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Kazuhiko Seki is a researcher affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their work primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with a notable emphasis on materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. The research intersects with renewable energy, sustainability, atomic and molecular physics, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

The main topics covered in Kazuhiko Seki's research include advanced photocatalysis techniques, perovskite materials and applications, copper-based nanomaterials and applications, MXene and MAX phase materials, advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, and the electronic and structural properties of oxides.

Frequent venues for their publications are diverse and include The Journal of Chemical Physics, arXiv (Cornell University), The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Energy & Environmental Science, and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. These outlets reflect a consistent focus on physical chemistry, materials science, and energy-related research.

Coauthors who commonly collaborate with Kazuhiko Seki include Vikas Nandal, Kazunari Domen, Hiroyuki Matsuzaki, Takashi Hisatomi, and Yuriy Pihosh. These collaborations indicate an active engagement in research communities centered on photocatalysis and renewable energy materials.

Significant recent publications by Kazuhiko Seki include:

  • Photocatalytic water splitting with a quantum efficiency of almost unity, 2020, Nature
  • Ta3N5-Nanorods enabling highly efficient water oxidation via advantageous light harvesting and charge collection, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Development of a Core-Shell Heterojunction Ta3N5-Nanorods/BaTaO2N Photoanode for Solar Water Splitting, 2020, ACS Energy Letters
  • Design of semitransparent tantalum nitride photoanode for efficient and durable solar water splitting, 2022, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Unveiling charge dynamics of visible light absorbing oxysulfide for efficient overall water splitting, 2021, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT AND INTERFACIAL ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES AT ORGANIC/METAL AND ORGANIC/ORGANIC INTERFACES

    Hisao Ishii;Kiyoshi Sugiyama;Eisuke Ito;Kazuhiko Seki

  • Photocatalytic water splitting with a quantum efficiency of almost unity

    Tsuyoshi Takata;Junzhe Jiang;Yoshihisa Sakata;Mamiko Nakabayashi

  • Dependence of indium–tin–oxide work function on surface cleaning method as studied by ultraviolet and x-ray photoemission spectroscopies

    Kiyoshi Sugiyama;Hisao Ishii;Yukio Ouchi;Kazuhiko Seki

  • Polarization energies of organic solids determined by ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy

    Naoki Sato;Kazuhiko Seki;Hiroo Inokuchi

  • Particulate Photocatalyst Sheets Based on Carbon Conductor Layer for Efficient Z-Scheme Pure-Water Splitting at Ambient Pressure.

    Qian Wang;Takashi Hisatomi;Yohichi Suzuki;Zhenhua Pan

  • Evidence from angle-resolved resonant photoemission for oxygen-2p nature of the Fermi-liquid states in Bi2CaSr2Cu2O8

    T. Takahashi;H. Matsuyama;H. Katayama-Yoshida;Y. Okabe

  • Electronic structure of anode interface with molybdenum oxide buffer layer

    Kaname Kanai;Kenji Koizumi;Satoru Ouchi;Yoshiaki Tsukamoto

  • Spontaneous buildup of giant surface potential by vacuum deposition of Alq3 and its removal by visible light irradiation

    Eisuke Ito;Yuuki Washizu;Naoki Hayashi;Hisao Ishii

  • Theoretical study of n-alkane adsorption on metal surfaces

    Yoshitada Morikawa;Yoshitada Morikawa;Hisao Ishii;Kazuhiko Seki

  • Band structure of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 studied by angle-resolved photoemission.

    T. Takahashi;H. Matsuyama;H. Katayama-Yoshida;Y. Okabe

  • Examination of band bending at buckminsterfullerene (C60)/metal interfaces by the Kelvin probe method

    N. Hayashi;H. Ishii;Y. Ouchi;K. Seki

  • Electronic structures of organic molecular materials for organic electroluminescent devices studied by ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy

    Kiyoshi Sugiyama;Daisuke Yoshimura;Takayuki Miyamae;Takafumi Miyazaki

  • A Novel Type of Organic Semiconductors. Molecular Fastener

    Hiroo Inokuchi;Gunzi Saito;Peiji Wu;Kazuhiko Seki

  • Effect of annealing on the electronic structure of poly(3-hexylthiophene) thin film.

    Kaname Kanai;Takahiro Miyazaki;Hiroyuki Suzuki;Mina Inaba

  • Energy-level alignment at model interfaces of organic electroluminescent devices studied by UV photoemission: trend in the deviation from the traditional way of estimating the interfacial electronic structures

    H. Ishii;K. Sugiyama;D. Yoshimura;E. Ito

  • Local structure at the air/liquid interface of room-temperature ionic liquids probed by infrared-visible sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy: 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborates.

    Toshifumi Iimori;Takashi Iwahashi;Kaname Kanai;Kazuhiko Seki

  • Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy and inverse photoemission spectroscopy of [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester in gas and solid phases

    Kouki Akaike;Kaname Kanai;Hiroyuki Yoshida;Jun’ya Tsutsumi

  • Double layer structure and adsorption/desorption hysteresis of neat ionic liquid on Pt electrode surface — an in-situ IR-visible sum-frequency generation spectroscopic study

    Wei Zhou;Soya Inoue;Takashi Iwahashi;Kaname Kanai

  • Polarized XANES studies of oriented polyethylene and fluorinated polyethylenes

    Toshiaki Ohta;Kazuhiko Seki;Toshihiko Yokoyama;Ikuo Morisada

  • Orientational ordering of alkyl chain at the air/liquid interface of ionic liquids studied by sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy

    Toshifumi Iimori;Takashi Iwahashi;Hisao Ishii;Kazuhiko Seki

  • Solvent Effects in Nonadiabatic Electron‐Transfer Reactions: Theoretical Aspects

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Frequent Co-Authors

Yukio Ouchi
Yukio Ouchi Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hisao Ishii
Hisao Ishii Chiba University
Hiroo Inokuchi
Hiroo Inokuchi University of Tokyo
Nobuo Ueno
Nobuo Ueno Chiba University
Toshihiko Yokoyama
Toshihiko Yokoyama Institute of Molecular Sciences
Masahiko Hara
Masahiko Hara Tokyo Institute of Technology
Koichi Kikuchi
Koichi Kikuchi Tokyo Metropolitan University
Yohji Achiba
Yohji Achiba Tokyo Metropolitan University
Takashi Takahashi
Takashi Takahashi Tohoku University
Hiroshi Katayama-Yoshida
Hiroshi Katayama-Yoshida University of Tokyo

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