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2024

Linkai Peng, Junwei Han, Yun Cao, Chuannan Geng, Zheng-Ze Pan, Hirotomo Nishihara,Quan-Hong Yang, and Wei Lv*, “Metal-Halide Gelated MXene and Its Use as a BifunctionalSulfur Host Stabilizing Both Cathode and Anode forPractical Lithium–Sulfur Batteries”, Advanced Functional Materials, in press,

Rui Tang*, Alex Aziz, Wei Yu, Zheng-Ze Pan, Ginga Nishikawa, Takeharu Yoshii, Keita Nomura, Erin E. Taylor, Nicholas P. Stadie, Kazutoshi Inoue, Motoko Kotani, Takashi Kyotani, and Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Prominent structural dependence of quantum capacitance unraveled by nitrogen-doped graphene mesosponge”, Small, in press,

Kritin Pirabul, Qi Zhao, Zheng-Ze Pan*, Hongyu Liu, Mutsuhiro Itoh, Kenichi Izawa, Makoto Kawai, Rachel Crespo Otero, Devis Di Tommaso*, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Silicon radical-induced CH4 dissociation for uniform graphene coating on silica surface”, Small, in press,

Wei Yu*, Zhaohan Shen, Takeharu Yoshii, Shinichiroh Iwamura, Manai Ono, Shoichi Matsuda, Makoto Aoki, Toshihiro Kondo, Shin R. Mukai, Shuji Nakanishi, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Hierarchically Porous and Minimally Stacked Graphene Cathodes for High-Performance Lithium-Oxygen Batteries”, Advanced Energy Materials, 14, 2303055, 2024.

2023

Shunsuke Fujii, Akiko Yoshida, Tracy T. Chuong, Yuka Minegishi, Yuta Nishina, Hirotomo Nishihara, Kouji Masumoto*, and Tetsuji Itoh*, “Enzyme-immobilized Screen-printed Sensor for One Drop of Sample Using Porous Silica Spheres”, Sensors and Materials, 35, 4769–4779, 2023.

Akira Kudo*, Kazuya Kanamaru, Jiuhui Han, Rui Tang, Kazuaki Kisu, Takeharu Yoshii,Shin-ichi Orimo, Hirotomo Nishihara*, and Mingwei Chen*, “Stereolithography 3D Printed Carbon Microlattices withHierarchical Porosity for Structural and FunctionalApplications”, Small , 19,2301525, 2023.

Hongyu Liu, Zhaohan Shen, Zheng-Ze Pan*, Wei Yu*, and Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Cathode chemistries of lithium-oxygen batteries in nanoconfined space”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 15, 40397-40408, 2023.

Yasuto Hoshikawa, Yasuyuki Kanno, Hanako Tawata, Takuya Sagae, Takafumi Ishii, Shuhei Imoto, Shinya Hagihara, Takehiko Wada, Fumi Nagatsugi, Alex Aziz, Hirotomo Nishihara, Takashi Kyotani*, Tetsuji Itoh*, “Water-Dispersible Carbon Nano-Test Tubes as a Container for Concentrated DNA Molecules”, Chemistry A Europian Journal, 29, e202301422, 2023.

Tian Xia, Takeharu Yoshii*, Keita Nomura, Keigo Wakabayashi, Zheng-Ze Pan, Takafumi Ishii, Hideki Tanaka, Takashi Mashio, Jin Miyawaki, Toshiya Otomo, Kazutaka Ikeda, Yohei Sato, Masami Terauchi, Takashi Kyotani, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Chemistry of zipping reactions in mesoporous carbon consisting of minimally stacked graphene layers”, Chemical Science, 14, 8448-8457, 2023.

Hongyu Liu, Zheng-Ze Pan*, Alex Aziz, Rui Tang, Wei Lv, and Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Nanoporous Membrane Electrodes with an Ordered Array of Hollow Giant Carbon Nanotubes”, Advanced Functional Materials, 33,2303730, 2023.

