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 | 
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| 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.(supplemental cover) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05688 (3)Supitchaya Cherdkeattikul, Yusuke Morisawa, Nami Tagami-Kanada, Tamio Ida, "FTIR and chemometric study of densified solid biofuel produced under subcritical water conditions and its compressive strength affected by lignocellulose substances " Fuel, 2023, 342, #127835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2023.127835  | 
                            
| 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 Journal of the spectroscopical research of Japan (Bunko-Kenkyu) | 
| 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
morisawa(at)chem.kindai.ac.jp
                                            
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