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Overview

Hiroki Ago is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan and has a research portfolio primarily focused on materials science, with particular emphasis on materials chemistry. Their work spans several subfields, including biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, as well as surfaces, coatings, and films.

The main topics of research explored include:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • 2D materials and applications
  • Boron and carbon nanomaterials research
  • MXene and MAX phase materials
  • Nano pore and nano channel transport studies
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Diamond and carbon-based materials research

Hiroki Ago has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Pablo Solís-Fernández, Yung-Chang Lin, Kazu Suenaga, Kenji Kawahara, and Satoru Fukamachi. These partnerships have contributed to a sustained output of publications in notable venues.

The most frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • ACS Nano
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Electronics
  • ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • ACS Applied Electronic Materials

Selected recent publications illustrating the scope and focus of Hiroki Ago's research include:

  • "Large-area synthesis and transfer of multilayer hexagonal boron nitride for enhanced graphene device arrays" (2023, Nature Electronics)
  • "Ready-to-transfer two-dimensional materials using tunable adhesive force tapes" (2024, Nature Electronics)
  • "Science of 2.5 dimensional materials: paradigm shift of materials science toward future social innovation" (2022, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials)
  • "Isothermal Growth and Stacking Evolution in Highly Uniform Bernal-Stacked Bilayer Graphene" (2020, ACS Nano)
  • "High flux and adsorption based non-functionalized hexagonal boron nitride lamellar membrane for ultrafast water purification" (2020, Chemical Engineering Journal)

Best Publications

  • Work Functions and Surface Functional Groups of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

    Hiroki Ago;Thomas Kugler;Franco Cacialli;William R. Salaneck

  • Measuring the thermal conductivity of a single carbon nanotube.

    Motoo Fujii;Xing Zhang;Huaqing Xie;Hiroki Ago

  • Coherent transport of electron spin in a ferromagnetically contacted carbon nanotube

    Kazuhito Tsukagoshi;Bruce W. Alphenaar;Hiroki Ago

  • Composites of Carbon Nanotubes and Conjugated Polymers for Photovoltaic Devices

    Hiroki Ago;Klaus Petritsch;Milo S.P. Shaffer;Alan H. Windle

  • Polymer Composites of Carbon Nanotubes Aligned by a Magnetic Field

    Tohru Kimura;Hiroki Ago;Masayuki Tobita;Satoshi Ohshima

  • Epitaxial Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Single-Layer Graphene over Cobalt Film Crystallized on Sapphire

    Hiroki Ago;Yoshito Ito;Noriaki Mizuta;Kazuma Yoshida

  • Synthesis, structure and applications of graphene-based 2D heterostructures

    Pablo Solís-Fernández;Mark Bissett;Hiroki Ago;Hiroki Ago

  • Epitaxial growth of large-area single-layer graphene over Cu(111)/sapphire by atmospheric pressure CVD

    Baoshan Hu;Hiroki Ago;Yoshito Ito;Kenji Kawahara

  • Carbon nanotube complex molded body and the method of making the same

    Masayuki Tobita;Toru Kimura;Motoo Yumura;Satoshi Ohshima

  • Domain Structure and Boundary in Single-Layer Graphene Grown on Cu(111) and Cu(100) Films

    Yui Ogawa;Baoshan Hu;Baoshan Hu;Carlo M. Orofeo;Masaharu Tsuji

  • Strain engineering the properties of graphene and other two-dimensional crystals.

    Mark Alexander Bissett;Masaharu Tsuji;Hiroki Ago

  • Crystal plane dependent growth of aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes on sapphire.

    Naoki Ishigami;Hiroki Ago;Kenta Imamoto;Masaharu Tsuji

  • Enhanced Chemical Reactivity of Graphene Induced by Mechanical Strain

    Mark A. Bissett;Satoru Konabe;Susumu Okada;Masaharu Tsuji

  • Aligned growth of isolated single-walled carbon nanotubes programmed by atomic arrangement of substrate surface

    Hiroki Ago;Kazuhiro Nakamura;Ken Ichi Ikeda;Naoyasu Uehara

  • Thermal and electrical conductivity of a suspended platinum nanofilm

    Xing Zhang;Huaqing Xie;Motoo Fujii;Hiroki Ago

  • Large-area synthesis and transfer of multilayer hexagonal boron nitride for enhanced graphene device arrays

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  • Electronic interaction between photoexcited poly(p-phenylene vinylene) and carbon nanotubes

    Hiroki Ago;Hiroki Ago;Milo S. P. Shaffer;David S. Ginger;Alan H. Windle

  • Catalytic Growth of Graphene: Toward Large-Area Single-Crystalline Graphene.

    Hiroki Ago;Yui Ogawa;Masaharu Tsuji;Seigi Mizuno

  • Gas analysis of the CVD process for high yield growth of carbon nanotubes over metal-supported catalysts

    Hiroki Ago;Naoyasu Uehara;Naoki Yoshihara;Masaharu Tsuji

  • Dispersion of metal nanoparticles for aligned carbon nanotube arrays

    Hiroki Ago;Toshiki Komatsu;Satoshi Ohshima;Yasunori Kuriki

  • CVD growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes with narrow diameter distribution over Fe/MgO catalyst and their fluorescence spectroscopy.

    Hiroki Ago;Shingo Imamura;Toshiya Okazaki;Takeshi Saito

Frequent Co-Authors

Masaharu Tsuji
Masaharu Tsuji Kyushu University
Motoo Yumura
Motoo Yumura National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Tokio Yamabe
Tokio Yamabe Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
Koji Takahashi
Koji Takahashi Kyushu University
Hiroki Hibino
Hiroki Hibino Kwansei Gakuin University
Susumu Okada
Susumu Okada University of Tsukuba
Kazuyoshi Tanaka
Kazuyoshi Tanaka Kyoto University
Xing Zhang
Xing Zhang Tsinghua University
Sumio Iijima
Sumio Iijima Meijo University
Kazu Suenaga
Kazu Suenaga Osaka University

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