2026 Sota Sato: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	52	9577	9248	569	543	290	9716

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Overview

Sota Sato is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan, with a research portfolio focused predominantly on materials science and chemistry. Their work spans over 129 publications in materials science and 92 in chemistry, with sub-disciplinary contributions to materials chemistry, organic chemistry, molecular biology, electrical and electronic engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The main research topics include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, fullerene chemistry and applications, supramolecular chemistry and complexes, luminescence and fluorescent materials, and chemical synthesis and analysis.

They have published extensively in several venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in The Cambridge Structural Database (44), followed by Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Angewandte Chemie (both 15), the Journal of the American Chemical Society (6), and arXiv (Cornell University) (5).

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Makoto Fujita (40 publications)
Hiroyuki Isobe (36 publications)
Satoshi Yoshida (23 publications)
Taisuke Matsuno (20 publications)
Koki Ikemoto (15 publications)

Selected recent papers:

Cycloparaphenylene-Phenalenyl Radical and Its Dimeric Double Nanohoop, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Overcrowded Ethylene-Bridged Nanohoop Dimers: Regioselective Synthesis, Multiconfigurational Electronic States, and Global Hückel/Möbius Aromaticity, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
A nitrogen-doped nanotube molecule with atom vacancy defects, 2020, Nature Communications
π-Extended Doublet Open-Shell Graphene Fragments Exhibiting One-Dimensional Chain Stacking, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
Cycloparaphenylene Double Nanohoop: Structure, Lamellar Packing, and Encapsulation of C₆₀ in the Solid State, 2021, Organic Letters

Best Publications

Self-Assembled M24L48 Polyhedra and Their Sharp Structural Switch upon Subtle Ligand Variation

Qing Fu Sun;Junji Iwasa;Daichi Ogawa;Yoshitaka Ishido

1090
Citations
Self-assembly of tetravalent Goldberg polyhedra from 144 small components

Daishi Fujita;Yoshihiro Ueda;Sota Sato;Nobuhiro Mizuno

657
Citations
Fluorous Nanodroplets Structurally Confined in an Organopalladium Sphere

Sota Sato;Junya Iida;Kosuke Suzuki;Masaki Kawano

389
Citations
Chiral intertwined spirals and magnetic transition dipole moments dictated by cylinder helicity.

Sota Sato;Asami Yoshii;Satsuki Takahashi;Seiichi Furumi

325
Citations
Self-Assembly of M30L60 Icosidodecahedron

Daishi Fujita;Daishi Fujita;Yoshihiro Ueda;Sota Sato;Hiroyuki Yokoyama

302
Citations
An M 18 L 24 stellated cuboctahedron through post-stellation of an M 12 L 24 core

Qing Fu Sun;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

267
Citations
Protein encapsulation within synthetic molecular hosts

Daishi Fujita;Kosuke Suzuki;Sota Sato;Maho Yagi-Utsumi;Maho Yagi-Utsumi

249
Citations
Minimal nucleotide duplex formation in water through enclathration in self-assembled hosts

Tomohisa Sawada;Michito Yoshizawa;Michito Yoshizawa;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

239
Citations
Switching the Interior Hydrophobicity of a Self‐Assembled Spherical Complex through the Photoisomerization of Confined Azobenzene Chromophores

Takashi Murase;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

222
Citations
Remarkable Stabilization of M12L24 Spherical Frameworks through the Cooperation of 48 Pd(II)−Pyridine Interactions

Sota Sato;Yoshitaka Ishido;Makoto Fujita

211
Citations
Saccharide-Coated M12L24 Molecular Spheres That Form Aggregates by Multi-interaction with Proteins

Nozomi Kamiya;Masahide Tominaga;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

207
Citations
Self-Assembly of M24L48 Polyhedra Based on Empirical Prediction†

Jens Bunzen;Junji Iwasa;Pia Bonakdarzadeh;Eri Numata

202
Citations
Finite phenine nanotubes with periodic vacancy defects

Zhe Sun;Koki Ikemoto;Toshiya M. Fukunaga;Takashi Koretsune

199
Citations
Template synthesis of precisely monodisperse silica nanoparticles within self-assembled organometallic spheres

Kosuke Suzuki;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

189
Citations
An M12(L1)12(L2)12 Cantellated Tetrahedron: A Case Study on Mixed‐Ligand Self‐Assembly

Qing Fu Sun;Qing Fu Sun;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

181
Citations
A Sphere-in-Sphere Complex by Orthogonal Self-Assembly†

Qing-Fu Sun;Takashi Murase;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

168
Citations
Endohedral peptide lining of a self-assembled molecular sphere to generate chirality-confined hollows.

Kosuke Suzuki;Masaki Kawano;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

152
Citations
Coronene nanophase within coordination spheres: increased solubility of C60.

Kosuke Suzuki;Kiyotaka Takao;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

140
Citations
Cyclo-meta-phenylene Revisited: Nickel-Mediated Synthesis, Molecular Structures, and Device Applications

Jing Yang Xue;Koki Ikemoto;Norihisa Takahashi;Tomoo Izumi

123
Citations
Nanometer-sized shell molecules that confine endohedral polymerizing units.

Takashi Murase;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

123
Citations
Solid-state structures of peapod bearings composed of finite single-wall carbon nanotube and fullerene molecules

Sota Sato;Takashi Yamasaki;Hiroyuki Isobe

110
Citations