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Overview

Seiji Akita is affiliated with Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan, focusing primarily on engineering disciplines. Their research spans several specialized subfields, including Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's published works frequently appear in prominent venues such as Advanced Materials, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Advanced Materials Technologies, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, and ACS Nano. These journals reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research, which bridges materials science and biomedical applications.

Akita's recent notable publications include:

  • Multimodal Plant Healthcare Flexible Sensor System, 2020, ACS Nano
  • A Wearable Body Condition Sensor System with Wireless Feedback Alarm Functions, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Wireless and Flexible Skin Moisture and Temperature Sensor Sheets toward the Study of Thermoregulator Center, 2021, Advanced Healthcare Materials
  • Multimodal Wearable Sensor Sheet for Health-Related Chemical and Physical Monitoring, 2021, ACS Sensors
  • Highly stable Pd/HNb3O8-based flexible humidity sensor for perdurable wireless wearable applications, 2021, Nanoscale Horizons

Among frequent collaborators are Takayuki Arie, Kuniharu Takei, Satoko Honda, Yuyao Lu, and Yusuke Fujita, with multiple coauthored papers signaling ongoing partnerships in research projects.

Akita's work covers several interconnected topics, including:

  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Analytical Chemistry and Sensors

This body of research reflects a focus on developing flexible, wearable sensor systems and exploring materials for health monitoring and environmental sensing. The combination of biomedical engineering and materials chemistry subfields supports innovation in non-invasive sensor technologies and multifunctional devices with practical applications in healthcare and plant monitoring.

Best Publications

  • Orientation and purification of carbon nanotubes using ac electrophoresis

    Kunitoshi Yamamoto;Seiji Akita;Yoshikazu Nakayama

  • Wearable, Human‐Interactive, Health‐Monitoring, Wireless Devices Fabricated by Macroscale Printing Techniques

    Wataru Honda;Shingo Harada;Takayuki Arie;Seiji Akita

  • Carbon-nanotube tips for scanning probe microscopy: Preparation by a controlled process and observation of deoxyribonucleic acid

    Hidehiro Nishijima;Satsuki Kamo;Seiji Akita;Yoshikazu Nakayama

  • Toward flexible and wearable human-interactive health-monitoring devices

    Kuniharu Takei;Wataru Honda;Shingo Harada;Takayuki Arie

  • Printed multifunctional flexible device with an integrated motion sensor for health care monitoring.

    Yuki Yamamoto;Shingo Harada;Daisuke Yamamoto;Wataru Honda

  • Fully printed flexible fingerprint-like three-axis tactile and slip force and temperature sensors for artificial skin.

    Shingo Harada;Kenichiro Kanao;Yuki Yamamoto;Takayuki Arie

  • Wearable, Flexible, and Multifunctional Healthcare Device with an ISFET Chemical Sensor for Simultaneous Sweat pH and Skin Temperature Monitoring

    Shogo Nakata;Takayuki Arie;Seiji Akita;Kuniharu Takei

  • Fully Printed, Highly Sensitive Multifunctional Artificial Electronic Whisker Arrays Integrated with Strain and Temperature Sensors

    Shingo Harada;Wataru Honda;Takayuki Arie;Seiji Akita

  • Nanotweezers consisting of carbon nanotubes operating in an atomic force microscope

    Seiji Akita;Yoshikazu Nakayama;Syotaro Mizooka;Yuichi Takano

  • Carbon nanotube tips for a scanning probe microscope: their fabrication and properties

    Seiji Akita;Hidehiro Nishijima;Yoshikazu Nakayama;Fuyuki Tokumasu

  • Efficient Skin Temperature Sensor and Stable Gel‐Less Sticky ECG Sensor for a Wearable Flexible Healthcare Patch

    Yuki Yamamoto;Daisuke Yamamoto;Makoto Takada;Hiroyoshi Naito

  • Orientation of Carbon Nanotubes Using Electrophoresis

    Kunitoshi Yamamoto;Seiji Akita;Yoshikazu Nakayama

  • Multimodal Plant Healthcare Flexible Sensor System.

    Yuyao Lu;Kaichen Xu;Lishu Zhang;Minako Deguchi

  • A wearable pH sensor with high sensitivity based on a flexible charge-coupled device

    Shogo Nakata;Mao Shiomi;Yusuke Fujita;Takayuki Arie

  • A Wearable Body Condition Sensor System with Wireless Feedback Alarm Functions.

    Kaichen Xu;Yusuke Fujita;Yuyao Lu;Satoko Honda

  • Enhancement of graphene thermoelectric performance through defect engineering

    Yuki Anno;Yuki Imakita;Kuniharu Takei;Seiji Akita

  • Highly stable kirigami-structured stretchable strain sensors for perdurable wearable electronics

    Kaichen Xu;Yuyao Lu;Satoko Honda;Takayuki Arie

  • Carbon nanotube oscillators toward zeptogram detection

    Mitsumasa Nishio;Shintaro Sawaya;Seiji Akita;Yoshikazu Nakayama

  • Highly selective flexible tactile strain and temperature sensors against substrate bending for an artificial skin

    Kenichiro Kanao;Shingo Harada;Yuki Yamamoto;Wataru Honda

  • High-performance, mechanically flexible, and vertically integrated 3D carbon nanotube and InGaZnO complementary circuits with a temperature sensor.

    Wataru Honda;Shingo Harada;Shohei Ishida;Takayuki Arie

  • Coated nanotube surface signal probe

    Yoshikazu Nakayama;Akio Harada;Seiji Akita

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshikazu Nakayama
Yoshikazu Nakayama Osaka University
Kuniharu Takei
Kuniharu Takei Osaka Metropolitan University
Shigenobu Ogata
Shigenobu Ogata Osaka University
Kunio Takeyasu
Kunio Takeyasu Kyoto University
Masaya Matsuoka
Masaya Matsuoka Osaka Metropolitan University
Masato Takeuchi
Masato Takeuchi Osaka Metropolitan University
Kenji Higashi
Kenji Higashi Osaka Metropolitan University
Tomoji Kawai
Tomoji Kawai Osaka University
Hisanori Shinohara
Hisanori Shinohara Nagoya University

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