Koichi MOMMA

National Museum of Nature and Science,
4-1-1, Amakubo, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan
k-momma(at)kahaku.go.jp

The following e-mail addresses are my old accounts that have already expired. If you were trying to contact me by these addresses, please use the above one.
MOMMA.Koichi@nims.go.jp
monmakou@ganko.tohoku.ac.jp

Biography

04/2000 - 03/2004: Bachelor of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University
04/2004 - 03/2006: Master of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Graduate school of Science, Tohoku University
04/2006 - 03/2009: Doctor of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Graduate school of Science, Tohoku University
04/2009 - 03/2011: Researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
04/2011 - 09/2017: Curator at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan
10/2017 - : Senior Curator at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan

Membership

Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences (JAMS)
Crystallographic Society of Japan (CrSJ)
Japanese Association for Crystal Growth
The Society for Discrete Variational Xα

Current roles

Associate editor of the Mineralogical Magazine (2018-)
Editor of the Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences) (2017-)
Editor of the Ganseki Koubutsu Kagaku (Japanese magazine of mineralogical and petrological sciences) (2012-)
Member of the Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr-MaThCryst) (2024-)
Member of the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification of the International Mineralogical Association (2018-)

Past roles

Consultant of the Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr-MaThCryst) (2018-2023)
Member of the Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr-MaThCryst) (2015-2017)
Associate editor of the Journal of the Crystallographic Society of Japan (2014-)

