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Etsuko Fujita

Senior Scientist Emeritus, Artificial Photosynthesis, Chemistry Division

Etsuko Fujita

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Chemistry Division
Bldg. 555A
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-4356
fujita@bnl.gov

Research | Education | Appointments | Publications | Highlights | Awards


Research Activities

Artificial Photosynthesis Group

Photochemical and electrochemical CO2 reduction and water splitting; Photochemistry of transition-metal complexes; CO2 Hydrogenation and formic acid dehydrogenation; Earth-abundant catalysts for HER; Small molecule activation; and Bio-inspired chemistry of hydrogenases, NADH, and porphyrins.

Education

B.S. Ochanomizu University, Japan, March, 1972
Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology, December, 1976

Professional Appointments

Research Associate, Department of Applied Science, BNL, 1976-78
Assistant Chemist, Associate Chemist, then Chemistry Associate, Department of Applied Science, BNL, 1978-86
Chemist, Chemistry Department, BNL, 1986-2007
Senior Chemist, Chemistry Department, BNL, 2007-2008
Senior Chemist with tenure, Chemistry Division, BNL, 2008-present

Selected Publications

  • Manbeck GF, Polyansky DE, Fujita E (2020) Comprehensive Mechanisms of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction by [Ir(bip)(ppy)(CH3CN)](PF6)2. ACS Catalysis 10:6497–6509. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.9b04371
  • Kanega R, Ertem MZ, Onishi N, Szalda DJ, Fujita E, Himeda Y (2020) CO2 Hydrogenation and Formic Acid Dehydrogenation Using Ir Catalysts with Amide-Based Ligands. Organometallics 39:1519–1531. doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00809

Research Highlights

Selected Professional Activities from 2005

  • Panelist: The US Department of Energy (DOE) Workshops on: (1) Solar Energy Utilization, 2005; (2) Basic Research Needs in Catalysis for Energy, 2007; and (3) CO2 Reduction: Comparing Natural and Synthetic Systems, 2011.
  • Member of the DOE Committee of Visitors, April, 2008.
  • Reviewer of program evaluations: Solar Energy Conversion Strategic Research Cluster, UCD, Dublin, Ireland, April, 2011; the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis and KTH-SU STEM projects, Uppsala and Stockholm, Sweden, May, 2011.
  • Advisory board member for ChemSusChem.
  • Advisory board member for several solar energy conversion projects: (1) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Project on Innovative Areas “Innovations for Light-Energy Conversion” 2017-2022; (2) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “All Nippon Artificial Photosynthesis Project for Living Earth (AnApple)”, 2013-2017; (3) the NSF funded the Center for Chemical Innovation project “Solar Fuels”, 2008 – 2018; (4) the Japan Science and Technology, PRESTO Project entitled “Light Energy and Chemical Conversion” 2009 – 2017; and (5) “Light Energy and Chemical Conversion”; Strategic Research Centre on Solar Energy Conversion, Dublin, Ireland, 2010 – 2013.
  • Guest Co-editor (with K. Domen and J. T. Muckerman), special issue of ChemSusChem on photocatalysis, 2010; Guest Co-editor (with A. Goldman), Inorg. Chem. Forum on “Small Molecule Activation: From Biological Priciples to Energy Applications”, 2015; Guest Co-editor (with L. Sun and H. Dau), special issue of ChemSusChem on Artifical Photosynthesis, 2017; Guest co-editor (with Leif Hammarstöm, Sasha Ott and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer), special issue of Chem.Commun. on “Frontiers of proton-coupled electron-transfer reactions”, 2018-2019.
  • Co-organizer (with O. Ishitani and S. O. Kang): Symposium entitled “Artificial Photosynthesis: Reduction of Carbon Dioxide”, PACIFICHEM 2015, Honolulu, Hawaii, Dec. 2015 and PACIFICHEM 2020 (Scheduled), Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Co-organizer (with H. Ishida and others), Molecular Catalysts for CO2 Fixation/Reduction, The 43rd International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Sendai, Japan, 2018

Awards & Recognition

Recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, 1995
Center of Excellence Fellow at the Nat’l Inst. of Materials and Chemical Research, Tsukuba, Japan, 1998
Visiting Professor, Osaka University, Japan, Dec. 2002-Feb. 2003
Recipient of the 2008 BNL Science and Technology Award; 2009
23rd Annual "In Recognition of Women" Award, Town of Brookhaven, NY, 2009.
Visiting Professor for International Collaboration at Kumamoto University, 2016-present.
Recipient of the 2016 R&D100 Award

Etsuko Fujita

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Chemistry Division
Bldg. 555A
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-4356
fujita@bnl.gov

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