April 2011 to March 2016	Bachelor of Engineering Division of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Science, Undergraduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
April 2016 to March 2018	Master of Engineering Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
April 2018 to March 2020	Doctor of Engineering Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
April 2018 to March 2020	Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
April 2020 to present	Assistant Professor Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), Tohoku University

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July 3, 2023

Prominent Research Fellow, Tohoku University

January 19, 2022

Best Poster Award, AtomDeC 1st International Symposium, AtomDeC committee

March 21, 2020

ICC2020 Young Scientists Travel Support Prize, International Association of Catalysis Communities

January 25, 2019

The 12th GSC Student Travel Grant Award(JACI)

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Papers (* corresponding author)

No.28

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, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Prominent Structural Dependence of Quantum Capacitance Unraveled by Nitrogen‐Doped Graphene Mesosponge”, Small, , 2308066, 2023.
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202308066

Featured in Hot Topic: Mesoporous Materials in Small

No.27

Wei Yu*, Zhaohan Shen, Takeharu Yoshii, Shinichiroh Iwamura, Manai Ono, Shoichi Matsuda, Makoto Aoki, Toshihiro Kondo, Shin R. Mukai, Shuiji Nakanishi, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Hierarchically Porous and Minimally Stacked Graphene Cathodes for High-Performance Lithium-Oxygen Batteries”, Advanced Energy Materials, , 2303055, 2023.
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202303055

Featured in Hot Topic: Carbon, Graphite, and Graphene in Advanced Materials

Press release -Tohoku university-

No.26

Akira Kudo*, Kazuya Kanamaru, Jiuhui Han, Rui Tang, Kazuaki Kisu, Takeharu Yoshii, Shin‐ichi Orimo, Hirotomo Nishihara*, Mingwei Chen*, “Stereolithography 3D Printed Carbon Microlattices with Hierarchical Porosity for Structural and Functional Applications”, Small, , 202301525, 2023.
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202301525

Featured in Hot Topic: Carbon, Graphite, and Graphene in Advanced Materials

Press release -Tohoku university-

No.25

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.
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC02163G

Press release -Tohoku university-
Featured in 2023 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection
Selected as Outside Front Cover Article

No.24

Keigo Wakabayashi, Takeharu Yoshii*, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Quantitative study on catalysis of unpaired electrons in carbon edge sites”, Carbon, 210, 118069, 2023.
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2023.118069

No.23

Kritin Pirabul, Zheng-Ze Pan*, 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.
DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20230053

No.22

Jun Maruyama*, Hirofumi Sato, Yuko Takao, Shohei Maruyama, Shintaro Kato, Kazuhide Kamiya, Koki Chida, Takeharu Yoshii, Hirotomo Nishihara, Fumito Tani, “Preferred Catalysis Distinctly Determined by Metals Doped with Nitrogen in Three-dimensionally Ordered Porous Carbon Materials”, Nanoscale, 15, 9954-9963, 2023.
DOI: 10.1039/d3nr01359f

Selected as Front Cover

No.21

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.
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202300268

Press release -Tohoku university-
Selected as Frontispiece

No.20

Zhaohan Shen, Wei Yu*, Alex Aziz, Koki Chida, Takeharu Yoshii, Hirotomo Nishihara*, “Sequential Catalysis of Defected-Carbon and Solid Catalyst in Li–O2 Batteries”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127, 6239-6247, 2023.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c01042

No.19

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.
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2022.09.017

No.18

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.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2022.06.045

No.17

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.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2022.06.010

No.16

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.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2022.05.028

No.15

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.
DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20220180

Featured as Selected Paper

No.14

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, and Hiroshi Uyama, “Helically aligned fused carbon hollow nanospheres with chiral discrimination ability”, Nanoscale, 14, 3748-3757, 2022.
DOI: 10.1039/D1NR07971A

Research Highlight in NJRC
Selected as Back Cover Article

No.13

Takeharu Yoshii, Kenjirou Tamaki, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Kohsuke Mori, Hiromi Yamashita*, “Self-assembled core–shell nanocomposite catalysts consisting of single-site Co-coordinated g-C3N4 and Au nanorods for plasmon-enhanced CO2 reduction”, Journal of CO2 Utilization, 52, 101691, 2021.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcou.2021.101691

Research Highlight in NJRC

No.12

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.
DOI:10.1039/D1CC01618K

Research Highlight in NJRC
Selected as Back Cover Article

No.11

Shogo Sunahiro, Keita Nomura, Shunsuke Goto, Kazuya Kanamaru, Rui Tang, Masanori Yamamoto, Takeharu Yoshii, Junko Nomura 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.
DOI: 10.1039/D1TA02326H

