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Kazuo Tajima is affiliated with Kagoshima University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with particular focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Kazuo Tajima include:

  • Kyohei Nakano (43 collaborations)
  • Daisuke Hashizume (14 collaborations)
  • Yumiko Kaji (9 collaborations)
  • Iat Wai Leong (8 collaborations)
  • Kirill Bulgarevich (8 collaborations)

Kazuo Tajima's publications have appeared in various scientific journals. The most recurrent publication venues are:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (12 publications)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database (7 publications)
  • Small Methods (3 publications)
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials (3 publications)
  • Nature Communications (2 publications)

Some of the recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Kazuo Tajima include:

  • "Optimized carrier extraction at interfaces for 23.6% efficient tin-lead perovskite solar cells," 2022, Energy & Environmental Science
  • "Synergistic Surface Modification of Tin-Lead Perovskite Solar Cells," 2022, Advanced Materials
  • "Noncentrosymmetric Columnar Liquid Crystals with the Bulk Photovoltaic Effect for Organic Photodetectors," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Steering perovskite precursor solutions for multijunction photovoltaics," 2024, Nature
  • "Dependence of Exciton Binding Energy on Bandgap of Organic Semiconductors," 2023, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley;Sara Lindstrom;Sander Canisius

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • Dietary habits and gastro-intestinal cancers: a comparative case-control study of stomach and large intestinal cancers in Nagoya, Japan.

    Kazuo Tajima;Suketami Tominaga

  • The World Health Organization classification of malignant lymphomas in Japan: Incidence of recently recognized entities

    M. Fujita;K. Yamashiro;R. Ichinohasama;N. Nakamura

  • Peopling of the Americas, founded by four major lineages of mitochondrial DNA.

    Satoshi Horai;Rumi Kondo;Yuko Nakagawa-Hattori;Seiji Hayashi

  • GWAS meta-analysis and replication identifies three new susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer

    Paul D.P. Pharoah;Ya Yu Tsai;Susan J. Ramus;Catherine M. Phelan

  • A Large‐scale, Hospital‐based Case‐Control Study of Risk Factors of Breast Cancer According to Menopausal Status

    Kaoru Hirose;Kazuo Tajima;Nobuyuki Hamajima;Manami Inoue

  • Detection of mRNA for the tax1/rex1 gene of human T-cell leukemia virus type I in fresh peripheral blood mononuclear cells of adult T-cell leukemia patients and viral carriers by using the polymerase chain reaction

    Tomohiro Kinoshita;Masanori Shimoyama;Kensei Tobinai;Mizuko Ito

  • Meta-analysis identifies nine new loci associated with rheumatoid arthritis in the Japanese population

    Yukinori Okada;Chikashi Terao;Katsunori Ikari;Yuta Kochi

  • hOGG1 Ser326Cys Polymorphism and Lung Cancer Susceptibility

    H. Sugimura;T. Kohno;K. Wakai;K. Nagura

  • An Association Between Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Mortality From Lung Cancer and Respiratory Diseases in Japan

    Kota Katanoda;Tomotaka Sobue;Hiroshi Satoh;Kazuo Tajima

  • Tea and coffee consumption and the risk of digestive tract cancers: data from a comparative case-referent study in Japan.

    M. Inoue;K. Tajima;K. Hirose;N. Hamajima

  • Genetic Polymorphisms of the Human PNPLA3 Gene Are Strongly Associated with Severity of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Japanese

    Takahisa Kawaguchi;Takahisa Kawaguchi;Yoshio Sumida;Atsushi Umemura;Keitaro Matsuo

  • Polymerase chain reaction with confronting two-pair primers for polymorphism genotyping

    Nobuyuki Hamajima;Toshiko Saito;Keitaro Matsuo;Ken Ichi Kozaki

  • Multi‐step Carcinogenesis Model for Adult T‐cell Leukemia

    Okamoto T;Ohno Y;Tsugane S;Watanabe S

  • Some problems on the histopathological diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma -- a proposal of a new type.

    Taizan Suchi;Kazuo Tajima;Koji Nanba;Haruki Wakasa

  • Effect of hepatitis C virus infection on the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: A meta-analysis of epidemiological studies

    Keitaro Matsuo;Aaron Kusano;Aravind Sugumar;Shigeo Nakamura

  • Protective effect of allium vegetables against both esophageal and stomach cancer: a simultaneous case-referent study of a high-epidemic area in Jiangsu Province, China.

    Chang-Ming Gao;Toshiro Takezaki;Jian-Hua Ding;Mao-Sheng Li

  • Association between polymorphisms of folate- and methionine-metabolizing enzymes and susceptibility to malignant lymphoma

    Keitaro Matsuo;Ritsuro Suzuki;Nobuyuki Hamajima;Michinori Ogura

  • The Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort Study (J-MICC Study) to detect gene-environment interactions for cancer.

    Nobuyuki Hamajima;Kenji Wakai;Mariko Naito;Kazuko Nishio

Frequent Co-Authors

Keitaro Matsuo
Keitaro Matsuo Nagoya University
Nobuyuki Hamajima
Nobuyuki Hamajima Nagoya University
Akiko Tamakoshi
Akiko Tamakoshi Hokkaido University
Kenji Wakai
Kenji Wakai Nagoya University
Manami Inoue
Manami Inoue National Cancer Centre
Hiroji Iwata
Hiroji Iwata Aichi Cancer Center
Yasushi Yatabe
Yasushi Yatabe Nagoya University
Malcolm A.S. Moore
Malcolm A.S. Moore Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Keun-Young Yoo
Keun-Young Yoo Seoul National University
Shigeo Nakamura
Shigeo Nakamura Nagoya University

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