Bibliography

Papers

K. Onuma, M. M. Saito, Y. Yamakoshi, M. Iijima, Y. Sogo and K. Momma: Coherent surface structure induces unique epitaxial overgrowth of metastable octacalcium phosphate on stable hydroxyapatite at critical fluoride concentration. Acta Biomaterialia, In Press.
K. Momma, T. Ikeda, T. Nagase, T. Kuribayashi, C. Honma, K. Nishikubo, N. Takahashi, M. Takada, Y. Matsushita, R. Miyawaki and S. Matsubara: Bosoite, a new silica clathrate mineral from Chiba Prefecture, Mineral. Mag., 84, 941–948 (2020).
T. Kuribayashi, T. Nagase, T. Nozaki, J. Ishibashi, K. Shimada, M. Shimizu and K. Momma: Hitachiite, Pb₅Bi₂Te₂S₆, a new mineral from the Hitachi mine, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Mineral. Mag., 83, 733–739 (2019).
H. S. Cho, J. Yang, X. Gong, Y.-B. Zhang, K. Momma, B. M. Weckhuysen, H. Deng, J. K. Kang, O. M. Yaghi and O. Terasaki: Isotherms of individual pores by gas adsorption crystallography. Nature Chemistry, 11, 562–570 (2019).
A. Yoshiasa, M. Tokuda, M. Misawa, F. Shimojo, K. Momma, R. Miyawaki, M. Matsubara, A. Nakatsuka and K. Sugiyama: Natural arsenic with a unique order structure: potential for new quantum materials. Scientific Reports, 9, 6275 (2019).
K. S.Scheidl, H. S. Effenberger, T. Yagi, K. Momma and R. Miletich: Transformation pathways and isothermal compressibility of a MTN-type clathrasil using penetrating and non-penetrating fluids. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 273, 73–89 (2019).
Y. Banno, K. Momma, R. Miyawaki, and S. Yamada: New data on ferri–ghoseite in Sanbagawa quartz schist from the Iimori region, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan: solid solution between magnesio–riebeckite and clino–suenoite. J. Mineral. Petrol. Sci., 114, 33–40 (2019).
K. S. Scheidl, H. S. Effenberger, T. Yagi, K. Momma, and R. Miletich: The hydrocarbon-bearing clathrasil chibaite and its host-guest structure at low temperature. IUCrJ, 5, 595–607 (2018).
M. Nagashima, T. Matsumoto, T. Yamada, M. Takizawa and K. Momma: Crystal chemistry of poppiite, V–analogue of pumpellyite, from the Komatsu mine, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. J. Mineral. Petrol. Sci., 113, 251–262 (2018).
H. Hongu, A. Yoshiasa, A. Teshima, H. Isobe, K. Sugiyama, H. Arima, A. Nakatsuka, K. Momma and R. Miyawaki: Crystal structure refinement and chemical formula of prosopite, CaAl₂F₄[(OH)₄₋_xF_x] x = 0.0–1.0. J. Mineral. Petrol. Sci., 113, 152–158 (2018).
D. Nishio-Hamane, K. Momma, M. Ohnishi, N. Shimobayashi, R. Miyawaki, N. Tomita, R. Okuma, A. R. Kampf, T. Minakawa: Iyoite, MnCuCl(OH)₃ and misakiite, Cu₃Mn(OH)₆Cl₂: new members of the atacamite family from Sadamisaki Peninsula, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Mineral. Mag., 81, 485–498 (2017).
D. Nishio-Hamane, K. Momma, R. Miyawaki and T. Minakawa: Bunnoite, a new hydrous manganese aluminosilicate from Kamo Mountain, Kochi prefecture, Japan. Mineral. Petrol., 110, 917–926 (2016).
Y. Banno, R. Miyawaki, K. Momma and M. Bunno: A CO₃-bearing member of the hydroxylapatite–hydroxylellestadite series from Tadano, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan: CO₃-SO₄ substitution in the apatite–ellestadite series. Mineral. Mag., 80, 363–370 (2016).
S. Harada, Y. Suzuki, R. Miyawaki, K. Momma, M. Shigeoka and S. Matsubara: Eclarite and other Bi-minerals from the Jishakuyama ore deposit of the Akagane mine, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. C, 42, 19-27 (2016).
A. Y. Likhacheva, S. V. Goryainov, Y. V. Seryotkin, K. D. Litasov and K. Momma: Raman spectroscopy of chibaite, natural MTN silica clathrate, at high pressure up to 8 GPa. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 224, 100-106 (2016).
