Yoshikazu Ito lab, University of Tsukuba

2025年

Oreste De Luca, Antonio Palamara, Michele Pisarra Giovanni Desiderio, Dario Marchiani, Riccardo Frisenda, Francesca Mazzei, Samuel Jeong, Tommaso Caruso, Yoshikazu Ito, Carlo Mariani Maria Grazia Betti, Marco Papagno Daniela Pacilé, Raffaele G. Agostino, Antonello Sindona

Imaging of twisted monolayers in three-dimensional nanoporous graphene

Phys. Rev. B, 2025, 111, 045432.

Aimi A. H. Tajuddin, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Hisanori Tanimoto, Takeshi Fujita, Samuel Jeong, Atsushi Fukazawa, Yuto Shimoyama, Yoshitatsu Misu, Kaori Takano, Koji Matsuoka, Yoshikazu Ito

Toluene-Poisoning-Resistant High-Entropy Non-Noble Metal Anode for Direct One-Step Hydrogenation of Toluene to Methylcyclohexane

ChemSusChem, 2025, 18, e202401071.

Saikat Bolar, Yuan Chunyu, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Takeshi Fujita

Inverse Analysis-Guided Development of Acid-Tolerant Nanoporous High-Entropy Catalysts for Enhanced Water-Splitting Performance

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, 13, 940-950.

Yue Xu, Shuaidong Li, Yingjian He, Fumiya Shiokaw, Samuel Jeong, Aimi Asilah Haji Tajuddin, Zeyu Xi, Yoshikazu Ito, Jingzi Zhang, Zeyun Cai, Xi Lin, Kailong Hu

An electron-transfer-tuning strategy at the graphene/metal interface for improving acidic water electrolysis in proton exchange membrane electrolyzers

Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2025, 103, 344–352.

2024年

Yoshiya Kishibe, Toshihiko Fujimori, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, and Jun-ichi Fujita

Impact of residence time on bundle length distribution of carbon nanotubes in floating-catalyst chemical vapor deposition synthesis

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2024, 63, 120902.

Saikat Bolar, Akitaka Ito, Yuan Chunyu, Yoshikazu Ito, Takeshi Fujita

Rapid Chemical Synthesis of High-Entropy Oxide Colloids under Ambient Conditions

ACS Materials Letters, 2024, 6, 5325–5332

Dario Marchiani, Riccardo Frisenda, Carlo Mariani, Marco Sbroscia, Tommaso Caruso, Oreste De Luca, Marco Papagno, Daniela Pacile, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Maria Grazia Betti

Charge Effects and Electron Phonon coupling in Potassium-doped Graphene

ACS Omega, 2024, 9, 39546–39553

Dario Marchiani, Riccardo Frisenda, Carlo Mariani, Jose Avila, Pavel Dudin, Hayato Sueyoshi, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Oreste De Luca, Sara Macchi, Marco Papagno, Raffaele G. Agostino, Daniela Pacile, Maria Grazia Betti

Alkali Metals Adsorbed on Nanoporous Graphene: Charge Transfer and Metallic Phase

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2024, 128, 11255–11262

Saikat Bolar, Yoshikazu Ito, Takeshi Fujita

Future Prospects of High-Entropy Alloys as Next-Generation Industrial Electrode Materials

Chemical Science, 2024, 15, 8664–8722

Zeyu Xi, Jiuhui Han, Zeyu Jin, Kailong Hu, Hua-Jun Qiu, Yoshikazu Ito

All-solid-state Mg–air battery enhanced with free-standing N-doped 3D nanoporous graphene

Small, 2024, 20, 2308045.

Ze-Xing Cai, Saikat Bolar, Yoshikazu Ito, Takeshi Fujita

Enhancing oxygen evolution reactions in nanoporous high-entropy catalysts using boron and phosphorus additives

Nanoscale, 2024 16, 4803-4810.

Fumiya Shiokawa, Aimi Asilah Haji Tajuddin, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Yue Yu, Takeshi Fujita, Hisanori Tanimoto, Zeyu Xi, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito

Durable high-entropy non-noble metal anodes for neutral seawater electrolysis

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 479, 147862

2023年

Roberto Costantini, Alessio Giampietri, Dario Marchiani, Maria Grazia Betti, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Alberto Morgante, Martina Dell’Angela, Carlo Mariani

Controlled laser-induced dehydrogenation of free-standing graphane probed by pump-probe X-ray photoemission

Appl. Surf. Sci., 2023, 644, 158784.

Zeyu Xi, Jiuhui Han, Zeyu Jin, Kailong Hu, Hua-Jun Qiu, Yoshikazu Ito

All-solid-state Mg–air battery enhanced with free-standing N-doped 3D nanoporous graphene

Small, 2023, in press.

Zhikai Li, Toshihiko Fujimori, Samuel Jeong, Hirotaka Inoue, Momoko Sakai, Keishi Akada, Yoshikazu Ito, Jun-ichi Fujita

Direct synthesis of nitrogen-doped narrow-diameter carbon nanotubes through floating-catalyst chemical vapor deposition with high hydrogen flow rate

Appl. Phys. Express, 2023, 16, 095001.

