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Yoji Kobayashi

Associate Professor, Chemistry

Physical Science and Engineering Division

yoji.kobayashi@kaust.edu.sa
The Inorganic Materials and Reactions Group


Affiliations

Education Profile

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 2008-2009
  • Ph. D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2008
  • Research Student, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2002-2003
  • B. A. Honors, Dartmouth College, 2002

Research Interests

​Trained as an inorganic materials chemist, Yoji Kobayashi's interests are in solving chemical conversion problems from unusual perspectives. With a focus on hydrogen manipulation, the group will develop new or unorthodox catalytic materials and processes. Research will involve the development of new solid state materials, mesostructured catalysts, and applications to reactions such as the Haber-Bosch process or CO2 methanation.

Selected Publications

  • Tang, Y.; Kobayashi, Y.; Masuda, N.; Uchida, Y.; Okamoto, H.; Kageyama, T.; Hosokawa, S.; Loyer, F.; Mitsuhara, K.; Yamanaka, K.; Tamenori, Y.; Tassel, C.; Yamamoto, T.; Tanaka, T.; Kageyama, H. Metal-Dependent Support Effects of Oxyhydride-Supported Ru, Fe, Co Catalysts for Ammonia Synthesis. Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 8, 1801772. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201801772

  • Tang, Y.; Kobayashi, Y.; Tassel, C.; Yamamoto, T.; Kageyama, H. Hydride-Enhanced CO2 Methanation : Water-Stable BaTiO2.4H0.6 as a New Support. Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 8, 1800800. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201800800

  • Kobayashi, Y.; Tang, Y.; Kageyama, T.; Yamashita, H.; Masuda, N.; Hosokawa, S.; Kageyama, H. Titanium-Based Hydrides as Heterogeneous Catalysts for Ammonia Synthesis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 18240–18246. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b08891

  • Masuda, N.; Kobayashi, Y.; Hernandez, O.; Bataille, T.; Paofai, S.; Suzuki, H.; Ritter, C.; Ichijo, N.; Noda, Y.; Takegoshi, K.; Tassel, C.; Yamamoto, T.; Kageyama, H. Hydride in BaTiO2.5H0.5: a labile ligand in solid state chemistry. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 15315–21. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b10255

  • Kobayashi, Y.; Hernandez, O. J.; Sakaguchi, T.; Yajima, T.; Roisnel, T.; Tsujimoto, Y.; Morita, M.; Noda, Y.; Mogami, Y.; Kitada, A.; Ohkura, M.; Hosokawa, S.; Li, Z.; Hayashi, K.; Kusano, Y.; Kim, J. eun; Tsuji, N.; Fujiwara, A.; Matsushita, Y.; Yoshimura, K.; Takegoshi, K.; Inoue, M.; Takano, M.; Kageyama, H. An oxyhydride of BaTiO3 exhibiting hydride exchange and electronic conductivity. Nat. Mater. 2012, 11, 507–511. DOI: 10.1038/nmat3302