2026 Tetsuo Asakura: 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	72	4059	3930	181	178	500	17978
Chemistry	72	5282	4800	311	290	486	17678

Overview

Tetsuo Asakura is affiliated with Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with specific attention to biomaterials and related subfields.

The main fields of study that frame Asakura's work include:

Materials Science

Their subfields of study encompass:

Biomaterials
Molecular Biology
Insect Science
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Microbiology

The key topics that characterize Asakura's research include:

Silk-based biomaterials and applications
Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
Silkworms and Sericulture Research
Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
Phytochemical compounds biological activities
Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Asakura has published research in several frequent venues, illustrating their active engagement in the biomaterials research community. Notable publication venues include:

Molecules
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Biomacromolecules
Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Polymers

Some of the recent papers by Tetsuo Asakura are:

Structure of Silk I (Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin before Spinning) -Type II β-Turn, Not α-Helix-, 2021, Molecules
Structure and Dynamics of Spider Silk Studied with Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Dynamics Simulation, 2020, Molecules
A review on the structure of Bombyx mori silk fibroin fiber studied using solid-state NMR: An antipolar lamella with an 8-residue repeat, 2023, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

In addition to their direct publications, they frequently collaborate with several co-authors, including:

Akira Naito
Takashi Tanaka
Ryou Tanaka
Hironori Matsuda
Asuna Hagiya

Best Publications

Conformational characterization of Bombyx mori silk fibroin in the solid state by high-frequency carbon-13 cross polarization-magic angle spinning NMR, x-ray diffraction, and infrared spectroscopy

Tetsuo Asakura;Akio Kuzuhara;Ryoko Tabeta;Hazime Saito

482
Citations
Preparation of non-woven nanofibers of Bombyx mori silk, Samia cynthia ricini silk and recombinant hybrid silk with electrospinning method

Kosuke Ohgo;Chenhua Zhao;Mitsuhiro Kobayashi;Tetsuo Asakura

409
Citations
Study of Protein Conformation and Orientation in Silkworm and Spider Silk Fibers Using Raman Microspectroscopy

Marie-Eve Rousseau;Thierry Lefèvre;Lilyane Beaulieu;Tetsuo Asakura

364
Citations
A repeated β-turn structure in Poly(Ala-Gly) as a model for silk I of Bombyx mori silk fibroin studied with two-dimensional spin-diffusion NMR under off magic angle spinning and rotational echo double resonance

Tetsuo Asakura;Jun Ashida;Tsutomu Yamane;Tsunenori Kameda

319
Citations
High-resolution carbon-13 NMR study of silk fibroin in the solid state by the cross-polarization-magic angle spinning method. Conformational characterization of silk I and silk II type forms of Bombyx mori fibroin by the conformation-dependent carbon-13 chemical shifts

Hazime Saito;Ryoko Tabeta;Tetsuo Asakura;Yoshihiro Iwanaga

266
Citations
Long-term patency of small-diameter vascular graft made from fibroin, a silk-based biodegradable material

Soichiro Enomoto;Makoto Sumi;Makoto Sumi;Kan Kajimoto;Yasumoto Nakazawa

265
Citations
Heterogeneous structure of silk fibers from Bombyx mori resolved by 13C solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

Tetsuo Asakura;Juming Yao;Tsutomu Yamane;Kosuke Umemura

256
Citations
Solvent- and mechanical-treatment-induced conformational transition of silk fibroins studies by high-resolution solid-state carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy

Mika Ishida;Tetsuo Asakura;Motoko Yokoi;Hazime Saito

252
Citations
Analysis of the Structure of Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin by NMR

Tetsuo Asakura;Keiko Okushita;Mike P. Williamson

246
Citations
C alpha and C beta carbon-13 chemical shifts in proteins from an empirical database.

Mitsuo Iwadate;Tetsuo Asakura;Michael P. Williamson

246
Citations
Carbon-13 NMR spectral assignment of five polyolefins determined from the chemical shift calculation and the polymerization mechanism

Tetsuo Asakura;Makoto Demura;Yuko Nishiyama

224
Citations
Solid-state NMR determination of the secondary structure of Samia cynthia ricini silk

J. D. van Beek;L. Beaulieu;H. Schäfer;M. Demura

215
Citations
Artificial Spinning and Characterization of Silk Fiber from Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin in Hexafluoroacetone Hydrate

Juming Yao;Hiromi Masuda;Chenhua Zhao;Tetsuo Asakura

209
Citations
Some observations on the structure and function of the spinning apparatus in the silkworm Bombyx mori.

Tetsuo Asakura;Kosuke Umemura;Yasumoto Nakazawa;Haruko Hirose

207
Citations
Empirical Comparisons of Models for Chemical-Shift Calculation in Proteins

M.P. Williamson;T. Asakura

202
Citations
Immobilization of glucose oxidase with Bombyx mori silk fibroin by only stretching treatment and its application to glucose sensor.

Makoto Demura;Tetsuo Asakura

188
Citations
Raman spectroscopic characterization of Bombyx mori silk fibroin: Raman spectrum of Silk I

P. Monti;P. Taddei;G. Freddi;T. Asakura

185
Citations
NMR of silk fibroin. Carbon-13 NMR study of the chain dynamics and solution structure of Bombyx mori silk fibroin

Tetsuo Asakura;Yasuo Watanabe;Akane Uchida;Hidenobu Minagawa

182
Citations
Structural characterization and artificial fiber formation of Bombyx mori silk fibroin in hexafluoro-iso-propanol solvent system

Chenhua Zhao;Juming Yao;Hiromi Masuda;Raghuvansh Kishore

174
Citations
Very fast magic angle spinning 1H-14N 2D solid-state NMR: Sub-micro-liter sample data collection in a few minutes

Yusuke Nishiyama;Yuki Endo;Takahiro Nemoto;Hiroaki Utsumi

174
Citations