Samuel Jeong, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Tomohiko Nishiuchi, Yuki Nagata, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yoshikazu Ito

Suppression of Methanol and Formate Crossover through Sulfanilic-functionalized Holey Graphene as Proton Exchange Membranes

Adv. Sci., 2023, 10, 2304082.

Maria Grazia Betti, Dario Marchiani, Andrea Tonelli, Elena Blundo, Marta De Luca, Antonio Polimeni, Riccardo Frisenda, Carlo Mariani, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Nicola Cavani, Roberto Biagi, Peter N. O. Gillespie, Michael Hernandez Bertran, Miki Bonacci, Elisa Molinari, Valentina De Renzi, Deborah Prezzi

Dielectric Response and Excitations of Hydrogenated Free-standing Graphene

 Carbon Trends, 2023, 12, 100274.

Yusuke Kawabe, Yoshikazu Ito, Yuta Hori, Suresh Kukunuri, Fumiya Shiokawa, Tomohiko Nishiuchi, Samuel Jeong, Kosuke Katagiri, Zeyu Xi, Zhikai Li, Yasuteru Shigeta, Yasufumi Takahashi

1T/1H-SnS2 Sheets for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Formate

ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 11318–11326.

Roberto Costantini, Dario Marchiani, Maria Grazia Betti, Carlo Mariani, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Alberto Morgante, Martina Dell’Angela

Pump-Probe X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy of Free-Standing Graphane

Condensed Matter, 2023, 8, 31.

Kemeng Ji, Guohong Liang, Yuhao Shen, Hongxing Dai, Jiuhui Han, Yoshikazu Ito, Takeshi Fujita, Jun-ichi Fujita, Chengyang Wang, Mingming Chen

Ordered macroporous graphenic carbon-based framework materials and their low-temperature co-sacrificial template synthesis mechanism

Cell Reports Physical Science, 2023, 4, 101283.

Aimi A. H. Tajuddin, Mitsuru Wakisaka, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Yue Yu, Haruki Fukushima, Hisanori Tanimoto, Xiaoguang Li, Yoshitatsu Misu, Samuel Jeong, Jun-ichi Fujita, Hirokazu Tada, Takeshi Fujita, Masaki Takeguchi, Kaori Takano, Koji Matsuoka, Yasushi Sato, Yoshikazu Ito

Corrosion-resistant and high-entropic non-noble-metal electrodes for oxygen evolution in acidic media

Adv. Mater., 2023, 35, 2207466.

Hirokazu Kojima, Kensaku Nagasawa, Naoto Todoroki, Yoshikazu Ito, Toshiaki Matsui, Ryo Nakajima

Influence of renewable energy power fluctuations on water electrolysis for green hydrogen production

Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 2023, 48, 4572–4593.

Dario Marchiani, Andrea Tonelli, Carlo Mariani, Riccardo Frisenda, José Avila, Pavel Dudin, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Francesco Saverio Magnani, Roberto Biagi, Valentina De Renzi, Maria Grazia Betti

Tuning the Electronic Response of Metallic Graphene by Potassium Doping

Nano lett., 2023, 1, 170–176.

2022年

Ze-Xing Cai, Yanjie Xia, Yoshikazu Ito, Masataka Ohtani, Hikaru Sakamoto, Akitaka Ito, Yijia Bai, Zhong-Li Wang, Yusuke Yamauchi, Takeshi Fujita

General Synthesis of MOF Nanotubes via Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks toward Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysts

ACS Nano, 2022, 16, 20851–20864.

Yoichi Tanabe, Yoshikazu Ito, Katsuaki Sugawara, Samuel Jeong, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Tomohiko Nishiuchi, Naoaki Kawada, Shojiro Kimura, Christopher Florencio Aleman, Takashi Takahashi, Motoko Kotani, Mingwei Chen

Coexistence of Urbach-tail-like localized states and metallic conduction channels in nitrogen-doped 3D curved graphene

Adv. Mater., 2022, 34, 2205986.

Maria Grazia Betti, Elena Blundo, Marta De Luca, Marco Felici, Riccardo Frisenda, Yoshikazu Ito, Samuel Jeong, Dario Marchiani, Carlo Mariani, Antonio Polimeni, Marco Sbroscia, Francesco Trequattrini, Rinaldo Trotta

Homogeneous Spatial Distribution of Deuterium Chemisorbed on Free-Standing Graphene

Nanomaterials, 2022, 12, 2613.

Maria Grazia Betti, Ernesto Placidi, Chiara Izzo, Elena Blundo, Antonio Polimeni, Marco Sbroscia, Jos Avila, Pavel Dudin, Kailong Hu, Yoshikazu Ito, Deborah Prezzi, Miki Bonacci, Elisa Molinari, Carlo Mariani

Gap opening in double side highly hydrogenated free standing graphene

Nano lett. 2022, 7, 2971–2977.

Jeya Gopal, Ganesan Elumalai, Aimi Asilah Haji Tajuddin, Yoshikazu Ito, Sivamurugan Vajiravelu, Dhanalakshmi Ravikumar

Recyclable Clay-Supported Heteropolyacid Catalysts for Complete Glycolysis and Aminolysis of Post-consumer PET Beverage Bottles

J. Polym. Environ. 2022, 30, 2614–2630.

Tingting Yu, Yanyi Zhang, Yixuan Hu, Kailong Hu, Xi Lin, Guoqiang Xie, Xingjun Liu, Kolan Madhav Reddy, Yoshikazu Ito, Hua-Jun Qiu

Twelve-Component Free-Standing Nanoporous High-Entropy Alloys for Multifunctional Electrocatalysis

ACS Materials Lett. 2022, 4, 181-189.

