Yasuhiro Konishi

Yasuhiro KONISHI　（小西　康裕）

　Yasuhiro Konishi is a professor of chemical engineering at Osaka Prefecture University, where he earned his doctorate in 1983. Konishi joined the faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Osaka Prefecture University in 1983, and he has spent 28 years in research and lecturing. From 1988 to 1989, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He leads the Research Institute on Material Cycling Engineering at Osaka Prefecture University.
　In addition, his current professional affiliations include the Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan, where he serves as an executive board member and the Kansai Branch chief director, and the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, where he serves as the Kansai Branch vice chief director.
　In his most recent research, Konishi has pioneered a new multidisciplinary domain by combining three disparate research fields—the recycling of Strategically Important Materials (SIMs) from waste products (environmental engineering), microbial treatment (bioengineering), and the synthesis of novel nanomaterials (materials science & engineering). He has been advancing the building of its scholarly foundations, in addition to acting as a driving force behind the industrial R&D of implementations of his core technologies, under the framework of industry-academic cooperation.

5 most recent relevant publications:

  1. T. Ogi, R. Honda, K. Tamaoki, N. Saitoh, Y. Konishi, “Direct room-temperature synthesis of a highly dispersed Pd nanoparticle catalyst and its electrical properties in a fuel cell”, Powder Technology, Vol.205, pp.143-148 (2011)
  2. A. Higashi, N. Saitoh, T. Ogi, Y. Konishi, “Recovery of indium by biosorption and its application to recycling of waste liquid crystal display panel”, Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals, Vol.75, pp.620-625 (2011)
  3. T. Ogi, N. Saitoh, T. Nomura, Y. Konishi, “Room-temperature synthesis of gold nanoparticles and nanoplates using Shewanella algae cell extract”, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Vol.12, pp.2531-2539 (2010)
  4. K. Tamaoki, N. Saito, T. Ogi, T. Nomura, Y. Konishi, “Microbial reduction and recovery of palladium using the metal ion-reducing bacterium Shewanella algae”, Kagaku Kogaku Ronbunshu, Vol.36, pp.288-292 (2010)
  5. Y. Konishi, K. Ohno, N. Saitoh, T. Nomura, S. Nagamine, H. Hishida, Y. Takahashi, T. Uruga,” Bioreductive deposition of platinum nanoparticles on the bacterium Shewanella algae”, Journal of Biotechnology, Vol.128, pp.648-653 (2007)