Keigo Wakabayashi,Takeharu Yoshii*, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Quantitative study on catalysis of unpaired electrons in carbon edge sites”, Carbon, 210, 118069, 2023.

Jun Maruyama*, Hirofumi Sato, Yuko Takao, Shohei Maruyama, Shitaro Kato, Kazuhide Kamiya, Koki Chida, Takeharu Yoshii, Hirotomo Nishihara, Fumio Tani, “Preferred Catalysis Distinctly Determined by Metals Doped with Nitrogen in Three-dimensionally Ordered Porous Carbon Materials”, Nanoscale, 15, 9954-9963, 2023.

Robert K. Szilagyi*, Nicholas P. Stadie, Stephan Irle, Hirotomo Nishihara, “Mechanical Properties of Zeolite-Templated Carbons from Approximate Density Functional Theory Calculations”, Carbon Reports, 1, 231-240, 2022.

Shunsuke Fujii, Akiko Yoshida, Tracy Chuong, Yuka Minegishi, Pirabul Kritin; Pan Zhengze, Yuta Nishina, Takashi Kyotani, Hirotomo Nishihara, Kouji Masumoto*, Galen Stucky, Tetsuji Itoh*, “Development of Micro-drip Enzyme Device Using Carbon-Coated Porous Silica Spheres” ACS Applied Engineering Materials, 1, 1426-1435, 2023.

Pirabul Kritin, Pan Zhengze*, Rui Tang, Shogo Sunahiro, Hongyu Liu, Kazuya Kanamaru, Takeharu Yoshii, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Structural Engineering of Nanocarbons Comprising Graphene Frameworks via High-Temperature Annealing” Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 96, 510-518, 2023.

Wei Yu, Takeharu Yoshii, Alex Aziz, Rui Tang, Zheng-Ze Pan, Kazutoshi Inoue, Motoko Kotani, Hideki Tanaka, Eva Scholtzová, Daniel Tunega, Yuta Nishina, Kiho Nishioka, Shuji Nakanishi, Yi Zhou, Osamu Terasaki, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Edge-Site-Free and Topological-Defect-Rich Carbon Cathode for High-Performance Lithium-Oxygen Batteries”, Advanced Science, 10, 2300268, 2023.

Zhaohan Shen, Wei Yu*, Alex Aziz, Koki Chida, Takeharu Yoshii, and Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Sequential Catalysis of Defected-Carbon and Solid Catalyst in Li–O2 Batteries”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127, 6239-6247, 2023.

Rui Tang,* Zheng-Ze Pan, Minghao Liu, Mao Ohwada, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Critical impact of nanocellulose on the synthesis of porous cellulose monolith with oriented microchannels: Structure control, mechanics, and mass transport”, Nano Research, 16, 8018-8024, 2023

Koki Chida, Takeharu Yoshii*, Norihito Hiyoshi, Tetsuji Itoh, Jun Maruyama, Kazuhide Kamiya, Masataka Inoue, Fumito Tani*, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Bimetallic ordered carbonaceous frameworks from Co- and Cu-porphyrin bimolecular crystals”, Carbon, 201, 338-346, 2023.

Koki Chida, Takeharu Yoshii*, Mao Ohwada, Yuichiro Hayasaka, Joe Komeda, Ryota Sakamoto, Jun Maruyama, Kazuhide Kamiya, Masataka Inoue, Fumito Tani, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Synthesis and electrocatalysis of ordered carbonaceous frameworks from Ni porphyrin with four ethynyl groups”, Catalysis Today, 411-412, 113830, 2023.

Kenjirou Tamaki, Priyanka Verma, Takeharu Yoshii, Toru Shimojitosho, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Kohsuke Mori, Hiromi Yamashita*, “Design of Au nanorods-based plasmonic catalyst in combination with nanohybrid Pd-rGO layer for boosting CO2 hydrogenation to formic acid under visible light irradiation”, Catalysis Today, 411-412, 113795, 2023.

