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Hitoshi Tamiaki

Hitoshi Tamiaki

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Chemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
15407
World Ranking
7647
National Ranking
508

Overview

Hitoshi Tamiaki is affiliated with Ritsumeikan University in Japan and has an extensive research portfolio spanning the fields of Materials Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work integrates multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Their research primarily focuses on topics such as Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry, Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, and MXene and MAX Phase Materials.

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • Chlorophyll Derivative-Sensitized TiO2 Electron Transport Layer for Record Efficiency of Cs2AgBiBr6 Double Perovskite Solar Cells, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Photoactive Zn-Chlorophyll Hole Transporter-Sensitized Lead-Free Cs2AgBiBr6 Perovskite Solar Cells, 2020, Solar RRL
  • Chlorosome-Like Molecular Aggregation of Chlorophyll Derivative on Ti3C2Tx MXene Nanosheets for Efficient Noble Metal-Free Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution, 2020, Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • Semisynthetic Chlorophyll Derivatives Toward Solar Energy Applications, 2020, Solar RRL
  • Supramolecular chlorophyll aggregates inspired from specific light-harvesting antenna "chlorosome": Static nanostructure, dynamic construction process, and versatile application, 2020, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry Reviews

Tamiaki's frequent co-authors include:

  • Shin-ichi Sasaki
  • Xiaofeng Wang
  • Shin Ogasawara
  • Mitsuaki Hirose
  • Jiro Harada

Their research has been published repeatedly in a selection of specialized scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry
  • Tetrahedron
  • Chemistry Letters
  • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines

Best Publications

  • Synthetic Zinc and Magnesium Chlorin Aggregates as Models for Supramolecular Antenna Complexes in Chlorosomes of Green Photosynthetic Bacteria

    Hitoshi Tamiaki;Masaaki Amakawa;Yoshiyuki Shimono;Rikuhei Tanikaga

  • Supramolecular structure in extramembraneous antennae of green photosynthetic bacteria

    Hitoshi Tamiaki

  • Spectral properties of single light-harvesting complexes in bacterial photosynthesis

    Yoshitaka Saga;Yutaka Shibata;Hitoshi Tamiaki

  • Self-aggregation of synthetic zinc chlorins with a chiral 1-hydroxyethyl group as a model for in vivo epimeric bacteriochlorophyll-c and d aggregates

    Hitoshi Tamiaki;Shoichiro Takeuchi;Seiichi Tsudzuki;Tomohiro Miyatake

  • The 17‐Propionate Function of (Bacterio)chlorophylls: Biological Implication of Their Long Esterifying Chains in Photosynthetic Systems†

    Hitoshi Tamiaki;Reiko Shibata;Tadashi Mizoguchi

  • Photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue by TiO2 film and Au particles-TiO2 composite film

    Chihiro Yogi;Kazuo Kojima;Noriyuki Wada;Hiroshi Tokumoto

  • X-ray crystal structure of the light-independent protochlorophyllide reductase

    Norifumi Muraki;Jiro Nomata;Kozue Ebata;Tadashi Mizoguchi

  • Cyclic tetrapyrrole based molecules for dye-sensitized solar cells

    Xiao-Feng Wang;Hitoshi Tamiaki

  • Chlorophyll Derivative-Sensitized TiO2 Electron Transport Layer for Record Efficiency of Cs2AgBiBr6 Double Perovskite Solar Cells.

    Baoning Wang;Na Li;Lin Yang;Chunxiang Dall’Agnese

  • Self-aggregates of natural chlorophylls and their synthetic analogues in aqueous media for making light-harvesting systems

    Tomohiro Miyatake;Hitoshi Tamiaki

  • Self-aggregates of bacteriochlorophylls-c, d and e in a light-harvesting antenna system of green photosynthetic bacteria: Effect of stereochemistry at the chiral 3-(1-hydroxyethyl) group on the supramolecular arrangement of chlorophyllous pigments

    Tomohiro Miyatake;Hitoshi Tamiaki

  • Self‐Assembly of an Artificial Light‐Harvesting Antenna: Energy Transfer from a Zinc Chlorin to a Bacteriochlorin in a Supramolecular Aggregate

    Hitoshi Tamiaki;Tomohiro Miyatake;Rikukei Tanikaga;Alfred R. Holzwarth

  • Chlorophyll-a Derivatives with Various Hydrocarbon Ester Groups for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Static and Ultrafast Evaluations on Electron Injection and Charge Collection Processes

    Xiao-Feng Wang;Xiao-Feng Wang;Hitoshi Tamiaki;Li Wang;Naoto Tamai

  • A second nitrogenase-like enzyme for bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis: reconstitution of chlorophyllide a reductase with purified X-protein (BchX) and YZ-protein (BchY-BchZ) from Rhodobacter capsulatus.

    Jiro Nomata;Tadashi Mizoguchi;Hitoshi Tamiaki;Yuichi Fujita

  • Recognition and sensing of chiral biological substrates via lanthanide coordination chemistry

    Hiroshi Tsukube;Satoshi Shinoda;Hitoshi Tamiaki

  • Aggregation of synthetic zinc chlorins with several esterified alkyl chains as models of bacteriochlorophyll-c homologs

    Hitoshi Tamiaki;Shinya Miyata;Yasuhiko Kureishi;Rikuhei Tanikaga

  • Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Based on oxo-Bacteriochlorin Sensitizers with Broadband Absorption Capability

    Xiao-Feng Wang;Osamu Kitao;Haoshen Zhou;Hitoshi Tamiaki

  • Dye-sensitized solar cells using a chlorophyll a derivative as the sensitizer and carotenoids having different conjugation lengths as redox spacers

    Xiao-Feng Wang;Junfeng Xiang;Peng Wang;Yasushi Koyama

  • Resonance Raman-Spectroscopic Study of Metallochlorin Aggregates - Implications for the Supramolecular Structure in Chlorosomal Bchl-C Antennae of Green Bacteria

    Peter Hildebrandt;Hitoshi Tamiaki;Alfred R. Holzwarth;Kurt Schaffner

  • Synthetic zinc tetrapyrroles complexing with pyridine as a single axial ligand.

    Hitoshi Tamiaki;Shiki Yagai;Tomohiro Miyatake

  • Effects of plant carotenoid spacers on the performance of a dye-sensitized solar cell using a chlorophyll derivative: Enhancement of photocurrent determined by one electron-oxidation potential of each carotenoid

    Xiao-Feng Wang;Arihiro Matsuda;Yasushi Koyama;Hiroyoshi Nagae

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiao-Feng Wang
Xiao-Feng Wang Jilin University
Kazuhiro Maruyama
Kazuhiro Maruyama Kyoto University
Alfred R. Holzwarth
Alfred R. Holzwarth Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shigeru Itoh
Shigeru Itoh Nagoya University
Kurt Schaffner
Kurt Schaffner Max Planck Society
Shiki Yagai
Shiki Yagai Chiba University
Hideki Hashimoto
Hideki Hashimoto Kwansei Gakuin University
Tsutomu Miyasaka
Tsutomu Miyasaka Toin University of Yokohama
Ken Yamamoto
Ken Yamamoto Kurume University
Yasushi Koyama
Yasushi Koyama Kwansei Gakuin University

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