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Kimihisa Yamamoto is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan and specializes in materials science with a particular focus on materials chemistry. Their research spans 132 publications in materials science, with notable subfields including materials chemistry, polymers and plastics, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, mechanical engineering, and organic chemistry.

The scientist's main research topics include dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers, nanocluster synthesis and applications, catalytic processes in materials science, gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications, catalysis and hydrodesulfurization studies, advanced nanomaterials in catalysis, and electrocatalysts for energy conversion.

Kimihisa Yamamoto has published work in several prominent scientific venues, including:

  • Chemistry Letters
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Yamamoto include:

  • Enhanced Catalytic Performance of Subnano Copper Oxide Particles, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Modern cluster design based on experiment and theory, 2021, Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • Silver in the Center Enhances Room-Temperature Phosphorescence of a Platinum Sub-nanocluster by 18 Times, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Single-Crystalline Optical Microcavities from Luminescent Dendrimers, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Selective Hydroperoxygenation of Olefins Realized by a Coinage Multimetallic 1-Nanometer Catalyst, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent collaborators in Yamamoto's research include Takane Imaoka, Tetsuya Kambe, Takamasa Tsukamoto, Akiyoshi Kuzume, and Makoto Tanabe. The number of joint publications with these co-authors ranges from 12 to 37.

Best Publications

  • Size-specific catalytic activity of platinum clusters enhances oxygen reduction reactions.

    Kimihisa Yamamoto;Takane Imaoka;Wang-Jae Chun;Osamu Enoki

  • Quantum size effect in TiO2 nanoparticles prepared by finely controlled metal assembly on dendrimer templates.

    Norifusa Satoh;Toshio Nakashima;Kenta Kamikura;Kimihisa Yamamoto

  • Stepwise radial complexation of imine groups in phenylazomethine dendrimers.

    Kimihisa Yamamoto;Masayoshi Higuchi;Satoshi Shiki;Masanori Tsuruta

  • Carbazole Dendrimers as Solution‐Processable Thermally Activated Delayed‐Fluorescence Materials

    Ken Albrecht;Kenichi Matsuoka;Katsuhiko Fujita;Kimihisa Yamamoto

  • Metal-assembling dendrimers with a triarylamine core and their application to a dye-sensitized solar cell.

    Norifusa Satoh;Toshio Nakashima;Kimihisa Yamamoto

  • New Horizon of Nanoparticle and Cluster Catalysis with Dendrimers

    Kimihisa Yamamoto;Takane Imaoka;Takane Imaoka;Makoto Tanabe;Tetsuya Kambe

  • Magic Number Pt13 and Misshapen Pt12 Clusters: Which One is the Better Catalyst?

    Takane Imaoka;Hirokazu Kitazawa;Wang Jae Chun;Saori Omura

  • Synthesis of Poly(phenylene sulfide sulfonic acid) via Poly(sulfonium cation) as a Thermostable Proton-Conducting Polymer

    Kenji Miyatake;Hiroyuki Iyotani;Kimihisa Yamamoto;Eishun Tsuchida

  • Platinum clusters with precise numbers of atoms for preparative-scale catalysis

    Takane Imaoka;Takane Imaoka;Yuki Akanuma;Naoki Haruta;Shogo Tsuchiya

  • Dendritic structure having a potential gradient: new synthesis and properties of carbazole dendrimers.

    Ken Albrecht;Kimihisa Yamamoto

  • Novel triarylamine dendrimers as a hole-transport material with a controlled metal-assembling function.

    Norifusa Satoh;Jun-Sang Cho;Masayoshi Higuchi;Kimihisa Yamamoto

  • Finding the Most Catalytically Active Platinum Clusters With Low Atomicity

    Takane Imaoka;Hirokazu Kitazawa;Wang-Jae Chun;Kimihisa Yamamoto

  • Synthesis of Asymmetrically Arranged Dendrimers with a Carbazole Dendron and a Phenylazomethine Dendron

    Atsushi Kimoto;Jun-Sang Cho;Masayoshi Higuchi;Kimihisa Yamamoto

  • First synthesis of phenylazomethine dendrimer ligands and structural studies.

    Masayoshi Higuchi;Satoshi Shiki;Katsuhiko Ariga;Kimihisa Yamamoto

  • Metastability of anatase: size dependent and irreversible anatase-rutile phase transition in atomic-level precise titania

    Norifusa Satoh;Toshio Nakashima;Kimihisa Yamamoto

  • A Uniform Bimetallic Rhodium/Iron Nanoparticle Catalyst for the Hydrogenation of Olefins and Nitroarenes

    Ikuse Nakamula;Yoshinori Yamanoi;Takane Imaoka;Kimihisa Yamamoto

  • Catalytic Cycle of a Divanadium Complex with Salen Ligands in O2 Reduction: Two-Electron Redox Process of the Dinuclear Center (salen = N,N‘-Ethylenebis(salicylideneamine))

    Kimihisa Yamamoto;Kenichi Oyaizu;Eishun Tsuchida

  • Finely controlled multimetallic nanocluster catalysts for solvent-free aerobic oxidation of hydrocarbons.

    Masaki Takahashi;Masaki Takahashi;Hiromu Koizumi;Wang-Jae Chun;Makoto Kori

  • Precision Synthesis of Subnanoparticles Using Dendrimers as a Superatom Synthesizer

    Kimihisa Yamamoto;Takane Imaoka

  • Highly Efficient Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Fully Solution-Processed Organic Multilayered Architecture: Impact of Terminal Substitution on Carbazole-Benzophenone Dendrimer and Interfacial Engineering.

    Kenichi Matsuoka;Ken Albrecht;Akira Nakayama;Kimihisa Yamamoto

  • Synthesis and Proton Conductivity of Highly Sulfonated Poly(Thiophenylene)

    Kenji Miyatake;Eiichi Shouji;Kimihisa Yamamoto;Eishun Tsuchida

  • Thermally activated delayed fluorescence OLEDs with fully solution processed organic layers exhibiting nearly 10% external quantum efficiency

    Ken Albrecht;Kenichi Matsuoka;Daisuke Yokoyama;Yoshiya Sakai

Frequent Co-Authors

Eishun Tsuchida
Eishun Tsuchida Waseda University
Masaaki Fujii
Masaaki Fujii Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hiroyuki Nishide
Hiroyuki Nishide Waseda University
Kenichi Oyaizu
Kenichi Oyaizu Waseda University
Kenji Miyatake
Kenji Miyatake University of Yamanashi
Hirokazu Tada
Hirokazu Tada Osaka University
Shinji Takeoka
Shinji Takeoka Waseda University
Dirk G. Kurth
Dirk G. Kurth University of Würzburg
Hiroshi Nishihara
Hiroshi Nishihara Tokyo University of Science
Yasuaki Einaga
Yasuaki Einaga Keio University

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