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Toru H. Okabe

Toru H. Okabe

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Materials Science

D-Index
51
Citations
9834
World Ranking
9873
National Ranking
595

Overview

Toru H. Okabe is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes in research primarily within the fields of engineering and chemical engineering. Their scholarly output includes significant contributions to areas such as mechanical engineering, fluid flow and transfer processes, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The scientist's research focuses predominantly on topics related to molten salt chemistry and electrochemical processes, extraction and separation processes, metallurgical processes and thermodynamics, recycling and waste management techniques, magnesium alloys, metal extraction and bioleaching, and bauxite residue utilization.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Takanari Ouchi, Gen Kamimura, Yu-ki Taninouchi, Tae-Hyuk Lee, and Jungshin Kang.

Publications are often found in specialized venues with metallurgy and materials science orientations. The most common publication venues for Okabe's work are:

  • Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B
  • MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS
  • Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy
  • Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals and Materials
  • Journal of MMIJ

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Okabe cover a range of topics relevant to metal extraction and recycling technologies. These include:

  • Recent Progress in Titanium Extraction and Recycling, 2020, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B
  • Development of a novel electrolytic process for producing high-purity magnesium metal from magnesium oxide using a liquid tin cathode, 2021, Journal of Magnesium and Alloys
  • Development of a New Titanium Powder Sintering Process with Deoxidation Reaction Using Yttrium Metal, 2020, MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS
  • Molten Salt Electrolysis of Magnesium Oxide Using a Liquid-Metal Cathode for the Production of Magnesium Metal, 2020, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B
  • Lanthanothermic Reduction of TiO2, 2020, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of Titanium Alloys Fabricated Using Rapid Prototyping Technologies—Electron Beam Melting and Laser Beam Melting

    Mari Koike;Preston Greer;Kelly Owen;Guo Lilly

  • Titanium powder production by preform reduction process (PRP)

    Toru H Okabe;Takashi Oda;Yoshitaka Mitsuda

  • Evaluation of titanium alloy fabricated using electron beam melting system for dental applications

    Mari Koike;Kelly Martinez;Lilly Guo;Gilbert Chahine

  • Electrochemical Deoxidation of Titanium.

    T. H. Okabe;M. Nakamura;T. Oishi;K. Ono

  • Thermodynamic Properties of Dilute Titanium-Oxygen Solid Solution in Beta Phase

    Toru H. Okabe;Ryosuke O. Suzuki;Toshio Oishi;Katsutoshi Ono

  • Preparation and characterization of extra-low-oxygen titanium

    T.H. Okabe;T. Oishi;K. Ono

  • Recovery of neodymium from a mixture of magnet scrap and other scrap

    Osamu Takeda;Toru H. Okabe;Yoshiaki Umetsu

  • Direct Extraction and Recovery of Neodymium Metal from Magnet Scrap

    Toru H. Okabe;Osamu Takeda;Kazuhiro Fukuda;Yoshiaki Umetsu

  • Effect of Pressure Difference on the Quality of Titanium Casting

    I. Watanabe;J.H. Watkins;H. Nakajima;M. Atsuta

  • Production of titanium powder directly from TiO2 in CaCl2 through an electronically mediated reaction (EMR)

    Il Park;Takashi Abiko;Toru H. Okabe

  • Recent Progress in Titanium Extraction and Recycling

    Osamu Takeda;Takanari Ouchi;Toru H. Okabe

  • Production of niobium powder by electronically mediated reaction (EMR) using calcium as a reductant

    Toru H. Okabe;I. l. Park;K. T. Jacob;Yoshio Waseda

  • Metallothermic reduction as an electronically mediated reaction

    Toru H. Okabe;Donald R. Sadoway

  • Electrochemical deoxidation of yttrium-oxygen solid solutions

    T.H. Okabe;T.N. Deura;T. Oishi;K. Ono

  • Phase equilibrium of the system Ag–Fe–Nd, and Nd extraction from magnet scraps using molten silver

    O. Takeda;T.H. Okabe;Y. Umetsu

  • Deoxidation of titanium aluminide by Ca-Al alloy under controlled aluminum activity

    T. H. Okabe;T. Oishi;K. Ono

  • The design and production of Ti-6Al-4V ELI customized dental implants

    Gilbert Chahine;Mari Koike;Toru Okabe;Pauline Smith

  • Current Status of Titanium Recycling and Related Technologies

    Osamu Takeda;Toru H. Okabe

  • Production of Extra Low Oxygen Titanium by Calcium-Halide Flux Deoxidation

    Toru H. Okabe;Ryosuke O.Suzuki;Toshio Oishi;Katsutoshi Ono

  • Development of a recycling process for tantalum from capacitor scraps

    Kunio Mineta;Toru H. Okabe

  • Electrochemical deoxidation of RE–O (RE=Gd, Tb, Dy, Er) solid solutions

    K. Hirota;T.H. Okabe;F. Saito;Y. Waseda

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshio Waseda
Yoshio Waseda Tohoku University
Ryosuke O. Suzuki
Ryosuke O. Suzuki Kyoto University
Dihua Wang
Dihua Wang Wuhan University
George Chen
George Chen University of Southampton
Hongmin Zhu
Hongmin Zhu Tohoku University
John T. S. Irvine
John T. S. Irvine University of St Andrews
Paul A. Madden
Paul A. Madden University of Edinburgh
Fumio Saito
Fumio Saito Tohoku University
Wei Xiao
Wei Xiao Wuhan University

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