Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  ogawa.kanta.3ykyoto-u.ac.jp

Professional Memberships

• From May 2024, To Present

  日本セラミックス協会
• From Jun. 2022, To Present

  日本化学振興協会（JAAS）
• 日本化学会
• 触媒学会

Academic Degree

• 25 Mar. 2019

  京都大学修士（工学）
• 23 Mar. 2022

  京都大学博士（工学）

Academic Resume (Graduate Schools)

• 京都大学, 大学院工学研究科修士課程物質エネルギー化学専攻, 修了
• 京都大学, 大学院工学研究科博士後期課程物質エネルギー化学専攻, 修了

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• 京都大学, 工学部工業化学科, 卒業

Research History

• From Apr. 2025, To Present

  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science Division of Chemistry, Assistant Professor
• From Apr. 2024, To Mar. 2025

  Tokyo Institute of Technology, Institute of Innovative Research, JSPS 特別研究員（PD）
• From Jul. 2022, To Mar. 2024

  Imperial College London, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials,, JSPS overseas research fellow
• From Apr. 2022, To Jun. 2022

  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, PhD resercher
• From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2022

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 特別研究員DC1
• From Dec. 2018, To Mar. 2022

  AIST-Kyoto University Chemical Energy Materials Open Innovation Laboratory, Research assistant

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0002-6995-9848

• J-Global ID

  202201000525592996

• Researcher number

  10970816

• External link

  https://sites.google.com/view/kantaogawa

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/kanta_ogawa

Research

Research Interests

• lone-pair (ns2np0)
• Post transition cations
• Density Functional Theory
• Semiconductor
• Water Splitting
• Photocatalysis

Research Areas

• Nanotechnology/Materials, Inorganic compounds/materials chemistry, Lone pair chemistry
• Nanotechnology/Materials, Inorganic materials, Semiconductor Photocatalyst

Papers

• Defect Tolerance via External Passivation in the Photocatalyst SrTiO3:Al

  Kanta Ogawa; Seán R Kavanagh; Fumiyasu Oba; Aron Walsh

  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 02 Jul. 2025

  
• Geometric Isomers of Bipyridinium in Lead Halide Perovskitoids

  Takuya Ohmi; Soumya Kundu; Hanyang Ye; Wen Zhou; Kanta Ogawa; Yuki Haruta; Alejandra M. Navarrete-López; Takafumi Yamamoto; Makhsud I. Saidaminov

  Inorganic Chemistry, 23 Jun. 2025

  
• Flux Synthesis of Sillén–Aurivillius Oxyiodide for Visible Light Water Splitting Photocatalysis

  Makoto Ogawa; Hajime Suzuki; Kanta Ogawa; Hiroki Ubukata; Osamu Tomita; Akinobu Nakada; Shunsuke Nozawa; Akinori Saeki; Hiroshi Kageyama; Ryu Abe

  Chemistry of Materials, 11 Feb. 2025

  
• Conduction Band and Defect Engineering for the Prominent Visible‐Light Responsive Photocatalysts

  Akira Yamakata; Kosaku Kato; Takafumi Ogawa; Kanta Ogawa; Makoto Ogawa; Daichi Kato; Chengchao Zhong; Akihide Kuwabara; Ryu Abe; Hiroshi Kageyama

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 23 Dec. 2024

  
• Electrostatic Control of Electronic Structure in Modular Inorganic Crystals

  Kanta Ogawa; Aron Walsh

  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 02 Sep. 2024, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Decompression-Induced In-Plane Lone Pair Electrons in BiSF Synthesized under High Pressure

  Chengchao Zhong; Cédric Tassel; Daichi Kato; Kanta Ogawa; Ken Niwa; Osamu Tomita; Yukino Ito; Shogo Kawaguchi; Masashi Hasegawa; Ryu Abe; Hiroshi Kageyama

  Chemistry of Materials, 14 May 2024

  
• Band Gap Narrowing by Suppressed Lone-Pair Activity of Bi3+

  Kanta Ogawa; Ryu Abe; Aron Walsh

  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 06 Mar. 2024, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Models of Oxygen Occupancy in Lead Phosphate Apatite Pb₁₀(PO₄)₆O

  Kasper Tolborg; Aron Walsh

  ACS Energy Letters, 28 Aug. 2023, Lead author

  
• Orbital Engineering in Sillén–Aurivillius Phase Bismuth Oxyiodide Photocatalysts through Interlayer Interactions

  Kanta Ogawa; Hajime Suzuki; Aron Walsh; Ryu Abe

  Chemistry of Materials, 25 Jul. 2023, Lead author

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• Synthesis of multi-layered perovskite oxyiodides: Impact of number of perovskite layers and type of halide layer for band levels and photocatalytic properties

  Makoto Ogawa; Hajime Suzuki; Kanta Ogawa; Osamu Tomita; Ryu Abe

  Solid State Sciences, Jul. 2023

  
• An unexplored role of the CrOx shell in an elaborated Rh/CrOx core–shell cocatalyst for photocatalytic water splitting: a selective electron transport pathway from semiconductors to core metals, boosting charge separation and H2 evolution

