Shigeharu Kittaka
Okayama University of Science, Japan
Biography
Shigeharu Kittaka has his expertise in surface chemistry of metal oxide-water systems: electrification of metal oxides in water, fine spherical particle formation and surface structure, layer structure of V2O5·nH2O by intercalation of water and organic molecules and electrical properties, phase changes of molecular liquids: water, ammonia, alcohol etc. Employed methodologies are electro-kinetic measurements, gas adsorption, FTIR, differential scanning calorimetry, adiabatic calorimetry, neutron scattering, electron microscopy, XRD analysis etc.