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2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
96
Citations
55917
World Ranking
1501
National Ranking
68

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Kazuhiko Maeda is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on energy and materials science, with significant contributions in renewable energy, sustainability, and materials chemistry. The subfields of their work include inorganic chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Maeda's main topics of research cover advanced photocatalysis techniques, TiO2 photocatalysis and solar cells, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, perovskite materials and applications, copper-based nanomaterials, inorganic chemistry and materials, and advanced nanomaterials in catalysis.

They have authored several notable recent papers, including:

  • Photocatalytic water splitting (2023), published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Efficient Visible-Light-Driven CO2 Reduction by a Cobalt Molecular Catalyst Covalently Linked to Mesoporous Carbon Nitride (2020), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • An Artificial Z-Scheme Constructed from Dye-Sensitized Metal Oxide Nanosheets for Visible Light-Driven Overall Water Splitting (2020), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Recent Progress on Mixed-Anion Materials for Energy Applications (2021), published in Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • Molecule/Semiconductor Hybrid Materials for Visible-Light CO2 Reduction: Design Principles and Interfacial Engineering (2021), published in Accounts of Materials Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Maeda include:

  • Shunta Nishioka
  • Shunsuke Nozawa
  • Toshiyuki Yokoi
  • Hiroshi Kageyama
  • Megumi Okazaki

Maeda's work has been published in a variety of scientific venues, with notable publication frequency in:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials

The research contributions of Kazuhiko Maeda span fields that integrate energy and materials science with a focus on sustainability and advanced material design. Their publications and collaborations illustrate involvement in interdisciplinary approaches to addressing challenges in photocatalysis and energy conversion.

Best Publications

  • A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light

    Xinchen Wang;Kazuhiko Maeda;Arne Thomas;Kazuhiro Takanabe

  • Photocatalyst releasing hydrogen from water

    Kazuhiko Maeda;Kentaro Teramura;Daling Lu;Tsuyoshi Takata

  • Photocatalytic Water Splitting: Recent Progress and Future Challenges

    Kazuhiko Maeda;Kazunari Domen

  • Polymer semiconductors for artificial photosynthesis: hydrogen evolution by mesoporous graphitic carbon nitride with visible light.

    Xinchen Wang;Kazuhiko Maeda;Xiufang Chen;Kazuhiro Takanabe

  • GaN:ZnO Solid Solution as a Photocatalyst for Visible-Light-Driven Overall Water Splitting

    Kazuhiko Maeda;Tsuyoshi Takata;Michikazu Hara;Nobuo Saito

  • Synthesis of a carbon nitride structure for visible-light catalysis by copolymerization

    Jinshui Zhang;Xiufang Chen;Kazuhiro Takanabe;Kazuhiko Maeda

  • Photocatalytic water splitting using semiconductor particles: History and recent developments

    Kazuhiko Maeda;Kazuhiko Maeda

  • Z-Scheme Water Splitting Using Two Different Semiconductor Photocatalysts

    Kazuhiko Maeda;Kazuhiko Maeda

  • Visible Light Water Splitting Using Dye-Sensitized Oxide Semiconductors

    W. Justin Youngblood;Seung Hyun Anna Lee;Kazuhiko Maeda;Thomas E. Mallouk

  • Photocatalytic Activities of Graphitic Carbon Nitride Powder for Water Reduction and Oxidation under Visible Light

    Kazuhiko Maeda;Xinchen Wang;Yasushi Nishihara;Daling Lu

  • Expanding frontiers in materials chemistry and physics with multiple anions

    Hiroshi Kageyama;Katsuro Hayashi;Kazuhiko Maeda;J. Paul Attfield

  • Sulfur-mediated synthesis of carbon nitride: Band-gap engineering and improved functions for photocatalysis

    Jinshui Zhang;Jianhua Sun;Kazuhiko Maeda;Kazunari Domen

  • Efficient Nonsacrificial Water Splitting through Two-Step Photoexcitation by Visible Light using a Modified Oxynitride as a Hydrogen Evolution Photocatalyst

    Kazuhiko Maeda;Masanobu Higashi;Daling Lu;Ryu Abe

  • Noble‐Metal/Cr2O3 Core/Shell Nanoparticles as a Cocatalyst for Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting

    Kazuhiko Maeda;Kentaro Teramura;Daling Lu;Nobuo Saito

  • Visible‐Light‐Driven CO2 Reduction with Carbon Nitride: Enhancing the Activity of Ruthenium Catalysts

    Ryo Kuriki;Keita Sekizawa;Keita Sekizawa;Osamu Ishitani;Kazuhiko Maeda

  • Overall Water Splitting on (Ga1-xZnx)(N1-xOx) Solid Solution Photocatalyst: Relationship between Physical Properties and Photocatalytic Activity

    Kazuhiko Maeda;Kentaro Teramura;Tsuyoshi Takata;Michikazu Hara

  • Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting Promoted by Two Different Cocatalysts for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution under Visible Light

    Kazuhiko Maeda;Anke Xiong;Taizo Yoshinaga;Takahiro Ikeda

  • Nature-Inspired, Highly Durable CO2 Reduction System Consisting of a Binuclear Ruthenium(II) Complex and an Organic Semiconductor Using Visible Light.

    Ryo Kuriki;Hironori Matsunaga;Takuya Nakashima;Keisuke Wada

  • RuO2-Loaded β-Ge3N4 as a Non-Oxide Photocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting

    Junya Sato;Nobuo Saito;Yoko Yamada;Kazuhiko Maeda

  • Artificial Z-scheme constructed with a supramolecular metal complex and semiconductor for the photocatalytic reduction of CO2.

    Keita Sekizawa;Kazuhiko Maeda;Kazuhiko Maeda;Kazunari Domen;Kazuhide Koike

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazunari Domen
Kazunari Domen University of Tokyo
Osamu Ishitani
Osamu Ishitani Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tsuyoshi Takata
Tsuyoshi Takata Shinshu University
Kentaro Teramura
Kentaro Teramura Kyoto University
Akira Yamakata
Akira Yamakata Okayama University
Yoshiharu Uchimoto
Yoshiharu Uchimoto Kyoto University
Ryu Abe
Ryu Abe Kyoto University
Jun Kubota
Jun Kubota Fukuoka University
Xinchen Wang
Xinchen Wang Fuzhou University
Takashi Hisatomi
Takashi Hisatomi Shinshu University

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