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Hiroshi Imahori

Hiroshi Imahori

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Chemistry
Japan
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
99
Citations
35045
World Ranking
1336
National Ranking
62

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

Hiroshi Imahori is a researcher affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan with a primary focus on materials science and engineering. Their academic contributions span 94 publications in materials science and 47 in engineering, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to scientific investigation.

The researcher's subfields of expertise include materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, organic chemistry, and polymers and plastics. These areas highlight a comprehensive engagement with both fundamental and applied aspects of chemical and materials sciences.

Imahori's work covers several main topics related to advanced materials and energy applications. These topics include organic electronics and photovoltaics, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, conducting polymers and applications, TiO2 photocatalysis and solar cells, and advanced photocatalysis techniques.

Their research output is published in a range of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include ECS Meeting Abstracts, The Cambridge Structural Database, Chemical Science, Chemistry Letters, and Chemical Communications.

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Imahori's research activities. Frequent coauthors include Tomohiro Higashino, Tomokazu Umeyama, Keiichi Ishida, Hironori Kaji, and Akira Yamakata.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Imahori include:

  • Manipulation of Charge-Transfer States by Molecular Design: Perspective from "Dynamic Exciton" (2021), published in Accounts of Materials Research
  • Molecular Photoinduced Charge Separation: Fundamentals and Application (2023), published in Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

Additional related works where Imahori is not the first author but within the network of frequent collaborators cover domains such as porphyrins as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells, copper complexes as redox shuttles, and nanographene-based small-molecule acceptors, signaling an involvement in the renewable energy and photovoltaic research community.

Best Publications

  • Large pi-aromatic molecules as potential sensitizers for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells.

    Hiroshi Imahori;Tomokazu Umeyama;Seigo Ito

  • Donor‐Linked Fullerenes: Photoinduced electron transfer and its potential application

    Hiroshi Imahori;Yoshiteru Sakata

  • Modulating charge separation and charge recombination dynamics in porphyrin-fullerene linked dyads and triads: Marcus-normal versus inverted region.

    Hiroshi Imahori;Koichi Tamaki;Dirk M. Guldi;Chuping Luo

  • Porphyrins as excellent dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells: recent developments and insights

    Tomohiro Higashino;Hiroshi Imahori

  • Charge separation in a novel artificial photosynthetic reaction center lives 380 ms.

    Hiroshi Imahori;Dirk M. Guldi;Koichi Tamaki;Yutaka Yoshida

  • Porphyrin‐ and Fullerene‐Based Molecular Photovoltaic Devices

    H. Imahori;H. Imahori;S. Fukuzumi

  • Photovoltaic cells using composite nanoclusters of porphyrins and fullerenes with gold nanoparticles

    Taku Hasobe;Hiroshi Imahori;Prashant V Kamat;Tae Kyu Ahn

  • 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

  • Nanostructured artificial photosynthesis

    Hiroshi Imahori;Hiroshi Imahori;Yukie Mori;Yoshihiro Matano

  • Fullerenes as Novel Acceptors in Photosynthetic Electron Transfer

    Hiroshi Imahori;Yoshiteru Sakata

  • Linkage and Solvent Dependence of Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Zincporphyrin-C60 Dyads

    Hiroshi Imahori;Kiyoshi Hagiwara;Masanori Aoki;Tsuyoshi Akiyama

  • Giant Multiporphyrin Arrays as Artificial Light-Harvesting Antennas

    Hiroshi Imahori

  • Sequential Energy and Electron Transfer in an Artificial Reaction Center: Formation of a Long-Lived Charge-Separated State

    C. Luo;D. M. Guldi;H. Imahori;and K. Tamaki

  • Porphyrin-fullerene linked systems as artificial photosynthetic mimics.

    Hiroshi Imahori

  • Design and synthesis of phosphole-based pi systems for novel organic materials.

    Yoshihiro Matano;Hiroshi Imahori

  • An Extremely Small Reorganization Energy of Electron Transfer in Porphyrin−Fullerene Dyad

    Hiroshi Imahori;Nikolai V. Tkachenko;Visa Vehmanen;Koichi Tamaki

  • Optical properties of fullerene and non-fullerene peapods

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

  • 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

  • Electron-donating perylene tetracarboxylic acids for dye-sensitized solar cells.

    Yuki Shibano;Tomokazu Umeyama;Yoshihiro Matano;Hiroshi Imahori

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomokazu Umeyama
Tomokazu Umeyama Kyoto University
Yoshihiro Matano
Yoshihiro Matano Niigata University
Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Nikolai V. Tkachenko
Nikolai V. Tkachenko Tampere University
Yoshiteru Sakata
Yoshiteru Sakata Osaka University
Helge Lemmetyinen
Helge Lemmetyinen Tampere University
Osamu Ito
Osamu Ito Tohoku University
Hiroko Yamada
Hiroko Yamada Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Seigo Ito
Seigo Ito University of Hyogo
Seiji Isoda
Seiji Isoda Kyoto University

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