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Shu Kobayashi

Shu Kobayashi

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Chemistry
Japan
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
130
Citations
61654
World Ranking
324
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Shu Kobayashi is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes in materials science. Their research spans several subfields, including organic chemistry, surfaces, coatings and films, molecular biology, biomaterials, and biomedical engineering.

The primary topics in Kobayashi's work involve polymer surface interaction studies and advanced polymer synthesis and characterization. Additional areas explored include biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, electrospun nanofibers in biomedical applications, surface modification and superhydrophobicity, 3D printing in biomedical research, and marine biology and environmental chemistry.

Recent publications by Kobayashi include:

  • "Conformable microneedle pH sensors via the integration of two different siloxane polymers for mapping peripheral artery disease," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Effect of bound water content on cell adhesion strength to water-insoluble polymers," 2021, Acta Biomaterialia
  • "Side-Chain Spacing Control of Derivatives of Poly(2-methoxyethyl acrylate): Impact on Hydration States and Antithrombogenicity," 2020, Macromolecules
  • "Elucidating the Feature of Intermediate Water in Hydrated Poly(ω-methoxyalkyl acrylate)s by Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Differential Scanning Calorimetry Measurement," 2020, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
  • "Molecular Dynamics Study on the Water Mobility and Side-Chain Flexibility of Hydrated Poly(ω-methoxyalkyl acrylate)s," 2020, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

Kobayashi collaborates frequently with several researchers in the field, including Masaru Tanaka, Takahisa Anada, T. Sonoda, Ryohei Koguchi, and Kei Nishida.

Their work is regularly published in journals such as ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, Macromolecules, ACS Applied Bio Materials, ACS Omega, and Science Advances.

Among their recognitions, Kobayashi was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Catalytic enantioselective addition to imines.

    Shū Kobayashi;Haruro Ishitani

  • Rare-earth metal triflates in organic synthesis

    Shu Kobayashi;Masaharu Sugiura;Hidetoshi Kitagawa;William W L Lam

  • Development of novel Lewis acid catalysts for selective organic reactions in aqueous media.

    Shu Kobayashi;Kei Manabe

  • Catalytic Enantioselective Formation of C−C Bonds by Addition to Imines and Hydrazones: A Ten-Year Update

    Shu̅ Kobayashi;Yuichiro Mori;John S. Fossey;Matthew M. Salter

  • A microfluidic device for conducting gas-liquid-solid hydrogenation reactions.

    Juta Kobayashi;Yuichiro Mori;Kuniaki Okamoto;Ryo Akiyama

  • Catalytic Organic Reactions in Water toward Sustainable Society

    Taku Kitanosono;Koichiro Masuda;Pengyu Xu;Shu̅ Kobayashi

  • Scandium Triflate in Organic Synthesis

    Shū Kobayashi

  • Dehydration reactions in water. Brønsted Acid-surfactant-combined catalyst for ester, ether, thioether, and dithioacetal formation in water.

    Kei Manabe;Shinya Iimura;Xiang-Min Sun;Shū Kobayashi

  • Rare Earth Metal Trifluoromethanesulfonates as Water-Tolerant Lewis Acid Catalysts in Organic Synthesis

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  • Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols at Room Temperature and Atmospheric Conditions Catalyzed by Reusable Gold Nanoclusters Stabilized by the Benzene Rings of Polystyrene Derivatives

    Hiroyuki Miyamura;Ryosuke Matsubara;Yoji Miyazaki;Shū Kobayashi

  • Lewis Acid Catalysts Stable in Water. Correlation between Catalytic Activity in Water and Hydrolysis Constants and Exchange Rate Constants for Substitution of Inner-Sphere Water Ligands

    Shu j Kobayashi;Satoshi Nagayama;Tsuyoshi Busujima

  • Multistep continuous-flow synthesis of ( R )- and ( S )-rolipram using heterogeneous catalysts

    Tetsu Tsubogo;Hidekazu Oyamada;Shū Kobayashi

  • Enamides and Enecarbamates as Nucleophiles in Stereoselective C–C and C–N Bond-Forming Reactions

    Ryosuke Matsubara;Shu̅ Kobayashi

  • Recent advances in immobilized metal catalysts for environmentally benign oxidation of alcohols.

    Tsutomu Matsumoto;Masaharu Ueno;Naiwei Wang;Shū Kobayashi

  • Organic Synthesis Inside Particles in Water: Lewis Acid−Surfactant-Combined Catalysts for Organic Reactions in Water Using Colloidal Dispersions as Reaction Media

    Kei Manabe;Yuichiro Mori;Takeshi Wakabayashi;and Satoshi Nagayama

  • CATALYTIC ENANTIOSELECTIVE MANNICH-TYPE REACTIONS USING A NOVEL CHIRAL ZIRCONIUM CATALYST

    Haruro Ishitani;Masaharu Ueno;Shū Kobayashi

  • Multiphase organic synthesis in microchannel reactors.

    Juta Kobayashi;Yuichiro Mori;Shū Kobayashi

  • CERT Mediates Intermembrane Transfer of Various Molecular Species of Ceramides

    Keigo Kumagai;Satoshi Yasuda;Kazuo Okemoto;Masahiro Nishijima

  • Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Both Syn- and Anti-β-Amino Alcohols

    Shū Kobayashi;Haruro Ishitani;Masaharu Ueno

  • Catalytic asymmetric aza Diels-Alder reactions using a chiral lanthanide Lewis acid. Enantioselective synthesis of tetrahydroquinoline derivatives using a catalytic amount of a chiral source

    Haruro Ishitani;Shū Kobayashi

  • Cycloaddition reactions in organic synthesis

    修 小林;Karl Anker Jørgensen

  • Boron-based pronucleophiles in catalytic (asymmetric) C(sp 3 )–allyl cross-couplings

    Uwe Schneider;Yi-Yong Huang;Ananya Chakrabarti;Hai Thanh Dao

Frequent Co-Authors

Kei Manabe
Kei Manabe University of Shizuoka
Haruro Ishitani
Haruro Ishitani University of Tokyo
Teruaki Mukaiyama
Teruaki Mukaiyama Kitasato University
Kentaro Hanada
Kentaro Hanada National Institutes of Health
Seiji Shirakawa
Seiji Shirakawa Nagasaki University
Yanlong Gu
Yanlong Gu Huazhong University of Science and Technology
John S. Fossey
John S. Fossey University of Birmingham
Motoo Shiro
Motoo Shiro Nagoya Institute of Technology
Takehiko Kitamori
Takehiko Kitamori University of Tokyo
Roger A. Sheldon
Roger A. Sheldon Delft University of Technology

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