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Urano, Hajime; Fujita, Takaaki*; Ide, Shunsuke; Miyata, Yoshiaki; Matsunaga, Go; Matsukawa, Makoto
Fusion Engineering and Design, 100, p.345 - 356, 2015/11
Times Cited Count:19 Percentile:82.36(Nuclear Science & Technology)The operation scenarios for plasma breakdown and current ramp-up phases in JT-60SA tokamak have been developed. The induced current in the in-vessel conducting elements such as vacuum vessel and stabilizing plate increases to the comparable level of plasma current of 600 kA during the breakdown phase and thus enhances the strength of error field. The optimized scenarios for half and full pre-magnetization cases satisfied the conditions required for the plasma initiation. At the initial plasma, the vertical magnetic field required to sustain the plasma position was controlled by the outer equilibrium field (EF) coil currents which compensate for a vertical field due to a large eddy current. The condition for the formation of divertor configurations given by the combination of the magnetic flux for plasma and the plasma current enables us to develop the operational scenarios with a smooth transition from a limiter to a divertor configuration.
Niwa, Hideharu*; Saito, Makoto*; Kobayashi, Masaki*; Harada, Yoshihisa*; Oshima, Masaharu*; Moriya, Shogo*; Matsubayashi, Katsuyuki*; Nabae, Yuta*; Kuroki, Shigeki*; Ikeda, Takashi; et al.
Journal of Power Sources, 223, p.30 - 35, 2013/02
Times Cited Count:18 Percentile:49.75(Chemistry, Physical)To design non-platinum, inexpensive, but high performance carbon-based cathode catalysts for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, it is important to elucidate the active site for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However, it is difficult to directly identify the active site by applying conventional structural or electronic probes to such complex systems. Here, we used C 1 X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) to observe electronic structure of carbon in iron phthalocyanine-based catalysts, and found a signature of edge exposure below the edge, whose intensity is well correlated with the ORR activity. These results demonstrate that C 1 XAS can be used to characterize the ORR activity of carbon-based cathode catalysts in terms of the edge exposure.
Kobayashi, Masaki*; Niwa, Hideharu*; Saito, Makoto*; Harada, Yoshihisa*; Oshima, Masaharu*; Ofuchi, Hironori*; Terakura, Kiyoyuki*; Ikeda, Takashi; Koshigoe, Yuka*; Ozaki, Junichi*; et al.
Electrochimica Acta, 74, p.254 - 259, 2012/07
Times Cited Count:52 Percentile:79.89(Electrochemistry)The electronic structure of the residual metal atoms in FePc-based carbon catalysts, prepared by pyrolyzing a mixture of FePc and phenolic resin polymer at 800C, before and after acid washing have been investigated using XAFS spectroscopy to clarify the role of Fe in the ORR activity. The decomposition analyses for the XAFS spectra reveal that the composition ratio of each Fe component is unaltered by the acid washing, indicating that the residual Fe components were removed by the acid washing irrespective of their chemical states. Because the oxygen reduction potential was approximately unchanged by the acid washing, the residual Fe itself does not seem to contribute directly to the ORR activity. The residual Fe can act as a catalyst to accelerate the growth of the sp carbon network during pyrolysis. The results imply that light elements are components of the ORR active sites in the FePc-based carbon catalysts.
Adan, J.*; Yoshii, Shuhei*; Kono, Hidetoshi; Miyata, Makoto*
Journal of Bacteriology, 194(12), p.3050 - 3057, 2012/06
Times Cited Count:9 Percentile:23.39(Microbiology)Kojima, Atsushi; Ishii, Kameo*; Miyata, Yoshiaki*; Kakiuchi, Hideto*; Kaido, Norihiro*; Yoshikawa, Masayuki*; Itakura, Akiyoshi*; Ichimura, Makoto*; Chujo, T.*
Fusion Science and Technology, 51(2T), p.274 - 276, 2007/02
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:18.41(Nuclear Science & Technology)no abstracts in English
Metsugi. Shoichi; Uenoyama, Atsuko*; Kubo, Jun*; Miyata, Makoto*; Yura, Kei; Kono, Hidetoshi; Go, Nobuhiro
Biophysics, 1, p.33 - 43, 2005/05
The motile mechanism of Mycoplasma mobile remains unknown but is believed to differ from any previously identified mechanism in bacteria. Gli349 of M. mobile is known to be responsible for both adhesion to glass surfaces and mobility. We therefore carried out sequence analyses of Gli349 and its homolog MYPU2110 from M. pulmonis to decipher their structures. We found that the motif "YxxxxxGF" appears 11 times in Gli349 and 16 times in MYPU2110. Further analysis of the sequences revealed that Gli349 contains 18 repeats of about 100 amino acid residues each, and MYPU2110 contains 22. No sequence homologous to any of the repeats was found in the NCBI RefSeq non-redundant sequence database, and no compatible fold structure was found among known protein structures, suggesting that the repeat found in Gli349 and MYPU2110 is novel and takes a new fold structure. Proteolysis of Gli349 using chymotrypsin revealed that cleavage positions were often located between the repeats, implying that regions connecting repeats are unstructured, flexible and exposed to the solvent.
Metsugi, Shoichi*; Uenoyama, Atsuko*; Adan, J.*; Miyata, Makoto*; Yura, Kei; Kono, Hidetoshi; Go, Nobuhiro
Biophysics, 1, p.33 - 43, 2005/00
no abstracts in English
Miyata, Noboru; Ishikawa, Sadayuki*; Yanagihara, Mihiro*; Watanabe, Makoto*
Photon Factory News, 18(2), p.25 - 29, 2000/08
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Metsugi, Shoichi*; Uenoyama, Atsuko*; Kubo, Jun*; Miyata, Makoto*; Kono, Hidetoshi; Yura, Kei*; Go, Nobuhiro*
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