Akira Fujishima

Akira Fujishima (藤 嶋 昭Japanese, Akira Fujishima, born March 10, 1942 in Aichi Prefecture ) is a Japanese chemist, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.

Fujishima made ​​1966 his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the State University of Yokohama, and in 1971 received his doctorate at the University of Tokyo in chemistry at Ken'ichi Honda. After that, he was assistant professor at the University of Kanagawa, joined in 1975 as an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo, where he was Associate Professor in 1978 and in 1986 a full professorship in 2003 and was awarded emeritus.

While working on his dissertation at Honda, he discovered the photocatalytic splitting of water on titanium dioxide electrodes ( Honda - Fujishima effect). Although it turned out that the applications were limited for hydrogen production, Fujishima found another useful application in self- cleaning coated therewith glass and tiles, where it repels water and bacteria. There is, for example, used in street lamps and car windows.

In 1982 he was awarded the Asahi Prize jointly with Ken'ichi Honda. In 2004 he was awarded with Honda the Japan Prize and in 2003 he received the first Heinz Gerischer Award of the European Section of the Electrochemical Society. In 2006 he became president of the Japanese Chemical Society, 1998, the Japanese company photochemical and 2003, the Electrochemical Society of Japan. In 2010 he was appointed as the person with special cultural merits.

Writings

  • As publisher: Diamond Electrochemistry 2005

Source

  • Encyclopædia Britannica
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