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Kenichi Fukui

Kenichi Fukui

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Chemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
35255
World Ranking
8258
National Ranking
556

Overview

Kenichi Fukui is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan. Their research spans multiple areas within chemistry and engineering, focusing particularly on electrochemistry and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist has contributed to various subfields including electrochemistry, catalysis, polymers and plastics, and atomic and molecular physics and optics. Their work involves main topics such as electrochemical analysis and applications, ionic liquids properties and applications, conducting polymers and applications, advanced battery materials and technologies, advancements in battery materials, and advanced memory and neural computing.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Fukui include Ichiro Tanabe, Yusuke Morino, Akihito Imanishi, Jun Takeya, and Masaya Imai.

They have published research in several venues, with prominent ones including Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Langmuir, Solid State Ionics, and Applied Physics Letters.

  • Degradation of an argyrodite-type sulfide solid electrolyte by a trace of water: A spectroscopic analysis (2023, Solid State Ionics)
  • Ionic-Liquid-Originated Carrier Trapping Dynamics at the Interface in Electric Double-Layer Organic FET Revealed by Operando Interfacial Analyses (2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C)
  • Attenuated total reflectance far-ultraviolet and deep-ultraviolet spectroscopy analysis of the electronic structure of a dicyanamide-based ionic liquid with Li+ (2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics)
  • Spectroscopic Investigation of Li3PS4-LiI Sulfide-Based Glass-Ceramic Solid Electrolytes after Moisture Exposure (2023, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C)
  • Electronic excitation spectra of organic semiconductor/ionic liquid interface by electrochemical attenuated total reflectance spectroscopy (2021, Communications Chemistry)

Best Publications

  • The path of chemical reactions - the IRC approach

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  • A Molecular Orbital Theory of Reactivity in Aromatic Hydrocarbons

    Kenichi Fukui;Teijiro Yonezawa;Haruo Shingu

  • Molecular Orbital Theory of Orientation in Aromatic, Heteroaromatic, and Other Conjugated Molecules

    Kenichi Fukui;Teijiro Yonezawa;Chikayoshi Nagata;Haruo Shingu

  • Observation of zigzag and armchair edges of graphite using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy

    Yousuke Kobayashi;Ken-ichi Fukui;Toshiaki Enoki;Koichi Kusakabe

  • Recognition of stereochemical paths by orbital interaction

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  • Theory of Orientation and Stereoselection

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  • The Role of Frontier Orbitals in Chemical Reactions (Nobel Lecture)

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  • Edge state on hydrogen-terminated graphite edges investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy

    Yousuke Kobayashi;Ken-ichi Fukui;Toshiaki Enoki;Koichi Kusakabe

  • Theory of Substitution in Conjugated Molecules

    Kenichi Fukui;Teijiro Yonezawa;Chikayoshi Nagata

  • Atom-Resolved Image of the TiO 2 \(110\) Surface by Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

    Ken-ichi Fukui;Hiroshi Onishi;Yasuhiro Iwasawa

  • Electrocatalytic activity of amorphous RuO2 electrode for oxygen evolution in an aqueous solution

    Etsushi Tsuji;Akihito Imanishi;Ken-ichi Fukui;Yoshihiro Nakato

  • Electronic structures of graphene edges and nanographene

    Toshiaki Enoki;Yousuke Kobayashi;Ken-Ichi Fukui

  • Anisotropy of the Raman spectra of nanographite ribbons.

    L. G. Cançado;M. A. Pimenta;B. R. A. Neves;G. Medeiros-Ribeiro

  • Molecular orbital calculations of the electronic structure of borazane

    Hiroshi Fujimoto;Shigeki Kato;Shinichi Yamabe;Kenichi Fukui

  • Atomic-Scale Surface Structures of TiO2(110) Determined by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: A New Surface-Limited Phase of Titanium Oxide

    Hiroshi Onishi;Kenichi Fukui;Yasuhiro Iwasawa

  • An MO-theoretical Interpretation of the Nature of Chemical Reactions. I. Partitioning Analysis of the Interaction Energy

    Kenichi Fukui;Hiroshi Fujimoto

  • Ring‐opening polymerization of 2‐substituted 2‐oxazolines

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  • Atom-Resolved Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopic Observations of CeO2(111) Surfaces with Different Oxidation States: Surface Structure and Behavior of Surface Oxygen Atoms

    Yoshimichi Namai;Ken-Ichi Fukui;Yasuhiro Iwasawa

  • Hydrogen adatoms on TiO2(110)-(1x1) characterized by scanning tunneling microscopy and electron stimulated desorption

    Shushi Suzuki;Ken-ichi Fukui;Hiroshi Onishi;Yasuhiro Iwasawa

  • MO-Theoretical Approach to the Mechanism of Charge Transfer in the Process of Aromatic Substitutions

    Kenichi Fukui;Teijiro Yonezawa;Chikayoshi Nagata

  • Direct observation of layered structures at ionic liquid/solid interfaces by using frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy

    Yasuyuki Yokota;Tomohiro Harada;Ken-ichi Fukui

  • An MO-Theoretical Illumination for the Principle of Stereoselection

    Kenichi Fukui

  • Imaging of surface oxygen atoms and their defect structures on CeO2(1 1 1) by noncontact atomic force microscopy

    Ken-ichi Fukui;Yoshimichi Namai;Yasuhiro Iwasawa

  • Atom-resolved noncontact atomic force microscopic and scanning tunneling microscopic observations of the structure and dynamic behavior of CeO2(1 1 1) surfaces

    Yoshimichi Namai;Ken-Ichi Fukui;Yasuhiro Iwasawa

  • Interrelations of Quantum‐Mechanical Quantities Concerning Chemical Reactivity of Conjugated Molecules

    Kenichi Fukui;Teijiro Yonezawa;Chikayoshi Nagata

Frequent Co-Authors

Yasuhiro Iwasawa
Yasuhiro Iwasawa University of Electro-Communications
Tokio Yamabe
Tokio Yamabe Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
Teijiro Yonezawa
Teijiro Yonezawa Kyoto University
Hiroshi Fujimoto
Hiroshi Fujimoto University of Tokyo
Toshiaki Enoki
Toshiaki Enoki Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hiroshi Onishi
Hiroshi Onishi Kobe University
Keiji Morokuma
Keiji Morokuma Kyoto University
Jun Takeya
Jun Takeya University of Tokyo
Kazuyoshi Tanaka
Kazuyoshi Tanaka Kyoto University
Yoshitada Morikawa
Yoshitada Morikawa Osaka University

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