Haruo Inoue（Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University）

　The present research area involves innovative and challenging investigations which aim to realize the highly efficient conversion, storage and utilization of light energy into useful and clean chemical energy by harnessing solar light as the ideal energy resource for mankind.
Specifically, this research includes investigations in light-induced hydrogen evolution using semiconductor catalysts and/or metal complexes, the photoreduction of carbon dioxide, highly efficient light harvesting electron transfer charge separation and electron relay systems, design and control of photochemical reaction environments, redox systems involving water molecules, photoelectric conversion incorporating advanced nanotechnologies, technical application of plants, algae, and bacteria with high photosynthetic properties, photo-assisted energy production from biomass, and the elucidation of the mechanisms involved in photosynthesis.
From such diverse fields as photochemistry, organic chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology and biotechnology, this research project explores the development of future energy systems through innovative technologies based on new and original approaches and concepts.