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Ryo Kitaura

Ryo Kitaura

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
51
Citations
26925
World Ranking
9710
National Ranking
579

Chemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
26922
World Ranking
13754
National Ranking
1063

Ryo Kitaura 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 Ryo Kitaura sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 234 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ryo Kitaura 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 Ryo Kitaura sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ryo Kitaura is a researcher affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan, focusing primarily on materials science and engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields, including materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, and polymers and plastics.

Their research extensively covers topics related to two-dimensional materials and applications, perovskite materials and applications, graphene research and applications, MXene and MAX phase materials, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, topological materials and phenomena, and conducting polymers and applications.

Among their notable recent publications are studies such as:

  • Observation of Drastic Electronic-Structure Change in a One-Dimensional Moiré Superlattice, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Versatile Post-Doping toward Two-Dimensional Semiconductors, 2021, ACS Nano
  • Unveiling the Photoinduced Electron-Donating Character of MoS2 in Covalently Linked Hybrids Featuring Perylenediimide, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Interlayer Interactions in 1D Van der Waals Moiré Superlattices, 2021, Advanced Science
  • Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanoribbons Based on a Controllable O2 Etching, 2023, JACS Au

Kitaura has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Takashi Taniguchi (16 collaborations)
  • Kenji Watanabe (16 collaborations)
  • Rubén Cantón-Vitoria (12 collaborations)
  • T Hotta (10 collaborations)
  • Mina Maruyama (8 collaborations)

Their work is regularly published in a diverse array of academic venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nanoscale
  • Physical Review B
  • Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
  • Applied Physics Express

Throughout their career, Ryo Kitaura has contributed significantly to the understanding and development of novel materials, focusing on structural and electronic properties of low-dimensional systems and semiconductor materials. Their investigations integrate experimental and theoretical approaches to address fundamental materials chemistry and engineering challenges.

Best Publications

  • Functional porous coordination polymers.

    Susumu Kitagawa;Ryo Kitaura;Ryo Kitaura;Shin-ichiro Noro

  • Highly controlled acetylene accommodation in a metal–organic microporous material

    Ryotaro Matsuda;Ryo Kitaura;Ryo Kitaura;Susumu Kitagawa;Yoshiki Kubota

  • Porous Coordination‐Polymer Crystals with Gated Channels Specific for Supercritical Gases

    Ryo Kitaura;Kenji Seki;George Akiyama;Susumu Kitagawa

  • Funktionale poröse Koordinationspolymere

    Susumu Kitagawa;Ryo Kitaura;Ryo Kitaura;Shin‐ichiro Noro

  • Framework Engineering by Anions and Porous Functionalities of Cu(II)/4,4‘-bpy Coordination Polymers

    Shin Ichiro Noro;Ryo Kitaura;Mitsuru Kondo;Susumu Kitagawa

  • A Pillared‐Layer Coordination Polymer Network Displaying Hysteretic Sorption: [Cu2(pzdc)2(dpyg)]n (pzdc= Pyrazine‐2,3‐dicarboxylate; dpyg=1,2‐Di(4‐pyridyl)glycol)

    Ryo Kitaura;Kentaro Fujimoto;Shin-ichiro Noro;Mitsuru Kondo

  • Formation of a one-dimensional array of oxygen in a microporous metal-organic solid

    Ryo Kitaura;Susumu Kitagawa;Yoshiki Kubota;Tatsuo C. Kobayashi

  • Novel flexible frameworks of porous cobalt(II) coordination polymers that show selective guest adsorption based on the switching of hydrogen-bond pairs of amide groups

    Kazuhiro Uemura;Susumu Kitagawa;Mitsuru Kondo;Kôichi Fukui

  • Immobilization of a metallo schiff base into a microporous coordination polymer.

    Ryo Kitaura;Goro Onoyama;Hirotoshi Sakamoto;Ryotaro Matsuda

  • Direct Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of WS2 Atomic Layers on Hexagonal Boron Nitride

    Mitsuhiro Okada;Takumi Sawazaki;Kenji Watanabe;Takashi Taniguch

  • Guest shape-responsive fitting of porous coordination polymer with shrinkable framework.

    Ryotaro Matsuda;Ryo Kitaura;Susumu Kitagawa;Yoshiki Kubota

  • A layered ionic crystal of polar Li@C 60 superatoms

    Shinobu Aoyagi;Eiji Nishibori;Hiroshi Sawa;Kunihisa Sugimoto

  • Nanochannel-Promoted Polymerization of Substituted Acetylenes in Porous Coordination Polymers

    Takashi Uemura;Ryo Kitaura;Ryo Kitaura;Yusuke Ohta;Masataka Nagaoka

  • Direct Observation of Hydrogen Molecules Adsorbed onto a Microporous Coordination Polymer

    Yoshiki Kubota;Masaki Takata;Ryotaro Matsuda;Ryo Kitaura

  • Nanohybridization of Polyoxometalate Clusters and Single‐Wall Carbon Nanotubes: Applications in Molecular Cluster Batteries

    Naoya Kawasaki;Heng Wang;Ryo Nakanishi;Shun Hamanaka

  • Rational design and crystal structure determination of a 3-D metal-organic jungle-gym-like open framework.

    Ryo Kitaura;Ryo Kitaura;Fumiyasu Iwahori;Ryotaro Matsuda;Susumu Kitagawa

  • Fabrication of Metal Nanowires in Carbon Nanotubes via Versatile Nano-Template Reaction

    Ryo Kitaura;Naoki Imazu;Keita Kobayashi;Hisanori Shinohara

  • Single-wall carbon nanotubes encaging linear chain C10H2 polyyne molecules inside

    Daisuke Nishide;Hirofumi Dohi;Tomonari Wakabayashi;Eiji Nishibori

  • Size‐Selective Complexation and Extraction of Endohedral Metallofullerenes with Cycloparaphenylene

    Yusuke Nakanishi;Haruka Omachi;Sanae Matsuura;Yasumitsu Miyata

  • Length-sorted semiconducting carbon nanotubes for high-mobility thin film transistors

    Yasumitsu Miyata;Kazunari Shiozawa;Yuki Asada;Yutaka Ohno

  • 27pYK-1 Direct observation of hydrogen molecules adsorbed onto a microporous coordination polymer

    Yoshiki Kubota;Masaki Takata;Ryotaro Matsuda;Ryo Kitaura

Frequent Co-Authors

Hisanori Shinohara
Hisanori Shinohara Nagoya University
Yasumitsu Miyata
Yasumitsu Miyata Tokyo Metropolitan University
Susumu Kitagawa
Susumu Kitagawa Kyoto University
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science
Ryotaro Matsuda
Ryotaro Matsuda Nagoya University
Masaki Takata
Masaki Takata Tohoku University
Yoshiki Kubota
Yoshiki Kubota Osaka Metropolitan University
Yuhei Miyauchi
Yuhei Miyauchi Kyoto University
Makoto Sakata
Makoto Sakata Nagoya University

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