Reports from Circulating Brains
From SANKEN to Overseas Institutes
Naoto Kamiuchi
Assistant Professor
SANKEN/ISIR
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Arrival: 21 January, 2017
About Myself
I am Naoto Kamiuchi, an assistant professor at Takeda laboratory in ISIR/Osaka University. My research interest is the nanostructure of heterogeneous catalysts in chemical reactions. I have being studying the nanostructure by using an environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM), which enables us to observe the nanostructure of catalysts with atomic resolution in gaseous atmospheres. Now, I’m working at Prof. Salmeron’s group in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) with the support of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), “Program for Advancing Strategic International Networks to Accelerate the Circulation of Talented Researchers”
In the group, one of the most famous research groups in the field of surface science, I want to learn in situ characterization techniques such as high-pressure scanning tunneling microscopy (HP-STM) and ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (AP-XPS), and try to reveal the nanostructure of catalysts from different perspectives from ETEM observation.