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Toshiya Okazaki is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with significant contributions focusing on Materials Chemistry and various engineering subfields.

Their work covers several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials, Polymers and Plastics, as well as Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The main topics they have explored include Carbon Nanotubes in Composites, Graphene research and applications, Advanced Cellulose Research Studies, and the use of Machine Learning in Materials Science. Additional focus areas include Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications, Conducting polymers and applications, and Thermal properties of materials.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Okazaki are:

  • Improved thermal stability of silicone rubber nanocomposites with low filler content, achieved by well-dispersed carbon nanotubes (2020, Composites Communications)
  • Vertically aligned growth of small-diameter single-walled carbon nanotubes by alcohol catalytic chemical vapor deposition with Ir catalyst (2020, Applied Surface Science)
  • New evaluation method for the curing degree of rubber and its nanocomposites using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy (2020, Polymer Testing)
  • Annealing-induced enhancement of electrical conductivity and electromagnetic interference shielding in injection-molded CNT polymer composites (2022, Polymer)
  • Dispersions of High-Quality Carbon Nanotubes with Narrow Aggregate Size Distributions by Viscous Liquid for Conducting Polymer Composites (2020, ACS Applied Nano Materials)

Okazaki frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable co-authors including Kazufumi Kobashi, H. Nakajima, Yoko Iizumi, Shun Muroga, and Takahiro Morimoto. These collaborations reflect sustained teamwork in the development and characterization of advanced composite materials and nanotube technologies.

The scientist has published extensively in a variety of venues. The leading platforms for their research dissemination include ECS Meeting Abstracts, SSRN Electronic Journal, Carbon, ACS Applied Nano Materials, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

Best Publications

  • One-dimensional metallofullerene crystal generated inside single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    K. Hirahara;K. Suenaga;S. Bandow;H. Kato

  • Selectivity of water-soluble proteins in single-walled carbon nanotube dispersions

    Koji Matsuura;Takeshi Saito;Toshiya Okazaki;Satoshi Ohshima

  • New Synthesis of High-Quality Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by High-Temperature Pulsed Arc Discharge

    Toshiki Sugai;Hiromichi Yoshida;Takashi Shimada;Toshiya Okazaki

  • Selective diameter control of single-walled carbon nanotubes in the gas-phase synthesis.

    Takeshi Saito;Satoshi Ohshima;Toshiya Okazaki;Shigekazu Ohmori

  • Mixed low-dimensional nanomaterial: 2D ultranarrow MoS2 inorganic nanoribbons encapsulated in quasi-1D carbon nanotubes.

    Zhiyong Wang;Hong Li;Zheng Liu;Zujin Shi

  • Electron diffraction study of one-dimensional crystals of fullerenes

    K. Hirahara;S. Bandow;K. Suenaga;H. Kato

  • Visualizing and identifying single atoms using electron energy-loss spectroscopy with low accelerating voltage.

    Kazu Suenaga;Yuta Sato;Zheng Liu;Hiromichi Kataura

  • CVD growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes with narrow diameter distribution over Fe/MgO catalyst and their fluorescence spectroscopy.

    Hiroki Ago;Shingo Imamura;Toshiya Okazaki;Takeshi Saito

  • Trapping a C2 radical in endohedral metallofullerenes: Synthesis and structures of (Y2C2)@C82 (isomers I, II, and III)

    Takashi Inoue;Tetsuo Tomiyama;Toshiki Sugai;Toshiya Okazaki

  • Selective synthesis of double-wall carbon nanotubes by CCVD of acetylene using zeolite supports

    Tatsuki Hiraoka;Tomoju Kawakubo;Junichi Kimura;Risa Taniguchi

  • Analysis of the reactivity and selectivity of fullerene dimerization reactions at the atomic level

    Masanori Koshino;Yoshiko Niimi;Eiichi Nakamura;Hiromichi Kataura

  • Ambipolar field-effect transistor behavior of Gd@C82 metallofullerene peapods

    T. Shimada;T. Okazaki;R. Taniguchi;T. Sugai

  • Selective extraction of large-diameter single-wall carbon nanotubes with specific chiral indices by poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-alt-benzothiadiazole).

    Masayoshi Tange;Toshiya Okazaki;Sumio Iijima

  • Double-wall carbon nanotube field-effect transistors: Ambipolar transport characteristics

    Takashi Shimada;Toshiki Sugai;Yutaka Ohno;Shigeru Kishimoto

  • Smallest limit of tube diameters for encasing of particular fullerenes determined by radial breathing mode Raman scattering

    S Bandow;M Takizawa;H Kato;T Okazaki

  • Single molecular orientation switching of an endohedral metallofullerene.

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  • Isolation and spectroscopic characterization of Sm-containing metallofullerenes

    Toshiya Okazaki;Yongfu Lian;Zhennan Gu;Kazutomo Suenaga

  • Coaxially Stacked Coronene Columns inside Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Toshiya Okazaki;Toshiya Okazaki;Toshiya Okazaki;Yoko Iizumi;Yoko Iizumi;Shingo Okubo;Hiromichi Kataura

  • Length-dependent plasmon resonance in single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    Takahiro Morimoto;Soon-Kil Joung;Takeshi Saito;Don N Futaba

  • Single-molecule sensing electrode embedded in-plane nanopore

    Makusu Tsutsui;Sakon Rahong;Yoko Iizumi;Toshiya Okazaki

  • Real time reaction dynamics in carbon nanotubes.

    Toshiya Okazaki;Kazutomo Suenaga;Kaori Hirahara;Shunji Bandow

Frequent Co-Authors

Sumio Iijima
Sumio Iijima Meijo University
Hisanori Shinohara
Hisanori Shinohara Nagoya University
Masako Yudasaka
Masako Yudasaka National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Kazu Suenaga
Kazu Suenaga Osaka University
Takeo Yamada
Takeo Yamada National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Kenji Hata
Kenji Hata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Hiromichi Kataura
Hiromichi Kataura National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Yuji Awano
Yuji Awano Keio University
Susumu Okada
Susumu Okada University of Tsukuba
Yutaka Maeda
Yutaka Maeda Tokyo Gakugei University

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