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Hiroshi Yabu

Hiroshi Yabu

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
42
Citations
7441
World Ranking
12529
National Ranking
789

Chemistry

D-Index
42
Citations
7369
World Ranking
17456
National Ranking
1379

Hiroshi Yabu 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 Hiroshi Yabu sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 264 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hiroshi Yabu 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 Hiroshi Yabu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Hiroshi Yabu is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan. Their research spans the fields of engineering and materials science, with a particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and organic chemistry.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Yabu has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • COVID-19 infection and nanomedicine applications for development of vaccines and therapeutics: An overview and future perspectives based on polymersomes, 2021, European Journal of Pharmacology
  • Biomass-Derived Electrocatalysts: Low-Cost, Robust Materials for Sustainable Electrochemical Energy Conversion, 2023, Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Benchmarking pH-field coupled microkinetic modeling against oxygen reduction in large-scale Fe-azaphthalocyanine catalysts, 2024, Chemical Science
  • Pyrolysis-Free Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) Electrocatalysts Composed of Unimolecular Layer Metal Azaphthalocyanines Adsorbed onto Carbon Materials, 2021, ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Increasing the ionic conductivity and lithium-ion transport of photo-cross-linked polymer with hexagonal arranged porous film hybrids, 2022, iScience

Frequent coauthors of Yabu include:

  • Kosuke Ishibashi
  • Koju Ito
  • Yasutaka Matsuo
  • Yutaro Hirai
  • Tengyi Liu

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in notable venues such as:

  • Langmuir
  • Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Polymer
  • Advanced Science
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces

Best Publications

  • Superhydrophobic and lipophobic properties of self-organized honeycomb and pincushion structures.

    Hiroshi Yabu;Masafumi Takebayashi;Masaru Tanaka;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Single-Step Fabrication of Transparent Superhydrophobic Porous Polymer Films

    Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Simple fabrication of micro lens arrays.

    Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Preparation of Honeycomb-Patterned Polyimide Films by Self-Organization

    Hiroshi Yabu;Masaru Tanaka;Kuniharu Ijiro;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Preparation of Self‐Organized Mesoscale Polymer Patterns on a Solid Substrate: Continuous Pattern Formation from a Receding Meniscus

    Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Frustrated Phases of Block Copolymers in Nanoparticles

    Takeshi Higuchi;Atsunori Tajima;Kiwamu Motoyoshi;Hiroshi Yabu

  • Unique Phase-Separation Structures of Block-Copolymer Nanoparticles†

    Hiroshi Yabu;Takeshi Higuchi;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Spontaneous formation of polymer nanoparticles with inner micro-phase separation structures

    Takeshi Higuchi;Atsunori Tajima;Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Solvent-Driven Evolution of Block Copolymer Morphology under 3D Confinement

    Le Li;Kazuyuki Matsunaga;Jintao Zhu;Takeshi Higuchi

  • Spontaneous formation of polymer nanoparticles by good-solvent evaporation as a nonequilibrium process

    Hiroshi Yabu;Takeshi Higuchi;Kuniharu Ijiro;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Frustrated phases: polymeric self-assemblies in a 3D confinement

    Hiroshi Yabu;Hiroshi Yabu;Takeshi Higuchi;Hiroshi Jinnai

  • Electroless Plating of Honeycomb and Pincushion Polymer Films Prepared by Self-Organization

    Hiroshi Yabu;Yuji Hirai;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Suprapolymer Structures from Nanostructured Polymer Particles

    Takeshi Higuchi;Atsunori Tajima;Kiwamu Motoyoshi;Hiroshi Yabu;Hiroshi Yabu

  • Novel Biomimetic Surface Based on a Self-Organized Metal−Polymer Hybrid Structure

    Daisuke Ishii;Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Interfacial tension governs the formation of self-organized honeycomb-patterned polymer films

    Yukako Fukuhira;Hiroshi Yabu;Kuniharu Ijiro;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Fabrication of honeycomb films by the breath figure technique and their applications

    Hiroshi Yabu

  • Phase transition and phase transformation in block copolymer nanoparticles.

    Takeshi Higuchi;Kiwamu Motoyoshi;Hidekazu Sugimori;Hiroshi Jinnai;Hiroshi Jinnai

  • On‐Demand Liquid Transportation Using Bioinspired Omniphobic Lubricated Surfaces Based on Self‐Organized Honeycomb and Pincushion Films

    Jun Kamei;Hiroshi Yabu

  • Honeycomb-like architecture produced by living bacteria, Gluconacetobacter xylinus

    Yasumitsu Uraki;Junji Nemoto;Hiroyuki Otsuka;Yutaka Tamai

  • Honeycomb-shaped surface topography induces differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs): uniform porous polymer scaffolds prepared by the breath figure technique

    Takahito Kawano;Madoka Sato;Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

Frequent Co-Authors

Masatsugu Shimomura
Masatsugu Shimomura Tohoku University
Hiroshi Jinnai
Hiroshi Jinnai Tohoku University
Masaru Tanaka
Masaru Tanaka Kyushu University
Tomokazu Matsue
Tomokazu Matsue Tohoku University
Joerg Lahann
Joerg Lahann University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kazuo Akagi
Kazuo Akagi Ritsumeikan University
Eiichi Nakamura
Eiichi Nakamura University of Tokyo
Tsukasa Yoshida
Tsukasa Yoshida Yamagata University
Matsuhiko Nishizawa
Matsuhiko Nishizawa Tohoku University
Atsushi Takahara
Atsushi Takahara Kyushu University

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