Priyanka Verma, Kenjirou Tamaki, Toru Shimojitosho, Takeharu Yoshii, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Kohsuke Mori, Hiromi Yamashita*, “Size effects in plasmonic gold nanorod based Pd-rGO hybrid catalyst for promoting visible-light-driven Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction”, Catalysis Today, 410, 332-339, 2023.

2022

Amrita Jain, Sai Rashmi Manippady, Rui Tang, Hirotomo Nishihara, Kamil Sobczak, Vlastimil Matejka, Monika Michalska*, “Vanadium oxide nanorods as an electrode material for solid state supercapacitor”, Scientific Reports, 12, 21024, 2022.

Qi Zhao, Masanori Yamamoto, Kaoru Yamazaki, Hirotomo Nishihara, Rachel Crespo-Otero, Devis Di Tommaso*, “ The carbon chain growth during the onset of CVD graphene formation on gamma-Al2O3 is promoted by unsaturated CH2 ends”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(38), 23357-23366, 2022.

Kazuya Kanamaru, Masashi Ito, Masanobu Uchimura, Yasushi Ichikawa, Kazuya Sone, Ami Ikura, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Pore-size control of soft mesoporous carbon by hot pressing”, Carbon Reports, 1, 214-222, 2022.

Kenichi Kato*, Nobuyoshi Seto, Koki Chida, Takeharu Yoshii, Motohiro Mizuno, Hirotomo Nishihara, Shunsuke Ohtani, Tomoki Ogoshi*, "Synthesis of hexa-aminated trinaphtho[3.3.3]propellane and its porous polymer solids with alkane adsorption properties", Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 95, 1296-1302, 2022.

Hirotomo Nishihara*, Hong-Wei Zhao, Kazuya Kanamaru, Keita Nomura, Mao Ohwada, Masashi Ito, Li-Xiang Li, Bai-Gang An, Toshihide Horikawa, Takashi Kyotani, "Adsorption properties of templated nanoporous carbons consisting of 1-2 graphene layers", Carbon Reports, 1, 123-135, 2022.

Rui Tang*, Keita Nomura, Kazutoshi Inoue, Motoko Kotani, Takashi Kyotani, Hirotomo Nishihara*, "Capacitance of edge-free three-dimensional graphene: New perspectives on the design of carbon structures for supercapacitor applications", Electrochimica Acta, 429, 141009, 2022.

Hirotomo Nishihara*, Akio Harigaya, Alberto Castro-Muñiz, Mao Ohwada, Takashi Kyotani, Yuta Nishina*, "Synthesis of microporous polymers with exposed C60 surface by polyesterification of fullerenol", Chemical Communications, 58, 7086-7089, 2022.

Tracy T. Chuong, Toshihiko Ogura, Norihito Hiyoshi, Kazuma Takahashi, Sangho Lee, Keita Hiraga, Hiroki Iwase, Akira Yamaguchi, Kiyoto Kamagata, Eriko Mano, Satoshi Hamakawa, Hirotomo Nishihara, Takashi Kyotani, Galen D. Stucky, Tetsuji Itoh*, "Giant Carbon Nano-Test Tubes as Versatile Imaging Vessels for High-Resolution and In Situ Observation of Proteins", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14, 26507-26515, 2022.

Yusuke Kawabe, Yosuke Miyakoshi, Rui Tang, Takeshi Fukuma1, Hirotomo Nishihara, Yasufumi Takahashi*, "Nanoscale Characterization of the Site-specific Degradation of Electric Double-Layer Capacitor using Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy", Electrochemical Science Advances, 2, e2100053, 2022.

Jun Maruyama*, Shohei Maruyama, Yukiyasu Kashiwagi, Mitsuru Watanabe, Tsutomu Shinagawa, Toru Nagaoka, Toshiyuki Tamai, Naoya Ryu, Koichi Matsuo, Mao Ohwada, Koki Chida, Takeharu Yoshii, Hirotomo Nishihara, Fumito Tani, Hiroshi Uyama, "Helically aligned fused carbon hollow nanospheres with chiral discrimination ability", Nanoscale, 14, 3748-3757, 2022.

