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Yoshiharu Uchimoto

Yoshiharu Uchimoto

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Chemistry

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63
Citations
18521
World Ranking
8289
National Ranking
559

Engineering and Technology

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62
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1861
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17

Overview

Yoshiharu Uchimoto is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and materials science. Their work primarily focuses on electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and renewable energy, sustainability and the environment.

The scientist's research topics cover various aspects of battery materials, electrocatalysts, and related catalytic processes. Specific main topics include advancements in battery materials, advanced battery materials and technologies, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced battery technologies research, fuel cells and related materials, inorganic fluorides and related compounds, and catalytic processes in materials science.

Uchimoto has published numerous papers, several of which have appeared in well-regarded journals and venues. Some of the recent publications include:

  • Tantalum-stabilized ruthenium oxide electrocatalysts for industrial water electrolysis (2025, Science)
  • Regulating oxygen covalent electron localization to enhance anionic redox reversibility of lithium-rich layered oxide cathodes (2022, Energy storage materials)
  • Recent Progress on Mixed-Anion Materials for Energy Applications (2021, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan)
  • Hydride-based antiperovskites with soft anionic sublattices as fast alkali ionic conductors (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Tomographic reconstruction of oxygen orbitals in lithium-rich battery materials (2021, Nature)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors including Kentaro Yamamoto, Toshiki Watanabe, Tomoki Uchiyama, Toshiyuki Matsunaga, and Neha Thakur, with collaboration counts ranging from dozens to over one hundred joint works.

Uchimoto's research output is often published in venues such as ECS Meeting Abstracts, ACS Applied Energy Materials, Solid State Ionics, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

Best Publications

  • Scientific aspects of polymer electrolyte fuel cell durability and degradation.

    Rodney Borup;Jeremy Meyers;Bryan Pivovar;Yu Seung Kim

  • High energy density rechargeable magnesium battery using earth-abundant and non-toxic elements

    Yuki Orikasa;Titus Masese;Yukinori Koyama;Takuya Mori

  • Direct observation of reversible oxygen anion redox reaction in Li-rich manganese oxide, Li2MnO3, studied by soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy

    Masatsugu Oishi;Keisuke Yamanaka;Iwao Watanabe;Iwao Watanabe;Keiji Shimoda

  • Direct Observation of a Metastable Crystal Phase of LixFePO4 under Electrochemical Phase Transition

    Yuki Orikasa;Takehiro Maeda;Yukinori Koyama;Haruno Murayama

  • Tantalum-stabilized ruthenium oxide electrocatalysts for industrial water electrolysis

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  • Layered perovskite oxide: a reversible air electrode for oxygen evolution/reduction in rechargeable metal-air batteries.

    Tatsuya Takeguchi;Toshiro Yamanaka;Hiroki Takahashi;Hiroshi Watanabe

  • First In Situ Observation of the LiCoO2 Electrode/Electrolyte Interface by Total‐Reflection X‐ray Absorption Spectroscopy

    Daiko Takamatsu;Yukinori Koyama;Yuki Orikasa;Shinichiro Mori

  • Structural and Electronic-State Changes of a Sulfide Solid Electrolyte during the Li Deinsertion–Insertion Processes

    Takashi Hakari;Minako Deguchi;Kei Mitsuhara;Toshiaki Ohta

  • Direct observation of reversible charge compensation by oxygen ion in Li-rich manganese layered oxide positive electrode material, Li1.16Ni0.15Co0.19Mn0.50O2

    Masatsugu Oishi;Chihiro Yogi;Iwao Watanabe;Toshiaki Ohta

  • Charge compensation mechanisms in Li1.16Ni0.15Co0.19Mn0.50O2 positive electrode material for Li-ion batteries analyzed by a combination of hard and soft X-ray absorption near edge structure

    Masatsugu Oishi;Takahiro Fujimoto;Yu Takanashi;Yuki Orikasa

  • Ionic Conduction in Lithium Ion Battery Composite Electrode Governs Cross-sectional Reaction Distribution

    Yuki Orikasa;Yuma Gogyo;Hisao Yamashige;Misaki Katayama

  • Transient phase change in two phase reaction between LiFePO4 and FePO4 under battery operation

    Yuki Orikasa;Takehiro Maeda;Yukinori Koyama;Haruno Murayama

  • Defect Chemistry in Layered LiMO2 (M = Co, Ni, Mn, and Li1/3Mn2/3) by First-Principles Calculations

    Yukinori Koyama;Hajime Arai;Isao Tanaka;Yoshiharu Uchimoto

  • Discharge/charge reaction mechanisms of FeS2 cathode material for aluminum rechargeable batteries at 55°C

    Takuya Mori;Yuki Orikasa;Koji Nakanishi;Chen Kezheng

  • Quantitating the lattice strain dependence of monolayer Pt shell activity toward oxygen reduction.

    Xiaoming Wang;Yuki Orikasa;Yuki Takesue;Hideo Inoue

  • Regulating Oxygen Covalent Electron Localization to Enhance Anionic Redox Reversibility of Lithium-rich Layered Oxide Cathodes

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  • Real-time observations of lithium battery reactions—operando neutron diffraction analysis during practical operation

    Sou Taminato;Masao Yonemura;Shinya Shiotani;Takashi Kamiyama

  • Grain size control of LiMn2O4 cathode material using microwave synthesis method

    Masanobu Nakayama;Kyouhei Watanabe;Hiromasa Ikuta;Yoshiharu Uchimoto

  • Structural and electronic features of binary Li(2)S-P(2)S(5) glasses.

    Koji Ohara;Akio Mitsui;Akio Mitsui;Masahiro Mori;Yohei Onodera

  • Crystal structure of Ga-doped Ba2In2O5 and its oxide ion conductivity

    T Yao;Y Uchimoto;M Kinuhata;T Inagaki

  • Electrochemical Performance of Natural Graphite by Surface Modification Using Aluminum

    Sung-Soo Kim;Yoshihiro Kadoma;Hiromasa Ikuta;Yoshiharu Uchimoto

  • Reaction mechanisms of MnMoO4 for high capacity anode material of Li secondary battery

    Sung-Soo Kim;Seiichiro Ogura;Hiromasa Ikuta;Yoshiharu Uchimoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuki Orikasa
Yuki Orikasa Ritsumeikan University
Zempachi Ogumi
Zempachi Ogumi Kyoto University
Hajime Arai
Hajime Arai Tokyo Institute of Technology
Katsutoshi Fukuda
Katsutoshi Fukuda Kyoto University
Eiichiro Matsubara
Eiichiro Matsubara Kyoto University
Toshiaki Ohta
Toshiaki Ohta Ritsumeikan University
Hiroshi Kageyama
Hiroshi Kageyama Kyoto University
Kazuhiko Maeda
Kazuhiko Maeda Institute of Science Tokyo
Tatsuya Kawada
Tatsuya Kawada Tohoku University
Tsutomu Ioroi
Tsutomu Ioroi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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