Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology
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    Masaaki Kitano   
Educational Background 　　　　　　 　　
Mar. 1997 Osaka Prefectural Ikuno High School
Apr. 1997 ～Mar. 2001 Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Bachelor
Apr. 2001～Mar. 2003 Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Master
Apr. 2003～Mar. 2006 Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Doctor
(Doctor of Engineering)
　
Work experience
Apr. 2006～Mar. 2007 Postdoctoral Researcher, Osaka Prefecture University 
Apr. 2007～Mar. 2009 Postdoctoral Researcher, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology 
Apr. 2009～Dec. 2012 Assistant Professor, Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology 
Jan. 2013～Dec. 2022 Associate Professor, Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology 
Oct. 2018～Mar. 2022 PRESTO Researcher (Additional post) , Japan Science and Technology Agency
Oct. 2019～Oct. 2023 Guest Professor, Nankai University (China) 
Jun. 2022～ Specially Appointed Associate Professor (Additional post), Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University
Jan. 2023～ Professor, International Research Frontiers initiative MDX Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology
   
Awards
Mar. 2001 Shirasagi Prize of Osaka Prefecture University 
Sep. 2012 Best Presentation award of 110th CATSJ Meeting 
Apr. 2013 Best Presentation award of 93th CSJ Annual Meeting
Feb. 2016 Tejima Seiichi Prize (Siro Fujino Prize) of Tokyo Institute of Technology
Mar. 2016 Catalysis Society of Japan Award for Young Researchers 
Mar. 2016 Chemical Society of Japan Lecture Award for Young Chemists   
May. 2016 The Japan Petroleum Institute Award for Encouragement of Research and Development 
Jul. 2016 Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award (Granted a special award by the president) 
Apr. 2017 The Young Scientists' Prize in the 2017 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 
Mar. 2019 Support for Tokyo Tech Advanced Researchers (STAR) grant  
May. 2019 The 18th Green and Sustainable Chemistry Awards (Incentive Award)
Jan. 2020 Best Poster Award(First Prize)(1st International Symposium "Hydrogenomics"  
2022 2022 APACS Awards Outstanding Researcher Award (Asia-Pacific Association of Catalysis Societies）
   
Main research themes 
Catalysis, Inorganic chemistry, Material chemistry 
Selected Publications
 
  1. Tian-Nan Ye, Sang-Won Park, Yangfan Lu, Jiang Li, Masato Sasase, Masaaki Kitano*, Tomofumi Tada, Hideo Hosono*, "Vacancy-enabled N2 activation for ammonia synthesis on an Ni-loaded catalyst" Nature 583, 391-395 (2020)
  2. Masaaki Kitano*, Jun Kujirai, Kiya Ogasawara, Satoru Matsuishi, Tomofumi Tada, Hitoshi Abe, Yasuhiro Niwa, Hideo Hosono*, "Low-Temperature Synthesis of Perovskite Oxynitride-Hydrides as Ammonia Synthesis Catalysts", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141, 20344−20353 (2019).
  3. Masaaki Kitano, Yasunori Inoue, Masato Sasase, Kazuhisa Kishida, Yasukazu Kobayashi, Kohei Nishiyama, Tomofumi Tada, Shigeki Kawamura, Toshiharu Yokoyama, Michikazu Hara, Hideo Hosono, "Self-organized Ruthenium-Barium Core-Shell Nanoparticles on a Mesoporous Calcium Amide Matrix for Efficient Low-Temperature Ammonia Synthesis", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 2648-2652 (2018).
  4. Masaaki Kitano, Yasunori Inoue, Hiroki Ishikawa, Kyosuke Yamagata, Takuya Nakao, Tomofumi Tada, Satoru Matsuishi, Toshiharu Yokoyama, Michikazu Hara, Hideo Hosono, "Essential Role of Hydride Ion in Ruthenium-based Ammonia Synthesis Catalysts", Chem. Sci. 7, 4036-4043 (2016).
  5. Masaaki Kitano, Shinji Kanbara, Yasunori Inoue, Navaratnarajah Kuganathan, Peter V. Sushko, Toshiharu Yokoyama, Michikazu Hara, Hideo Hosono, "Electride support boosts nitrogen dissociation over ruthenium catalyst and shifts the bottleneck in ammonia synthesis", Nat. Commun. 6, 6731 (2015).
  6. Masaaki Kitano, Yasunori Inoue, Youhei Yamazaki, Fumitaka Hayashi, Shinji Kanbara, Satoru Matsuishi, Toshiharu Yokoyama, Sung-Wng Kim, Michikazu Hara, Hideo Hosono, "Ammonia synthesis using a stable electride as an electron donor and reversible hydrogen store", Nat. Chem., 4, 934-940 (2012).
  7. 11. Masaaki Kitano, Kiyotaka Nakajima, Junko N. Kondo, Shigenobu Hayashi, Michikazu Hara, "Protonated Titanate Nanotubes as Solid Acid Catalyst", J. Am. Chem. Soc.132, 6622–6623 (2010).