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Takatsugu Wakahara is affiliated with the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with specific attention to materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their scholarly output includes contributions to the fields of polymers and plastics, organic chemistry, and developmental neuroscience. The topics most frequently addressed in their work include graphene research and applications, fullerene chemistry and applications, advanced memory and neural computing, conducting polymers and applications, transition metal oxide nanomaterials, polyoxometalates synthesis and applications, and organic electronics and photovoltaics.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Takatsugu Wakahara include:

  • Large elastic deformation of C60 nanowhiskers, 2020, Carbon
  • C60-Nanowire Two-State Resistance Switching Based on Fullerene Polymerization/Depolymerization, 2020, ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • Stable Resistance Switching in Lu3N@C80 Nanowires Promoted by the Endohedral Effect: Implications for Single-Fullerene Motion Resistance Switching, 2021, ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • Ambipolar to unipolar irreversible switching in nanosheet transistors: the role of ferrocene in fullerene/ferrocene nanosheets, 2022, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Nanoarchitectonics of C70 hexagonal nanosheets: Synthesis and charge transport properties, 2022, Diamond and Related Materials

Among frequent collaborators, Takatsugu Wakahara has worked notably with Kazuhito Tsukagoshi, Kazuko Fujii, Chika Hirata, Kun'ichi Miyazawa, and Osamu Ito.

Their research has been published across several venues repeatedly, including:

  • ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • Carbon
  • ACS Applied Electronic Materials
  • Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials
  • Proceedings of the International Display Workshops

Takatsugu Wakahara's body of work contributes to understanding and advancing materials science, particularly in novel carbon-based nanomaterials, electronic properties of fullerenes, and related polymer and nanosheet materials. Their research outputs span studies on mechanical deformation of nanostructures, resistance switching phenomena, and nanoarchitectonics of carbon nanomaterials, reflecting interdisciplinary approaches combining chemistry, physics, and engineering.

Best Publications

  • Large-Scale Separation of Metallic and Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Yutaka Maeda;Shin-Ichi Kimura;Makoto Kanda;Yuya Hirashima

  • Structural Determination of Metallofullerene Sc3C82 Revisited: A Surprising Finding

    Yuko Iiduka;Takatsugu Wakahara;Tsukasa Nakahodo;Takahiro Tsuchiya

  • La@C82 Anion. An Unusually Stable Metallofullerene

    Takeshi Akasaka;Takatsugu Wakahara;Shigeru Nagase;Kaoru Kobayashi

  • La@C72 having a non-IPR carbon cage

    Takatsugu Wakahara;Hidefumi Nikawa;Takashi Kikuchi;Tsukasa Nakahodo

  • Selective interaction of large or charge-transfer aromatic molecules with metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes: critical role of the molecular size and orientation.

    Jing Lu;Shigeru Nagase;Xinwei Zhang;Dan Wang

  • Isolation and characterization of a carbene derivative of La@C82.

    Yutaka Maeda;Yoichiro Matsunaga;Takatsugu Wakahara;Satomi Takahashi

  • Missing metallofullerene La@C74.

    Hidefumi Nikawa;Takashi Kikuchi;Takatsugu Wakahara;Tsukasa Nakahodo

  • Structural Determination of the La@C82 Isomer

    Takeshi Akasaka;Takatsugu Wakahara;Shigeru Nagase;Kaoru Kobayashi

  • Chemical Reactivity of Sc3N@C80 and La2@C80

    Yuko Iiduka;Ozora Ikenaga;Akihiro Sakuraba;Takatsugu Wakahara

  • Dispersion and separation of small-diameter single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    Yutaka Maeda;Makoto Kanda;Masahiro Hashimoto;Tadashi Hasegawa

  • Experimental and theoretical studies of the scandium carbide endohedral metallofullerene Sc2C2@C82 and its carbene derivative.

    Yuko Iiduka;Takatsugu Wakahara;Koji Nakajima;Tsukasa Nakahodo

  • Fullerene/Cobalt Porphyrin Hybrid Nanosheets with Ambipolar Charge Transporting Characteristics

    Takatsugu Wakahara;Takatsugu Wakahara;Pasquale D’Angelo;Kun’ichi Miyazawa;Yoshihiro Nemoto

  • Positional control of encapsulated atoms inside a fullerene cage by exohedral addition.

    Michio Yamada;Tsukasa Nakahodo;Takatsugu Wakahara;Takahiro Tsuchiya

  • Dispersion of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles in Nonaqueous Solution

    Yutaka Maeda;Shin-Ichi Kimura;Yuya Hirashima;Makoto Kanda

  • 13C NMR spectroscopic study of scandium dimetallofullerene, Sc2@C84vs. Sc2C2@C82

    Yuko Iiduka;Takatsugu Wakahara;Koji Nakajima;Takahiro Tsuchiya

  • Synthesis and structural characterization of endohedral pyrrolidinodimetallofullerene: La2@C80(CH2)2NTrt.

    Michio Yamada;Takatsugu Wakahara;Tsukasa Nakahodo;Takahiro Tsuchiya

  • Isolation and characterization of two Pr@C82 isomers

    Takeshi Akasaka;Shingo Okubo;Masahiro Kondo;Yutaka Maeda

  • Preparation and optical properties of fullerene/ferrocene hybrid hexagonal nanosheets and large-scale production of fullerene hexagonal nanosheets.

    Takatsugu Wakahara;Marappan Sathish;Kun’ichi Miyazawa;Chunping Hu

  • Isolation, Characterization, and Theoretical Study of La2@C78

    Baopeng Cao;Takatsugu Wakahara;Takahiro Tsuchiya;Masahiro Kondo

  • Characterization of Ce@C82 and its anion.

    Takatsugu Wakahara;Jun-Ichi Kobayashi;Michio Yamada;Yutaka Maeda

  • Missing Endohedral Metallofullerenes: La@C72 Having a Non-IPR Carbon Cage

    T. Akasaka;Hidefumi Nikawa;Takashi Kikuchi;Takatsugu Wakahara

Frequent Co-Authors

Takeshi Akasaka
Takeshi Akasaka Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Yutaka Maeda
Yutaka Maeda Tokyo Gakugei University
Shigeru Nagase
Shigeru Nagase Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry
Takahiro Tsuchiya
Takahiro Tsuchiya Kitasato University
Naomi Mizorogi
Naomi Mizorogi University of Tsukuba
Tatsuhisa Kato
Tatsuhisa Kato Kyoto University
Osamu Ito
Osamu Ito Tohoku University
Karl M. Kadish
Karl M. Kadish University of Houston
Jing Lu
Jing Lu Peking University
Mamoru Fujitsuka
Mamoru Fujitsuka Osaka University

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