Academic Staff and Fellows

MORISAWA Yusuke
Associate Professor Ph.D Sci.
Department/Science  Graduate school/Science

Researching photo-physics based on fundamental spectroscopy research. Also developing analytical methods by observing spectra to extract information such as the attributes and amounts of a substance based on the interaction of the substance with light.

Development of novel "eye" using Spectroscopy

Research Area Physical Chemistry, Molecular Science, Spectroscopic Analysis, Molecular Spectroscopy
Teaching (Undergraduate Course) Synthetic Seminar 1、2、Chemical Information Processing、Instrumental Analysis、Applied Spectroscopy、Chemistry Laboratory Ⅲ、IV、Seminar for Bachelor Thesis、Individual Study for Bachelor Thesis
Teaching (Graduate Course) Applied Spectroscopy, Molecular Spectroscopy, Ph.D. Exercises in Functional Molecular Chemistry,
Ph.D Study in Applied Spectroscopy
Research Interests (1)Electronic States of Molecules in the Condesed Phase using Attenuated Toatal Reflection Spectroscopy in the Far-Ultraviolet Region (ATR-FUV)
(2)Analitical Chemistry using FUV spectroscopy
(3)Hydrogen-Bonding effect on the Absorption Intensity in the Near-Infrared (NIR) and THz Region
(4) Development of Chemometrix
Selected Publications (1) Yukihiro Ozaki, Krzysztof B. Be{\'{c, Yusuke Morisawa, Shigeki Yamamoto, Ichiro Tanabe, Christian W. Huck, Thomas S. Hofer,"Advances, challenges and perspectives of quantum chemical approaches in molecular spectroscopy of the condensed phase " Chemical Society Reviews, 2021, 50(19), 10917-10954.  https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cs01602k

(2) Yusuke Morisawa, Yugo Higaki, Yukihiro Ozaki"Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Calculation Studies of the Conformational Dependence on the Electronic Structure and Transitions of Cyclohexane, Methyl and Dimethyl Cyclohexane, and Decalin; Effects of Axial Substitutions on the Electronic Transitions " J. phys. Chem. A, 2021, 125(37), 8205-8214. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05688

(3)Mirosław Antoni Czarnecki, Yusuke Morisawa, Yukiteru Katsumoto, Tomoyuki Takaya, Swapnil Singh, Harumi Sato, Yukihiro Ozaki, "Solvent effect on the competition between weak and strong interactions in phenol solutions studied by near-infrared spectroscopy and DFT calculations " Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23(35), 19188-19194.https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cp02103f
Research and Achievements
Affiliated Academic Societies Chemical society of Japan, Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry, Spectroscopical Society of Japan、Japan Society for Molecular Science
External Activity Associate Editor of Analytical Sciences,
Education
(Undergraduate Course)
School of Science, Kwansei Gakuin University
Education
(Master's/Doctral Course)
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Title of Thesis, Institute, Date ”Spectroscopic Study of Some Chemically Significant molecules in Molecular Clouds”, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2005, Thesis
Biography Institute for Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan(Postdoctoral fellow,2005-2008)、
Kwansei-Gakuin Univ. (Postdoctoral fellow,2008-2012)、
Kindai Univ. (Lecture 2012-2015, Associate Professor 2015- present)、 Research institute of Bio-cokes (concurrent 2016- present)

Applied Spectrsocopy Laboratory

E-mail morisawa(at)chem.kindai.ac.jp
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Academic Staff and Fellows