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Kazu Suenaga

Kazu Suenaga

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Materials Science
Japan
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
107
Citations
47074
World Ranking
783
National Ranking
23

Kazu Suenaga 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 Kazu Suenaga sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 439 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kazu Suenaga 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 Kazu Suenaga sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 107 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Kazu Suenaga is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and specializes in Materials Science, contributing extensively to this field with a focus on Materials Chemistry. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's body of work includes a significant number of publications in prestigious journals and venues. Frequent publication platforms include ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, arXiv (Cornell University), Small, and Nature Communications.

The main topics covered in their research address advanced materials and their applications. These topics include:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Carbon Nanotubes in Composites

Kazu Suenaga has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • Yung-Chang Lin (58 joint publications)
  • Jinhua Hong (25 joint publications)
  • Ryosuke Senga (23 joint publications)
  • Yuta Sato (19 joint publications)
  • Hiroki Ago (18 joint publications)

Some of the recent papers featuring Kazu Suenaga include:

  • "Fabricating Dual-Atom Iron Catalysts for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction: A Heteroatom Modulator Approach" (2020) published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Dispersed surface Ru ensembles on MgO(111) for catalytic ammonia decomposition" (2023) published in Nature Communications
  • "Misoriented high-entropy iridium ruthenium oxide for acidic water splitting" (2023) published in Science Advances
  • "Enhanced performance of in-plane transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers by configuring local atomic structures" (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • "Large-area synthesis and transfer of multilayer hexagonal boron nitride for enhanced graphene device arrays" (2023) published in Nature Electronics

Best Publications

  • Direct evidence for atomic defects in graphene layers

    Ayako Hashimoto;Kazu Suenaga;Alexandre Gloter;Alexandre Gloter;Koki Urita;Koki Urita

  • A library of atomically thin metal chalcogenides

    Jiadong Zhou;Junhao Lin;Xiangwei Huang;Yao Zhou

  • Atomic mechanism of the semiconducting-to-metallic phase transition in single-layered MoS2.

    Yung-Chang Lin;Dumitru O. Dumcenco;Ying-Sheng Huang;Kazu Suenaga

  • Nano-aggregates of single-walled graphitic carbon nano-horns

    S. Iijima;M. Yudasaka;R. Yamada;S. Bandow

  • Fabrication of a freestanding boron nitride single layer and its defect assignments.

    Chuanhong Jin;Chuanhong Jin;Fang Lin;Kazu Suenaga;Sumio Iijima;Sumio Iijima

  • Phase patterning for ohmic homojunction contact in MoTe2

    Suyeon Cho;Sera Kim;Jung Ho Kim;Jiong Zhao

  • Epitaxial growth of a monolayer WSe2-MoS2 lateral p-n junction with an atomically sharp interface

    Ming Yang Li;Yumeng Shi;Chia Chin Cheng;Li Syuan Lu

  • Graphene Annealing: How Clean Can It Be?

    Yung-Chang Lin;Chun-Chieh Lu;Chao-Huei Yeh;Chuanhong Jin

  • MoS2 monolayer catalyst doped with isolated Co atoms for the hydrodeoxygenation reaction

    Guoliang Liu;Alex W. Robertson;Molly Meng Jung Li;Winson C.H. Kuo

  • New Porous Crystals of Extended Metal-Catecholates

    Mohamad Hmadeh;Zheng Lu;Zheng Liu;Felipe Gandara

  • Graphene Oxide: Structural Analysis and Application as a Highly Transparent Support for Electron Microscopy

    Neil R. Wilson;Priyanka A. Pandey;Richard Beanland;Robert J. Young

  • Deriving carbon atomic chains from graphene.

    Chuanhong Jin;Chuanhong Jin;Haiping Lan;Lianmao Peng;Kazu Suenaga

  • Open and closed edges of graphene layers.

    Zheng Liu;Kazu Suenaga;Peter J. F. Harris;Sumio Iijima

  • Coaxial Nanocable: Silicon Carbide and Silicon Oxide Sheathed with Boron Nitride and Carbon

    Y. Zhang;K. Suenaga;C. Colliex;S. Iijima

  • One-dimensional metallofullerene crystal generated inside single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    K. Hirahara;K. Suenaga;S. Bandow;H. Kato

  • Tunable Band Gap Photoluminescence from Atomically Thin Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Alloys

    Yanfeng Chen;Jinyang Xi;Dumitru O. Dumcenco;Zheng Liu

  • Synthesis of Nanoparticles and Nanotubes with Well-Separated Layers of Boron Nitride and Carbon

    K. Suenaga;C. Colliex;N. Demoncy;A. Loiseau

  • Weaving of organic threads into a crystalline covalent organic framework.

    Yuzhong Liu;Yanhang Ma;Yingbo Zhao;Xixi Sun

  • Atom-by-atom spectroscopy at graphene edge

    Kazu Suenaga;Masanori Koshino

  • Atomically thin noble metal dichalcogenide: a broadband mid-infrared semiconductor.

    Xuechao Yu;Peng Yu;Di Wu;Bahadur Singh

Frequent Co-Authors

Sumio Iijima
Sumio Iijima Meijo University
Zheng Liu
Zheng Liu Nanyang Technological University
Junhao Lin
Junhao Lin Southern University of Science and Technology
Po-Wen Chiu
Po-Wen Chiu National Tsing Hua University
Christian Colliex
Christian Colliex University of Paris-Saclay
Hisanori Shinohara
Hisanori Shinohara Nagoya University
Hiromichi Kataura
Hiromichi Kataura National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Toshiya Okazaki
Toshiya Okazaki National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Chuanhong Jin
Chuanhong Jin Zhejiang University
Sokrates T. Pantelides
Sokrates T. Pantelides Vanderbilt University

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