Press release -Tohoku university-
Research Highlight in NJRC
Featured in Journal of Materials Chemistry A HOT Papers
Selected as Inside Front Cover Article

No.10

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.
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c03231

No.9

Takeharu Yoshii, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Kohsuke Mori, Hiromi Yamashita*, “Promotional effect of surface plasmon resonance on direct formation of hydrogen peroxide from H2 and O2 over Pd/Graphene-Au nanorod catalytic system”, Journal of Catalysis, 394, 259-265, 2021.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2020.05.028

Research Highlight in NJRC

No.8

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.
DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202000987

Research Highlight in NJRC

Featured in Hot Topic: Surface and Interfaces in Advanced Materials Interfaces

Selected as Front Cover Article

No.7

Takeharu Yoshii, Daiki Umemoto, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Kohsuke Mori, Hiromi Yamashita*, “Engineering of Surface Environment of Pd Nanoparticle Catalysts on Carbon Support with Pyrene-thiol Ligands for Semi-hydrogenation of Alkynes”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11, 37708-37719, 2019.
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b12470

No.6

Takeharu Yoshii, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Kohsuke Mori, Hiromi Yamashita*, “Design of Pd-Graphene-Au Nanorod Nanocomposite Catalyst for Boosting Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling Reaction by the Assist of Surface Plasmon Resonance”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, 24575-24583, 2019.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b06609

Selected as Cover Picture Article

No.5

Takeharu Yoshii, Kazuki Nakatsuka, Tatsuya Mizobuchi, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Hiroyuki Itoi, Kohsuke Mori, Takashi Kyotani, Hiromi Yamashita*, “Effects of Carbon Support Nanostructures on the Reactivity of a Ru Nanoparticle Catalyst in a Hydrogen Transfer Reaction”, Organic Process Research & Development, 22, 1580-1585, 2018.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.8b00207

Research Highlight in NJRC

No.4

Kazuki Nakatsuka,Takeharu Yoshii, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Kohsuke Mori, Hiromi Yamashita*, "Controlled Pyrolysis of Ni-MOF-74 as a Promising Precursor for the Creation of Highly Active Ni Nanocatalysts in Size-Selective Hydrogenation", Chemistry – A European Journal, 24, 898–905, 2018.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704341

No.3

Takeharu Yoshii,Kazuki Nakatsuka, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Kohsuke Mori, Hiromi Yamashita*, "Synthesis of Carbon-supported Pd-Co Bimetallic Catalysts Templated by Co Nanoparticles Using the Galvanic Replacement Method for Selective Hydrogenation", RSC Advances, 7, 22294-22300, 2017
DOI: 10.1039/C7RA03846A

No.2

Takeharu Yoshii,Kazuki Nakatsuka, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Kohsuke Mori, Hiromi Yamashita*, "Specific Enhancement of Activity of Carbon-supported Single-site Co Catalyst in the Microwave-assisted Solvent-free Aerobic Oxidation", Chemistry Letters, 46, 789-791, 2017.
DOI: 10.1246/cl.170118

Selected as Editor's Choice Article

No.1

Kazuki Nakatsuka, Takeharu YoshiiYasutaka Kuwahara, Kohsuke Mori, Hiromi Yamashita* "Controlled Synthesis of Carbon-supported Co Catalysts from Single-site to Nanoparticles: Characterization of Structural Transformation and Investigation of Their Oxidation Catalysis", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19, 4967-4974, 2017
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP06388H

Selected as Front Cover Article

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Review, Highlight, Book(*corresponding author)

No.1

Takeharu Yoshii*, Koki Chida, Hirotomo Nishihara*, Fumito Tani*, “Ordered Carbonaceous Frameworks: A new class of carbon materials with molecular-level design”, Chemical Communications, 58, 3758-3590, 2022.
DOI: 10.1039/D1CC07228E

Selected as Inside Front Cover Article

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Grant/Collaboration

2023 to 2026	JST, PRESTO
2023 to 2025	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
2023 to 2025	Kondo Kinen Zaidan
2022	Yashima Environment Technology Foundation
2021 to 2022	Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
2020 to 2021	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
2018 to 2019	Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC1)

[The other research]

2023 to 2026	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
2022 to 2025	JST, Adaptable and Seamless Technology Transfer Program through Target-driven R&D (A-STEP)
2021 to 2024	JST, The Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP)

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