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2026

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Materials Science

D-Index
164
Citations
146982
World Ranking
99
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2010 - Acta Materialia Gold Medal
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For outstanding achievements and international leadership in the design of advanced bulk metallic glasses and other metastable materials.

Overview

Akihisa Inoue is a researcher affiliated with Josai International University in Japan. Their primary fields of study encompass Materials Science and Engineering, with significant specialization in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. The researcher's work also extends into Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Ceramics and Composites.

The main topics covered by Inoue's research include Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys, Nanoporous Metals and Alloys, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, High Entropy Alloys Studies, Glass Properties and Applications, Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication, and Magnetic Properties of Alloys.

Inoue has contributed to academic discourse through numerous publications in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Rare Metals, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of Material Science and Technology.

  • Strong adhesion of wet conducting polymers on diverse substrates (2020, Science Advances)
  • Hierarchical {332}<113> twinning in a metastable β Ti-alloy showing tolerance to strain localization (2020, Materials Research Letters)
  • Highly efficient nanoporous CoBP electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction (2021, Rare Metals)
  • Novel phase decomposition, good soft-magnetic and mechanical properties for high-entropy (Fe0.25Co0.25Ni0.25Cr0.125Mn0.125)100-B (x = 9-13) amorphous alloys (2020, Journal of Alloys and Compounds)
  • Development and industrialization of Zr- and Fe-based bulk metallic glasses and light metal-based metastable alloys (2024, Journal of Alloys and Compounds)

Collaborative efforts have involved frequent co-authorship with researchers including Shengli Zhu, F.L. Kong, Zhenduo Cui, Yanqin Liang, and Shuiyuan Luo.

Inoue has been recognized with awards such as the Acta Materialia Gold Medal in 2010 and was inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008, the latter acknowledging achievements in the design of advanced bulk metallic glasses and other metastable materials.

Best Publications

  • Stabilization of metallic supercooled liquid and bulk amorphous alloys

    Akihisa Inoue

  • Classification of Bulk Metallic Glasses by Atomic Size Difference, Heat of Mixing and Period of Constituent Elements and Its Application to Characterization of the Main Alloying Element

    Akira Takeuchi;Akihisa Inoue

  • High strength bulk amorphous alloys with low critical cooling rates (overview)

    Akihisa Inoue

  • Recent development and application products of bulk glassy alloys

    A. Inoue;A. Takeuchi

  • Rapidly Solidified Powder Metallurgy Mg97Zn1Y2Alloys with Excellent Tensile Yield Strength above 600 MPa

    Yoshihito Kawamura;Kentaro Hayashi;Akihisa Inoue;Tsuyoshi Masumoto

  • Zr–Al–Ni Amorphous Alloys with High Glass Transition Temperature and Significant Supercooled Liquid Region

    Akihisa Inoue;Tao Zhang;Tsuyoshi Masumoto

  • Amorphous, nanoquasicrystalline and nanocrystalline alloys in Al-based systems

    Akihisa Inoue

  • Al–La–Ni Amorphous Alloys with a Wide Supercooled Liquid Region

    Akihisa Inoue;Tao Zhang;Tsuyoshi Masumoto

  • Amorphous Zr–Al–TM (TM=Co, Ni, Cu) Alloys with Significant Supercooled Liquid Region of Over 100 K

    Tao Zhang;Akihisa Inoue;Tsuyoshi Masumoto

  • A Stable Quasicrystal in Al-Cu-Fe System

    An Pang Tsai;Akihisa Inoue;Tsuyoshi Masumoto

  • High-strength Cu-based bulk glassy alloys in Cu-Zr-Ti and Cu-Hf-Ti ternary systems

    A Inoue;W Zhang;T Zhang;K Kurosaka

  • Calculations of Mixing Enthalpy and Mismatch Entropy for Ternary Amorphous Alloys.

    Akira Takeuchi;Akihisa Inoue

  • Bulk Metallic Glasses

    C. Suryanarayana;Akihisa. Inoue

  • Mg–Cu–Y Amorphous Alloys with High Mechanical Strengths Produced by a Metallic Mold Casting Method

    A. Inoue;A. Kato;T. Zhang;S. G. Kim

  • Long-period ordered structure in a high-strength nanocrystalline Mg-1 at% Zn-2 at% Y alloy studied by atomic-resolution Z-contrast STEM

    E. Abe;Y. Kawamura;K. Hayashi;A. Inoue

  • Glass-forming ability of alloys

    Akihisa Inoue;Tao Zhang;Tsuyoshi Masumoto

  • Bulk Amorphous Alloys

    A. Inoue

  • New Amorphous Mg-Ce-Ni Alloys with High Strength and Good Ductility

    Akihisa Inoue;Katsumasa Ohtera;Kazuhiko Kita;Tsuyoshi Masumoto

  • Iron-based bulk metallic glasses

    C Suryanarayana;A Inoue

  • Test environments and mechanical properties of Zr-base bulk amorphous alloys

    C. T. Liu;L. Heatherly;J. A. Horton;D. S. Easton

  • Ductility of Nanostructured Materials

    C.C. Koch;D.G. Morris;K. Lu;A. Inoue

Frequent Co-Authors

Tsuyoshi Masumoto
Tsuyoshi Masumoto Tohoku University
Hisamichi Kimura
Hisamichi Kimura Tohoku University
Akihiro Makino
Akihiro Makino Tohoku University
Junji Saida
Junji Saida Tohoku University
Nobuyuki Nishiyama
Nobuyuki Nishiyama Tohoku University
Tao Zhang
Tao Zhang Tohoku University
Guoqiang Xie
Guoqiang Xie Harbin Institute of Technology
Hidemi Kato
Hidemi Kato Tohoku University
Yoshihiko Yokoyama
Yoshihiko Yokoyama Tohoku University

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