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Hiroko Yamada is a researcher affiliated with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Their work primarily spans the fields of materials science and chemistry, with a significant focus on materials chemistry and organic chemistry.

Their research topics cover several specialized areas including crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, organic electronics and photovoltaics, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, luminescence and fluorescent materials, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, and conducting polymers and applications.

Yamada has contributed to numerous scientific publications in a range of respected venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • European Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Key recent research papers include the following:

  • Small bandgap in atomically precise 17-atom-wide armchair-edged graphene nanoribbons (2020, Communications Materials)
  • Dinaphthothiepine Bisimide and Its Sulfoxide: Soluble Precursors for Perylene Bisimide (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Synthesis of polyacene by using a metal-organic framework (2023, Nature Synthesis)
  • On-surface synthesis and characterization of nitrogen-substituted undecacenes (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Synthesis and Morphological Control of Organic Semiconducting Materials Using the Precursor Approach (2020, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan)

The researcher collaborates frequently with a number of colleagues, including:

  • Naoki Aratani
  • Hironobu Hayashi
  • Kyohei Matsuo
  • Daiki Kuzuhara
  • Songlin Xue

Yamada's scientific output includes more than 400 publications across their main fields of study. Their work involves practical applications in organic electronics and photovoltaics, as well as in crystallography techniques and organic synthesis. This interdisciplinary approach supports advancements in both chemical understanding and materials engineering.

Best Publications

  • Light-harvesting and photocurrent generation by gold electrodes modified with mixed self-assembled monolayers of boron-dipyrrin and ferrocene-porphyrin-fullerene triad.

    Hiroshi Imahori;Hiroyuki Norieda;Hiroko Yamada;Yoshinobu Nishimura

  • Design amphiphilic dipolar π-systems for stimuli-responsive luminescent materials using metastable states

    Shiki Yagai;Satoru Okamura;Yujiro Nakano;Mitsuaki Yamauchi

  • Photovoltaic Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Porphyrins and Porphyrin−Fullerene Dyads on ITO and Gold Surfaces

    Hiroko Yamada;Hiroshi Imahori;Yoshinobu Nishimura;Iwao Yamazaki

  • Human protein factory for converting the transcriptome into an in vitro-expressed proteome,.

    Naoki Goshima;Yoshifumi Kawamura;Akiko Fukumoto;Aya Miura

  • Vectorial Multistep Electron Transfer at the Gold Electrodes Modified with Self-Assembled Monolayers of Ferrocene−Porphyrin−Fullerene Triads

    Hiroshi Imahori;Hiroko Yamada;Yoshinobu Nishimura;Iwao Yamazaki, ,‡ and

  • Long-lived charge-separated state generated in a ferrocene-meso,meso-linked porphyrin trimer-fullerene pentad with a high quantum yield.

    Hiroshi Imahori;Yuji Sekiguchi;Yukiyasu Kashiwagi;Tohru Sato

  • Chain Length Effect on the Structure and Photoelectrochemical Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Porphyrins on Gold Electrodes

    Hiroshi Imahori;Hiroyuki Norieda;Yoshinobu Nishimura;Iwao Yamazaki

  • Comparison of reorganization energies for intra- and intermolecular electron transfer.

    Hiroshi Imahori;Hiroko Yamada;Dirk M. Guldi;Yoshito Endo

  • A Molecular Tetrad Allowing Efficient Energy Storage for 1.6 s at 163 K

    Dirk M. Guldi;Hiroshi Imahori;Koichi Tamaki;Yukiyasu Kashiwagi

  • Large photocurrent generation of gold electrodes modified with [60]fullerene-linked oligothiophenes bearing a tripodal rigid anchor.

    Daigo Hirayama;Kazuo Takimiya;Yoshio Aso;Tetsuo Otsubo

  • Photochemical Synthesis of Pentacene and its Derivatives

    Hiroko Yamada;Yuko Yamashita;Makoto Kikuchi;Hikaru Watanabe

  • Exciplex Intermediates in Photoinduced Electron Transfer of Porphyrin−Fullerene Dyads

    Tero J. Kesti;Nikolai V. Tkachenko;Visa Vehmanen;Hiroko Yamada

  • Catalytic effects of dioxygen on intramolecular electron transfer in radical ion pairs of zinc porphyrin-linked fullerenes.

    Shunichi Fukuzumi;Hiroshi Imahori;Hiroko Yamada;Mohamed E. El-Khouly

  • Synthesis, Structure, and Air‐stable N‐type Field‐Effect Transistor Behaviors of Functionalized Octaazanonacene‐8,19‐dione

    Chengyuan Wang;Jing Zhang;Guankui Long;Naoki Aratani

  • Self‐Organization of Hydrogen‐Bonding Naphthalene Chromophores into J‐type Nanorings and H‐type Nanorods: Impact of Regioisomerism

    Shiki Yagai;Yusaku Goto;Xu Lin;Takashi Karatsu

  • LPS-induced ROS generation and changes in glutathione level and their relation to the maturation of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells

    Hiroko Yamada;Toshiyuki Arai;Nobuyuki Endo;Kouhei Yamashita

  • On-surface light-induced generation of higher acenes and elucidation of their open-shell character

    José I. Urgel;Shantanu Mishra;Hironobu Hayashi;Jan Wilhelm

  • Activation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 during macrophage differentiation

    Tomoyuki Oda;Kiichi Hirota;Kenichiro Nishi;Satoshi Takabuchi

  • Rylene Ribbons with Unusual Diradical Character

    Wangdong Zeng;Hoa Phan;Tun Seng Herng;Tullimilli Y. Gopalakrishna

  • Macrocyclic Polyradicaloids with Unusual Super-ring Structure and Global Aromaticity

    Chunchen Liu;María Eugenia Sandoval-Salinas;María Eugenia Sandoval-Salinas;Yongseok Hong;Tullimilli Y. Gopalakrishna

  • A facile one-pot synthesis of meso-aryl-substituted [14]triphyrin(2.1.1).

    Zhao-Li Xue;Zhen Shen;John Mack;Daiki Kuzuhara

  • Chain Length Effect on Photocurrent from Polymethylene-Linked Porphyrins in Self-Assembled Monolayers

    Hiroshi Imahori;Hiroyuki Norieda;Shinichiro Ozawa;Kiminori Ushida

  • An Investigation of Photocurrent Generation by Gold Electrodes Modified with Self-Assembled Monolayers of C60

    Hiroshi Imahori;Takayuki Azuma;Anawat Ajavakom;Hiroyuki Norieda

Frequent Co-Authors

Naoki Aratani
Naoki Aratani Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Hiroshi Imahori
Hiroshi Imahori Kyoto University
Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Yoshiteru Sakata
Yoshiteru Sakata Osaka University
John Mack
John Mack Rhodes University
Atsuhiro Osuka
Atsuhiro Osuka Kyoto University
Alejandro L. Briseno
Alejandro L. Briseno University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jishan Wu
Jishan Wu National University of Singapore
Qichun Zhang
Qichun Zhang City University of Hong Kong
Dongho Kim
Dongho Kim Yonsei University

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