Yanyi Zhang, Xiang-Peng Kong, Xiaorong Lin, Kailong Hu, Weiwei Zhao, Guoqiang Xie, Xi Lin, Xingjun Liu, Yoshikazu Ito, Hua-Jun Qiu

Enhanced bifunctional catalytic activities of N-doped graphene by Ni in a 3D trimodal nanoporous nanotubular network and its ultralong cycling performance in Zn-air batteries

Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2022, 66, 466-473.

2021

Negar Zebardastan, Jonathan Bradford, Bharati Gupta, Josh Lipton-Duffin, Jennifer MacLeod, Hong Duc Pham, Deepak Dubal, Kostya Ostrikov, Annalena Wolff, Kailong Hu, Yoshikazu Ito, Carlo Mariani, Maria Grazia Betti, and Nunzio Motta

2D MoS₂ Heterostructures on Epitaxial and Self-Standing Graphene for Energy Storage: from Growth Mechanism to Application

Adv. Mater. Technol., 2021, in press.

Luca Tomarchio, Salvatore Macis, Antonio Grilli, Martina Romani, Mariangela Cestelli Guidi, Kailong Hu, Suresh Kukunuri, Samuel Jeong, Augusto Marcelli, Yoshikazu Ito, Stefano Lupi

Disordered Photonics Behavior from Terahertz to Ultraviolet of a 3-Dimensional Graphene Network

NPG Asia Materials, 2021, 13, 73.

Aimi Asilah Haji Tajuddin, Ganesan Elumalai, Zeyu Xi, Kailong Hu, Samuel Jeong, Kensaku Nagasawa, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yoshitsugu Sone, Yoshikazu Ito

Corrosion-resistant Non-noble Metal Electrodes for PEM-type Water Electrolyzer

Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 2021, 46, 38603-38611.

Ze-Xing Cai, Hiromi Goou, Yoshikazu Ito, Tomoharu Tokunaga, Masahiro Miyauchi, Hideki Abe, Takeshi Fujita

Nanoporous ultra-high-entropy alloys containing fourteen elements for water splitting electrocatalysis

Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 11306-11315.

Samuel Jeong, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Tomohiko Nishiuchi, Yuki Nagata, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yoshi-kazu Ito

Polyethylene glycol covered Sn catalysts accelerate the for-mation rate of formate by carbon dioxide reduction

ACS Catal., 2021, 11, 9962-9969.

Yoshikazu Ito, Suresh Kukunuri, Samuel Jeong, Ganesan Elumalai, Aimi Asilah Haji Tajuddin, Zeyu Xi, Kailong Hu, Tatsuhiko Ohto

Phase-Dependent Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction Ability of NiSn Alloys for Formate Generation

ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2021, 4, 7122-7128.

Kailong Hu, Tingting Yu, Yanyi Zhang, Xiaorong Lin, Yilu Zhao, Guoqiang Xie, Xingjun Liu, Xi Lin, Jun-ichi Fujita, Hua-Jun Qiu, Yoshikazu Ito

Inhibiting Surface Diffusion to Synthesize Three-Dimensional Bicontinuous Nanoporous N-Doped Carbon for Boosting Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Flexible All-Solid-State Al-Air Batteries

Adv. Funct. Mater., 2021, 31, 2103632. Selected for Back Cover

Andreas Dechant, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Yoshikazu Ito, Marina V. Makarova, Yusuke Kawabe, Tatsufumi Agari, Hikaru Kumai, Yasufumi Takahashi, Hisashi Naito, Motoko Kotani

Geometric model of 3D curved graphene with chemical dopants

Carbon, 2021, 182, 223-232.

Hua-Jun Qiu, Isaac Johnson, Luyang Chen, Weitao Cong, Yoshikazu Ito, Pan Liu, Jiuhui Han, Fujita Kateshi, Akihiko Hirata, Mingwei Chen

Graphene Coated Nanoporous Nickel towards Metal-Catalyzed Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Nanoscale, 2021, 13, 10916-10924.

Takuya Tsujiguchi, Yusuke Kawabe, Samuel Jeong, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Suresh Kukunuri, Hirotaka Kuramochi, Yasufumi Takahashi, Tomohiko Nishiuchi, Hideki Masuda, Mitsuru Wakisaka, Kailong Hu, Ganesan Elumalai, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yoshikazu Ito

Acceleration of Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction to Formate at the Sn/Reduced Graphene Oxide Interface

ACS Catal., 2021, 11, 3310-3318.

Mahmoud Mohamed Saad Abdelnabi, Chiara Izzo, Elena Blundo, Maria Grazia Betti, Marco Sbroscia, Giulia Di Bella, Gianluca Cavoto, Antonio Polimeni, Isabel Garc?a-Cort?s, Isabel Rucandio, Alejandro Moro?o, Kailong Hu, Yoshikazu Ito, Carlo Mariani

Deuterium Adsorption on Free-Standing Graphene

Nanomaterials, 2021, 11, 130.

