Researcher Introduction
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Materials Research Center for Element Strategy Funakubo laboratory, Postdoctoral Fellow Masanori Kodera

Motivation for Becoming a Researcher

I got interested in solar panels during my junior high school days. Since then, I’ve always wanted to become a scientist who can solve some of the severe issues facing the world.

Your Greatest Strengths

My greatest strength would be my curiosity about a wide range of topics. I would like to take part in many research communities to learn about various things that are not obviously related to my fields of research.

What Makes Your Research Interesting or Worthwhile

Various properties of functional inorganic materials are easily affected by small variations in the raw materials, experimental procedures, and so on, while the mechanisms of such effects are still largely unknown. I get excited when I am tackling these mysteries lied on materials chemistry. It would be worthwhile if I could discover a new material that exhibits superior properties to the existing materials.

Other Research That Interests You

I am interested in everything related to energy issues that human beings now face. Although I am a materials scientist, in the future I would like to study energy issues from the perspective of not only materials chemistry, but also device engineering and public policy.

Interests Other Than Research You Would Like to Pursue

I like to play and watch tennis, soccer, and the board games shogi and go. Once my child gets a bit older, I would like to participate in a go tournament with my family.

Masanori Kodera

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Materials Research Center for Element Strategy Funakubo laboratory, Postdoctoral Fellow

Principal Work History:

I received a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Department of Chemical System Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 2018. The title of my doctoral thesis is “Investigation on Niobium Based Perovskite-type Photocatalysts for Water Splitting Reaction.” I am currently studying novel dielectric and ferroelectric thin films.

Driver’s License (Class 1)

Notable Articles:

  • [1] Masanori Kodera, Haruki Urabe, Masao Katayama, Takashi Hisatomi, Tsutomu Minegishi, and Kazunari Domen. “Effects of flux synthesis on SrNbO2N particles for photoelectrochemical water splitting.” J. Mater. Chem. A, 4 (2016): 7658 – 7664.
  • [2] Masanori Kodera, Yosuke Moriya, Masao Katayama, Takashi Hisatomi, Tsutomu Minegishi, and Kazunari Domen. “Investigation on nitridation processes of Sr2Nb2O7 and SrNbO3 to SrNbO2N for photoelectrochemical water splitting.” Scientific reports, 8.1 (2018): 15849.

E-mail Address

kodera.m.aa(at)m.titech.ac.jp
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