Atsushi Gabe*, Akira Takatsuki, Masahiko Hiratani, Masato Kaneeda, Yoshiaki Kurihara, Takayuki Aoki, Hiroki Mashima, Takafumi Ishii, Jun-ichi Ozaki, Hirotomo Nishihara, Takashi Kyotani, "In-depth analysis of key factors affecting the catalysis of oxidized carbon blacks for cellulose hydrolysis", ACS Catalysis, 12, 892-905, 2022.

2021

Tracy T. Chuong, Toshihiko Ogura, Norihito Hiyoshi, Kazuma Takahashi, Sangho Lee, Keita Hiraga, Hiroki Iwase, Akira Yamaguchi, Kiyoto Kamagata, Eriko Mano, Satoshi Hamakawa, Hirotomo Nishihara, Takashi Kyotani, Galen D. Stucky, Tetsuji Itoh*, "Giant Carbon Nano-Test Tubes as Versatile Imaging Vessels for High-Resolution and In Situ Observation of Proteins", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, in press.

Masanori Yamamoto*, Shunsuke Goto, Rui Tang, Keita Nomura, Yuichiro Hayasaka, Youichi Yoshioka, Masashi Ito, Masahiro Morooka, Hirotomo Nishihara, Takashi Kyotani, "Nano-Confinement of Insulating Sulfur in the Cathode Composite of All-Solid-State Li–S Batteries Using Flexible Carbon Materials with Large Pore Volumes", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13, 38613-38622, 2021.

Tomoki Ogoshi*, Yuma Sakatsume, Katsuto Onishi, Rui Tang, Kazuma Takahashi, Hirotomo Nishihara, Yuta Nishina, Benoît D. L. Campéon, Takahiro Kakuta, Tada-Aki Yamagishi, "The carbonization of aromatic molecules with three-dimensional structures affords carbon materials with controlled pore sizes at the Ångstrom-level", Communications Chemistry, 4, 75, 2021.

Bin Zhang, Chong Luo, Guangmin Zhou, Zheng‐Ze Pan, Jiabin Ma, Hirotomo Nishihara, Yan‐Bing He, Feiyu Kang, Wei Lv*, Quan‐Hong Yang, "Lamellar MXene Composite Aerogels with Sandwiched Carbon Nanotubes Enable Stable Lithium–Sulfur Batteries with a High Sulfur Loading", Advanced Functional Materials, 31, 2100793, 2021.

Jae-Hyung Wee, Keita Nomura, Hirotomo Nishihara, Doo-Won Kim, Seungki Hong, Go Bong Choi, Sang Young Yeo, Jin Hee Kim, Ho-Young Jung, Yoong Ahm Kim, "Edgeless Porous Carbon Coating for Durable and Powerful Lead-Carbon Batteries", Carbon, 185, 419-427, 2021.

Marwa Atwa, Xiaoan Li, Zhaoxuan Wang, Samuel Dull, Shicheng Xu, Xia Tong, Rui Tang, Hirotomo Nishihara, Fritz Prinz, Viola Birss*, "Scalable Nanoporous Carbon Films Allow Line-of-Sight 3D Atomic Layer Deposition of Pt: Towards a New Generation Catalyst Layer for PEM Fuel Cells", Materials Horizons, 8, 2451-2462, 2021.

Tomoki Hirohata, Naoki Shida, Hidehiro Uekusa, Nobuhiro Yasuda, Hirotomo Nishihara, Tomoki Ogoshi, Ikuyoshi Tomita, Shinsuke Inagi*, "Pillar[6]quinone:Facile Synthesis, Crystal Structures and Electrochemical Properties", Chemical Communications, 57, 6360-6363, 2021.

Shogo Sunahiro, Keita Nomura, Shunsuke Goto, Kazuya Kanamaru, Rui Tang, Masanori Yamamoto, Takeharu Yoshii, Junko N. Kondo, Qi Zhao, Azeem Ghulam Nabi, Rachel Crespo-Otero, Devis Di Tommaso, Takashi Kyotani, Hirotomo Nishihara*, "Synthesis of graphene mesosponge via catalytic methane decomposition on magnesium oxide", Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9, 14296-14308, 2021.

