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Materials Science

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52
Citations
10004
World Ranking
9553
National Ranking
568

Chemistry

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Kazuo Akagi 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 Kazuo Akagi sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 312 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kazuo Akagi 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 Kazuo Akagi sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kazuo Akagi is affiliated with Ritsumeikan University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their work spans several subfields including Organic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their research topics cover a range of specialized areas such as:

  • Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Molecular spectroscopy and chirality

Kazuo Akagi has published in various scientific venues including:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Macromolecules
  • Advanced Optical Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Their recent papers include:

  • "Chiral Reaction Field with Thermally Invertible Helical Sense that Controls the Helicities of Conjugated Polymers" (2020, Advanced Materials)
  • "Photoinvertible Chiral Liquid Crystal that Affords Helicity-Controlled Aromatic Conjugated Polymers" (2020, Advanced Optical Materials)
  • "Helical Network Polymers Embodying High Dissymmetry Factors in Circularly Polarized Luminescence: Photocrosslinking Polymerization of Acrylate Derivatives in Chiral Smectic Liquid Crystals" (2021, Macromolecules)
  • "Helicity Control of Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Aromatic Conjugated Copolymers and Their Mixture Using Reversibly Photoinvertible Chiral Liquid Crystals" (2024, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)
  • "Thermally Invertible Full-Color Circularly Polarized Luminescence with High Dissymmetry Factors and High Quantum Yields in Fluorene Derivatives with Induced Chirality Generated in Chiral Liquid Crystals" (2025, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kazuo Akagi include:

  • Kosuke Kaneko
  • Tomonori Hanasaki
  • Keita Horie
  • Hiromasa Yamamoto
  • Satoru Yoshida

Best Publications

  • Helical Polyacetylene Synthesized with a Chiral Nematic Reaction Field

    K. Akagi;G. Piao;S. Kaneko;K. Sakamaki

  • Helical Polyacetylene: Asymmetric Polymerization in a Chiral Liquid-Crystal Field

    Kazuo Akagi

  • Dynamic Switching of the Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Disubstituted Polyacetylene by Selective Transmission through a Thermotropic Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal

    Benedict A. San Jose;Jialin Yan;Kazuo Akagi

  • Lyotropic chiral nematic liquid crystalline aliphatic conjugated polymers based on disubstituted polyacetylene derivatives that exhibit high dissymmetry factors in circularly polarized luminescence.

    Benedict A. San Jose;Satoshi Matsushita;Kazuo Akagi

  • Helically π-Stacked Thiophene-Based Copolymers with Circularly Polarized Fluorescence: High Dissymmetry Factors Enhanced by Self-Ordering in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Phase

    Kazuyoshi Watanabe;Itaru Osaka;Shinichi Yorozuya;Kazuo Akagi

  • Chiroptical Resolution and Thermal Switching of Chirality in Conjugated Polymer Luminescence via Selective Reflection using a Double‐Layered Cell of Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal

    Jialin Yan;Fuyuki Ota;Benedict A. San Jose;Kazuo Akagi

  • Dynamic Photoswitching of Helical Inversion in Liquid Crystals Containing Photoresponsive Axially Chiral Dopants

    Hiroyuki Hayasaka;Tatsuaki Miyashita;Masaru Nakayama;Kenji Kuwada

  • One-dimensional transport in polymer nanofibers.

    A. N. Aleshin;A. N. Aleshin;H. J. Lee;Y. W. Park;K. Akagi

  • Synthesis of polyacetylene films with high density and high mechanical strength

    K. Akagi;M. Suezaki;H. Shirakawa;H. Kyotani

  • Optically active conjugated polymers prepared from achiral monomers by polycondensation in a chiral nematic solvent.

    Hiromasa Goto;Kazuo Akagi

  • Helically π-Stacked Conjugated Polymers Bearing Photoresponsive and Chiral Moieties in Side Chains: Reversible Photoisomerization-Enforced Switching Between Emission and Quenching of Circularly Polarized Fluorescence

    Hiroyuki Hayasaka;Tatsuaki Miyashita;Kazuya Tamura;Kazuo Akagi

  • Highly conductive polyacetylene film prepared by the liquid crystal polymerization method under magnetic field

    K Akagi;S Katayama;H Shirakawa;K Araya

  • Circularly Polarized Blue Luminescent Spherulites Consisting of Hierarchically Assembled Ionic Conjugated Polymers with a Helically π-Stacked Structure

    Kazuyoshi Watanabe;Hiroshi Iida;Kazuo Akagi

  • Helical carbon and graphitic films prepared from iodine-doped helical polyacetylene film using morphology-retaining carbonization.

    Mutsumasa Kyotani;Satoshi Matsushita;Takuro Nagai;Yoshio Matsui

  • Synthesis of Helical Polyacetylene in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals Using Crown Ether Type Binaphthyl Derivatives as Chiral Dopants

    Kazuo Akagi;Shouxue Guo;Taizou Mori;Munju Goh

  • Synthesis and properties of liquid-crystalline polyacetylenes with a phenylcyclohexyl mesogenic moiety in the side group

    Se Young Oh;Kazuo Akagi;Hideki Shirakawa;Kotaro Araya

  • Highly twisted helical polyacetylene with morphology free from the bundle of fibrils synthesized in chiral nematic liquid crystal reaction field.

    Munju Goh;Mutsumasa Kyotani;Kazuo Akagi

  • One-dimensional conjugated carbyne - synthesis and properties

    K. Akagi;M. Nishiguchi;H. Shirakawa;Y. Furukawa

  • Helically assembled π -conjugated polymers with circularly polarized luminescence

    Kazuyoshi Watanabe;Kazuo Akagi

  • Photochemically colour-tuneable white fluorescence illuminants consisting of conjugated polymer nanospheres

    Jingxhou Bu;Kazuyoshi Watanabe;Hiroyuki Hayasaka;Kazuo Akagi

  • From helical polyacetylene to helical graphite: synthesis in the chiral nematic liquid crystal field and morphology-retaining carbonisation

    Munju Goh;Satoshi Matsushita;Kazuo Akagi

Frequent Co-Authors

Yung Woo Park
Yung Woo Park Seoul National University
Tokio Yamabe
Tokio Yamabe Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
Taizo Mori
Taizo Mori University of Tokyo
Kenichi Fukui
Kenichi Fukui Osaka University
Itaru Osaka
Itaru Osaka Hiroshima University
Yoshio Matsui
Yoshio Matsui National Institute for Materials Science
Hiroshi Yokoyama
Hiroshi Yokoyama Kent State University
Masatsugu Shimomura
Masatsugu Shimomura Tohoku University
Hiroshi Yabu
Hiroshi Yabu Tohoku University
Katsumi Yoshino
Katsumi Yoshino Osaka University

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