Kailong Hu, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Yuki Nagata, Mitsuru Wakisaka, Yoshitaka Aoki, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yoshikazu Ito

Catalytic Activity of Graphene-Covered Non-Noble Metals Governed by Proton Penetration in Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction,

Nat. Comm. 2021, 12, 203.

Daichi Suzuki, Takuya Okamoto, Juxian Li, Yoshikazu Ito, Takeshi Fujita, Yukio Kawano

Terahertz and Infrared Response Assisted by Heat Localization in Nanoporous Graphene

Carbon, 2021, 173, 403-409.

2020

Yoichi Tanabe, Yoshikazu Ito, Katsuaki Sugawara, Mikito Koshino, Shojiro Kimura, Tomoya Naito, Isaac Johnson, Takashi Takahashi, Mingwei Chen

Dirac Fermion kinetics in three-dimensionally curved graphene

Adv. Mater., 2020, 32, 2005838.

Luyi Huang, Yoshikazu Ito, Takeshi Fujita, Xingbo Ge, Ling Zhang, Heping Zeng

Bismuth/Porous Graphene Heterostructures for Ultrasensitive Detection of Cd (II)

Materials, 2020, 13, 5102.

Mahmoud Mohamed Saad Abdelnabi, Elena Blundo, Maria Grazia Betti, Gianluca Cavoto, Ernesto Placidi, Antonio Polimeni, Alessandro Ruocco, Kailong Hu, Yoshikazu Ito, Carlo Mariani

Towards Free-Standing Graphane: Atomic Hydrogen and Deuterium Bonding to Nano-Porous Graphene

Nanotechnology, 2020, 32, 035707.

Kailong Hu, Samuel Jeong, Ganesan Elumalai, Suresh Kukunuri, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yoshikazu Ito

Phase-Dependent Reactivity of Nickel Molybdates for Electrocatalytic Urea Oxidation

ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2020, 3, 7535-7542.

Peng Du, Kailong Hu, Juan Lyu, Huanglong Lia, Xi Lin, Guoqiang Xie, Xingjun Liu, Yoshikazu Ito, Hua-Jun Qiu

Anchoring Single-Atom Mo and N on Edge-Rich Nanoporous Holey Graphene as Bifunctional Air Electrode in Zn-Air Batteries

Appl. Catal. B: Environmental, 2020, 276, 119172.

Kailong Hu, Lei Qin, Songwei Zhang, Jingfeng Zheng, Jiaonan Sun, Yoshikazu Ito, Yiying Wu

Building a Reactive Armor Using S-Doped Graphene for Protecting Potassium Metal Anodes from Oxygen Crossover in K-O₂ Batteries

ACS Energy Lett., 2020, 5, 1788-1793.

Yoshikazu Ito, Megumi Kayanuma, Yasuteru Shigeta, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yoichi Tanabe

Understanding the Detection Mechanisms and Ability of Molecular Hydrogen on Three-Dimensional Bicontinuous Nanoporous Reduced Graphene Oxide

Materials, 2020, 13, 2259.

Pan Liu, Qing Chen, Yoshikazu Ito, Jiuhui Han, Shufen Chu, Xiaodong Wang, Kolan Madhav Reddy, Shuangxi Song, Akihiko Hirata, Mingwei Chen

Dealloying Kinetics of AgAu Nanoparticles by In Situ Liquid-Cell Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Nano lett., 2020, 20, 1944-1951.

Yasufumi Takahashi, Yu Kobayashi, Ziqian Wang, Yoshikazu Ito, Masato Ota, Hiroki Ida, Akichika Kumatani, Keisuke Miyazawa, Takeshi Fujita, Hitoshi Shiku, Yuri E Korchev, Yasumitsu Miyata, Takeshi Fukuma, Mingwei Chen, Tomokazu Matsue

High Resolution Electrochemical Mapping of Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanosheets

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 3601-3608.

Samuel Jeong, Kailong Hu, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Yuki Nagata, Hideki Masuda, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yoshikazu Ito

Effect of Graphene Encapsulation of NiMo Alloys on Oxygen Evolution Reaction

ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 792-799.

Xiaoliang Yu, Jie Tang, Kazuya Terabe, Taizo Sasaki, Runsheng Gao, Yoshikazu Ito, Kensuke Nakura, Kazuko Asano, Masa-aki Suzuki

Fabrication of graphene/MoS₂ alternately stacked structure for enhanced lithium storage

Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2020, 239, 121987.

2019

Toshihiko Fujimori, Kanade Matsuo, Hideki Masuda, Yu Kikuchi, Jun Otsuka, Daisuke Tanioka, Takeshi Hikata, Soichiro Okubo, Yoshikazu Ito, Jun-ichi Fujita

Fabrication of High-Strength Carbon Nanotube Bundles Using Iron Oxides Co-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition

Appl. Phys. Lett., 2019, 115, 023106.

