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D-Index
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Citations
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World Ranking
1605
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74

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Hironori Arakawa is affiliated with the Tokyo University of Science in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a total of seven publications in these areas, as well as medicine, covered in two publications.

Their work delves into specific subfields including molecular biology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, genetics, and biotechnology. This breadth reflects an interdisciplinary approach within life sciences and medical research.

The scientist has contributed to topics related to viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, Escherichia coli research studies, prion diseases and protein misfolding, virus-based gene therapy research, viral infectious diseases and gene expression in insects, and transgenic plants and applications. These topics demonstrate a focus on infectious agents, molecular mechanisms of disease, and biotechnological applications.

Hironori Arakawa's recent publications include the following papers:

  • B Subunit of the Type 2 Shiga Toxin E Variant (Stx2e) Bundled by a Five-Stranded Α-Helical Coiled Coil Protects Piglets from Porcine Edema Disease, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • B subunit of the type 2 Shiga toxin e variant (Stx2e) bundled by a five-stranded α-helical coiled coil protects piglets from porcine edema disease, 2025, Vaccine
  • Corrigendum to "B subunit of the type 2 Shiga toxin e variant (Stx2e) bundled by a five-stranded α-helical coiled coil protects piglets from porcine edema disease" [Vaccine 61 (2025) 127140], 2025, Vaccine

These publications indicate ongoing research interest in bacterial toxins and their applications in veterinary medicine.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hironori Arakawa include:

  • Takeshi Arakawa
  • Hirotaka Uefuji
  • Yukihiro Tamaki
  • Shigeki Oogai
  • Sigeki Oogai

Publication venues for their work include Vaccine and SSRN Electronic Journal, with Vaccine being the venue for the majority of recent papers.

Best Publications

  • Direct splitting of water under visible light irradiation with an oxide semiconductor photocatalyst

    Zhigang ZoU;Ji nhua Ye;Kazuhiro Sayama;Hironori Arakawa

  • Catalysis Research of Relevance to Carbon Management: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

    Hironori Arakawa;Michele Aresta;John N. Armor;Mark A. Barteau

  • Significant influence of TiO2 photoelectrode morphology on the energy conversion efficiency of N719 dye-sensitized solar cell

    Zhong-Sheng Wang;Hiroshi Kawauchi;Takeo Kashima;Hironori Arakawa

  • Molecular Design of Coumarin Dyes for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

    Kohjiro Hara;Tadatake Sato;Ryuzi Katoh;Akihiro Furube

  • Design of new coumarin dyes having thiophene moieties for highly efficient organic-dye-sensitized solar cells

    Kohjiro Hara;Mitsuhiko Kurashige;Yasufumi Dan-oh;Chiaki Kasada

  • Highly efficient photon-to-electron conversion with mercurochrome-sensitized nanoporous oxide semiconductor solar cells

    Kohjiro Hara;Takaro Horiguchi;Tohru Kinoshita;Kazuhiro Sayama

  • A coumarin-derivative dye sensitized nanocrystalline TiO2 solar cell having a high solar-energy conversion efficiency up to 5.6%

    Kohjiro Hara;Kazuhiro Sayama;Yasuyo Ohga;Akira Shinpo

  • Photoelectrochemical Properties of a Porous Nb2O5 Electrode Sensitized by a Ruthenium Dye

    Kazuhiro Sayama;Hideki Sugihara;Hironori Arakawa

  • Efficiencies of Electron Injection from Excited N3 Dye into Nanocrystalline Semiconductor (ZrO2, TiO2, ZnO, Nb2O5, SnO2, In2O3) Films

    Ryuzi Katoh;Akihiro Furube;Toshitada Yoshihara;Kohjiro Hara

  • Stoichiometric water splitting into H2 and O2 using a mixture of two different photocatalysts and an IO3-/I- shuttle redox mediator under visible light irradiation.

    Kazuhiro Sayama;Kazuaki Mukasa;Ryu Abe;Yoshimoto Abe

  • Effect of additives on the photovoltaic performance of coumarin-dye-sensitized nanocrystalline TiO2 solar cells.

    Kohjiro Hara;Yasufumi Dan-oh;Chiaki Kasada;Yasuyo Ohga

  • Photoelectrochemical Properties of J Aggregates of Benzothiazole Merocyanine Dyes on a Nanostructured TiO2 Film

    Kazuhiro Sayama;Shingo Tsukagoshi;Kohjiro Hara;Yasuyo Ohga

  • The visible light induced photocatalytic activity of tungsten trioxide powders

    Gratian R Bamwenda;Hironori Arakawa

  • Novel conjugated organic dyes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

    K. Hara;T. Sato;R. Katoh;A. Furube

  • A new photocatalytic water splitting system under visible light irradiation mimicking a Z-scheme mechanism in photosynthesis

    Kazuhiro Sayama;Kazuaki Mukasa;Ryu Abe;Yoshimoto Abe

  • Significant Efficiency Improvement of the Black Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell through Protonation of TiO2 Films

    Zhong-Sheng Wang;Takeshi Yamaguchi;Hideki Sugihara;Hironori Arakawa

  • Photocatalytic decomposition of water and photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide over zirconia catalyst

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  • A new type of water splitting system composed of two different TiO2 photocatalysts (anatase, rutile) and a IO3−/I− shuttle redox mediator

    Ryu Abe;Ryu Abe;Kazuhiro Sayama;Kazunari Domen;Hironori Arakawa

  • Photosensitization of a porous TiO2 electrode with merocyanine dyes containing a carboxyl group and a long alkyl chain

    Kazuhiro Sayama;Kohjiro Hara;Nahoko Mori;Makoto Satsuki

  • Efficient sensitization of nanocrystalline TiO2 films with cyanine and merocyanine organic dyes

    Kazuhiro Sayama;Shingo Tsukagoshi;Tohru Mori;Kohjiro Hara

  • Photophysical and (photo)electrochemical properties of a coumarin dye.

    Zhong-Sheng Wang;Kohjiro Hara;Yasufumi Dan-oh;Chiaki Kasada

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuhiro Sayama
Kazuhiro Sayama National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Hideki Sugihara
Hideki Sugihara National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Kohjiro Hara
Kohjiro Hara National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Ryuzi Katoh
Ryuzi Katoh Nihon University
Jinhua Ye
Jinhua Ye National Institute for Materials Science
Ryu Abe
Ryu Abe Kyoto University
Akihiro Furube
Akihiro Furube University of Tokushima
Masatoshi Yanagida
Masatoshi Yanagida National Institute for Materials Science
Yuichiro Himeda
Yuichiro Himeda National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Ashraful Islam
Ashraful Islam National Institute for Materials Science

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