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Hirotaka Ihara

Hirotaka Ihara

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Chemistry

D-Index
55
Citations
9727
World Ranking
12250
National Ranking
918

Overview

Hirotaka Ihara is affiliated with Kumamoto University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of materials science and chemistry. Their research output spans 62 publications in materials science and 46 publications in chemistry, with a focus on several specialized subfields.

Their subfields of study include materials chemistry, organic chemistry, spectroscopy, biomaterials, and biomedical engineering. These areas reflect a broad engagement with both the fundamental and applied aspects of chemical and materials processes.

Key research topics covered by their work are:

  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis
  • Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications

Their recent publications illustrate the range and focus of their research interests:

  • Preparation of porous carbon nanomaterials and their application in sample preparation: A review, 2021, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry
  • Synthesis strategies of covalent organic frameworks: An overview from nonconventional heating methods and reaction media, 2022, Green Energy & Environment
  • Composite materials based on covalent organic frameworks for multiple advanced applications, 2023, Exploration
  • Remarkable enhancement of thermal stability of epoxy resin through the incorporation of mesoporous silica micro-filler, 2021, Heliyon
  • Preparation of Vortex Porous Graphene Chiral Membrane for Enantioselective Separation, 2020, Analytical Chemistry

Hirotaka Ihara has frequently published in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Chemical Communications (4 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (4 publications)
  • Chirality (3 publications)
  • Nanomaterials (3 publications)
  • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects (3 publications)

The scientist has collaborated often with peers in their field. Frequent co-authors include Makoto Takafuji, Yutaka Kuwahara, Shoji Nagaoka, Nanami Hano, and Reïko Oda, indicating sustained research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Preparation of poly(1-vinylimidazole)-grafted magnetic nanoparticles and their application for removal of metal ions

    Makoto Takafuji;Shunichi Ide;Hirotaka Ihara;Zhenghe Xu

  • Induction of Strong and Tunable Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Nonchiral, Nonmetal, Low‐Molecular‐Weight Fluorophores Using Chiral Nanotemplates

    Taisei Goto;Yutaka Okazaki;Masahiro Ueki;Yutaka Kuwahara

  • Functional Organogel Based on a Salicylideneaniline Derivative with Enhanced Fluorescence Emission and Photochromism

    Pengchong Xue;Pengchong Xue;Ran Lu;Guojun Chen;Yuan Zhang

  • FORMATION OF HELICAL SUPER STRUCTURE FROM SINGLE-WALLED BILAYERS BY AMPHIPHILES WITH OLIGO-L-GLUTAMIC ACID-HEAD GROUP

    Kimiho Yamada;Hirotaka Ihara;Toshio Ide;Takanori Fukumoto

  • Chirality control of self-assembling organogels from a lipophilic L-glutamide derivative with metal chlorides

    Hirotaka Ihara;Toshihiko Sakurai;Taisuke Yamada;Toshitaka Hashimoto

  • New poly(ionic liquid)-grafted silica multi-mode stationary phase for anion-exchange/reversed-phase/hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography

    Hongdeng Qiu;Hongdeng Qiu;Abul K. Mallik;Makoto Takafuji;Shengxiang Jiang

  • Self-assembled fibrillar networks through highly oriented aggregates of porphyrin and pyrene substituted by dialkyl L-glutamine in organic media

    Takashi Sagawa;Sachiko Fukugawa;Taisuke Yamada;Hirotaka Ihara

  • Structures and binding energies of benzene-methane and benzene-benzene complexes : an ab initio SCF/MP2 study

    Shigeyoshi Sakaki;Kenji Kato;Tomonori Miyazaki;Yasuo Musashi

  • Preparation of carbon/TiO2 microsphere composites from cellulose/TiO2 microsphere composites and their evaluation

    Shoji Nagaoka;Yuu Hamasaki;Shin Ichiro Ishihara;Masanori Nagata

  • Synthesis strategies of covalent organic frameworks: An overview from nonconventional heating methods and reaction media

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  • Solvent dependence of helix stability in aromatic oligoamide foldamers

    Ting Qi;Victor Maurizot;Hiroki Noguchi;Thiraporn Charoenraks

  • Helical superstructure of conductive polymers as created by electrochemical polymerization by using synthetic lipid assemblies as a template.

    Tsukasa Hatano;Ah Hyun Bae;Masayuki Takeuchi;Norifumi Fujita

  • Investigation of π-π and ion-dipole interactions on 1-allyl-3-butylimidazolium ionic liquid-modified silica stationary phase in reversed-phase liquid chromatography

    Hongdeng Qiu;Makoto Takafuji;Xia Liu;Shengxiang Jiang

  • A new imidazolium-embedded C18 stationary phase with enhanced performance in reversed-phase liquid chromatography.

    Hongdeng Qiu;Abul K. Mallik;Makoto Takafuji;Xia Liu

  • Preparation of porous carbon nanomaterials and their application in sample preparation: A review

    Yu Wang;Yu Wang;Jia Chen;Hirotaka Ihara;Ming Guan

  • Composite materials based on covalent organic frameworks for multiple advanced applications

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  • Facile synthesis of high-density poly(octadecyl acrylate)-grafted silica for reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography by surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization.

    Abul K. Mallik;M. Mizanur Rahman;Miklos Czaun;Makoto Takafuji

  • Kinetics of helix-handedness inversion: folding and unfolding in aromatic amide oligomers.

    Nicolas Delsuc;Takahiro Kawanami;Julien Lefeuvre;Atsuomi Shundo

  • PHASE SEPARATION AND REACTIVITY CHANGES OF PHENYL ESTER SUBSTRATE AND IMIDAZOLE CATALYST IN THE DIALKYLAMMONIUM BILAYER MEMBRANE.

    Toyoki Kunitake;Hirotaka Ihara;Yoshio Okahata

  • Effect of photopolymerization on the morphology of helical supramolecular assemblies

    Hirotaka Ihara;Makoto Takafuji;Chuichi Hirayama;David F. O'Brien

  • New strategy for drastic enhancement of selectivity via chemical modification of counter anions in ionic liquid polymer phase

    Hongdeng Qiu;Hongdeng Qiu;Makoto Takafuji;Tsuyoshi Sawada;Xia Liu

  • New surface-confined ionic liquid stationary phases with enhanced chromatographic selectivity and stability by co-immobilization of polymerizable anion and cation pairs

    Hongdeng Qiu;Abul K. Mallik;Tsuyoshi Sawada;Makoto Takafuji

  • Conformational change in DNA induced by cationic bilayer membranes

    Tetsuyuki Akao;Takanori Fukumoto;Hirotaka Ihara;Akio Ito

Frequent Co-Authors

Hongdeng Qiu
Hongdeng Qiu Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics
Mohammed M. Rahman
Mohammed M. Rahman King Abdulaziz University
Brice Kauffmann
Brice Kauffmann University of Bordeaux
Ivan Huc
Ivan Huc Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Toyoki Kunitake
Toyoki Kunitake Kyushu University
Pengchong Xue
Pengchong Xue Tianjin University
Ran Lu
Ran Lu Jilin University
Thierry Buffeteau
Thierry Buffeteau University of Bordeaux
Shigeyoshi Sakaki
Shigeyoshi Sakaki Kyoto University
Meifang Zhu
Meifang Zhu Donghua University

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