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Taku Hasobe

Taku Hasobe

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Chemistry

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51
Citations
8096
World Ranking
14109
National Ranking
1093

Overview

Taku Hasobe is affiliated with Keio University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of Materials Science, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry. Their research spans several subfields, including Organic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's recent publications demonstrate a focus on singlet fission mechanisms, molecular design, and optoelectronic materials. Notable papers include:

  • "Geometries and Terahertz Motions Driving Quintet Multiexcitons and Ultimate Triplet-Triplet Dissociations via the Intramolecular Singlet Fissions" (2020) published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • "Supramolecular Singlet Fission of Pentacene Dimers within Polyaromatic Capsules" (2021) published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Synergetic Role of Conformational Flexibility and Electronic Coupling for Quantitative Intramolecular Singlet Fission" (2021) published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • "An Air- and Water-Stable B4N4-Heteropentalene Serving as a Host Material for a Phosphorescent OLED" (2021) published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Molecular Design Strategy for High-Yield and Long-Lived Individual Doubled Triplet Excitons through Intramolecular Singlet Fission" (2021) published in ACS Energy Letters

Taku Hasobe's frequent coauthors include Hayato Sakai, Yohei Haketa, Hiromitsu Maeda, and Nikolai V. Tkachenko. Collaborations with these researchers have resulted in a significant number of joint publications, highlighting ongoing partnerships in their research areas.

The scientist publishes regularly in several notable venues, with the highest number of their works appearing in The Cambridge Structural Database. Other frequent publication outlets include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Taku Hasobe's main research topics cover a diverse range of materials-related studies. These include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties

Their published work shows an emphasis on both fundamental material chemistry and applications in electronic and optical devices. Through their contributions, they engage with challenges related to molecular design, photophysics, and material stability to advance knowledge in these interrelated disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Photovoltaic cells using composite nanoclusters of porphyrins and fullerenes with gold nanoparticles

    Taku Hasobe;Hiroshi Imahori;Prashant V Kamat;Tae Kyu Ahn

  • Supramolecular nanoarchitectures for light energy conversion

    Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe

  • Graphene oxide with covalently linked porphyrin antennae: Synthesis, characterization and photophysical properties

    Nikolaos Karousis;Atula S. D. Sandanayaka;Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe;Solon P. Economopoulos

  • Ordered Assembly of Protonated Porphyrin Driven by Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes. J- and H-Aggregates to Nanorods

    Taku Hasobe;Shunichi Fukuzumi;Prashant V. Kamat

  • Organized assemblies of single wall carbon nanotubes and porphyrin for photochemical solar cells: charge injection from excited porphyrin into single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe;Shunichi Fukuzumi;Prashant V. Kamat

  • Quaternary Self-Organization of Porphyrin and Fullerene Units by Clusterization with Gold Nanoparticles on SnO2 Electrodes for Organic Solar Cells

    Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe;Hiroshi Imahori;Prashant V. Kamat;Shunichi Fukuzumi

  • Large photocurrent generation of gold electrodes modified with [60]fullerene-linked oligothiophenes bearing a tripodal rigid anchor.

    Daigo Hirayama;Kazuo Takimiya;Yoshio Aso;Tetsuo Otsubo

  • Organic solar cells. Supramolecular composites of porphyrins and fullerenes organized by polypeptide structures as light harvesters

    Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe;Kenji Saito;Prashant V. Kamat;Vincent Troiani

  • Light energy conversion using mixed molecular nanoclusters. Porphyrin and C60 cluster films for efficient photocurrent generation

    Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe;Hiroshi Imahori;Shunichi Fukuzumi;Prashant V. Kamat

  • Enhancement of light-energy conversion efficiency by multi-porphyrin arrays of porphyrin-peptide oligomers with fullerene clusters.

    Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe;Prashant V. Kamat;Vincent Troiani;Nathalie Solladié

  • Supramolecular photovoltaic cells using porphyrin dendrimers and fullerenes

    Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe;Yukiyasu Kashiwagi;Mark A. Absalom;Joseph Sly

  • Supramolecular Photovoltaic Cells Based on Composite Molecular Nanoclusters: Dendritic Porphyrin and C60, Porphyrin Dimer and C60, and Porphyrin−C60 Dyad

    Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe;Prashant V. Kamat;Mark A. Absalom;Yukiyasu Kashiwagi

  • Stacked-cup carbon nanotubes for photoelectrochemical solar cells.

    Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe;Shunichi Fukuzumi;Prashant V. Kamat

  • Long-Lived Triplet Excited States of Bent-Shaped Pentacene Dimers by Intramolecular Singlet Fission

    Takao Sakuma;Hayato Sakai;Yasuyuki Araki;Tadashi Mori

  • Sensitive Efficiency of Photoinduced Electron Transfer to Band Gaps of Semiconductive Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Supramolecularly Attached Zinc Porphyrin Bearing Pyrene Glues

    Eranda Maligaspe;Atula S. D. Sandanayaka;Taku Hasobe;Osamu Ito

  • Porphyrin-Based Supramolecular Nanoarchitectures for Solar Energy Conversion.

    Taku Hasobe

  • Siloxy Group-Induced Highly Efficient Room Temperature Phosphorescence with Long Lifetime

    Masaki Shimizu;Ryosuke Shigitani;Masaki Nakatani;Keiko Kuwabara

  • Zinc Phthalocyanine–Graphene Hybrid Material for Energy Conversion: Synthesis, Characterization, Photophysics, and Photoelectrochemical Cell Preparation

    Nikolaos Karousis;Javier Ortiz;Kei Ohkubo;Taku Hasobe

  • Highly Fluorescent [7]Carbohelicene Fused by Asymmetric 1,2-Dialkyl-Substituted Quinoxaline for Circularly Polarized Luminescence and Electroluminescence

    Hayato Sakai;Sho Shinto;Jatish Kumar;Yasuyuki Araki

  • Sonication-assisted supramolecular nanorods of meso-diaryl-substituted porphyrins

    Taku Hasobe;Taku Hasobe;Hideaki Oki;Atula S. D. Sandanayaka;Hideyuki Murata

Frequent Co-Authors

Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Prashant V. Kamat
Prashant V. Kamat University of Notre Dame
Kei Ohkubo
Kei Ohkubo Osaka University
Yasuyuki Araki
Yasuyuki Araki Tohoku University
Hiroshi Imahori
Hiroshi Imahori Kyoto University
Takehiko Wada
Takehiko Wada Tohoku University
Osamu Ito
Osamu Ito Tohoku University
Taishi Takenobu
Taishi Takenobu Nagoya University
Nikolai V. Tkachenko
Nikolai V. Tkachenko Tampere University
Hideyuki Murata
Hideyuki Murata Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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