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Naoto Tamai is affiliated with Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan and specializes in the field of Materials Science, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry. Their research encompasses various subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Molecular Biology, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum related to advanced materials and their properties. Key areas include Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, and Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices.

Naoto Tamai has published in a diverse set of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets consist of:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Digestive Endoscopy
  • Nano Letters
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Their recent papers illustrate a range of interests within materials and chemical sciences. Notable recent publications include:

  • Self-Associating Curved π-Electronic Systems with Electron-Donating and Hydrogen-Bonding Properties, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Morphology-Dependent Coherent Acoustic Phonon Vibrations and Phonon Beat of Au Nanopolyhedrons, 2021, ACS Omega
  • Effect of the Interfacial Potential on Elementary Exciton Processes in InP-Based Core/Shell Quantum Dots, 2024, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Enhancing NIR-to-visible photon upconversion in cast solid by introducing bulky substituents in rubrene and by suppressing back energy transfer, 2023, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Hot electron transfer in Zn-Ag-In-Te nanocrystal-methyl viologen complexes enhanced with higher-energy photon excitation, 2020, RSC Advances

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work, with several frequent co-authors who have contributed to multiple joint research projects. These collaborators include:

  • Daichi Eguchi
  • Yoichi Kobayashi
  • Yohei Haketa
  • Mika Miyasue
  • Ryuma Sato

Overall, Naoto Tamai's research is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach spanning chemistry, physics, and engineering disciplines related to materials innovation and nanotechnology applications.

Best Publications

  • Organic chemistry: a digital fluorescent molecular photoswitch.

    Masahiro Irie;Tuyoshi Fukaminato;Takatoshi Sasaki;Naoto Tamai

  • Ultrafast Dynamics of Photochromic Systems.

    Naoto Tamai;Hiroshi Miyasaka

  • Fluorescence lifetime standards for time and frequency domain fluorescence spectroscopy

    Noël Boens;Wenwu Qin;Nikola Basarić;Johan Hofkens

  • Digital photoswitching of fluorescence based on the photochromism of diarylethene derivatives at a single-molecule level.

    Tuyoshi Fukaminato;Takatoshi Sasaki;Tsuyoshi Kawai;Naoto Tamai

  • Fluorescence decays and spectral properties of rhodamine B in submono-, mono-, and multilayer systems

    Klaus Kemnitz;Naoto Tamai;Iwao Yamazaki;Nobuaki Nakashima

  • Geometry dependence of intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer in synthetic zinc-ferric hybrid diporphyrins

    Atsuhiro Osuka;Kazuhiro Maruyama;Noboru Mataga;Tsuyoshi Asahi

  • Electronic excitation transfer in organized molecular assemblies

    Iwao. Yamazaki;Naoto. Tamai;Tomoko. Yamazaki

  • Rapid optical switching by means of photoinduced change in refractive index of azobenzene liquid crystals detected by reflection-mode analysis

    Atsushi Shishido;Osamu Tsutsumi;Akihiko Kanazawa;Takeshi Shiono

  • Photoluminescence switching of azobenzene-conjugated Pt(II) terpyridine complexes by trans-cis photoisomerization.

    Tomona Yutaka;Ichiro Mori;Masato Kurihara;Jun Mizutani

  • Chlorophyll-a Derivatives with Various Hydrocarbon Ester Groups for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Static and Ultrafast Evaluations on Electron Injection and Charge Collection Processes

    Xiao-Feng Wang;Xiao-Feng Wang;Hitoshi Tamiaki;Li Wang;Naoto Tamai

  • Femtosecond Dynamics of a Thiophene Oligomer with a Photoswitch by Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

    Naoto Tamai;Tetsuyuki Saika;Takeo Shimidzu;Masahiro Irie

  • Picosecond fluorescence spectroscopy on excimer formation and excitation energy transfer of pyrene in Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer films

    Iwao. Yamazaki;Naoto. Tamai;Tomoko. Yamazaki

  • Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of a spirooxazine photochromic reaction

    Naoto Tamai;Hiroshi Masuhara

  • Dynamics of photochromism in salicylideneaniline: A femtosecond spectroscopic study

    Sivaprasad Mitra;Naoto Tamai

  • Picosecond laser photolysis studies on a photochromic dithienylethene in solution and in crystalline phases

    Hiroshi Miyasaka;Takahiro Nobuto;Akira Itaya;Naoto Tamai

  • How fast is interfacial hole transfer? In situ monitoring of carrier dynamics in anatase TiO2 nanoparticles by femtosecond laser spectroscopy

    Xiujuan Yang;Naoto Tamai

  • Singlet excitation energy transfer in conformationally restricted zinc-free-base hybrid diporphyrins

    Atsuhiro Osuka;Kazuhiro Maruyama;Iwao Yamazaki;Naoto Tamai

  • Influence of Acid on Luminescence Properties of Thioglycolic Acid-Capped CdTe Quantum Dots

    Abhijit Mandal;Naoto Tamai

  • Synthesis, Characterization, and Photochemical Properties of Azobenzene-Conjugated Ru(II) and Rh(III) Bis(Terpyridine) Complexes

    Tomona Yutaka;Ichiro Mori;Masato Kurihara;Jun Mizutani

  • Plasmonic p-n Junction for Infrared Light to Chemical Energy Conversion.

    Zichao Lian;Masanori Sakamoto;Junie J. M. Vequizo;C. S. Kumara Ranasinghe

  • Excitation energy flow in chlorosome antennas of green photosynthetic bacteria

    Mamoru Mimuro;Tsunenori Nozawa;Naoto Tamai;Keizou Shimada

Frequent Co-Authors

Iwao Yamazaki
Iwao Yamazaki Hokkaido University
Hiroshi Masuhara
Hiroshi Masuhara National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Noboru Mataga
Noboru Mataga Osaka University
Kazuhiro Maruyama
Kazuhiro Maruyama Kyoto University
Masahiro Irie
Masahiro Irie Rikkyo University
Tsuyoshi Kawai
Tsuyoshi Kawai Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Hiroshi Nishihara
Hiroshi Nishihara Tokyo University of Science
Susumu Kuwabata
Susumu Kuwabata Osaka University
Tsukasa Torimoto
Tsukasa Torimoto Nagoya University
Toshiharu Teranishi
Toshiharu Teranishi Kyoto University

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