factor for Microbial Current Production in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1”: J. Saito, K. Hashimoto, A. Okamoto*; Electrochim. Acta, 216, 261-265 (2016).
“Acceleration of Extracellular Electron Transfer by Alternative Redox-Active Molecules to Riboflavin for Outer-Membrane Cytochrome c of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1”: Y. Tokunou, K. Hashimoto, A. Okamoto*; J. Phys. Chem. C, 120, 16168-16173 (2016).
“Cation-limited kinetic model for microbial extracellularelectron transport via an outer membrane cytochrome C complex”: A. Okamoto, Y. Tokunou, J. Saito,; Biophysics and Physicobiology, 13, 71-76 (2016).
“Electronic Structure of the CO/Pt(111) Electrode Interface Probed by Potential Dependent IR/Visible Double Resonance Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy”: Shuo Yang, Hidenori Noguchi, and Kohei Uosaki; J. Phys. Chem. C, 119(46), 26056-26063 (2015).
“Role of Interfacial Water in Protein Adsorption onto Polymer Brushes as Studied by SFG Spectroscopy and QCM”: Daiki Nagasawa, Tomoyuki Azuma, Hidenori Noguchi, Kohei Uosaki, and Madoka Takai; J. Phys. Chem. C, 119(30), 17193-17201 (2015).
“Water structure at the interfaces between a zwitterionic self-assembled monolayer/liquid water evaluated by sum-frequency generation spectroscopy”: Kouji Nomura, Shiho Mikuni, Tadshi Nakaji-Hirabayashi, Makoto Gemmei-Ide, Hiromi Kitano, Hidenori Noguchi, Kohei Uosaki; Colloids Surf. B: Biointerfaces. 135, 267-273 (2015).
“Promoted C?C bond cleavage over intermetallic TaPt3 catalyst toward low-temperature energy extraction from ethanol”: Rajesh Kodiyath, Gubbala V. Ramesh, Eva Koudelkova, Toyokazu Tanabe, Mikio Ito, Maidhily Manikandan, Shigenori Ueda, Takeshi Fujita, Naoto Umezawa, Hidenori Noguchi, Katsuhiko Ariga and Hideki Abe; Energy Environ. Sci., 8, 1685-1689 (2015).
“Subnanoscale hydrophobic modulation of salt bridges in aqueous media”: Shuo Chen, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Takuya Masuda, Seishu Shimizu, Jun Zhao, Jing Mao, Shugo Nakamura, Kou Okuro, Hidenori Noguchi, Kohei Uosaki, Takuzo Aida; Science, 348, 555-559 (2015).
“Sulfur-Mediated Electron Shuttling Sustains Microbial Long-Distance Extracellular Electron Transfer with the Aid of Metallic Iron Sulfides”: K. Kondo, A. Okamoto, K. Hashimoto, R. Nakamura; Langmuir, 31, 7427-7434 (2015).
“Electron Extraction from an Extracellular Electrode by Desulfovibrio ferrophilus Strain IS5 Without Using Hydrogen as an Electron Carrier”: D. Xiao, R. Nakamura, K. Hashimoto, A. Okamoto,; Electrochemistry, 83, 529-531 (2015).
“Marine sediment microbes capable of electrode oxidation as a surrogate for lithotrophic insoluble substrate metabolism”: A. R. Rowe, P. Chellamuthu, B. Lam, A. Okamoto, K. H. Nealson; Front. Microbiol., 5, 784 (2015).
“Extracellular Electron Transport Scarcely Accumulates Proton Motive Force in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1”: Y. Tokunou, K. Hashimoto, A. Okamoto; Bull. Chem. Soc. Jap., 88, 690-692 (2015).
“Sum-frequency generation analyses of the structure of water at amphoteric SAM?liquid water interfaces”: Kouji Nomura, Tadashi Nakaji-Hirabayashi, Makoto Gemmei-Ide, Hiromi Kitano, Hidenori Noguchi, Kohei Uosaki; Colloids Surf. B: Biointerfaces. 121, 264-269 (2014).
“Electrocatalytic activity of various types of h-BN for oxygen reduction reaction”: Ganesan Elumalai, Hidenori Noguchi, Kohei Uosaki; Phys. Chem. Chem Phys. 16(27), 13755-13761(2014).
