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Masatsugu Shimomura

Masatsugu Shimomura

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
71
Citations
15407
World Ranking
4309
National Ranking
197

Chemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
15602
World Ranking
5372
National Ranking
323

Masatsugu Shimomura publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masatsugu Shimomura sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 446 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Masatsugu Shimomura D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masatsugu Shimomura sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Masatsugu Shimomura is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science, Engineering, and Energy, with notable contributions in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Polymers and Plastics.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, including advanced photocatalysis techniques, advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, TiO2 photocatalysis and solar cells, gas sensing nanomaterials and sensors, thermal properties of materials, 2D materials and applications, and copper-based nanomaterials and applications.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Masatsugu Shimomura include:

  • Perspective on ultrathin layered Ni-doped MoS2 hybrid nanostructures for the enhancement of electrochemical properties in supercapacitors (2023, Journal of Energy Chemistry)
  • Conductometric NO2 gas sensor based on Co-incorporated MoS2 nanosheets for room temperature applications (2022, Sensors and Actuators B Chemical)
  • Dependence of photocatalysis on electron trapping in Ag-doped flowerlike rutile-phase TiO2 film by facile hydrothermal method (2020, Applied Surface Science)
  • Solution processed edge activated Ni-MoS2 nanosheets for highly sensitive room temperature NO2 gas sensor applications (2022, Applied Surface Science)
  • Ultrasensitive and reversible NO2 gas sensor based on SnS2/TiO2 heterostructures for room temperature applications (2023, Chemosphere)

Shimomura has frequently published in several venues including:

  • Materials Letters
  • Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • RSC Advances
  • CrystEngComm
  • AIP Advances

The scientist's frequent co-authors are:

  • J. Archana
  • S. Harish
  • M. Navaneethan
  • Mohd Khairul Ahmad
  • Y. Hayakawa

Best Publications

  • Superhydrophobic and lipophobic properties of self-organized honeycomb and pincushion structures.

    Hiroshi Yabu;Masafumi Takebayashi;Masaru Tanaka;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Single-Step Fabrication of Transparent Superhydrophobic Porous Polymer Films

    Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Anisotropic Electric Conductivity in an Aligned DNA Cast Film

    Yoshio Okahata;Takuya Kobayashi;Kentaro Tanaka;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Water-Assisted Formation of Micrometer-Size Honeycomb Patterns of Polymers

    Olaf Karthaus;Norihiko Maruyama;Xavier Cieren;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • FORMATION OF STABLE BILAYER ASSEMBLIES IN WATER FROM SINGLE-CHAIN AMPHIPHILES. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE AMPHIPHILE STRUCTURE AND THE AGGREGATE MORPHOLOGY

    T. Kunitake;Y. Okahata;M. Shimomura;S. Yasunami

  • Bottom-up strategy of materials fabrication: a new trend in nanotechnology of soft materials

    Masatsugu Shimomura;Tetsuro Sawadaishi

  • Mesoscopic patterns of molecular aggregates on solid substrates

    N. Maruyama;T. Koito;J. Nishida;T. Sawadaishi

  • ORIENTATION AND SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AZOBENZENE CHROMOPHORE IN THE AMMONIUM BILAYER ASSEMBLY.

    Masatsugu Shimomura;R. Ando;T. Kunitake

  • Simple fabrication of micro lens arrays.

    Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Preparation of Honeycomb-Patterned Polyimide Films by Self-Organization

    Hiroshi Yabu;Masaru Tanaka;Kuniharu Ijiro;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Fluorescence and photoisomerization of azobenzene-containing bilayer membranes

    Masatsugu Shimomura;Toyoki Kunitake

  • UNIQUE PROPERTIES OF CHROMOPHORE-CONTAINING BILAYER AGGREGATES: ENHANCED CHIRALITY AND PHOTOCHEMICALLY INDUCED MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE

    T. Kunitake;N. Nakashima;M. Shimomura;Y. Okahata

  • Fabrication of honeycomb film of an amphiphilic copolymer at the air-water interface

    Takehiro Nishikawa;Ryusuke Ookura;Jin Nishida;Keiko Arai

  • Preparation of Self‐Organized Mesoscale Polymer Patterns on a Solid Substrate: Continuous Pattern Formation from a Receding Meniscus

    Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Frustrated Phases of Block Copolymers in Nanoparticles

    Takeshi Higuchi;Atsunori Tajima;Kiwamu Motoyoshi;Hiroshi Yabu

  • Preparation of Langmuir-Blodgett films of azobenzene amphiphiles as polyion complexes

    Masatsugu Shimomura;Toyoki Kunitake

  • Unique Phase-Separation Structures of Block-Copolymer Nanoparticles†

    Hiroshi Yabu;Takeshi Higuchi;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Spontaneous formation of polymer nanoparticles with inner micro-phase separation structures

    Takeshi Higuchi;Atsunori Tajima;Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

  • Micropatterns Based on Deformation of a Viscoelastic Honeycomb Mesh

    Takehiro Nishikawa;Makiko Nonomura;Keiko Arai;Junko Hayashi

  • Honeycomb-patterned thin films of amphiphilic polymers as cell culture substrates

    Takehiro Nishikawa;Jin Nishida;Ryusuke Ookura;Shin Ichiro Nishimura

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Yabu
Hiroshi Yabu Tohoku University
Masaru Tanaka
Masaru Tanaka Kyushu University
Toyoki Kunitake
Toyoki Kunitake Kyushu University
Hiroshi Jinnai
Hiroshi Jinnai Tohoku University
Masahiko Hara
Masahiko Hara Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yoshio Okahata
Yoshio Okahata Tokyo Institute of Technology
Riichiro Abe
Riichiro Abe Niigata University
Satoru Todo
Satoru Todo Hokkaido University
Shin-Ichiro Nishimura
Shin-Ichiro Nishimura Hokkaido University
Kazuo Akagi
Kazuo Akagi Ritsumeikan University

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