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Masashi Okubo

Masashi Okubo

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Chemistry

D-Index
49
Citations
10524
World Ranking
14693
National Ranking
1148

Overview

Masashi Okubo is affiliated with Waseda University in Japan and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their research intersects several subfields, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Polymers and Plastics.

Okubo's work focuses on topics related to advancements and technologies in battery materials, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and nanomaterials. The main topics of their research include:

  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials

The frequent publication venues for their work include ECS Meeting Abstracts, Advanced Functional Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, Chemistry of Materials, and Electrochemistry. These venues reflect a concentration on materials chemistry and electrochemical engineering disciplines.

Among Okubo's recent scientific papers are:

  • "Capacitive versus Pseudocapacitive Storage in MXene" (2020, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • "Nonpolarizing oxygen-redox capacity without O-O dimerization in Na2Mn3O7" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Multiorbital bond formation for stable oxygen-redox reaction in battery electrodes" (2020, Energy & Environmental Science)
  • "Anhydrous Fast Proton Transport Boosted by the Hydrogen Bond Network in a Dense Oxide-Ion Array of α-MoO 3" (2022, Advanced Materials)
  • "Relationship between Electric Double-Layer Structure of MXene Electrode and Its Surface Functional Groups" (2022, Chemistry of Materials)

Okubo has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Atsuo Yamada, Kosuke Kawai, Xiang-Mei Shi, Jun Kikkawa, and Daisuke Asakura. The most frequent coauthors each have multiple joint publications with Okubo.

Best Publications

  • Pseudocapacitance of MXene nanosheets for high-power sodium-ion hybrid capacitors

    Xianfen Wang;Satoshi Kajiyama;Hiroki Iinuma;Eiji Hosono

  • Nanosize Effect on High-Rate Li-Ion Intercalation in LiCoO2 Electrode

    Masashi Okubo;Masashi Okubo;Eiji Hosono;Jedeok Kim;Masaya Enomoto

  • Sodium-Ion Intercalation Mechanism in MXene Nanosheets

    Satoshi Kajiyama;Lucie Szabova;Keitaro Sodeyama;Keitaro Sodeyama;Hiroki Iinuma

  • MXene as a Charge Storage Host

    Masashi Okubo;Akira Sugahara;Satoshi Kajiyama;Atsuo Yamada;Atsuo Yamada

  • Sodium iron pyrophosphate: A novel 3.0 v iron-based cathode for sodium-ion batteries

    Prabeer Barpanda;Tian Ye;Shin Ichi Nishimura;Shin Ichi Nishimura;Sai Cheong Chung

  • Intermediate honeycomb ordering to trigger oxygen redox chemistry in layered battery electrode

    Benoit Mortemard De Boisse;Benoit Mortemard De Boisse;Guandong Liu;Jiangtao Ma;Shin Ichi Nishimura;Shin Ichi Nishimura

  • Enhanced Li-Ion Accessibility in MXene Titanium Carbide by Steric Chloride Termination

    Satoshi Kajiyama;Lucie Szabova;Hiroki Iinuma;Akira Sugahara

  • Fast Li-Ion Insertion into Nanosized LiMn2O4 without Domain Boundaries

    Masashi Okubo;Yoshifumi Mizuno;Hirotoshi Yamada;Jedeok Kim

  • Bimetallic cyanide-bridged coordination polymers as lithium ion cathode materials: core@shell nanoparticles with enhanced cyclability.

    Daisuke Asakura;Carissa H. Li;Yoshifumi Mizuno;Masashi Okubo

  • Molecular Orbital Principles of Oxygen-Redox Battery Electrodes

    Masashi Okubo;Atsuo Yamada

  • Highly Reversible Oxygen-Redox Chemistry at 4.1 V in Na4/7−x[□1/7Mn6/7]O2 (□: Mn Vacancy)

    Benoit Mortemard de Boisse;Shin ichi Nishimura;Shin ichi Nishimura;Eriko Watanabe;Laura Lander

  • Switching Redox-Active Sites by Valence Tautomerism in Prussian Blue Analogues AxMny[Fe(CN)6]·nH2O (A: K, Rb): Robust Frameworks for Reversible Li Storage

    M. Okubo;D. Asakura;Y. Mizuno;J.-D. Kim

  • Electrode Properties of P2–Na2/3MnyCo1–yO2 as Cathode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries

    Xianfen Wang;Mao Tamaru;Mao Tamaru;Masashi Okubo;Masashi Okubo;Atsuo Yamada;Atsuo Yamada

  • High power Na-ion rechargeable battery with single-crystalline Na0.44MnO2 nanowire electrode

    Eiji Hosono;Tatsuya Saito;Junichi Hoshino;Masashi Okubo

  • Role of Ligand-to-Metal Charge Transfer in O3-Type NaFeO2–NaNiO2 Solid Solution for Enhanced Electrochemical Properties

    Xianfen Wang;Guandong Liu;Tatsumi Iwao;Masashi Okubo;Masashi Okubo

  • Electrochemical Mg2+ intercalation into a bimetallic CuFe Prussian blue analog in aqueous electrolytes

    Yoshifumi Mizuno;Yoshifumi Mizuno;Masashi Okubo;Masashi Okubo;Eiji Hosono;Tetsuichi Kudo

  • Suppressed activation energy for interfacial charge transfer of a Prussian blue analog thin film electrode with hydrated ions (Li+, Na +, and Mg2+)

    Yoshifumi Mizuno;Yoshifumi Mizuno;Masashi Okubo;Eiji Hosono;Tetsuichi Kudo

  • Negative dielectric constant of water confined in nanosheets

    Akira Sugahara;Yasunobu Ando;Satoshi Kajiyama;Koji Yazawa

  • Off‐Stoichiometry in Alluaudite‐Type Sodium Iron Sulfate Na2+2xFe2−x(SO4)3 as an Advanced Sodium Battery Cathode Material

    Gosuke Oyama;Shin ichi Nishimura;Shin ichi Nishimura;Yuya Suzuki;Masashi Okubo;Masashi Okubo

  • Fabrication of a Cyanide-Bridged Coordination Polymer Electrode for Enhanced Electrochemical Ion Storage Ability

    Daisuke Asakura;Masashi Okubo;Yoshifumi Mizuno;Tetsuichi Kudo

  • Synthesis of Triaxial LiFePO4 Nanowire with a VGCF Core Column and a Carbon Shell through the Electrospinning Method

    Eiji Hosono;Yonggang Wang;Noriyuki Kida;Masaya Enomoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Atsuo Yamada
Atsuo Yamada University of Tokyo
Haoshen Zhou
Haoshen Zhou Nanjing University
Eiji Hosono
Eiji Hosono National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Itaru Honma
Itaru Honma Tohoku University
Yoshitaka Tateyama
Yoshitaka Tateyama National Institute for Materials Science
Yuki Yamada
Yuki Yamada University of Tokyo
Prabeer Barpanda
Prabeer Barpanda Indian Institute of Science
Jinghua Guo
Jinghua Guo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Masaharu Oshima
Masaharu Oshima University of Tokyo
Yonggang Wang
Yonggang Wang Fudan University

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