Koki Chida, Takeharu Yoshii, Kazuma Takahashi, Masanori Yamamoto, Kazuya Kanamaru, Mao Ohwada, Varisara Deerattrakul, Jun Maruyama, Kazuhide Kamiya, Yuichiro Hayasaka, Masataka Inoue, Fumito Tani, Hirotomo Nishihara*, "Force-responsive ordered carbonaceous frameworks synthesized from Ni-porphyrin", Chemical Communications, 57, 6007-6010, 2021.

Yusaku Matsui, Tetsuya Yamada, Sayaka Suzuki, Takeharu Yoshii, Hirotomo Nishihara, Katsuya Teshima*, "One-Step Fabrication of Homogeneous Ta3N5 Crystal Photoanodes Using TaF5 Evaporation Supply for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting", ACS Applied Energy Materials, 4, 2690-2695, 2021.

Wei Yu, Xinbin Wu, Sijie Liu, Hirotomo Nishihara, Liangliang Li*, Ce-Wen Nan*, "A volatile redox mediator boosts the long-cycle performance of lithium-oxygen batteries", Energy Storage Materials, 38, 571-580, 2021.

Atsushi Gabe, Mohammed Ouzzine, Erin E. Taylor, Nicholas P. Stadie, Naoki Uchiyama, Tomomi Kanai, Yuta Nishina, Hideki Tanaka, Zheng-Ze Pan, Takashi Kyotani, Hirotomo Nishihara*, "High-density monolithic pellets of double-sided graphene fragments based on zeolite-templated carbon", Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9, 7503-7507, 2021

Atsushi Ohma*, Yoshihisa Furuya, Tetsuya Mashio, Masashi Ito, Keita Nomura, Tomohiko Nagao, Hirotomo Nishihara, Hiroshi Jinnai, Takashi Kyotani, "Elucidation of oxygen reduction reaction and nanostructure of platinum-loaded graphene mesosponge for polymer electrolyte fuel cell electrocatalyst", Electrochimica Acta, 370, 137705, 2021.

Masanori Yamamoto*, Kazuma Takahashi, Mao Ohwada, Yuxin Wu, Kazuyuki Iwase, Yuichiro Hayasaka, Hisashi Konaka, Henry Cove, Devis Di Tommaso, Kazuhide Kamiya, Jun Maruyama, Fumito Tani, Hirotomo Nishihara*, "Iron porphyrin-derived ordered carbonaceous frameworks", Catalysis Today, 364, 164-171, 2021.

Zheng-Ze Pan, Aleksandra Govedarica, Hirotomo Nishihara*, Rui Tang, Cong Wang, Yi Luo, Wei Lv, Fei-Yu Kang, Milana Trifkovic*, Quan-Hong Yang*, "pH-Dependent Morphology Control of Cellulose Nanofiber/Graphene Oxide Cryogels", Small, 17, 2005564, 2021.

2020

Takeharu Yoshii, Daiki Umemoto, Masanori Yamamoto, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Hirotomo Nishihara, Kohsuke Mori, Takashi Kyotani, Hiromi Yamashita*, "Pyrene‐Thiol‐modified Pd Nanoparticles on Carbon Support: Kinetic Control by Steric Hinderance and Improved Stability by the Catalyst‐Support Interaction", ChemCatChem, 12, 5880-5887, 2020.

Go Bong Choi, Seungki Hong, Jae-Hyung Wee, Doo-Won Kim, Tae Hoon Seo, Keita Nomura, Hirotomo Nishihara, and Yoong Ahm Kim*, "Quantifying carbon edge sites on depressing hydrogen evolution reaction activity", Nano Letters, 20, 5885-5892, 2020.

