Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy
Surface and Interface
Ultrafast Phenomena

BS, University of Tokyo, 1990
MS, University of Tokyo, 1992
PhD, University of Tokyo, 1998

Researcher, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, 1992-1995
Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo, 1995-1997
Researcher, Mitsubishi Chemical Co., 1998-2002
Researcher, RIKEN, 2002-2014
Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 2014-

Physical Chemistry I
Exercise of Physical Chemistry I

8th Horiba Masao Award (2011)

Shoichi Yamaguchi and Tahei Tahara, "Heterodyne-Detected Electronic Sum Frequency Generation: 'Up' versus 'Down' Alignment of Interfacial Molecules", J. Chem. Phys. 129 (2008) 101102.

Satoshi Nihonyanagi, Shoichi Yamaguchi, and Tahei Tahara, "Direct evidence for orientational flip-flop of water molecules at charged interfaces: A heterodyne-detected vibrational sum frequency generation study", J. Chem. Phys. 130 (2009) 204704.

Sobhan Sen, Shoichi Yamaguchi, and Tahei Tahara, "Different Molecules Experience Different Polarities at the Air/Water Interface", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48 (2009) 6439-6442.

Satoshi Nihonyanagi, Shoichi Yamaguchi, and Tahei Tahara, "Water Hydrogen Bond Structure near Highly Charged Interfaces Is Not Like Ice", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132 (2010) 6867-6869.

Jahur A. Mondal, Satoshi Nihonyanagi, Shoichi Yamaguchi, and Tahei Tahara, "Structure and orientation of water at charged lipid monolayer/water interfaces probed by heterodyne-detected vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132 (2010) 10656-10657.

Shoichi Yamaguchi, Haruko Hosoi, Megumi Yamashita, Pratik Sen, and Tahei Tahara, "Physisorption Gives Narrower Orientational Distribution than Chemisorption on a Glass Surface: A Polarization-Sensitive Linear and Nonlinear Optical Study", J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1 (2010) 2662-2665.

Shoichi Yamaguchi, Kankan Bhattacharyya, and Tahei Tahara, "Acid-Base Equilibrium at an Aqueous Interface: pH Spectrometry by Heterodyne-Detected Electronic Sum Frequency Generation", J. Phys. Chem. C 115 (2011) 4168-4173.

Shoichi Yamaguchi, Kazuya Shiratori, Akihiro Morita, and Tahei Tahara, "Electric quadrupole contribution to the nonresonant background of sum frequency generation at air/liquid interfaces", J. Chem. Phys. 134 (2011) 184705.

Satoshi Nihonyanagi, Tatsuya Ishiyama, Touk-kwan Lee, Shoichi Yamaguchi, Mischa Bonn, Akihiro Morita, and Tahei Tahara, "Unified Molecular View of Air/Water Interface Based on Experimental and Theoretical c(2) Spectra of an Isotopically Diluted Water Surface", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133 (2011) 16875-16880.

Shoichi Yamaguchi, Hidekazu Watanabe, Sudip Kumar Mondal, Achintya Kundu, and Tahei Tahara, "'Up' versus 'down' alignment and hydration structures of solutes at the air/water interface revealed by heterodyne-detected electronic sum frequency generation with classical molecular dynamics simulation", J. Chem. Phys. 135 (2011) 194705.

Jahur A. Mondal, Satoshi Nihonyanagi, Shoichi Yamaguchi, and Tahei Tahara, "Three Distinct Water Structures at a Zwitterionic Lipid/Water Interface Revealed by Heterodyne-Detected Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134 (2012) 7842-7850.

Shoichi Yamaguchi, Achintya Kundu, Pratik Sen, and Tahei Tahara, "Quantitative estimate of the water surface pH using heterodyne-detected electronic sum frequency generation", J. Chem. Phys. 137 (2012) 151101.

Satoshi Nihonyanagi, Jahur A. Mondal, Shoichi Yamaguchi, and Tahei Tahara, "Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water Studied by Heterodyne-Detected Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation", Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. 64 (2013) 579-603.

Achintya Kundu, Hidekazu Watanabe, Shoichi Yamaguchi, and Tahei Tahara, "Agreement between experimentally and theoretically estimated orientational distributions of solutes at the air/water interface", J. Phys. Chem. C. 117 (2013) 8887-8891.

Korenobu Matsuzaki, Satoshi Nihonyanagi, Shoichi Yamaguchi, Takashi Nagata, and Tahei Tahara, "Vibrational sum frequency generation by the quadrupolar mechanism at the nonpolar benzene/air interface", J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4 (2013) 1654-1658.

Prashant Chandra Singh, Satoshi Nihonyanagi, Shoichi Yamaguchi, and Tahei Tahara, "Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of hydrogen bond network terminated at the air/water interface: A two-dimensional heterodyne-detected vibrational sum frequency generation study", J. Chem. Phys. 139 (2013) 161101.

Achintya Kundu, Shoichi Yamaguchi, and Tahei Tahara, "Evaluation of pH at Charged Lipid/Water Interfaces by Heterodyne-Detected Electronic Sum Frequency Generation", J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5 (2014) 762-766.