Yoshikazu Ito, Yuto Habata, Hirotaka Kuramochi, Emi Kusuda, Kailong Hu, Hideki Masuda, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yuki Nagata, Makoto M. Watanabe, Andreas Isdepsky

Damage-Free Solar Dewatering of Micro-Algal Concentrates via Multi-Functional Hierarchical Porous Graphene

Adv. Sustainable Syst., 2019, 3, 1900045.

Hua-Jun Qiu, Peng Du, Kailong Hu, Jiaojiao Gao, Huanglong Li, Pan Liu, Toshiaki Ina, Koji Ohara, Yoshikazu Ito, Mingwei Chen

Metal and Nonmetal Codoped 3D Nanoporous Graphene for Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalysis and Rechargeable Zn-Air Batteries

Adv. Mater., 2019, 31, 1900843.

Akichika Kumatani, Chiho Miura, Hirotaka Kuramochi, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Mitsuru Wakisaka, Yuki Nagata, Hiroki Ida, Yasufumi Takahashi, Kailong Hu, Samuel Jeong, Jun-ichi Fujita, Tomokazu Matsue, Yoshikazu Ito

Chemical dopants on edge of holey graphene accelerate electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction

Adv. Sci., 2019, 6, 1900119. (Top downloaded paper 2018-2019)

Hamzeh Kashani, Yoshikazu Ito, Jiuhui Han, Pan Liu, Mingwei Chen

Extraordinary tensile strength and ductility of scalable nanoporous graphene

Sci. Adv., 2019, 5, eaat6951.

Kailong Hu, Mingxing Wu, Satoshi Hinokuma, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Mitsuru Wakisaka, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yoshikazu Ito

Boosting Electrochemical Water Splitting via Ternary NiMoCo Hybrid Nanowire Arrays

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 2156-2164.

Kemeng Ji, Jiuhui Han, Akihiko Hirata, Takeshi Fujita, Yuhao Shen, Shoucong Ning, Pan Liu, Hamzeh Kashani, Yuan Tian, Yoshikazu Ito, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yutaka Oyama

Lithium intercalation into bilayer graphene

Nat. Comm., 2019, 10, 275.

2018

Ziqian Wang, Min Luo, Shoucong Ning, Yoshikazu Ito, Hamzeh Kashani, Xuanyi Zhang, Mingwei Chen

One-dimensional atomic segregation at semiconductor-metal interfaces of polymorphic transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

Nano Lett., 2018, 18, 10, 6157-6163.

Linghan Chen, Jiuhui Han, Yoshikazu Ito, Takeshi Fujita, Gang Huang, Kailong Hu, Akihiko Hirata, Kentaro Watanabe, Mingwei Chen

Heavily Doped and Highly Conductive Hierarchical Nanoporous Graphene for Electrochemical Hydrogen Production

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 13302-13307.

Kailong Hu, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Linghan Chen, Jiuhui Han, Mitsuru Wakisaka, Yuki Nagata, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yoshikazu Ito

Graphene Layer Encapsulation of Non-Noble Metal Nanoparticles as Acid-Stable Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts

ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 1539-1544.

Jiuhui Han, Akihiko Hirata, Jing Du, Yoshikazu Ito, Takeshi Fujita, Shinji Kohara, Toshiaki Ina, Mingwei Chen

Intercalation pseudocapacitance of amorphous titanium dioxide@nanoporous graphene for high-rate and large-capacity energy storage

Nano Energy, 2018, 49, 354-362.

Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Gary Edwards, Jun-ichi Fujita

High-sensitivity visualization of localized electric fields using low-energy electron beam deflection

Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 2018, 57, 065201.

Yoshikazu Ito, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Daisuke Hojo, Mitsuru Wakisaka, Yuki Nagata, Linghan Chen, Kailong Hu, Masahiko Izumi, Jun-ichi Fujita, Tadafumi Adschiri

Cooperation between holey graphene and NiMo alloy for hydrogen evolution in acidic electrolyte

ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 3579-3586

Ziqian Wang, Yuhao Shen, Yoshikazu Ito, Yongzheng Zhang, Jing Du, Takeshi Fujita, Akihiko Hirata, Zheng Tang, Mingwei Chen

Synthesizing 1T-1H Two-Phase Mo1-xWxS2 Monolayers by Chemical Vapor Deposition

ACS Nano, 2018, 12, 2, 1571-1579.

Iolanda Di Bernardo, Giulia Avvisati, Chaoyu Chen, Jos-Avila, Maria Carmen Asensio, Kailong Hu, Yoshikazu Ito, Peter Hines, Josh Lipton-Duffin, Llew Rintoul, Nunzio Motta, Carlo Mariani, Maria Grazia Betti

Topology and doping effects in three-dimensional nanoporous graphene

Carbon, 2018, 131, 258?265.

Yoshikazu Ito, Yoichi Tanabe, Katsuaki Sugawara, Mikito Koshino, Takashi Takahashi, Katsumi Tanigaki, Hideo Aoki, Mingwei Chen

Three-dimensional porous graphene networks expand graphene-based electronic device applications

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 6024-6033.

Jiuhui Han, Pan Liu, Yoshikazu Ito, Xianwei Guo, Akihiko Hirata, Takeshi Fujita, Mingwei Chen

Bilayered Nanoporous Graphene/Molybdenum Oxide for High Rate Lithium Ion Batteries

Nano Energy, 2018, 45, 273-279.

