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Masaki Takata

Masaki Takata

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Chemistry
Japan
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
108
Citations
40882
World Ranking
874
National Ranking
38

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Masaki Takata is a researcher affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan specializing in materials science. Their work predominantly spans the field of materials chemistry, with additional contributions to mechanical engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, condensed matter physics, and polymers and plastics.

The research topics covered by Takata include:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Biodegradable Polymer Synthesis and Properties
  • Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties
  • Advanced Materials and Composites
  • Metal and Thin Film Mechanics

Takata's recent publications illustrate a focus on both materials chemistry and biomedical topics. Selected recent papers include:

  • High-Density Frenkel Defects as Origin of N-Type Thermoelectric Performance and Low Thermal Conductivity in Mg3Sb2-Based Materials, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Highly Transparent and Tough Filler Composite Elastomer Inspired by the Cornea, 2020, ACS Materials Letters
  • Resident Memory-like CD8+ T Cells Are Involved in Chronic Inflammatory and Neurodegenerative Diseases in the CNS, 2023, Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • Changing the Structural and Physical Properties of 3-Arm Star Poly(δ-valerolactone)s by a Branch-Point Design, 2021, Chemical Communications
  • Mechanism of Elastic Properties of Biodegradable Poly[(R)-3-Hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate] Films Revealed by Synchrotron Radiation, 2021, ACS Omega

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Takata include:

  • Yusuke Ishigaki
  • Takanori Suzuki
  • Takuya Shimajiri
  • Luyan Wu
  • Wenhui Zeng

Their publications have appeared across multiple venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Heart and Vessels
  • Japanese Journal of JSCE
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation

Best Publications

  • Highly controlled acetylene accommodation in a metal–organic microporous material

    Ryotaro Matsuda;Ryo Kitaura;Ryo Kitaura;Susumu Kitagawa;Yoshiki Kubota

  • π-Conjugated Nickel Bis(dithiolene) Complex Nanosheet

    Tetsuya Kambe;Ryota Sakamoto;Ken Hoshiko;Kenji Takada

  • Pressure evolution of the low-temperature crystal structure and bonding of the superconductor FeSe (Tc =37 K)

    S. Margadonna;Y. Takabayashi;Y. Ohishi;Y. Mizuguchi;Y. Mizuguchi

  • Formation of a one-dimensional array of oxygen in a microporous metal-organic solid

    Ryo Kitaura;Susumu Kitagawa;Yoshiki Kubota;Tatsuo C. Kobayashi

  • Confirmation by X-ray diffraction of the endohedral nature of the metallofullerene Y@C82

    Masaki Takata;Buntaro Umeda;Eiji Nishibori;Makoto Sakata

  • Thermoresponsive actuation enabled by permittivity switching in an electrostatically anisotropic hydrogel.

    Youn Soo Kim;Mingjie Liu;Yasuhiro Ishida;Yasuo Ebina

  • The large Debye–Scherrer camera installed at SPring-8 BL02B2 for charge density studies

    E Nishibori;M Takata;K Kato;M Sakata

  • Evidence for Pb-O Covalency in Tetragonal PbTiO 3

    Yoshihiro Kuroiwa;Shinobu Aoyagi;Akikatsu Sawada;Jimpei Harada

  • An anisotropic hydrogel with electrostatic repulsion between cofacially aligned nanosheets

    Mingjie Liu;Yasuhiro Ishida;Yasuo Ebina;Takayoshi Sasaki

  • C66 fullerene encaging a scandium dimer

    Chun-Ru Wang;Tsutomu Kai;Tetsuo Tomiyama;Takuya Yoshida

  • Self-Accelerating CO Sorption in a Soft Nanoporous Crystal

    Hiroshi Sato;Wataru Kosaka;Ryotaro Matsuda;Akihiro Hori

  • Hydrogen storage in Pd nanocrystals covered with a metal–organic framework

    Guangqin Li;Hirokazu Kobayashi;Jared M. Taylor;Ryuichi Ikeda

  • Gas detection by structural variations of fluorescent guest molecules in a flexible porous coordination polymer

    Nobuhiro Yanai;Koji Kitayama;Yuh Hijikata;Hiroshi Sato

  • Nanosize Effects on Hydrogen Storage in Palladium

    Miho Yamauchi;Ryuichi Ikeda;Hiroshi Kitagawa;Masaki Takata

  • An Adsorbate Discriminatory Gate Effect in a Flexible Porous Coordination Polymer for Selective Adsorption of CO2 over C2H2

    Maw Lin Foo;Ryotaro Matsuda;Yuh Hijikata;Rajamani Krishna

  • A Scandium Carbide Endohedral Metallofullerene: (Sc2C2)@C84

    Chun-Ru Wang;Tsutomu Kai;Testuo Tomiyama;Takuya Yoshida

  • Effect of functional groups in MIL-101 on water sorption behavior

    George Akiyama;Ryotaro Matsuda;Hiroshi Sato;Akihiro Hori

  • Cellulose Hydrolysis by a New Porous Coordination Polymer Decorated with Sulfonic Acid Functional Groups

    George Akiyama;Ryotaro Matsuda;Hiroshi Sato;Masaki Takata

  • Kinetic Gate‐Opening Process in a Flexible Porous Coordination Polymer

    Daisuke Tanaka;Keiji Nakagawa;Masakazu Higuchi;Satoshi Horike

  • Selective sorption of oxygen and nitric oxide by an electron-donating flexible porous coordination polymer

    Satoru Shimomura;Masakazu Higuchi;Ryotaro Matsuda;Ko Yoneda

Frequent Co-Authors

Makoto Sakata
Makoto Sakata Nagoya University
Eiji Nishibori
Eiji Nishibori University of Tsukuba
Yoshiki Kubota
Yoshiki Kubota Osaka Metropolitan University
Susumu Kitagawa
Susumu Kitagawa Kyoto University
Taka-hisa Arima
Taka-hisa Arima University of Tokyo
Hisanori Shinohara
Hisanori Shinohara Nagoya University
Ryotaro Matsuda
Ryotaro Matsuda Nagoya University
Kunihisa Sugimoto
Kunihisa Sugimoto Kyoto University
Shinji Kohara
Shinji Kohara National Institute for Materials Science
Takuzo Aida
Takuzo Aida University of Tokyo

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