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Tomoya Higashihara

Tomoya Higashihara

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Materials Science

D-Index
57
Citations
10522
World Ranking
8024
National Ranking
450

Chemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
10270
World Ranking
11223
National Ranking
825

Overview

Tomoya Higashihara is affiliated with Yamagata University in Japan and has contributed extensively to fields related to engineering and materials science. Their work spans across several subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and organic chemistry.

Their research predominantly focuses on topics within conducting polymers and applications, organic electronics and photovoltaics, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, synthesis and properties of polymers, advanced memory and neural computing, and perovskite materials and applications.

Frequent publication venues for their research include ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Macromolecules, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Polymer Journal, and Polymer Chemistry. These journals reflect their intersectional work in materials science and polymer chemistry.

Collaborations with other researchers have involved frequent co-authors such as Yan-Cheng Lin, Wen-Chang Chen, Megumi Matsuda, Shin Inagaki, and Chu-Chen Chueh, indicating a pattern of ongoing partnerships in their scientific contributions.

Notable recent papers by Tomoya Higashihara include:

  • A design strategy for high mobility stretchable polymer semiconductors, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Low-Energy-Consumption and Electret-Free Photosynaptic Transistor Utilizing Poly(3-hexylthiophene)-Based Conjugated Block Copolymers, 2022, Advanced Science
  • Study on Intrinsic Stretchability of Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based π-Conjugated Copolymers with Poly(acryl amide) Side Chains for Organic Field-Effect Transistors, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Investigation of the Mobility-Stretchability Properties of Naphthalenediimide-Based Conjugated Random Terpolymers with a Functionalized Conjugation Break Spacer, 2021, Macromolecules
  • Development of Novel Triazine-Based Poly(phenylene sulfide)s with High Refractive Index and Low Birefringence, 2020, ACS Omega

Best Publications

  • Recent Progress in High Refractive Index Polymers

    Tomoya Higashihara;Mitsuru Ueda;Mitsuru Ueda

  • Sulfonated aromatic hydrocarbon polymers as proton exchange membranes for fuel cells

    Tomoya Higashihara;Kazuya Matsumoto;Mitsuru Ueda

  • Precise syntheses of chain-multi-functionalized polymers, star-branched polymers, star-linear block polymers, densely branched polymers, and dendritic branched polymers based on iterative approach using functionalized 1,1-diphenylethylene derivatives

    Akira Hirao;Mayumi Hayashi;Surapich Loykulnant;Kenji Sugiyama

  • Locally and Densely Sulfonated Poly(ether sulfone)s as Proton Exchange Membrane

    Kazuya Matsumoto;Tomoya Higashihara;Mitsuru Ueda

  • Synthesis of well-defined star-branched polymers by stepwise iterative methodology using living anionic polymerization

    Tomoya Higashihara;Mayumi Hayashi;Akira Hirao

  • Polyimide memory: a pithy guideline for future applications

    Tadanori Kurosawa;Tomoya Higashihara;Mitsuru Ueda

  • A design strategy for high mobility stretchable polymer semiconductors.

    Jaewan Mun;Yuto Ochiai;Yuto Ochiai;Weichen Wang;Yu Zheng

  • High Performance Volatile Polymeric Memory Devices Based on Novel Triphenylamine-based Polyimides Containing Mono- or Dual-Mediated Phenoxy Linkages

    Tadanori Kuorosawa;Chu-Chen Chueh;Cheng-Liang Liu;Tomoya Higashihara

  • Enhancement of P3HT/PCBM Photovoltaic Efficiency Using the Surfactant of Triblock Copolymer Containing Poly(3-hexylthiophene) and Poly(4-vinyltriphenylamine) Segments

    Jung-Hsun Tsai;Yi-Cang Lai;Tomoya Higashihara;Chih-Jung Lin

  • Star-Shaped Sulfonated Block Copoly(ether ketone)s as Proton Exchange Membranes

    Kazuya Matsumoto;Tomoya Higashihara;Mitsuru Ueda

  • Synthesis of Functionalized Asymmetric Star Polymers Containing Conductive Polyacetylene Segments by Living Anionic Polymerization

    Youliang Zhao;Tomoya Higashihara;Kenji Sugiyama;Akira Hirao

  • Synthesis and Characterization of High Refractive Index and High Abbe’s Number Poly(thioether sulfone)s based on Tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]decane Moiety

    Yasuo Suzuki;Tomoya Higashihara;Shinji Ando;Mitsuru Ueda

  • A Versatile and Efficient Strategy to Discrete Conjugated Oligomers

    Jimmy Lawrence;Eisuke Goto;Eisuke Goto;Jing M. Ren;Brenden McDearmon

  • Highly sulfonated multiblock copoly(ether sulfone)s for fuel cell membranes

    Kazuhiro Nakabayashi;Tomoya Higashihara;Mitsuru Ueda

  • Synthesis of hyperbranched polymers with controlled structure

    Yukari Segawa;Tomoya Higashihara;Mitsuru Ueda

  • Hyperbranched Polymers with Controlled Degree of Branching from 0 to 100

    Yukari Segawa;Tomoya Higashihara;Mitsuru Ueda

  • Synthesis of high‐refractive index polyimide containing selenophene unit

    Nam-Ho You;Namiko Fukuzaki;Yasuo Suzuki;Yasuhiro Nakamura

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Highly Refractive Polyimides Derived from Thiophene-Containing Aromatic Diamines and Aromatic Dianhydrides

    Namiko Fukuzaki;Tomoya Higashihara;Shinji Ando;Mitsuru Ueda

  • New Donor–Acceptor Oligoimides for High-Performance Nonvolatile Memory Devices

    Wen-Ya Lee;Tadanori Kurosawa;Shiang-Tai Lin;Tomoya Higashihara

  • Polymer Electrolyte Membranes Based on Cross-Linked Highly Sulfonated Multiblock Copoly(ether sulfone)s

    Kazuhiro Nakabayashi;Tomoya Higashihara;Mitsuru Ueda

  • Facile Synthesis of ABA Triblock Copolymer Containing Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) and Polystyrene Segments via Linking Reaction of Poly(styryl)lithium

    Tomoya Higashihara;Kaoru Ohshimizu;Akira Hirao;Mitsuru Ueda

Frequent Co-Authors

Mitsuru Ueda
Mitsuru Ueda National Taiwan University
Wen-Chang Chen
Wen-Chang Chen National Taiwan University
Akira Hirao
Akira Hirao National Taiwan University
Moonhor Ree
Moonhor Ree Pohang University of Science and Technology
Shinji Ando
Shinji Ando Tokyo Institute of Technology
Junji Watanabe
Junji Watanabe Tokyo Institute of Technology
Chu-Chen Chueh
Chu-Chen Chueh National Taiwan University
Hung-Chin Wu
Hung-Chin Wu Stanford University
Hideharu Mori
Hideharu Mori Yamagata University
Rudolf Faust
Rudolf Faust University of Massachusetts Lowell

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