  Tetsu Kotani; Kanta Ogawa; Hajime Suzuki; Kosaku Kato; Osamu Tomita; Akira Yamakata; Ryu Abe

  EES Catalysis, 2023, Lead author

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• Improved water oxidation activity of a Sillén SrBi3O4Cl3 photocatalyst by flux method with an appropriate binary-component molten salt

  Yusuke Ishii; Hajime Suzuki; Kanta Ogawa; Osamu Tomita; Akinori Saeki; Ryu Abe

  Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2022

  
• Manipulation of charge carrier flow in Bi4NbO8Cl nanoplate photocatalyst with metal loading

  Kanta Ogawa; Ryota Sakamoto; Chengchao Zhong; Hajime Suzuki; Kosaku Kato; Osamu Tomita; Kouichi Nakashima; Akira Yamakata; Takashi Tachikawa; Akinori Saeki; Hiroshi Kageyama; Ryu Abe

  Chemical Science, 2022, Lead author

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• Bi4AO6Cl2 (A = Ba, Sr, Ca) with Double and Triple Fluorite Layers for Visible-Light Water Splitting

  Chengchao Zhong; Daichi Kato; Kanta Ogawa; Cédric Tassel; Fujio Izumi; Hajime Suzuki; Shogo Kawaguchi; Takashi Saito; Akinori Saeki; Ryu Abe; Hiroshi Kageyama

  Inorganic Chemistry, 18 Oct. 2021

  
• Layered Perovskite Oxyiodide with Narrow Band Gap and Long Lifetime Carriers for Water Splitting Photocatalysis

  Kanta Ogawa; Hajime Suzuki; Chengchao Zhong; Ryota Sakamoto; Osamu Tomita; Akinori Saeki; Hiroshi Kageyama; Ryu Abe

  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 09 Jun. 2021, Lead author

  
• Visible-Light-Responsive Oxyhalide PbBiO2Cl Photoelectrode: On-Site Flux Synthesis on a Fluorine-Doped Tin Oxide Electrode

  Kanta Ogawa; Yusuke Wakisaka; Hajime Suzuki; Osamu Tomita; Ryu Abe

  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 03 Feb. 2021, Lead author

  
• Earth-abundant iron(iii) species serves as a cocatalyst boosting the multielectron reduction of IO3−/I− redox shuttle in Z-scheme photocatalytic water splitting

  Katsuya Murofushi; Kanta Ogawa; Hajime Suzuki; Ryota Sakamoto; Osamu Tomita; Kosaku Kato; Akira Yamakata; Akinori Saeki; Ryu Abe

  Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021, Lead author

  
• Synthesis, band structure and photocatalytic properties of Sillén–Aurivillius oxychlorides BaBi5Ti3O14Cl, Ba2Bi5Ti4O17Cl and Ba3Bi5Ti5O20Cl with triple-, quadruple- and quintuple-perovskite layers

  Daichi Ozaki; Hajime Suzuki; Kanta Ogawa; Ryota Sakamoto; Yoshiyuki Inaguma; Kouichi Nakashima; Osamu Tomita; Hiroshi Kageyama; Ryu Abe

  Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021

  
• Domain observation in the visible-light photocatalyst Bi4NbO8Br with the layered perovskite structure

  Chengchao Zhong; Daichi Mizushima; Kaito Hirata; Yui Ishii; Kosuke Kurushima; Daichi Kato; Hiroshi Nakajima; Shigeo Mori; Hajime Suzuki; Kanta Ogawa; Ryu Abe; Takeshi Fukuma; Hiroshi Kageyama

  Applied Physics Express, Sep. 2020, Peer-reviewed

  
• Flux Synthesis of Layered Oxyhalide Bi4NbO8Cl Photocatalyst for Efficient Z-Scheme Water Splitting Under Visible Light

  Kanta Ogawa

  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019, Lead author

  
• Fe/Ru Oxide as a Versatile and Effective Cocatalyst for Boosting Z-Scheme Water-Splitting: Suppressing Undesirable Backward Electron Transfer

  Nakada, Akinobu; Suzuki, Hajime; Verizo, Junie Jhon M.; Ogawa, Kanta; Higashi, Masanobu; Saeki, Akinori; Yamakata, Akira; Kageyama, Hiroshi; Abe, Ryu

  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019

  
• Improved Activity of Hydrothermally-prepared WO3 Photocatalysts by Sodium Salt Additives

  Kanta Ogawa

  Chemistry Letters, 2018, Lead author

  

External funds: Kakenhi

• ポスト遷移金属のローンペア活性制御による新規光エネルギー変換材料の創成

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

  Basic Section 36010:Inorganic compounds and inorganic materials chemistry-related

  Kyoto University

  小川 幹太

  From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2028, Granted

  無機半導体;光エネルギー変換

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-25K18091/
• 結晶中分子のマクロポテンシャル制御による新規超セラミックス創成

  Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)

  Transformative Research Areas, Section (II)

  Kyoto University

  小川 幹太

  From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2027, Granted

  無機半導体;光エネルギー変換

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PUBLICLY-25H01651/