K. Momma, Y. Tsutsumi, T. Sano, R. Miyawaki, M. Shigeoka and K. Yokoyama: Chevkinite-bearing tuffs from the Boso and Noto peninsulas in central Japan and from Primorye, Far East Russia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Nature and Science, 51, 89-98 (2016).
R. Miyawaki, K. Momma, T. Sano, M. Shigeoka, Y. Tsutsumi, S.A. Kasatkin, I. Chekryzhov and K. Yokoyama: Kimuraite-(Y), a layered hydrous carbonate of calcium and rare earths, from Voznesenskii, Russia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Nature and Science, 51, 99-108 (2016).
K. Momma, T. Sano, T. Nagase, R. Miyawaki and S. Matsubara: An okenite-like mineral from Anijima Island, Ogasawara Island, Tokyo, Japan, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series C, 41, 45-52 (2015).
R. Miyawaki, K. Momma, K. Yokoyama, M. Shigeoka, S. Matsubara, M. Ito, I. Nakai and R. Kristiansen: Mn-bearing hellandite-(Y) from the Heftetjern pegmatite, Tørdal, Norway. Can. Mineral., 53, 345-356 (2015).
D. Atencio, A. B. C. Neto, V. P. Pereira, J. T. M. M. Ferron, M. Hoshino, T. Moriyama, Y. Watanabe, R. Miyawaki, J. M. V. Coutinho, M. B. Andrade, K. Domanik, N. V. Chukanov, K. Momma, H. Hirano and M. Tsunematsu: Waimirite-(Y), orthorhombic YF₃, a new mineral from the Pitinga mine, Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas, Brazil and from Jabal Tawlah, Saudi Arabia: description and crystal structure. Mineral. Mag., 79, 767-780 (2015).
D. Nishio-Hamane, M. Ohnishi, K. Momma, N. Shimobayashi, R. Miyawaki, T. Minakawa and S. Inaba: Imayoshiite, Ca₃Al(CO₃)[B(OH)₄](OH)₆·12H₂O, a new mineral of the ettringite group from Ise City, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Mineral. Mag., 79, 413-423 (2015).
R. Miyawaki, S. Matsubara,K. Yokoyama, M. Shigeoka, K. Momma and S. Yamamoto: Mieite–(Y), Y₄Ti(SiO₄)₂O[F,(OH)]₆, a new mineral in a pegmatite at Souri Valley, Komono, Mie Prefecture, central Japan. J. Mineral. Petrol. Sci., 110, 135-144 (2015).
K. Momma, T. Nagase, T. Kuribayashi, and Y. Kudoh: Growth history and textures of quartz twinned in accordance with the Japan law. Eur. J. Mineral., 27, 71-80 (2015).
S. Matsubara, R. Miyawaki, K. Yokoyama, M. Shigeoka, K. Momma and S. Yamamoto: Magnesiorowlandite-(Y), Y₄(Mg,Fe)(Si₂O₇)₂F₂, a new mineral in a pegmatite at Souri Valley, Komono, Mie Prefecture, central Japan. J. Mineral. Petrol. Sci., 109, 109-117 (2014).
M. Ito, S. Matsubara, K. Yokoyama, K. Momma, R. Miyawaki, I. Nakai and A. Kato: Crystal structure of suzukiite from the Mogurazawa mine, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. J. Mineral. Petrol. Sci., 109, 222-227 (2014).
J. Zhu, S. Du, X. Yu, J. Zhang, H. Xu, S. C. Vogel, T. C. Germann, J. S. Francisco, F. Izumi, K. Momma, Y. Kawamura, C. Jin and Y. Zhao: Encapsulation kinetics and dynamics of carbon monoxide in clathrate hydrate. Nature Communications, 5, 4128 (2014).
Y. Sugiura, K. Onuma, M. Nagao, K. Momma, and Y. Kimura: Dissolution behavior of vaterite spherulite in solutions containing phosphate ions. Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan, 122, 679-687 (2014).
K. Momma: Clathrate compounds of silica. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter., 26, 103203, (2014).
K. Momma, T. Ikeda, A. A. Belik and F. Izumi: Dysnomia, a computer program for maximum-entropy method (MEM) analysis and its performance in the MEM-based pattern fitting. Powder Diffr., 28, 184-193, (2013).
J. Zhu, W. Han, J. Zhang, H. Xu, S. C. Vogel, C. Jin, F. Izumi, K. Momma, Y. Kawamura and Y. Zhao: Nuclear and charge density distributions in ferroelectric PbTiO3: maximum entropy method analysis of neutron and X-ray diffraction data. Powder Diffr., 28, 276-280, (2013).
S. Matsubara, R. Miyawaki, K. Yokoyama, K. Momma, M. Shigeoka and E. Hashimoto: Pyrochlore and microlite in a pegmatite at Atagoyama, Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci. C, 39, 1-6, (2013).
