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Tomoyuki Yokota

Tomoyuki Yokota

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
65
Citations
22513
World Ranking
1185
National Ranking
34

Materials Science

D-Index
65
Citations
22391
World Ranking
5508
National Ranking
265

Overview

Tomoyuki Yokota is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a primary focus on biomedical engineering and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's research encompasses topics such as advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, conducting polymers and applications, organic electronics and photovoltaics, tactile and sensory interactions, neuroscience and neural engineering, analytical chemistry and sensors, and nanomaterials and printing technologies.

Yokota's recent publications include:

  • Nanomesh pressure sensor for monitoring finger manipulation without sensory interference, 2020, Science
  • Natural Biopolymer-Based Biocompatible Conductors for Stretchable Bioelectronics, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Skin bioelectronics towards long-term, continuous health monitoring, 2022, Chemical Society Reviews
  • A durable nanomesh on-skin strain gauge for natural skin motion monitoring with minimum mechanical constraints, 2020, Science Advances
  • Electrospun nanofiber-based soft electronics, 2021, NPG Asia Materials

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Science Advances, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the International Display Workshops, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Frequent collaborators include Takao Someya, Sunghoon Lee, Kenjiro Fukuda, Yan Wang, and Haoyang Wang.

Best Publications

  • An ultra-lightweight design for imperceptible plastic electronics

    Martin Kaltenbrunner;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Jonathan Reeder;Jonathan Reeder;Tomoyuki Yokota

  • Inflammation-free, gas-permeable, lightweight, stretchable on-skin electronics with nanomeshes

    Akihito Miyamoto;Sungwon Lee;Sungwon Lee;Nawalage Florence Cooray;Sunghoon Lee

  • Organic Nonvolatile Memory Transistors for Flexible Sensor Arrays

    Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Tomoyuki Yokota;Ute Zschieschang;Hagen Klauk

  • Ultraflexible organic photonic skin

    Tomoyuki Yokota;Peter Zalar;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Hiroaki Jinno

  • Self-powered ultra-flexible electronics via nano-grating-patterned organic photovoltaics.

    Sungjun Park;Sungjun Park;Soo Won Heo;Wonryung Lee;Daishi Inoue

  • Printable elastic conductors with a high conductivity for electronic textile applications

    Naoji Matsuhisa;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Tomoyuki Yokota;Tomoyuki Yokota;Hiroaki Jinno

  • A transparent bending-insensitive pressure sensor

    Sungwon Lee;Sungwon Lee;Amir Reuveny;Amir Reuveny;Jonathan Reeder;Sunghoon Lee;Sunghoon Lee

  • Printable elastic conductors by in situ formation of silver nanoparticles from silver flakes

    Naoji Matsuhisa;Daishi Inoue;Peter Zalar;Peter Zalar;Hanbit Jin

  • Nanomesh pressure sensor for monitoring finger manipulation without sensory interference

    Sunghoon Lee;Sae Franklin;Faezeh Arab Hassani;Tomoyuki Yokota

  • Stretchable and waterproof elastomer-coated organic photovoltaics for washable electronic textile applications

    Hiroaki Jinno;Hiroaki Jinno;Kenjiro Fukuda;Kenjiro Fukuda;Xiaomin Xu;Sungjun Park

  • Ultraflexible, large-area, physiological temperature sensors for multipoint measurements

    Tomoyuki Yokota;Yusuke Inoue;Yuki Terakawa;Jonathan Reeder;Jonathan Reeder

  • Organic transistors with high thermal stability for medical applications

    Kazunori Kuribara;He Wang;Naoya Uchiyama;Kenjiro Fukuda

  • Natural Biopolymer-Based Biocompatible Conductors for Stretchable Bioelectronics.

    Chunya Wang;Tomoyuki Yokota;Takao Someya

  • A Highly Sensitive Capacitive-type Strain Sensor Using Wrinkled Ultrathin Gold Films

    Roda Nur;Naoji Matsuhisa;Zhi Jiang;Osman Goni Nayeem

  • Skin bioelectronics towards long-term, continuous health monitoring.

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  • Enhancing the Performance of Stretchable Conductors for E-Textiles by Controlled Ink Permeation.

    Hanbit Jin;Naoji Matsuhisa;Sungwon Lee;Mohammad Abbas

  • Ultraflexible near-infrared organic photodetectors for conformal photoplethysmogram sensors

    Sungjun Park;Kenjiro Fukuda;Ming Wang;Chulhyo Lee

  • A 1.3-micrometre-thick elastic conductor for seamless on-skin and implantable sensors

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  • Ultrasoft electronics to monitor dynamically pulsing cardiomyocytes

    Sunghoon Lee;Daisuke Sasaki;Dongmin Kim;Mami Mori

  • Ultraflexible organic amplifier with biocompatible gel electrodes

    Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Tomoyuki Yokota;Kazunori Kuribara;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner

  • A durable nanomesh on-skin strain gauge for natural skin motion monitoring with minimum mechanical constraints.

    Yan Wang;Sunghoon Lee;Tomoyuki Yokota;Haoyang Wang

  • Transparent, conformable, active multielectrode array using organic electrochemical transistors

    Wonryung Lee;Dongmin Kim;Naoji Matsuhisa;Masae Nagase

  • Mechanically Adaptive Organic Transistors for Implantable Electronics

    Jonathan Reeder;Jonathan Reeder;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Taylor Ware;David Arreaga-Salas

Frequent Co-Authors

Takao Someya
Takao Someya University of Tokyo
Tsuyoshi Sekitani
Tsuyoshi Sekitani Osaka University
Kenjiro Fukuda
Kenjiro Fukuda Osaka University
Naoji Matsuhisa
Naoji Matsuhisa University of Tokyo
Hagen Klauk
Hagen Klauk Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Martin Kaltenbrunner
Martin Kaltenbrunner Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Kazuo Takimiya
Kazuo Takimiya Tohoku University
Takayasu Sakurai
Takayasu Sakurai University of Tokyo
Ute Zschieschang
Ute Zschieschang Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Makoto Takamiya
Makoto Takamiya University of Tokyo

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