2026 Masatsugu Shimomura: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	71	4311	4175	197	193	446	15407
Chemistry	72	5372	4884	322	301	400	15602

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Materials Science

4311

4175

197

193

446

15407

Chemistry

5372

4884

322

301

400

15602

Materials Science

D-Index

Citations

15407

World Ranking

4311

National Ranking

197

Chemistry

D-Index

Citations

15602

World Ranking

5372

National Ranking

322

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

488
Citations
Single-Step Fabrication of Transparent Superhydrophobic Porous Polymer Films

Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

483
Citations
Anisotropic Electric Conductivity in an Aligned DNA Cast Film

Yoshio Okahata;Takuya Kobayashi;Kentaro Tanaka;Masatsugu Shimomura

483
Citations
Water-Assisted Formation of Micrometer-Size Honeycomb Patterns of Polymers

Olaf Karthaus;Norihiko Maruyama;Xavier Cieren;Masatsugu Shimomura

482
Citations
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

449
Citations
Bottom-up strategy of materials fabrication: a new trend in nanotechnology of soft materials

Masatsugu Shimomura;Tetsuro Sawadaishi

420
Citations
Mesoscopic patterns of molecular aggregates on solid substrates

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

366
Citations
ORIENTATION AND SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AZOBENZENE CHROMOPHORE IN THE AMMONIUM BILAYER ASSEMBLY.

Masatsugu Shimomura;R. Ando;T. Kunitake

319
Citations
Simple fabrication of micro lens arrays.

Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

312
Citations
Preparation of Honeycomb-Patterned Polyimide Films by Self-Organization

Hiroshi Yabu;Masaru Tanaka;Kuniharu Ijiro;Masatsugu Shimomura

301
Citations
Fluorescence and photoisomerization of azobenzene-containing bilayer membranes

Masatsugu Shimomura;Toyoki Kunitake

272
Citations
UNIQUE PROPERTIES OF CHROMOPHORE-CONTAINING BILAYER AGGREGATES: ENHANCED CHIRALITY AND PHOTOCHEMICALLY INDUCED MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE

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

265
Citations
Fabrication of honeycomb film of an amphiphilic copolymer at the air-water interface

Takehiro Nishikawa;Ryusuke Ookura;Jin Nishida;Keiko Arai

245
Citations
Preparation of Self‐Organized Mesoscale Polymer Patterns on a Solid Substrate: Continuous Pattern Formation from a Receding Meniscus

Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

236
Citations
Frustrated Phases of Block Copolymers in Nanoparticles

Takeshi Higuchi;Atsunori Tajima;Kiwamu Motoyoshi;Hiroshi Yabu

224
Citations
Preparation of Langmuir-Blodgett films of azobenzene amphiphiles as polyion complexes

Masatsugu Shimomura;Toyoki Kunitake

195
Citations
Unique Phase-Separation Structures of Block-Copolymer Nanoparticles†

Hiroshi Yabu;Takeshi Higuchi;Masatsugu Shimomura

190
Citations
Spontaneous formation of polymer nanoparticles with inner micro-phase separation structures

Takeshi Higuchi;Atsunori Tajima;Hiroshi Yabu;Masatsugu Shimomura

186
Citations
Micropatterns Based on Deformation of a Viscoelastic Honeycomb Mesh

Takehiro Nishikawa;Makiko Nonomura;Keiko Arai;Junko Hayashi

175
Citations
Honeycomb-patterned thin films of amphiphilic polymers as cell culture substrates

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

170
Citations