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Overview

Isao Tanaka is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan, contributing extensively to the fields of materials science and engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields, including electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, condensed matter physics, and molecular biology.

Their work covers several key topics within their disciplines:

  • Iron-based superconductors research
  • Advanced battery materials and technologies
  • Physics of superconductivity and magnetism
  • Advancements in battery materials
  • Rare-earth and actinide compounds
  • Chalcogenide semiconductor thin films
  • Ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials

Tanaka has coauthored numerous publications with several frequent collaborators, notably Masanori Nagao, Satoshi Watauchi, Yuki Maruyama, Yoshihiko Takano, and Akira Miura.

Their research has appeared repeatedly in a selection of scientific venues that include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Crystal Growth
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Crystal Growth & Design
  • Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan

Selected recent publications by Isao Tanaka include:

  • Implementation strategies in phonopy and phono3py, 2023, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
  • Protonic Conduction in the BaNdInO4 Structure Achieved by Acceptor Doping, 2021, Chemistry of Materials
  • Influence of Se doping on recently synthesized NaInS2-xSex solid solutions for potential thermo-mechanical applications studied via first-principles method, 2020, Materials Today Communications
  • Growth and Characterization of ROBiS2 High-Entropy Superconducting Single Crystals, 2020, ACS Omega
  • NaInX2 (X = S, Se) layered materials for energy harvesting applications: first-principles insights into optoelectronic and thermoelectric properties, 2021, Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics

The scope of Tanaka's research reflects an integration of experimental and computational approaches applied to next-generation materials for electronic, optical, and energy-related applications. Their publications indicate a consistent interest in superconductivity, thermoelectric materials, and the chemistry of rare-earth compounds.

Best Publications

  • 3-Å resolution structure of a protein with histone-like properties in prokaryotes

    Isao Tanaka;Isao Tanaka;Krzysztof Appelt;Jan Dijk;Stephen W. White;Stephen W. White

  • Roll: a new algorithm for the detection of protein pockets and cavities with a rolling probe sphere

    Jian Yu;Yong Zhou;Isao Tanaka;Min Yao

  • Crystal structure of the macrophage migration inhibitory factor from rat liver.

    Mamoru Suzuki;Hiroshi Sugimoto;Atsushi Nakagawa;Isao Tanaka

  • Crystal structure of nitric oxide reductase from denitrifying fungus Fusarium oxysporum.

    S Y Park;H Shimizu;S Adachi;A Nakagawa

  • Insight into a natural Diels-Alder reaction from the structure of macrophomate synthase.

    Toyoyuki Ose;Kenji Watanabe;Takashi Mie;Mamoru Honma

  • Structural reorganization of the bacterial cell-division protein FtsZ from Staphylococcus aureus

    Takashi Matsui;Junji Yamane;Nobuyuki Mogi;Hiroto Yamaguchi

  • A protein structural motif that bends DNA.

    Stephen W. White;Krzysztof Appelt;Keith S. Wilson;Isao Tanaka

  • Crystal structure of archaeal toxin-antitoxin RelE-RelB complex with implications for toxin activity and antitoxin effects

    Hisanori Takagi;Yoshimitsu Kakuta;Takahiro Okada;Min Yao

  • Crystal structure of the octameric pore of staphylococcal γ-hemolysin reveals the β-barrel pore formation mechanism by two components.

    Keitaro Yamashita;Yuka Kawai;Yoshikazu Tanaka;Nagisa Hirano

  • Crystal structure of human D-dopachrome tautomerase, a homologue of macrophage migration inhibitory factor, at 1.54 A resolution.

    Hiroshi Sugimoto;Masae Taniguchi;Atsushi Nakagawa;Isao Tanaka

  • Structure of bacterial cellulose synthase subunit D octamer with four inner passageways

    Song Qing Hu;Yong Gui Gao;Yong Gui Gao;Kenji Tajima;Naoki Sunagawa

  • Ammonia channel couples glutaminase with transamidase reactions in GatCAB.

    Akiyoshi Nakamura;Min Yao;Sarin Chimnaronk;Sarin Chimnaronk;Naoki Sakai

  • The crystal structure of human MRP14 (S100A9), a Ca(2+)-dependent regulator protein in inflammatory process.

    Hiroshi Itou;Min Yao;Ikuko Fujita;Nobuhisa Watanabe

  • Structural and Functional Analysis of a Glycoside Hydrolase Family 97 Enzyme from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron

    Momoyo Kitamura;Masayuki Okuyama;Fumiko Tanzawa;Haruhide Mori

  • Escherichia coli positive regulator OmpR has a large loop structure at the putative RNA polymerase interaction site.

    Hidemasa Kondo;Atsushi Nakagawa;Jun Nishihira;Yoshifumi Nishimura

  • A high‐performance neutron diffractometer for biological crystallography (BIX‐3)

    I. Tanaka;K. Kurihara;T. Chatake;N. Niimura

  • Molecular Basis of Transmembrane Beta-Barrel Formation of Staphylococcal Pore-Forming Toxins

    Daichi Yamashita;Takaki Sugawara;Miyu Takeshita;Jun Kaneko

  • Crystal structure of hypothetical protein TTHB192 from Thermus thermophilus HB8 reveals a new protein family with an RNA recognition motif-like domain

    Akio Ebihara;Min Yao;Ryoji Masui;Isao Tanaka

  • Crystal structure of macrophage migration inhibitory factor from human Å lymphocyte at 2.1 Å resolution

    Hiroshi Sugimoto;Mamoru Suzuki;Atsushi Nakagawa;Isao Tanaka

  • Structural basis for multimeric heme complexation through a specific protein-heme interaction: the case of the third neat domain of IsdH from Staphylococcus aureus.

    Masato Watanabe;Yoshikazu Tanaka;Yoshikazu Tanaka;Ayuko Suenaga;Makoto Kuroda

  • How Oligomerization Contributes to the Thermostability of an Archaeon Protein PROTEIN l-ISOASPARTYL-O-METHYLTRANSFERASE FROM SULFOLOBUS TOKODAII

    Yoshikazu Tanaka;Yoshikazu Tanaka;Kouhei Tsumoto;Yoshiaki Yasutake;Mitsuo Umetsu

Frequent Co-Authors

Min Yao
Min Yao Hokkaido University
Yoshikazu Tanaka
Yoshikazu Tanaka Tohoku University
Atsushi Nakagawa
Atsushi Nakagawa Osaka University
Makoto Kimura
Makoto Kimura Kyushu University
Jun Nishihira
Jun Nishihira Hokkaido University
Kouhei Tsumoto
Kouhei Tsumoto University of Tokyo
Yoshihiko Takano
Yoshihiko Takano National Institute for Materials Science
Makoto Kuroda
Makoto Kuroda National Institutes of Health
Tomohiro Tamura
Tomohiro Tamura National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Soichi Wakatsuki
Soichi Wakatsuki Stanford University

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