2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Japan Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Japan Leader Award
2009 - Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2007 - Gregori Aminoff Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his structural studies of carbon nanotubes
2005 - Distinguished Scientist Award, Mineralogical Society of America
2002 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
2000 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the discovery of carbon nanotube and promotion of its research and development
1985 - Nishina Memorial Prize
Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sumio Iijima spends much of his time researching Carbon nanotube, Nanotechnology, Carbon, Chemical engineering and Nanotube. His Carbon nanotube research includes themes of Fullerene, Transmission electron microscopy, Molecule and Analytical chemistry. His work in Nanotechnology covers topics such as Electrode which are related to areas like Doping.
His research in Carbon intersects with topics in Crystallography, Graphite, Molecular physics and Graphene. His work in Graphene addresses issues such as Monolayer, which are connected to fields such as Sheet resistance. His Chemical engineering study also includes fields such as
His scientific interests lie mostly in Carbon nanotube, Nanotechnology, Carbon, Chemical engineering and Transmission electron microscopy. His work deals with themes such as Fullerene and Raman spectroscopy, Analytical chemistry, which intersect with Carbon nanotube. His Fullerene study frequently draws connections to adjacent fields such as Molecular physics.
His Nanotechnology study incorporates themes from Molecule, Electrode and Vaporization. His Carbon study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Inorganic chemistry, Graphite, Laser ablation and Adsorption. His Chemical engineering research includes themes of Chemical vapor deposition, Organic chemistry and Catalysis.
Sumio Iijima mainly focuses on Carbon nanotube, Nanotechnology, Chemical engineering, Carbon and Graphene. His studies deal with areas such as Chemical physics, Chemical vapor deposition, Fullerene and Raman spectroscopy, Analytical chemistry as well as Carbon nanotube. Sumio Iijima has included themes like Supercapacitor, Composite material and Electrode in his Nanotechnology study.
His Chemical engineering research includes elements of Organic chemistry, Catalysis and Polymer. Sumio Iijima interconnects Inorganic chemistry, Adsorption, Radiochemistry, Graphite and Thermogravimetric analysis in the investigation of issues within Carbon. His work carried out in the field of Graphene brings together such families of science as Optoelectronics, Monolayer and Dopant.
His main research concerns Nanotechnology, Carbon nanotube, Chemical engineering, Single-walled carbon nanohorn and Carbon. His studies in Nanotechnology integrate themes in fields like Supercapacitor and Electrochemistry. His Carbon nanotube research incorporates themes from Chemical vapor deposition, Fullerene, Electrode and Photoluminescence, Analytical chemistry.
His research integrates issues of Ultra-high vacuum, Organic chemistry, Phase and Doping in his study of Chemical engineering. His study in Carbon is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Hybrid material, Bone tissue, Bone regeneration, Biomedical engineering and Aqueous solution. In his study, Indium tin oxide, Sheet resistance, Monolayer and Flexible electronics is inextricably linked to Transparent conducting film, which falls within the broad field of Graphene foam.
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Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon
Sumio Iijima.
Nature (1991)
Single-shell carbon nanotubes of 1-nm diameter
Sumio Iijima;Toshinari Ichihashi.
Nature (1993)
Roll-to-roll production of 30-inch graphene films for transparent electrodes
Sukang Bae;Hyeongkeun Kim;Youngbin Lee;Xiangfan Xu.
Nature Nanotechnology (2010)
Gold catalysts prepared by coprecipitation for low-temperature oxidation of hydrogen and of carbon monoxide
M. Haruta;N. Yamada;T. Kobayashi;S. Iijima.
Journal of Catalysis (1989)
Water-Assisted Highly Efficient Synthesis of Impurity-Free Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Kenji Hata;Don N. Futaba;Kohei Mizuno;Tatsunori Namai.
Science (2004)
Shape-engineerable and highly densely packed single-walled carbon nanotubes and their application as super-capacitor electrodes
Don N. Futaba;Kenji Hata;Takeo Yamada;Tatsuki Hiraoka.
Nature Materials (2006)
Direct evidence for atomic defects in graphene layers
Ayako Hashimoto;Kazu Suenaga;Alexandre Gloter;Alexandre Gloter;Koki Urita;Koki Urita.
Nature (2004)
Structural flexibility of carbon nanotubes
Sumio Iijima;Charles Brabec;Amitesh Maiti;Jerzy Bernholc.
Journal of Chemical Physics (1996)
Opening carbon nanotubes with oxygen and implications for filling
P. M. Ajayan;T. W. Ebbesen;T. Ichihashi;S. Iijima.
Nature (1993)
Nano-aggregates of single-walled graphitic carbon nano-horns
S. Iijima;M. Yudasaka;R. Yamada;S. Bandow.
Chemical Physics Letters (1999)
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