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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering work on singlemolecule spectroscopy on surfaces

Overview

Maki Kawai is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed to multiple research areas spanning epidemiology, biomedical engineering, nutrition and dietetics, physical and theoretical chemistry, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their work covers a variety of topics including cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, infant nutrition and health, breastfeeding practices and influences, history and advancements in chemistry, force microscopy techniques and applications, advanced materials characterization techniques, and nanofluid flow and heat transfer.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Maki Kawai include:

  • A case of breast milk-acquired cytomegalovirus infection in an extremely low birth weight infant (2023), Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  • Commemoration for Dr. Akira Yoshino's Receiving the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Relationship Between Honorary Member Dr. Akira Yoshino and the Chemical Society of Japan (2020), TRENDS IN THE SCIENCES
  • New Frontier of Surface Science Driven by the Scanning Probe Microscope (2023), Molecular Science
  • Solid-liquid phase transition process of water-based ferrofluid (2025), Magnetohydrodynamics

Frequent co-authors with whom Maki Kawai has collaborated include:

  • Takeyuki Goto
  • R. Kasai
  • Kazushige Toriyabe
  • Masaru Hatano
  • Yasuhiko Kondo

The primary venues where their work has appeared are:

  • Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  • TRENDS IN THE SCIENCES
  • Molecular Science
  • Magnetohydrodynamics

Maki Kawai was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2010 for pioneering contributions to single-molecule spectroscopy on surfaces.

Best Publications

  • Conduction and Valence Band Positions of Ta2O5, TaON, and Ta3N5 by UPS and Electrochemical Methods

    Wang Jae Chun;Akio Ishikawa;Hideki Fujisawa;Tsuyoshi Takata

  • Structure of Silicene Grown on Ag(111)

    Chun Liang Lin;Ryuichi Arafune;Kazuaki Kawahara;Noriyuki Tsukahara

  • Lateral Hopping of Molecules Induced by Excitation of Internal Vibration Mode

    T. Komeda;Y. Kim;Maki Kawai;B. N. J. Persson

  • Substrate-induced symmetry breaking in silicene

    Chun Liang Lin;Ryuichi Arafune;Kazuaki Kawahara;Mao Kanno

  • Adsorption-induced switching of magnetic anisotropy in a single iron(II) phthalocyanine molecule on an oxidized Cu(110) surface.

    Noriyuki Tsukahara;Ken Ichi Noto;Michiaki Ohara;Susumu Shiraki

  • Chemically homogeneous and thermally reversible oxidation of epitaxial graphene

    Md. Zakir Hossain;Md. Zakir Hossain;James E. Johns;Kirk H. Bevan;Kirk H. Bevan;Hunter J. Karmel

  • Single-molecule reaction and characterization by vibrational excitation.

    Yousoo Kim;Tadahiro Komeda;Maki Kawai

  • The electronic structure of oxygen atom vacancy and hydroxyl impurity defects on titanium dioxide (110) surface.

    Taketoshi Minato;Yasuyuki Sainoo;Yousoo Kim;Hiroyuki S. Kato

  • Structural transition of silicene on Ag(111)

    Ryuichi Arafune;Chun Liang Lin;Kazuaki Kawahara;Noriyuki Tsukahara

  • Evolutionally conserved plant homologue of the Bax Inhibitor-1 (BI-1) gene capable of suppressing Bax-induced cell death in yeast1

    Maki Kawai;Maki Kawai;Ling Pan;John C. Reed;Hirofumi Uchimiya;Hirofumi Uchimiya

  • Selective triplet exciton formation in a single molecule

    Kensuke Kimura;Kuniyuki Miwa;Kuniyuki Miwa;Hiroshi Imada;Miyabi Imai-Imada

  • Cellular dissection of the degradation pattern of cortical cell death during aerenchyma formation of rice roots

    M. Kawai;P. K. Samarajeewa;R. A. Barrero;M. Nishiguchi

  • Symmetry-driven novel Kondo effect in a molecule.

    Emi Minamitani;Noriyuki Tsukahara;Daisuke Matsunaka;Yousoo Kim

  • State-selective dissociation of a single water molecule on an ultrathin MgO film

    Hyung-Joon Shin;Jaehoon Jung;Kenta Motobayashi;Susumu Yanagisawa

  • Evolution of Kondo Resonance from a Single Impurity Molecule to the Two-Dimensional Lattice

    Noriyuki Tsukahara;Susumu Shiraki;Saika Itou;Naoka Ohta

  • Structure and electronic state of the TiO2 and SrO terminated SrTiO3(100) surfaces

    Tokihisa Hikita;Takashi Hanada;Masahiro Kudo;Maki Kawai

  • Excitation of Molecular Vibrational Modes with Inelastic Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Processes: Examination through Action Spectra of cis-2-Butene on Pd(110)

    Yasuyuki Sainoo;Yousoo Kim;Toshiro Okawa;Tadahiro Komeda

  • An HREELS Study of Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers on Au(111)

    Hiroyuki S. Kato;Jaegeun Noh;Masahiko Hara;Maki Kawai

  • Surface structure and interface dynamics of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Au(111).

    Jaegeun Noh;Hiroyuki S. Kato;Maki Kawai;Masahiko Hara

  • Investigation of the electronic interaction between TiO2(1 1 0) surfaces and Au clusters by PES and STM

    Taketoshi Minato;Tomofumi Susaki;Susumu Shiraki;Hiroyuki S. Kato

Frequent Co-Authors

Hirofumi Uchimiya
Hirofumi Uchimiya Saitama University
Hirohito Ogasawara
Hirohito Ogasawara SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Tomoji Kawai
Tomoji Kawai Osaka University
Kazunari Domen
Kazunari Domen University of Tokyo
Nobuhiro Kosugi
Nobuhiro Kosugi Osaka University
Mischa Bonn
Mischa Bonn Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Toshihide Kobayashi
Toshihide Kobayashi University of Strasbourg
Kenzi Tamaru
Kenzi Tamaru University of Tokyo
Masateru Taniguchi
Masateru Taniguchi Osaka University
Jun Takeya
Jun Takeya University of Tokyo

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