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Materials Science

D-Index
88
Citations
29339
World Ranking
1855
National Ranking
73

Hiromichi Kataura publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hiromichi Kataura sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 661 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Hiromichi Kataura D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hiromichi Kataura sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Hiromichi Kataura is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their primary research areas lie at the intersection of materials science and engineering, with significant contributions in materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. The subfields related to their work also include biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as organic chemistry.

Kataura's research focuses primarily on carbon nanotubes, including their properties, separation techniques, and applications in advanced materials. Key topics in their work encompass carbon nanotubes in composites, graphene research and applications, mechanical and optical resonators, photonic and optical devices, nanopore and nanochannel transport studies, nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, and boron and carbon nanomaterials research.

Frequent collaborators in Kataura's research include Takeshi Tanaka, Taishi Nishihara, Yuhei Miyauchi, Xiaojun Wei, and Huaping Liu. Their publications have appeared in several scientific venues, most notably:

  • Carbon
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Nano Letters

Among Kataura's recent papers are:

  • "Chirality-dependent electrical transport properties of carbon nanotubes obtained by experimental measurement," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Submilligram-scale separation of near-zigzag single-chirality carbon nanotubes by temperature controlling a binary surfactant system," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Polyaromatic Nanotweezers on Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes for the Growth and Interfacing of Lead Halide Perovskite Crystal Grains in Solar Cells," 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • "Toward Confined Carbyne with Tailored Properties," 2021, Nano Letters
  • "Automatic Sorting of Single-Chirality Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Using Hydrophobic Cholates: Implications for Multicolor Near-Infrared Optical Technologies," 2020, ACS Applied Nano Materials

Best Publications

  • Optical Properties of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

    H. Kataura;Y. Kumazawa;Y. Maniwa;I. Umezu

  • Large-scale single-chirality separation of single-wall carbon nanotubes by simple gel chromatography

    Huaping Liu;Daisuke Nishide;Takeshi Tanaka;Hiromichi Kataura

  • Direct observation of Tomonaga–Luttinger-liquid state in carbon nanotubes at low temperatures

    Hiroyoshi Ishii;Hiromichi Kataura;Hidetsugu Shiozawa;Hideo Yoshioka

  • Stable and controlled amphoteric doping by encapsulation of organic molecules inside carbon nanotubes.

    Taishi Takenobu;Takumi Takano;Masashi Shiraishi;Yousuke Murakami

  • Diameter control of single-walled carbon nanotubes

    H. Kataura;Y. Kumazawa;Y. Maniwa;Y. Ohtsuka

  • Simple and Scalable Gel-Based Separation of Metallic and Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

    Takeshi Tanaka;Hehua Jin;Yasumitsu Miyata;Shunjiro Fujii

  • High-yield fullerene encapsulation in single-wall carbon nanotubes

    H. Kataura;Y. Maniwa;T. Kodama;K. Kikuchi

  • Gas adsorption in the inside and outside of single-walled carbon nanotubes

    Akihiko Fujiwara;Kenji Ishii;Hiroyoshi Suematsu;Hiromichi Kataura

  • Ordered water inside carbon nanotubes: formation of pentagonal to octagonal ice-nanotubes

    Yutaka Maniwa;Hiromichi Kataura;Masatoshi Abe;Akiko Udaka

  • Determination of SWCNT diameters from the Raman response of the radial breathing mode

    H. Kuzmany;W. Plank;M. Hulman;Ch. Kramberger

  • Amphoteric doping of single-wall carbon-nanotube thin films as probed by optical absorption spectroscopy

    S. Kazaoui;N. Minami;R. Jacquemin;H. Kataura

  • Tunable room-temperature single-photon emission at telecom wavelengths from sp3 defects in carbon nanotubes

    Xiaowei He;Nicolai F. Hartmann;Xuedan Ma;Younghee Kim

  • Optical properties of fullerene and non-fullerene peapods

    H. Kataura;Y. Maniwa;M. Abe;A. Fujiwara

  • Phase Transition in Confined Water Inside Carbon Nanotubes

    Yutaka Maniwa;Hiromichi Kataura;Masatoshi Abe;Shinzo Suzuki

  • High-Yield Separation of Metallic and Semiconducting Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Agarose Gel Electrophoresis

    Takeshi Tanaka;Hehua Jin;Yasumitsu Miyata;Hiromichi Kataura

  • Giant Seebeck coefficient in semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotube film

    Yusuke Nakai;Kazuya Honda;Kazuhiro Yanagi;Hiromichi Kataura

  • Tunable carbon nanotube thin-film transistors produced exclusively via inkjet printing

    Haruya Okimoto;Taishi Takenobu;Kazuhiro Yanagi;Yasumitsu Miyata

  • Highly Stabilized β‐Carotene in Carbon Nanotubes

    Kazuhiro Yanagi;Yasumitsu Miyata;Hiromichi Kataura

  • Ultrashort pulse-generation by saturable absorber mirrors based on polymer-embedded carbon nanotubes.

    T. R. Schibli;K. Minoshima;H. Kataura;E. Itoga

  • Detailed analysis of the mean diameter and diameter distribution of single-wall carbon nanotubes from their optical response

    X. Liu;T. Pichler;M. Knupfer;M. S. Golden

  • Large-scale single-chirality separation of single-wall carbon nanotubes by simple gel

    Huaping Liu;Daisuke Nishide;Takeshi Tanaka;Hiromichi Kataura

Frequent Co-Authors

Yasumitsu Miyata
Yasumitsu Miyata Tokyo Metropolitan University
Yutaka Maniwa
Yutaka Maniwa Kanagawa University
Thomas Pichler
Thomas Pichler University of Vienna
Norihiko Nishizawa
Norihiko Nishizawa Nagoya University
Taishi Takenobu
Taishi Takenobu Nagoya University
Yohji Achiba
Yohji Achiba Tokyo Metropolitan University
Madoka Tokumoto
Madoka Tokumoto National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Hans Kuzmany
Hans Kuzmany University of Vienna
Yoshihiro Iwasa
Yoshihiro Iwasa University of Tokyo
Sumio Iijima
Sumio Iijima Meijo University

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