【論文発表】
 
・Mahiro Shirotori, Shun Nishimura and Kohki Ebitani＊
"Genesis of a bi-functional acid-base site on a Cr-supported layered double hydroxide catalyst surface for one-pot synthesis of furfurals from xylose with a solid acid catalyst"
Catalysis Science & Technology, 2016, 6(23), 8200-8211. [Available online: Oct. 3, 2016]
DOI: 10.1039/C6CY01426G (JAIST Repositry)
[Selected as the Inside front cover]

 
・Shun Nishimura＊ and Kohki Ebitani＊
"Recent Advances in Heterogeneous Catalysis with Controlled Nanostructured Precious Monometals" (Review)
ChemCatChem, 2016, 8(14), 2303-2316. [Available online: May 20, 2016]
DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201600309
[Selected as Top 15 of the Most Accessed articles in 7/2016]
[Highlighted by ChemInform: 2016, 47(38), DOI: 10.1002/chin.201638215]

 
・Ravi Tomar, Jatin Sharma, Shun Nishimura and Kohki Ebitani＊
"Aqueous Oxidation of Sugars into Sugar Acids Using Hydrotalcite-supported Gold Nanoparticle Catalyst under Atmospheric Molecular Oxygen"
Chemistry Letters, 2016, 45(7), 843-845. [Available online: July 5, 2016]
DOI: 10.1246/cl.160364
[Highlighted by SYNFACTS 2016, 12(10), 1096, DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1589230]

 
・Shun Nishimura, Akio Miyazato and Kohki Ebitani＊
"Properties of bio-oil generated by a pyrolysis of forest cedar residuals with the movable Auger-type reactor"
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2016, 1709(1), 020026 (8 pages). [Available online: Feb. 1, 2016]
DOI: 10.1063/1.4941225 (Open Access), (JAIST Repositry)

  

 
・Mahiro Shirotori, Shun Nishimura and Kohki Ebitani＊
“One-pot Synthesis of Furfural from Xylose using Al2O3-Ni-Al Layered Double Hydroxide Acid-Base Bi-functional Catalyst and Sulfonated Resin”
Chemistry Letters, 2016, 45(2), 194-196. [Available online: Dec. 11, 2015]
DOI: 10.1246/cl.151064

 
・Natsume Koike, Sou Hosokai, Atsushi Takagaki, Shun Nishimura, Ryuji Kikuchi, Kohki Ebitani, Yoshizo Suzuki and S T Oyama＊
“Upgrading of pyrolysis bio-oil using nickel phosphide catalysts”
Journal of Catalysis, 2016, 333, 115-126. [Available online: Dec. 6, 2015]
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2015.10.022
[TOP10%FW]
[Selected as Top 25 of The Most Downloaded Articles from ScienceDirect in the last 90 days.]
[Web of Scienceの高被引用文献(アカデミックフィールドの上位1%にランク(2017/1-2月時点))に認定]

 
・Shun Nishimura, Kunihiko Mizuhori and Kohki Ebitani＊
“Reductive amination of furfural toward furfurylamine with aqueous ammonia under hydrogen over Ru-supported catalyst”
Research on Chemical Intermediates, 2016, 42(1), 19-30. [Available online: Nov. 12, 2015]
DOI: 10.1007/s11164-015-2334-5

・Jaya Tuteja, Shun Nishimura and Kohki Ebitani＊
“Change in reactivity of differently capped AuPd bimetallic nanoparticle catalysts for selective oxidation of aliphatic diols to hydroxycarboxylic acids in basic aqueous solution”
Catalysis Today, 2016, 265, 231-239. [Available online: Nov. 7, 2015]
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2015.09.034

 【学会発表】
 ＜触媒学会 第10回触媒道場＞　2016年8月30～31日, まつさき旅館, 石川.
〇城取万陽, 西村俊, 海老谷幸喜
“酸・塩基両機能Cr担持層状複水酸化物触媒の開発と糖類転換反応への応用"
[Poster] 優秀ポスター発表賞
 
＜The 9th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis (ICEC)＞　2016年7月10-13日, Newcastle, Australia.
〇Mahiro Shirotori, Shun Nishimura, Kohki Ebitani
“Effect of Cr loading amount in the Cr/Mg-Al layered double hydroxide mediated one-pot transformation of xylose to furfural"
[Oral]
 
＜The International Symposium on Catalytic Conversions of Biomass (ISCCB-2016)＞　2016年6月27-30日, Taipei, Taiwan. 
〇Shun Nishimura, Kunihiko Mizuhori, Kohki Ebitani
“Ru metal cluster catalyzed reductive amination of furfural toward furfurylamine in aqueous ammonia solution"
[Poster] Third(Bronze) Poster Award
 
〇Shun Nishimura, Takuma Shimura, Kohki Ebitani
“Synthesis of furan alcohols through the transfer hydrogenation of furfural with sodium phosphinate as a hydrogen source"
[Poster]
 
＜IISc-JAIST Joint Workshop on Functional Inorganic and Organic Materials＞ 　2016年3月7日, JAIST, Ishikawa, Japan.
〇Mahiro Shirotori, Shun Nishimura, Kohki Ebitani
"Correlation between Catalytic activity and Surface structure of Cr supported Layered Double Hydroxide for One-pot transformation of Xylose into Furfurals"
[Poster]
 
〇K. Ebitani, J. Tuteja, H. Choudhary, P. A. Son, M. Shirotori, S. Nishimura
“Synthesis of Value-added Chemicals from Biomass-derived Materials using Heterogeneous Catalytic Systems”
[Oral-invited]