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Ryuhei Nakamura is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan and conducts research primarily in the field of energy, with a specialization in renewable energy, sustainability, and materials chemistry.

Their recent publications cover several aspects of energy conversion and electrochemical processes. Key papers include:

  • Enhancing the stability of cobalt spinel oxide towards sustainable oxygen evolution in acid, 2022, Nature Catalysis
  • Atomically dispersed hexavalent iridium oxide from MnO 2 reduction for oxygen evolution catalysis, 2024, Science
  • Acid-stable manganese oxides for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis, 2024, Nature Catalysis
  • CO 2 reduction driven by a pH gradient, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Enzyme Mimetic Active Intermediates for Nitrate Reduction in Neutral Aqueous Media, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Hideshi Ooka
  • Ailong Li
  • Shuang Kong
  • Daisuke Hashizume
  • Kiyohiro Adachi

Publication venues where Ryuhei Nakamura has contributed multiple works include:

  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Catalysis

Their research spans various subfields of study, such as:

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Chemistry

Main topics addressed in their work cover:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems

Best Publications

  • Nitrogen-doped carbon nanomaterials as non-metal electrocatalysts for water oxidation.

    Yong Zhao;Ryuhei Nakamura;Kazuhide Kamiya;Shuji Nakanishi

  • Mechanism for Visible Light Responses in Anodic Photocurrents at N-Doped TiO2 Film Electrodes

    Ryuhei Nakamura;Tomoaki Tanaka;Yoshihiro Nakato

  • Mechanisms of pH-dependent activity for water oxidation to molecular oxygen by MnO2 electrocatalysts.

    Toshihiro Takashima;Kazuhito Hashimoto;Ryuhei Nakamura

  • Visible-light sensitization of TiO2 photocatalysts by wet-method N doping

    Shinri Sato;Ryuhei Nakamura;Shinji Abe

  • Primary intermediates of oxygen photoevolution reaction on TiO2 (Rutile) particles, revealed by in situ FTIR absorption and photoluminescence measurements.

    Ryuhei Nakamura;Yoshihiro Nakato

  • Rate enhancement of bacterial extracellular electron transport involves bound flavin semiquinones

    Akihiro Okamoto;Kazuhito Hashimoto;Kenneth H. Nealson;Kenneth H. Nealson;Ryuhei Nakamura

  • Inhibition of Charge Disproportionation of MnO2 Electrocatalysts for Efficient Water Oxidation under Neutral Conditions

    Toshihiro Takashima;Kazuhito Hashimoto;Ryuhei Nakamura

  • In situ FTIR studies of primary intermediates of photocatalytic reactions on nanocrystalline TiO2 films in contact with aqueous solutions.

    Ryuhei Nakamura;Akihito Imanishi;Kei Murakoshi;Yoshihiro Nakato

  • Stable Potential Windows for Long-Term Electrocatalysis by Manganese Oxides Under Acidic Conditions.

    Ailong Li;Ailong Li;Hideshi Ooka;Nadège Bonnet;Toru Hayashi

  • Mechanism of Water Photooxidation Reaction at Atomically Flat TiO2 (Rutile) (110) and (100) Surfaces: Dependence on Solution pH

    Akihito Imanishi;Tomoaki Okamura;Naomichi Ohashi;Ryuhei Nakamura

  • Self-Constructed Electrically Conductive Bacterial Networks

    Ryuhei Nakamura;Fumiyoshi Kai;Akihiro Okamoto;Greg J. Newton

  • Uptake of self-secreted flavins as bound cofactors for extracellular electron transfer in Geobacter species

    Akihiro Okamoto;Koichiro Saito;Kengo Inoue;Kenneth H. Nealson

  • Molecular Mechanisms of Photoinduced Oxygen Evolution, PL Emission, and Surface Roughening at Atomically Smooth (110) and (100) n-TiO2 (Rutile) Surfaces in Aqueous Acidic Solutions

    Ryuhei Nakamura;Tomoaki Okamura;Naomichi Ohashi;and Akihito Imanishi

  • Thermoelectricity Generation and Electron–Magnon Scattering in a Natural Chalcopyrite Mineral from a Deep‐Sea Hydrothermal Vent

    Ran Ang;Ran Ang;Atta Ullah Khan;Naohito Tsujii;Ken Takai

  • Respiratory interactions of soil bacteria with (semi)conductive iron-oxide minerals.

    Souichiro Kato;Ryuhei Nakamura;Fumiyoshi Kai;Kazuya Watanabe

  • Design of all-inorganic molecular-based photocatalysts sensitive to visible light: Ti(IV)-O-Ce(III) bimetallic assemblies on mesoporous silica.

    Ryuhei Nakamura;Akihiro Okamoto;Hitoshi Osawa;Hiroshi Irie

  • Regulating proton-coupled electron transfer for efficient water splitting by manganese oxides at neutral pH.

    Akira Yamaguchi;Riko Inuzuka;Toshihiro Takashima;Toru Hayashi

  • Cell-secreted Flavins Bound to Membrane Cytochromes Dictate Electron Transfer Reactions to Surfaces with Diverse Charge and pH

    Akihiro Okamoto;Shafeer Kalathil;Xiao Deng;Kazuhito Hashimoto

  • Three-dimensional conductive nanowire networks for maximizing anode performance in microbial fuel cells.

    Yong Zhao;Kazuya Watanabe;Ryuhei Nakamura;Shigeki Mori

  • Mechanistic Investigation of Water Oxidation Catalyzed by Uniform, Assembled MnO Nanoparticles

    Kyoungsuk Jin;Hongmin Seo;Toru Hayashi;Mani Balamurugan

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuhito Hashimoto
Kazuhito Hashimoto National Institute for Materials Science
Yoshihiro Nakato
Yoshihiro Nakato Osaka University
Masahiro Yamamoto
Masahiro Yamamoto University of Tokyo
Ken Takai
Ken Takai Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Kenneth H. Nealson
Kenneth H. Nealson University of Southern California
Kazuya Watanabe
Kazuya Watanabe Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences
Katsuhiko Suzuki
Katsuhiko Suzuki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
David T. Allen
David T. Allen The University of Texas at Austin
Lin Zhuang
Lin Zhuang Wuhan University
Bing-Joe Hwang
Bing-Joe Hwang National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

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