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Ryoji Funahashi is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with significant contributions to materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. The scientist's work intersects several subfields including electronic, optical and magnetic materials, statistical and nonlinear physics, and mechanics of materials.

Funahashi's research topics include:

  • Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
  • Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity
  • Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties
  • Thermal properties of materials
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

The scientist has published articles in multiple peer-reviewed journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Materials Today Physics
  • Journal of Electronic Materials
  • Journal of Physics Energy
  • Advanced Engineering Materials
  • Journal of Applied Physics

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Key properties of inorganic thermoelectric materials-tables (version 1)" (2022), Journal of Physics Energy
  • "Textile-Integrated ZnO-Based Thermoelectric Device Using Atomic Layer Deposition" (2020), Advanced Engineering Materials
  • "Dual-boost thermoelectric power generation in a GeTe/Mg3Sb2-based module" (2023), Materials Today Physics
  • "Advanced Thermoelectrics" (2020), Journal of Applied Physics
  • "Avoiding errors in efficiency measurements of high-performance thermoelectric generator modules: Toward best practices for materials researchers" (2023), Materials Today Physics

Funahashi has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Yoko Matsumura
  • Tomoyuki Urata
  • Hiroyo Murakami
  • Hitomi Ikenishi
  • Robert Freer

Best Publications

  • An Oxide Single Crystal with High Thermoelectric Performance in Air

    Ryoji Funahashi;Ichiro Matsubara;Hiroshi Ikuta;Tsunehiro Takeuchi

  • Electrical and thermal properties of single-crystalline (Ca2CoO3)0.7CoO2 with a Ca3Co4O9 structure

    Masahiro Shikano;Ryoji Funahashi

  • Oxide Thermoelectric Materials: A Nanostructuring Approach

    Kunihito Koumoto;Yifeng Wang;Ruizhi Zhang;Atsuko Kosuga

  • Complex Oxide Materials for Potential Thermoelectric Applications

    Kunihito Koumoto;Ichiro Terasaki;Ryoji Funahashi

  • Oxide thermoelectrics: The challenges, progress, and outlook

    Jian He;Yufei Liu;Ryoji Funahashi

  • Thermoelectric Ceramics for Energy Harvesting

    Kunihito Koumoto;Ryoji Funahashi;Emmanuel Guilmeau;Yuzuru Miyazaki

  • Thermoelectric properties of Bi2Sr2Co2Ox polycrystalline materials

    Ryoji Funahashi;Ichiro Matsubara;Satoshi Sodeoka

  • High temperature thermoelectric properties of oxide Ca9Co12O28

    Siwen Li;Ryoji Funahashi;Ichiro Matsubara;Kazuo Ueno

  • Thermoelectrical properties of A-site substituted Ca1- xRexMnO3 system

    D. Flahaut;T. Mihara;R. Funahashi;N. Nabeshima

  • Bi2Sr2Co2Oy whiskers with high thermoelectric figure of merit

    Ryoji Funahashi;Masahiro Shikano

  • Thermoelectric properties of the Bi- and Na-substituted Ca3Co4O9 system

    Gaojie Xu;Ryoji Funahashi;Masahiro Shikano;Ichiro Matsubara

  • Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties of the New Oxide Materials Ca3-xBixCo4O9+δ (0.0 < x < 0.75)

    Siwen Li;Ryoji Funahashi;Ichiro Matsubara;Kazuo Ueno

  • Fabrication of an all-oxide thermoelectric power generator

    Ichiro Matsubara;Ryoji Funahashi;Tomonari Takeuchi;Satoshi Sodeoka

  • Contribution of electronic structure to the large thermoelectric power in layered cobalt oxides

    Tsunehiro Takeuchi;Takeshi Kondo;Tsuyoshi Takami;Hirofumi Takahashi

  • Thermoelectric properties of Pb- and Ca-doped (Bi2Sr2O4)xCoO2 whiskers

    Ryoji Funahashi;Ichiro Matsubara

  • Ca2.7Bi0.3Co4O9∕La0.9Bi0.1NiO3 thermoelectric deviceswith high output power density

    R. Funahashi;S. Urata;K. Mizuno;T. Kouuchi

  • High-temperature transport properties of Nb and Ta substituted CaMnO3 system

    Gaojie Xu;Ryoji Funahashi;Qirong Pu;Biao Liu

  • A portable thermoelectric-power-generating module composed of oxide devices

    R. Funahashi;M. Mikami;T. Mihara;S. Urata

  • Thermoelectric properties of highly grain-aligned and densified Co-based oxide ceramics

    Yuqin Zhou;Ichiro Matsubara;Shigeru Horii;Tomonari Takeuchi

  • High-temperature thermoelectric properties of single-crystal Ca3Co2O6

    M. Mikami;R. Funahashi;M. Yoshimura;Y. Mori

Frequent Co-Authors

Ichiro Terasaki
Ichiro Terasaki Nagoya University
Mitsuru Akashi
Mitsuru Akashi Osaka University
Hajime Ohgushi
Hajime Ohgushi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Hisatoshi Kobayashi
Hisatoshi Kobayashi National Institute for Materials Science
Junzo Tanaka
Junzo Tanaka Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hidetoshi Kita
Hidetoshi Kita Yamaguchi University
Takao Aoyagi
Takao Aoyagi Nihon University
Emmanuel Guilmeau
Emmanuel Guilmeau Université de Caen Normandie
Kunihito Koumoto
Kunihito Koumoto Nagoya University
Jun-ichi Shimoyama
Jun-ichi Shimoyama Aoyama Gakuin University

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