Hiroyuki Itoi*, Takeru Ninomiya, Hideyuki Hasegawa, Shintaro Maki, Akihiro Sakakibara, Ryutaro Suzuki, Yuto Kasai, Hiroyuki Iwata, Daiju Matsumura, Mao Ohwada, Hirotomo Nishihara, Yoshimi Ohzawa, "Unusual Redox Behavior of Ruthenocene Confined in the Micropores of Activated Carbon", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124, 15205-15215, 2020.

Jacek Jagiello*, Takashi Kyotani, Hirotomo Nishihara, "Development of a simple NLDFT model for the analysis of adsorption isotherms on zeolite templated carbon (ZTC)", Carbon, 169, 205-213, 2020.
Review, Highlight, Book

2022

Ryota Sakamoto*, Ryojun Toyoda, Guan Jingyan, Yuta Nishina*, Kazuhide Kamiya*, Hirotomo Nishihara*, Tomoki Ogoshi*, "Coordination chemistry for innovative carbon-related materials", Coordination Chemistry Reviews, in press.

西原洋知, 吉井丈晴, "鋳型ポーラス炭素", 固体表面のキャラクタリゼーション, 講談社, 228-229, 2022

Zheng-Ze Pan*, Wei Lv, Quan-Hong Yang, Hirotomo Nishihara* , "Aligned Macroporous Monoliths by Ice-Templating", Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 95, 611-620 (2022).

坂本良太,仁科勇太,神谷和秀,西原洋知,生越友樹, "新しい物質群「3Dカーボン構造体」の創成",化学, 化学同人, 77, 29-33, 2022.

Takeharu Yoshii*, Koki Chida, Hirotomo Nishihara*, Fumito Tani*, "Ordered Carbonaceous Frameworks: A new class of carbon materials with molecular-level design", ChemComm, the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022.

2021

潘 鄭澤,西原 洋知, "セルロースナノファイバーの自己組織化能を利用したハニカム構造体の調整", セルロースナノファイバー 研究と実用化の最前線, 111-117, 2021.

西原洋知*, "カーボン電極の劣化機構と高耐食性電極材料の開発", キャパシタ技術, 28, 1-23, 2021.

2020

Fa Shixin, Masanori Yamamoto, Hirotomo Nishihara*, Ryota Sakamoto*, Kazuhide Kamiya*, Yuta Nishina*, Tomoki Ogoshi*, "Carbon-rich materials with three-dimensional ordering at the angstrom level", Chemical Science, 11, 5866-5873, 2020.

西原洋知*, "単層グラフェンナノ多孔体", Chemistry & Chemical Industry, 73, 23-26, 2020.

西原洋知*, "単層グラフェンを構成要素とするナノ多孔質材料", Colloid & Inerface Communication, 45, 23-26, 2020.

Award

2022

Aug. 23   Mr. Koki Chida (D1) awarded "Graduate Student Research Award" by The Japan Society on Adsorption.

Jul. 11   Mr. Minghao Liu (M2) awarded "The Best Presentation Award" on 24th Advanced Research Presentation .

Jan. 24   Selected for the Top20 of ILS(Innovation leaders summit)2022.

Jan. 19   Assistant prof.Yoshii and Mr.Nishikawa(M1) awarded "Best Poster Award" of AtomDeC 1st International Symposium.

2021

Dec. 3   Mr.chida(M2) and Mr.Yamabe(M2) awarded "Student Excellent Presantaion Award" on 48th Annual Meeting of the carbon society of Japan.

Oct. 21   Received "NODO prize on Tohoku University BIP business plan judging committee".

Oct. 8  Received "Materials and Devices Joint Research Award".

Sep. 24   Prof. Nishihara won the grand award and the Real Tech Fund award.

May. 19   Prof. Nishihara awarded the Real Tech Fund Prize.

2020

Dec. 17   Prof. Nishihara awarded the 17th JSPS Prize.

Dec. 15   Prof. Nishihara selected for the 2020 edition of the Asian Scientist 100 list.

Oct. 15   Prof. Nishihara awarded the 2020 JACI Step-up Award.

Aug. 19   Received "Materials and Devices Joint Research Award".