Pan Liu, Jiuhui Han, Xianwei Guo, Yoshikazu Ito, Chuchu Yang, Shoucong Ning, Takeshi Fujita, Akihiko Hirata, Mingwei Chen

Operando characterization of cathodic reactions in a liquid-state lithium-oxygen micro-battery by scanning transmission electron microscopy

Sci. Rep, 2018, 8, 3134.

"Improved graphene applications made possible by 3D graphene structures"

Yoshikazu Ito

TANSO, 2018, 281, 8-15, 2018. [Review Paper]

Kailong Hu, Samuel Jeong, Mitsuru Wakisaka, Jun-ichi Fujita, Yoshikazu Ito

Bottom-Up Synthesis of Porous NiMo Alloy for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Metals, 2018, 8, 83.

2017

J. Fujita, T. Hiyama, A. Hirukawa, T. Kondo, J. Nakamura, S. Ito, R. Araki, Y. Ito, M. Takeguchi, W. W. Pai

Near room temperature chemicalvapor deposition of graphene with diluted methane and molten gallium catalys

Scientific Reports, 7, 12371 (2017).

Ziqian Wang, Yuhao Shen, Shoucong Ning, Yoshikazu Ito, Pan Liu, Zheng Tang, Takeshi Fujita, Akihiko Hirata, Mingwei Chen

Chemical Selectivity at Grain Boundary Dislocations in Monolayer Mo1xWxS2 Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9, 29438?29444.

Iolanda Di Bernardo, Giulia Avvisati, Carlo Mariani, Nunzio Motta, Chaoyu Chen, Jose Avila, Maria Carmen Asensio, Stefano Lupi, Yoshikazu Ito, Mingwei Chen, Takeshi Fujita, Maria Grazia Betti

Two-Dimensional Hallmark of Highly Interconnected Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Graphene, ACS Omega

2017, 2, 3691?3697.

Jiuhui Han, Gang Huang, Yoshikazu Ito, Xianwei Guo, Takeshi Fujita, Pan Liu, Akihiko Hirata, Mingwei Chen

Full Performance Nanoporous Graphene Based Li-O2 Batteries Through Solution Phase Oxygen Reduction and Redox-Additive Mediated Li2O2 Oxidation

Adv. Ener. Mater. 2017, 7, 1601933.

Fausto D’Apuzzo, Alba R. Piacenti, Flavio Giorgianni, Marta Autore, Mariangela Cestelli Guidi, Augusto Marcelli, Ulrich Schade, Yoshikazu Ito, Mingwei Chen, Stefano Lupi

Terahertz and mid-infrared plasmons in three-dimensional nanoporous graphene

Nat. Comm. 2017, 8, 14885.

Yoshikazu Ito, Masahiko Izumi, Daisuke Hojo, Mitsuru Wakisaka, Tsutomu Aida, Tadafumi Adschiri

One-step nanoporous structure formation using NiO nanoparticles: pore size control and pore size dependence of hydrogen evolution reaction

Chem. Lett. 2017, 46, 267-270.

- 2016

Yoshikazu Ito*, Yuhao Shen, Daisuke Hojo, Yoji Itagaki, Takeshi Fujita, Linghan Chen, Tsutomu Aida, Zheng Tang, Tadafumi Adschiri, Mingwei Chen*

Correlation between Chemical Dopants and Topological Defects in Catalytically Active Nanoporous Graphene,

Adv. Mater., 2016, 28, 10644?10651. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201604318

Yoichi Tanabe, Yoshikazu Ito, Katsuaki Sugawara, Daisuke Hojo, Mikito Koshino, Takeshi Fujita, Tsutomu Aida, Xiandong Xu, Khuong Kim Huynh, Hidekazu Shimotani, Tadafumi Adschiri, Takashi Takahashi, Katsumi Tanigaki, Hideo Aoki, Mingwei Chen*

Electric Properties of Dirac Fermions Captured into 3D Nanoporous Graphene Networks

Adv. Mater., 2016, 28, 10304?10310. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201601067

H.-J. Qiu, L. Y. Chen, Y. Ito, J. L. Kang, X. W. Guo, P. Liu, H. Kashani, A. Hirata, T. Fujita, M. W. Chen*

An ultrahigh volumetric capacitance of squeezable three-dimensional bicontinuous nanoporous graphene

Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 18551?18557. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5NR08852F

Xianwei Guo, Jiuhui Han, Pan Liu, Luyang Chen, Yoshikazu Ito, Zelang Jian, Tienan Jin, Akihiko Hirata, Fujun Li, Takeshi Fujita, Naoki Asao, Haoshen Zhou, Mingwei Chen*

Hierarchical nanoporosity enhanced reversible capacity of bicontinuous nanoporous metal based Li-O2 battery

Sci. Rep, 2016, 6, 33466. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33466

Ziqian Wang, Pan Liu, Yoshikazu Ito, Shoucong Ning, Yongwen Tan, Takeshi Fujita, Akihiko Hirata, Mingwei Chen*

Chemical Vapor Deposition of Monolayer Mo1-xWxS2 Crystals with Tunable Band Gaps

Sci. Rep, 2016, 6, 21536. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep21536