"Boron nitride nanosheet on gold as an electrocatalyst for oxygen re-duction reaction - Theoretical suggestion and experimental proof": Kohei Uosaki, Ganesan Elumalai, Hidenori Noguchi, Takuya Masuda, Andrey Lyalin, Akira Nakayama, Tetsuya Taketsugu; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136(18), 6542-6545 (2014).
“Structure of water at zwitterionic copolymer film-liquid water interfaces as examined by the sum frequency generation method”: Takuya Kondo, Kouji Nomura, Makoto Gemmei-Ide, Hiromi Kitano, Hidenori Noguchi,　Kohei Uosaki, Yoshiyuki Saruwatari; Colloids Surf. B: Biointerfaces. 113, 361-367 (2014).
“Flavin Redox Bifurcation as a Mechanism for Controlling the Direction of Electron Flow during Extracellular Electron Transfer”: A. Okamoto, K. Hashimoto, K. H. Nealson,; Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Wiley, 53, 10988-10991 (2014).
“Effect of Ionic Strength on the Rate of Extracellular Electron Transport in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 through Bound-Flavin Semiquinones”: S. Kalathil, K. Hashimoto, A. Okamoto,; ChemElectroChem, Wiley, Wiley, 53, 10988-10991 (2014).
“Cell-secreted Flavins Bound to Membrane Cytochromes Dictate Electron Transfer Reactions to Surfaces with Diverse Charge and pH”: A. Okamoto, S. Kalathil, X. Deng, K. Hashimoto, R. Nakamura, K. H. Nealson; Scientific Reports, Nature publishing group, 4, 5628 (2014).
“Uptake of self-secreted flavins as bound cofactors for extracellular electron transfer in Geobacter species”: A. Okamoto, K. Saito, K. Inoue, K. H. Nealson, K. Hashimoto, R. Nakamura; Energy & Environmental Science, Royal Society of Chemistry, 7, 1357-1361 (2014).; *Selected as Monthly Hot article in Energy Environ. Sci.; *Key Scientific Article in Renewable Energy Global Innovation (ISSN 2291-2460)
“Bound Flavin Model Suggests Similar Electron-Transfer Mechanisms in Shewanella and Geobacter”: A. Okamoto, R. Nakamura, K. H. Nealson, K. Hashimoto,; ChemElectroChem, Wiley, 53, 10988-10991 (2014).
“In situ x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for electrochemical reactions in ordinary solvent”: Takuya Masuda, Hideki Yoshikawa, Hidenori Noguchi, Tadahiro Kawasaki, Masaaki Kobata, Keisuke Kobayashi, and Kohei Uosaki; Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 111605 (2013).
“Direct Proof of Potential Dependent Oxygen Adsorption on a Gold Electrode Surface by Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance”: Sheng-Fu Tong, Hidenori Noguchi, Takuya Masuda, and Kohei Uosaki; Electrochem. Commun. 34, 33-36 (2013).
"Humidity Dependent Structure of Water at the Interfaces Between Perfluorosulfonated Ionomer Thin film and Pt and HOPG Studied by Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy”: Hidenori Noguchi, Kento Taneda, Hideo Naohara, Kohei Uosaki; Electrochem. Commun. 27, 5-8 (2013).
"Structure of Adsorbed Molecular Layer on Fused Quartz Surface Determined Sequentially in Sodium Stearate Solution, Dry Ar, Pure Water, and Dry Ar by Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy": Ya Zhang, Hidenori Noguchi, Shen Ye, and Kohei Uosaki; Surf. Sci. 607, 92-96 (2013).
“Rate Enhancement of Bacterial Extracellular Electron Transport Involves Bound Flavin Semiquinones”: A. Okamoto, K. Hashimoto, K. H. Nealson, R. Nakamura; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, National Academy of Sciences, 110, 7856-7861 (2013).; *Commentary article: D. J. Richardson, et al. PNAS 110, 7537-7538 (2013).; *Key Scientific Articles in Global Medical Discovery (ISSN-1929-8536)
“Mechanisms of long-distance extracellular electron transfer of metal-reducing bacteria mediated by nanocolloidal semiconductive iron oxides”: R. Nakamura, F. Kai, A. Okamoto, and Kazuhito Hashimoto; J. Mater. Chem. A American Chemical Society, 1, 5148-5157 (2013).