S. Kobayashi, R. Miyawaki, K. Momma, A. Fujisawa and H. Kaneda: Anisotropic garnet from the Yamansu ore deposit, Xinjiang, China. J. Mineral. Petrol. Sci., 108, 245-254, (2013).
M. Ohnishi, N. Shimobayashi, D. Nishio-Hamane, K. Shinoda, K. Momma, and T. Ikeda: Minohlite, a new copper-zinc sulfate mineral from Minoh, Osaka, Japan. Mineral. Mag. 77, 335-342 (2013).
I. Kusachi, S. Kobayashi, Y. Takechi, Y. Nakamuta, T. Nagase, K. Yokoyama, K. Momma, R. Miyawaki, M. Shigeoka, and S. Matsubara: Shimazakiite-4_M_ and shimazakiite-4_O_, Ca₂B₂O₅, two polytypes of a new mineral from Fuka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Mineral. Mag. 77, 93-105 (2013).
T. Nagase, K. Momma, T. Kuribayashi and M. Tanaka: Texture of lutecite. J. Mineral. Petrol. Sci., 108, 87-93 (2013).
R. Miyawaki, S. Matsubara, K. Yokoyama, K. Momma, T. Sano, Y. Tsutsumi, M. Shigeoka and K. Nishikubo: Chevkinite-(Ce) in tuff at Heguri, Boso Peninsula, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci. C, 38, 7-13 (2012).
Y. Tsutsumi, K. Horie, T. Sano, R. Miyawaki, K. Momma, S. Matsubara, M. Shigeoka and K. Yokoyama: LA-ICP-MS and SHRIMP ages of zircons in chevkinite and monazite tuffs from the Boso Peninsula, Central Japan. Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci. C, 38, 15-32 (2012).
J. Han, J. Zhu, Y. Li, X. Yu, S. Wang, G. Wu, H. Xie, S. C. Vogel, F. Izumi, K. Momma, Y. Kawamura, Y. Huang, J. B. Goodenough, and Y. Zhao: Experimental visualization of lithium conduction pathways in garnet-type Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂. Chem. Commun., 48, 9840-9842 (2012).
K. Momma and F. Izumi: VESTA 3 for three-dimensional visualization of crystal, volumetric and morphology data. J. Appl. Crystallogr., 44, 1272-1276 (2011).
K. Momma, T. Ikeda, K. Nishikubo, N. Takahashi, C. Honma, M. Takada, Y. Furukawa, T. Nagase and Y. Kudoh: New silica clathrate minerals that are isostructural with natural gas hydrates. Nat. Commun., 2:196 (2011) doi: 10.1038/ncomms1196.
K. Momma and F. Izumi: Evaluation of algorithms and weighting methods for MEM analysis from powder diffraction data, Z. Kristallogr. Proc., 1, 195-200 (2011).
F. Izumi & K. Momma: Three-dimensional visualization of electron- and nuclear-density distributions in inorganic materials by MEM-based technology. IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng., 18, 022001 (2011).
T. Ikeda, Y. Oumi, K. Honda, T. Sano, K. Momma and F. Izumi: Synthesis and crystal structure of a layered silicate HUS-1 with a halved sodalite-cage topology. Inorg. Chem. 50, 2294-2301 (2011).
T. Kudo, Y. Hirano, K. Momma and K. Fukuda: Electron density distribution and crystal structure of lithium barium silicate, Li₂BaSiO₄. Powder Diffr., 25, 336-341 (2010).
Y. Hirano, T. Iwata, K. Momma and K. Fukuda: Electron density distribution and crystal structure of lithium strontium silicate, Li₂SrSiO₄. Powder Diffr., 25, 4-8 (2010).
K. Momma, T. Nagase, T. Kuribayashi and Y. Kudoh: Computational simulations of the structure of Japan twin boundaries in quartz. Eur. J. Mineral., 21, 373-383 (2009).
K. Momma and F. Izumi: VESTA: a three-dimensional visualization system for electronic and structural analysis, J. Appl. Crystallogr., 41, 653-658 (2008).
K. Komatsu, A. Sano, K. Momma, E. Ohtani and Y. Kudoh: Crystal structures of high-pressure phases in the alumina-water system: II. Powder X-ray diffraction study of a new dense aluminum deuteroxide, δ-Al(OD)₃, Z. Kristallogr., 222, 13-22 (2007).
F. Izumi and K. Momma: Three-dimensional Visualization in Powder Diffraction, Proc. XX Conf. Appl. Crystallogr., Solid State Phenom., 130, 15-20 (2007).

Reviews, Articles, and Books

K. Momma and F. Izumi: An integrated three-dimensional visualization system VESTA using wxWidgets, Commission on Crystallogr. Comput., IUCr Newslett., 7, 106-119 (2006).