Xianwei Guo, Jiuhui Han, Pan Liu, Yoshikazu Ito, Akihiko Hirata, Mingwei Chen*

Graphene@nanoporous nickel cathode for Li-O2 battery

ChemNanoMat, 2016, 2, 176-181. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnma.201500214

Takeshi Fujita*, Hideki Abe*, Toyokazu Tanabe, Yoshikazu Ito, Tomoharu Tokunaga, Shigeo Arai, Yuta Yamamoto, Akihiko Hirata, Mingwei Chen

Earth-Abundant and Durable Nanoporous Catalyst for Exhaust-Gas Conversion

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2016, 26, 1609?1616. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201504811

Yoshikazu Ito, Wenfeng Zhang, Jinhua Li, Haixin Chang*, Pan Liu, Takeshi Fujita, Yongwen Tan, Feng Yan, Mingwei Chen*

3D Bicontinuous Nanoporous Reduced Graphene Oxide for Highly Sensitive Photodetectors

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2016, 26, 1271?1277. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201504146

Hamzeh Kashani, Luyang Chen, Yoshikazu Ito, Jiuhui Han, Akihiko Hirata, Mingwei Chen

Bicontinuous Nanotubular Graphene-Polypyrrole Hybrid for High Performance Flexible Supercapacitors

Nano Energy 2016, 19, 391?400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2015.11.029

Jiuhui Han, Xianwei Guo, Yoshikazu Ito, Pan Liu, Daisuke Hojo, Tsutomu Aida, Akihiko Hirata, Takeshi Fujita, Tadafumi Adschiri, Haoshen Zhou, Mingwei Chen*

Effect of chemical doping on cathodic performance of bicontinuous nanoporous graphene for Li-O2 batteries

Adv. Energy Mater. 2016, 6, 1501870. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201501870

Chunyan Wang, Yoshikazu Ito, Bindu Pradeep, and Suresh Valiyaveettil*

Shape Sensitivity on Toxicity of Gold Nanoplates in Breast Cancer Cells

J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 2015, 15, 9520?9530. https://doi.org/10.1166/jnn.2015.10780

H.-J. Qiu, Yoshikazu Ito, Weitao Cong, Yongwen Tan, Pan Liu, Akihiko Hirata, Takeshi Fujita, Zheng Tang*, Mingwei Chen*

Nanoporous Graphene with Single-Atom Nickel Dopants: An Efficient and Stable Catalyst for Electrochemical Hydrogen Production

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 14031?14035. (Hot Paper) https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201507381

Xianwei Guo, Pan Liu, Jiuhui Han, Yoshikazu Ito, Akihiko Hirata, Takeshi Fujita, Mingwei Chen*

3D nanoporous nitrogen-doped graphene with encapsulated RuO2 nanoparticles for Li-O2 battery

Adv. Mater., 2015, 27, 6137?6143. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201503182

Yoshikazu Ito, Yoichi Tanabe, Jiuhui Han, Takeshi Fujita, Katsumi Tanigaki, Mingwei Chen*

Multi-functional porous graphene for high-efficiency steam generation by heat localization

Adv. Mater., 2015, 27, 4302?4307. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201501832

Yoshikazu Ito, Christos Christodoulou, Marco V. Nardi, Norbert Koch, Mathias Kl?ui, Hermann Sachdev*, Klaus M?llen*

Tuning the Magnetic Properties of Carbon by Nitrogen Doping of its Graphene Domains

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 7678?7685. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja512897m

Takeshi Fujita, Yasuhiro Kanoko, Yoshikazu Ito, Luyang Chen, Akihiko Hirata, Hamzeh Kashani, Osamu Iwatsu, Mingwei Chen*

Nanoporous Metal Papers for Scalable Hierarchical Electrode

Adv. Sci. 2015, 2, 1500086. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201500086

Jiuhui Han, Yu-Ching Lin, Luyang Chen, Yao-Chuan Tsai, Yoshikazu Ito, Xianwei Guo, Akihiko Hirata, Takeshi Fujita, Masayoshi Esashi, Thomas Gessner, Mingwei Chen*

On-Chip Micro-Pseudocapacitors for Ultrahigh Energy and Power Delivery

Adv. Sci. 2015, 2, 1500067. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201500067

Yoshikazu Ito, Cong Weitao, Takeshi Fujita, Zheng Tang, Mingwei Chen*

High Catalytic Activity of Nitrogen and Sulfur Co-Doped Nanoporous Graphene in the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 2131?2136. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201410050

Yongwen Tan, Pan Liu, Luyang Chen, Weitao Cong, Yoshikazu Ito, Jiuhui Han, Xianwei Guo, Zheng Tang, Takeshi Fujita, Akihiko Hirata, Mingwei Chen*

Monolayer MoS₂ Films Supported by 3D Nanoporous Metals for High-Efficiency Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production

Adv. Mater., 2014, 26, 8023?8028. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201403808

Prince Ravat, Yulia Borozdina, Yoshikazu Ito, Volker Enkelmann, Martin Baumgarten*

Crystal Engineering of Tolane Bridged Nitronyl Nitroxide Biradicals: Candidates for Quantum Magnets

