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Kenji Kano

Kenji Kano

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Chemistry

D-Index
62
Citations
14128
World Ranking
8797
National Ranking
605

Overview

Kenji Kano is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and specializes in the field of engineering, with a strong focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research is heavily concentrated in electrochemistry and its applications, particularly involving electrochemical sensors and biosensors.

Their work spans multiple interconnected subfields, including:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Electrochemistry
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biomedical Engineering

Kano's primary research topics emphasize technologies such as:

  • Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Microbial metabolism and enzyme function

Notable recent papers authored by or involving Kano include:

  • "Direct Electron Transfer-Type Bioelectrocatalysis of Redox Enzymes at Nanostructured Electrodes" (2020), published in Catalysts
  • "Highly sensitive and stable fructose self-powered biosensor based on a self-charging biosupercapacitor" (2020), published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics
  • "Development Perspective of Bioelectrocatalysis-Based Biosensors" (2020), published in Sensors
  • "Diffusion-limited biosensing of dissolved oxygen by direct electron transfer-type bioelectrocatalysis of multi-copper oxidases immobilized on porous gold microelectrodes" (2020), published in Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
  • "Direct electron transfer-type bioelectrocatalysis of FAD-dependent glucose dehydrogenase using porous gold electrodes and enzymatically implanted platinum nanoclusters" (2020), published in Bioelectrochemistry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kano include:

  • Yuki Kitazumi
  • Osamu Shirai
  • Keisei Sowa
  • Taiki Adachi
  • Yuko Yokoyama

Kenji Kano has regularly published in several scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Electrochemistry
  • Denki Kagaku
  • Review of Polarography
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Best Publications

  • Kinetic analysis and mechanistic aspects of autoxidation of catechins.

    Manabu Mochizuki;Shin-ichi Yamazaki;Kenji Kano;Tokuji Ikeda

  • Fructose/dioxygen biofuel cell based on direct electron transfer-type bioelectrocatalysis

    Yuji Kamitaka;Seiya Tsujimura;Norihiko Setoyama;Tsutomu Kajino

  • A high-power glucose/oxygen biofuel cell operating under quiescent conditions

    Hideki Sakai;Takaaki Nakagawa;Yuichi Tokita;Tsuyonobu Hatazawa

  • Bioelectrocatalytic reduction of dioxygen to water at neutral pH using bilirubin oxidase as an enzyme and 2,2′-azinobis (3-ethylbenzothiazolin-6-sulfonate) as an electron transfer mediator

    Seiya Tsujimura;Hirosuke Tatsumi;Jun Ogawa;Sakayu Shimizu

  • Activation process of [NiFe] hydrogenase elucidated by high-resolution X-Ray analyses: conversion of the ready to the unready state

    Hideaki Ogata;Shun Hirota;Shun Hirota;Asuka Nakahara;Hirofumi Komori

  • Electrochemical activity of an Fe(III)-reducing bacterium, Shewanella putrefaciens IR-1, in the presence of alternative electron acceptors

    Byung Hong Kim;Tokuji Ikeda;Hyung Soo Park;Hyung Joo Kim

  • Novel FAD-Dependent Glucose Dehydrogenase for a Dioxygen-Insensitive Glucose Biosensor

    Seiya Tsujimura;Shinki Kojima;Kenji Kano;Tokuji Ikeda

  • Lactococcus lactis catalyses electricity generation at microbial fuel cell anodes via excretion of a soluble quinone.

    Stefano Freguia;Masaki Masuda;Seiya Tsujimura;Kenji Kano

  • Bioelectrocatalysis-based dihydrogen/dioxygen fuel cell operating at physiological pH

    Seiya Tsujimura;Masafumi Fujita;Hirosuke Tatsumi;Kenji Kano

  • Electron transfer pathways in microbial oxygen biocathodes

    Stefano Freguia;Seiya Tsujimura;Kenji Kano

  • Diffusion-Controlled Oxygen Reduction on Multi-Copper Oxidase-Adsorbed Carbon Aerogel Electrodes without Mediator

    S. Tsujimura;Y. Kamitaka;K. Kano

  • Kinetic Study of Direct Bioelectrocatalysis of Dioxygen Reduction with Bilirubin Oxidase at Carbon Electrodes

    Seiya Tsujimura;Takaaki Nakagawa;Kenji Kano;Tokuji Ikeda

  • Bilirubin oxidase in multiple layers catalyzes four-electron reduction of dioxygen to water without redox mediators

    Seiya Tsujimura;Kenji Kano;Tokuji Ikeda

  • Fundamentals and Practices of Mediated Bioelectrocatalysis

    Kenji Kano;Tokuji Ikeda

  • Structure of a quinohemoprotein amine dehydrogenase with an uncommon redox cofactor and highly unusual crosslinking

    Datta S;Mori Y;Takagi K;Kawaguchi K

  • Glucose/O 2 Biofuel Cell Operating at Physiological Conditions

    Seiya Tsujimura;Kenji Kano;Tokuji Ikeda

  • Photosynthetic bioelectrochemical cell utilizing cyanobacteria and water-generating oxidase

    Seiya Tsujimura;Akira Wadano;Kenji Kano;Tokuji Ikeda

  • Structure and function of the engineered multicopper oxidase CueO from Escherichia coli--deletion of the methionine-rich helical region covering the substrate-binding site.

    Kunishige Kataoka;Hirofumi Komori;Yusaku Ueki;Yusuke Konno

  • An electrochemical approach to the studies of biological redox reactions and their applications to biosensors, bioreactors, and biofuel cells

    Tokuji Ikeda;Kenji Kano

  • Measurements of Oxidoreductase-like Activity of Intact Bacterial Cells by an Amperometric Method Using a Membrane-Coated Electrode

    Tokuji Ikeda;Toshiyasu Kurosaki;Katsumi Takayama;Kenji Kano

Frequent Co-Authors

Seiya Tsujimura
Seiya Tsujimura University of Tsukuba
Jun Ogawa
Jun Ogawa Kyoto University
Kazunobu Matsushita
Kazunobu Matsushita Yamaguchi University
Lo Gorton
Lo Gorton Lund University
Manabu Mochizuki
Manabu Mochizuki Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Toshiyuki Tanaka
Toshiyuki Tanaka Hyogo University of Health Sciences
Shun Hirota
Shun Hirota Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Sakayu Shimizu
Sakayu Shimizu Kyoto University
Marcelo Calderón
Marcelo Calderón University of the Basque Country
Masayoshi Watanabe
Masayoshi Watanabe Yokohama National University

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