Kentaro Yamamoto
Language: (en | ja)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9994-1200
Research Interests
Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics, proton-coupled electron transfer, water-splitting
Movie: Spatial distribution of unpaired electron density and flux along the path of the excited-state nonadiabatic electron dynamics of H2.
Professional career
Kyoto University, postdoctoral fellow, 2016-present
Tokyo University, postdoctoral fellow, 2015-2016
Education
Tokyo University, PhD, Theoretical Chemistry, 2015 (under the supervision of Prof. Kazuo Takatsuka).
Kwansei Gakuin University, B.Sc. Chemistry, 2009
Publication list
[9] K. Yamamoto and K. Takatsuka, J. Chem. Phys., accepted for publication.
[8] K. Yamamoto and K. Takatsuka, "On the Elementary Chemical Mechanisms of Unidirectional Proton Transfers: A Nonadiabatic Electron-Wavepacket Dynamics Study" J. Phys. Chem. A, 2019, 123, 4125-4138.
[7] K. Yamamoto and K. Takatsuka, "Collision induced charge separation in ground-state water splitting dynamics", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 12229-12240.
[6] K. Yamamoto and K. Takatsuka, "On the photocatalytic cycle of water splitting with small manganese oxides and the roles of water clusters as direct sources of oxygen molecules", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 6708-6725.
[5] K. Yamamoto and K. Takatsuka, "Photoinduced Charge Separation Catalyzed by Manganese Oxides onto a Y‐Shaped Branching Acceptor Efficiently Preventing Charge Recombination", ChemPhysChem, 2017, 18, 537-548.
[4] K. Yamamoto and K. Takatsuka, "Dynamical mechanism of charge separation by photoexcited generation of proton–electron pairs in organic molecular systems. A nonadiabatic electron wavepacket dynamics study" (perspective), Chem. Phys. 2016, 475, 39-53.
[3] K. Yamamoto and K. Takatsuka, "An Electron Dynamics Mechanism of Charge Separation in the Initial‐Stage Dynamics of Photoinduced Water Splitting in X–Mn–Water (X=OH, OCaH) and Electron–Proton Acceptors", ChemPhysChem, 2015, 16, 2534-2537.
[2] K. Yamamoto and K. Takatsuka, "Electronic quantum effects mapped onto non-Born-Oppenheimer nuclear paths: Nonclassical surmounting over potential barriers and trapping above the transition states due to nonadiabatic path-branching", J. Chem. Phys, 2014, 140, 124111.
[1] J. Manz and K. Yamamoto, "A selection rule for the directions of electronic fluxes during unimolecular pericyclic reactions in the electronic ground state", Mol. Phys., 2012, 110, 517-530.
Presentation list
International
[5] ○Kentaro Yamamoto and Kazuo Takatsuka "A Chemical Mechanism of Unidirectional Proton Transfers Driven by Coupled Proton and Electron-Wavepacket Transfers", Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, Sydney, Australia, 2019/9/30-10/03, IC006 (invited talk).
[4] ○Kentaro Yamamoto and Kazuo Takatsuka "Photocatalytic cycle of water splitting with small manganese oxides and the roles of water cluster as a direct resource of oxygen molecules", The 58th Sanibel Symposium, St. Simons Island, Georgia, 2018/2/18-23 5P13.
[3] ○Kentaro Yamamoto and Kazuo Takatsuka "Photodynamical electron-wavepacket mechanism of water-splitting catalyzed by manganese oxides involving hydrogen-bond network", The 77th Okazaki Conference Series: International Symposium on Ultrafast Dynamics in Molecular and Material Sciences, Okazaki, Japan, 2017/3/6-8 P06.
[2] ○Kentaro Yamamoto and Kazuo Takatsuka "Photoinduced Charge Separation Catalyzed by Mn-Oxides onto a Y-shaped Branching Acceptor Efficiently Preventing Charge Recombination", JFS-Joint Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Science of Complex Systems, Kyoto, Japan 2016/10/26-28 P17.
[1] ○Kazuo Takatsuka, Kentaro Yamamoto "Photodynamics of OH dissociation and charge separation in X-MnOH2: A nonadiabatic electron wavepacket study" International Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics and Biology, Taipei, 2014/11/12, LVI-3.
Domestic
[13] ○山本憲太郎，高塚和夫 "二核Mn錯体に触媒される光水分解サイクルについて: 追加のMn酸化物の電子—プロトンバッファとしての役割", 第13回分子学討論会, 名古屋 2019/9/17-20 3L07.
[12] ○山本憲太郎，高塚和夫 "一方向的なプロトン移動の化学的な機構について: 非断熱電子動力学による研究", 第22回理論化学討論会, 北海道 2019/5/27-29 1L08.
[11] ○山本憲太郎，高塚和夫 "一方向的なプロトン移動の化学的な機構について: 非断熱電子動力学による研究", 第16回京都大学福井謙一記念研究センターシンポジウム, 京都 2019/2/8 P15.
[10] ○山本憲太郎，高塚和夫 "生物系に見られる一方向的なプロトンおよび電子移動の化学的な機構について" 第12回分子科学討論会, 福岡 2018/9/10-13 2D19.
[9] ○山本憲太郎，高塚和夫 "電子の往復運動に駆動されるプロトンポンプの化学的な機構について: 非断熱電子動力学による解析" 第21回理論化学討論会, 岡崎 2018/5/15-17 3L01.
[8] ○山本憲太郎，高塚和夫 "Photocatalytic cycle of water splitting with small manganese oxides and water clusters as source of oxygen molecules", 第15回京都大学福井謙一記念研究センターシンポジウム, 京都 2018/2/2 P17.
[7] ○山本憲太郎，高塚和夫 "生物系から着想を得た単純な系における衝突誘起の逐次的な電子移動; 非断熱の電子波束による研究" 第11回分子科学討論会, 仙台 2017/9/15-18 2D03.
[6] ○山本憲太郎，高塚和夫 "電子波束動力学的な電荷分離の機構によって駆動されるMn 酸化物中の水の光分解サイクル" 第20回理論化学討論会, 京都 2017/5/16-18 2L16.
[5] ○Kentaro Yamamoto and Kazuo Takatsuka "Photoinduced Charge Separation Catalyzed by Mn-Oxides onto a Y-shaped Branching Acceptor Efficiently Preventing Charge Recombination", 第14回京都大学福井謙一記念研究センターシンポジウム, Kyoto, Japan 2017/1/27 P9.
[4] ○山本憲太郎，高塚和夫 "光化学系IIにおける水分解の初期段階の機構について; Y字型Coupled Proton-Electron Transfer" 第10回分子科学討論会, 神戸 2016/9/13-15 1F13.
[3] ○山本憲太郎，高塚和夫 "Photochemical mechanism of charge separation taken out of water molecule" 第19回理論化学討論会, 東京 2016/5/23-25 3B18.
[2] ○山本憲太郎，高塚和夫 "X-Mn-Water (X=OH, OCaH) と電子 – プロトン受容体系における水の光分解の初期段階の電荷分離の電子動力学的メカニズム" 第9回分子科学討論会 東京 2015/9/16 1B10.
[1] ○山本憲太郎，高塚和夫 "非断熱遷移によって引きおこされる励起状態上でのディープトンネリングおよび摩擦" 第7回分子科学討論会, 京都, 2013/9/10, 2E04.
Others
[2] 17th Fukui Center Seminar, Kyoto, 2019/12/13.
[1] Paper [5] was introduced by Advances in Engineering. (2017)