Cryst Growth Des., 2014, 14, 5840?5846. https://doi.org/10.1021/cg5010787

Takeshi Fujita*, Yoshikazu Ito, Yongwen Tan, Hisato Yamaguchi, Daisuke Hojo, Akihiko Hirata, Damien Voiry, Manish Chhowalla, Mingwei Chen*

Chemically Exfoliated ReS2 Nanosheets

Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 12458?12462. https://doi.org/10.1039/C4NR03740E

Yoshikazu Ito, Hidetoshi Ohta, Yoichi M. A. Yamada, Toshiaki Enoki, Yasuhiro Uozumi*

Transfer Hydrogenation of Alkenes with a Ni/Ru/Pt/Au Heteroquatermetallic Nanoparticle Catalyst: Sequential Cooperation of Multiple Nano-Metal Species

Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 12123?12126. (highlighted by Synfacts 2014, 10, 1344.) https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC04559A

H.-J. Qiu, Yoshikazu Ito, Mingwei Chen*

Hierarchical nanoporous nickel alloy as three-dimensional electrodes for high-efficiency energy storage

Scripta Materialia, 2014, 89, 69?72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2014.06.031

Prince Ravat, Yoshio Teki*, Yoshikazu Ito, Elena Gorelik, Martin Baumgarten*

Breaking the Semi-Quinoid Structure: Spin-Switching from Strongly Coupled Singlet to Polarized Triplet State

Chem. Eur. J., 2014, 20, 12041?12045. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201403338

Yoshikazu Ito, Hidetoshi Ohta, Yoichi M.A. Yamada, Toshiaki Enoki, Yasuhiro Uozumi*

Bimetallic Co-Pd Alloy Nanoparticles as Magnetically Recoverable Catalysts for the Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols in Water

Tetrahedron, 2014, 70, 6146?6149. (highlighted by Synfacts 2014, 10, 1222.) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2014.03.108

Yoshikazu Ito, Christos Christodoulou, Marco Vittorio Nardi, Norbert Koch, Hermann Sachdev*, Klaus Muellen*

Chemical Vapor Deposition of N?Doped Graphene and Carbon Films: The Role of Precursors and Gas Phase

ACS Nano, 2014, 8, 3337?3346. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn405661b

Yoshikazu Ito, H.-J. Qiu, Takeshi Fujita, Yoichi Tanabe, Katsumi Tanigaki, Mingwei Chen*

Bicontinuous Nanoporous N-doped Graphene for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Adv. Mater. 2014, 26, 4145?4150. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201400570

Yoshikazu Ito, Yoichi Tanabe, H.-J. Qiu, Katsuaki Sugawara, Satoshi Heguri, Ngoc Han Tu, Khuong Kim Huynh, Takeshi Fujita, Takashi Takahashi, Katsumi Tanigaki, Mingwei Chen*

High Quality Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Graphene

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53 4822?4826. (Hot Paper) https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201402662

Yoshikazu Ito*, Kazuyuki Takai, Akira Miyazaki, Vajiravelu Sivamurugan, Manabu Kiguchi, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Naotake Nakamura, Suresh Valiyaveettil, Tomofumi Tada, Satoshi Watanabe, Toshiaki Enoki*

Anomalous metallic-like transport of Co-Pd ferromagnetic nanoparticles cross-linked with π-conjugated molecules having a rotational degree of freedom

Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys., 2014, 16, 288?296. https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CP53689K

Prince Ravat, Yoshikazu Ito, Elena Gorelik, Volker Enkelmann, Martin Baumgarten*

Tetramethoxy-Pyrene Based Biradical Donors with Tunable Physical and Magnetic Properties

Org. Lett., 2013, 15, 4280?4283. https://doi.org/10.1021/ol4015859

Yoshikazu Ito, Akira Miyazaki, Kazuyuki Takai, Vajiravelu Sivamurugan, Takashi Maeno, Takeshi Kadono, Masaaki Kitano, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Naotake Nakamura, Michikazu Hara, Suresh Valiyaveettil, Toshiaki Enoki*

Magnetic Sponge Prepared with an Alkanedithiol-bridged Network of Nanomagnets

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 11470?11473. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja204617a

Yoshikazu Ito, Kazuyuki Takai, Toshiaki Enoki*

Ferromagnetic Enhancement in the Clusters of Co-Pd Magnetic Nanoparticles Induced by the Formation of Cross-linkage

J. Phys. Chem. C. 2011, 115, 8971?8975. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp201424j

Akira Miyazaki, Yoshikazu Ito, Toshiaki Enoki*

Classes of Nanomagnets Created from Alkanethiol-Coated Pt or Pd Nanoparticles and Their Alloys with Co

Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2010, 27, 4279?4287. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201000483

Yoshikazu Ito, Akira Miyazaki, Suresh Valiyaveettil, Toshiaki Enoki*

Magnetic Properties of Fe-Pd Alloy Nanoparticles

J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 114, 11699?11702. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp910187r

Yoshikazu Ito, Akira Miyazaki, Kenichi. Fukui, Suresh Valiyaveettil, Toshihiko Yokoyama, Toshiaki Enoki*

Pd Nanoparticle Embedded with Only One Co Atom Behaves as a Single-Particle Magnet

J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 2008, 77, 103701. https://doi.org/10.1143/jpsj.77.103701