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Nobuyoshi Nakagawa

Nobuyoshi Nakagawa

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
33
Citations
3527
World Ranking
9472
National Ranking
214

Overview

Nobuyoshi Nakagawa is affiliated with Gunma University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in engineering, materials science, and energy. Their primary fields of study include Engineering with 17 publications, Materials Science with 11 publications, and Energy with 10 publications. Subfields of study cover Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, and Catalysis.

The scientist's main research topics are electrocatalysts for energy conversion, fuel cells and related materials, advanced battery technologies research, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, catalysis and oxidation reactions, and catalytic processes in materials science. These topics indicate a broad focus on energy-related materials and technologies, particularly within sustainable and advanced electrochemical systems.

Nakagawa's recent papers demonstrate active engagement with several aspects of energy and materials engineering. These include:

  • Significance of diffusion layers on the performance of liquid and vapor feed passive direct methanol fuel cells (2020, Energy)
  • Hollow Multishell-Structured TiO2/MAPbI3 Composite Improves Charge Utilization for Visible-Light Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution (2022, Inorganic Chemistry)
  • Activity Enhancement of a Carbon Electrode Material for Vanadium Redox Flow Battery by Electron-Beam Irradiation (2021, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING OF JAPAN)
  • Enhancement of the Electrode Activity of the Vanadium Redox Flow Battery by Higher Crystallinity of Carbon Matrix Using Seamless and Consecutive-porous Carbon Materials (2022, Journal of The Electrochemical Society)
  • Study of deep oxidation and sulfonation of graphene oxide as low-temperature fuel cell electrolyte (2020, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Nakagawa include Hirokazu Ishitobi, Honoka Doki, Soshi Shiraishi, Hidehiko Tsukada, and He Gao. Among these, Hirokazu Ishitobi stands out as a recurrent collaborator, having coauthored multiple publications.

The venues where Nakagawa has frequently published include International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Advanced Engineering Forum, Carbon Resources Conversion, ECS Meeting Abstracts, and Energy. These publication venues reflect Nakagawa's focus on energy systems, materials engineering, and electrochemical research.

Best Publications

  • Performance of an internal direct-oxidation carbon fuel cell and its evaluation by graphic exergy analysis

    Nobuyoshi Nakagawa;Masaru Ishida

  • DMFC employing a porous plate for an efficient operation at high methanol concentrations

    Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem;Nobuyoshi Nakagawa

  • Performance of a direct methanol fuel cell operated at atmospheric pressure

    Nobuyoshi Nakagawa;Yikun Xiu

  • Characterization of gas fluidization regimes using pressure fluctuations

    D. Bai;E. Shibuya;N. Nakagawa;K. Kato

  • Catalytic activity of Ni–YSZ–CeO2 anode for the steam reforming of methane in a direct internal-reforming solid oxide fuel cell

    Nobuyoshi Nakagawa;Hitoei Sagara;Kunio Kato

  • Catalytic activity of baker's yeast in a mediatorless microbial fuel cell

    Enas Taha Sayed;Takuya Tsujiguchi;Nobuyoshi Nakagawa

  • Factors affecting methanol transport in a passive DMFC employing a porous carbon plate

    Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem;Nobuto Morohashi;Nobuyoshi Nakagawa

  • Ultrahigh methanol electro-oxidation activity of PtRu nanoparticles prepared on TiO2-embedded carbon nanofiber support

    Yudai Ito;Taizo Takeuchi;Takuya Tsujiguchi;Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem

  • Control of methanol transport and separation in a DMFC with a porous support

    Nobuyoshi Nakagawa;Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem;Kazuya Sekimoto

  • Flow structure in a fast fluidized bed

    D. Bai;E. Shibuya;Y. Masuda;N. Nakagawa

  • Product distribution and the reaction kinetics at the anode of direct ethanol fuel cell with Pt/C, PtRu/C and PtRuRh/C

    Nobuyoshi Nakagawa;Yuki Kaneda;Masatsugu Wagatsuma;Takuya Tsujiguchi

  • Distinction between upward and downward flows in circulating fluidized beds

    D. Bai;E. Shibuya;Y. Masuda;K. Nishio

  • Disorder−Order Transition in Mesoscopic Silica Thin Films

    Nan Yao;Anthony Y. Ku;Nobuyoshi Nakagawa;Tu Lee

  • Carbon–CeO2 composite nanofibers as a promising support for a PtRu anode catalyst in a direct methanol fuel cell

    Chen Feng;Taizo Takeuchi;Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem;Takuya Tsujiguchi

  • Effect of oxygen and methanol supply modes on the performance of a DMFC employing a porous plate

    Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem;Nobuyoshi Nakagawa

  • Development of a passive direct methanol fuel cell stack for high methanol concentration

    Takuya Tsujiguchi;Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem;Takuya Kudo;Nobuyoshi Nakagawa

  • Electrode performance of a thin-film YSZ cell set on a porous ceramic substrate by rf sputtering technique

    N. Nakagawa;H. Yoshioka;C. Kuroda;M. Ishida

  • Evaluation of the Effective Reaction Zone at Ni ( NiO ) / Zirconia Anode by Using an Electrode with a Novel Structure

    Nobuyoshi Nakagawa;Hiroyuki Sakurai;Kenichiro Kondo;Takehide Morimoto

  • Yeast Extract as an Effective and Safe Mediator for the Baker’s-Yeast-Based Microbial Fuel Cell

    Enas Taha Sayed;Nasser A. M. Barakat;Nasser A. M. Barakat;Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem;H. Fouad;H. Fouad

  • Significance of diffusion layers on the performance of liquid and vapor feed passive direct methanol fuel cells

    Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem;Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem;Enas Taha Sayed;Nobuyoshi Nakagawa

  • Exergy analysis of a pervaporation system and its combination with a distillation column based on an energy utilization diagram

    Masaru Ishida;Nobuyoshi Nakagawa

  • Continuous Drying of a Fine Particles-Water Slurry in a Powder-Particle Fluidized Bed

    Nobuyoshi Nakagawa;Kazumichi Ohsawa;Takayuki Takarada;Kunio Kato

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem
Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem University of Sharjah
Takayuki Takarada
Takayuki Takarada Gunma University
Nasser A.M. Barakat
Nasser A.M. Barakat Minia University
Enas Taha Sayed
Enas Taha Sayed Minia University
Ilhan A. Aksay
Ilhan A. Aksay Princeton University
Nan Yao
Nan Yao Princeton University
Itaru Honma
Itaru Honma Tohoku University
Ahmed A. Elzatahry
Ahmed A. Elzatahry University of Houston
Sol M. Gruner
Sol M. Gruner Cornell University
Kiyoshi Kanamura
Kiyoshi Kanamura Tokyo Metropolitan University

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