Akimitsu Narita

16.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
233 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

About

Akimitsu Narita is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Akimitsu Narita has authored 233 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 200 papers in Materials Chemistry, 92 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 87 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Akimitsu Narita's work include Graphene research and applications (140 papers), Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (77 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (56 papers). Akimitsu Narita is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (140 papers), Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (77 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (56 papers). Akimitsu Narita collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and China. Akimitsu Narita's co-authors include Kläus Müllen, Xinliang Feng, Xiaoye Wang, Yunbin Hu, Román Fasel, Pascal Ruffieux, Mischa Bonn, Xuelin Yao, Qiang Chen and Zongping Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Akimitsu Narita

227 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

New advances in nanographene chemistry

2015 1.3k citations Akimitsu Narita, Xiaoye Wang et al. profile →
Exploration of pyrazine-embedded antiaromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons generated by solution and on-surface azomethine ylide homocoupling

2017 782 citations Xiaoye Wang, Akimitsu Narita et al. profile →
Synthesis of structurally well-defined and liquid-phase-processable graphene nanoribbons

2013 437 citations Akimitsu Narita, Xinliang Feng et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
Engineering of robust topological quantum phases in graphene nanoribbons

2018 426 citations Gabriela Borin Barin, Xinliang Feng et al. profile →
Extremely efficient terahertz high-harmonic generation in graphene by hot Dirac fermions

2018 377 citations Akimitsu Narita, Kläus Müllen et al. profile →
Heteroatom-Doped Nanographenes with Structural Precision

2019 328 citations Xiaoye Wang, Akimitsu Narita et al. profile →

Peers

Akimitsu Narita

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Mónica Olvera de la Cruz United States

Nobuo Kimizuka Japan

Luis M. Campos United States

Christopher J. Bardeen United States

Miklós Kertész United States

Takashi Kubo Japan

Pancě Naumov United Arab Emirates

Petr Král United States

Rafał Klajn Israel

Yu‐Tai Tao Taiwan

Mónica Olvera de la Cruz United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Akimitsu Narita

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Akimitsu Narita

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All Works

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Hinaut, Antoine, Yanwei Gu, J. G. Vilhena, et al.. (2024). The Role of Alkyl Chains in the Thermoresponse of Supramolecular Network. Small. 20(51). e2405472–e2405472. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Qiang, Heng Zhang, Hai I. Wang, et al.. (2024). Porphyrin-fused graphene nanoribbons. Nature Chemistry. 16(7). 1133–1140. 43 indexed citations

Niu, Wenhui, Pascal Gehring, Chit Siong Lau, et al.. (2023). Exceptionally clean single-electron transistors from solutions of molecular graphene nanoribbons. Nature Materials. 22(2). 180–185. 48 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaoxi, Yunbin Hu, Juan Li, et al.. (2023). Photoresponse of Solution-Synthesized Graphene Nanoribbon Heterojunctions on Diamond Indicating Phototunable Photodiode Polarity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(16). 8757–8763. 10 indexed citations

Xu, Xiushang, et al.. (2022). Solvent-tunable exciton-charge transfer mixed state enhances emission of functionalized benzo[rst]pentaphene through symmetry breaking. Chemical Communications. 59(6). 720–723. 5 indexed citations

Paternò, Giuseppe M., Qiang Chen, Rafael Muñoz‐Mármol, et al.. (2021). Excited states engineering enables efficient near-infrared lasing in nanographenes. Materials Horizons. 9(1). 393–402. 23 indexed citations

Dumslaff, Tim, Yanwei Gu, Giuseppe M. Paternò, et al.. (2020). Hexa-peri-benzocoronene with two extra K-regions in anortho-configuration. Chemical Science. 11(47). 12816–12821. 15 indexed citations

Ruini, Alice, Deborah Prezzi, Elisa Molinari, et al.. (2020). Vibrational signature of the graphene nanoribbon edge structure from high-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy. Nanoscale. 12(38). 19681–19688. 3 indexed citations

Ma, Ji, Junzhi Liu, Michael Slota, et al.. (2019). Quantum units from the topological engineering of molecular graphenoids. Science. 366(6469). 1107–1110. 150 indexed citations

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Martini, Leonardo, Zongping Chen, Neeraj Mishra, et al.. (2019). Structure-dependent electrical properties of graphene nanoribbon devices with graphene electrodes. Carbon. 146. 36–43. 70 indexed citations

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Hou, Ian Cheng‐Yi, Valentín Diez‐Cabanes, Michal Valášek, et al.. (2019). Photomodulation of Two-Dimensional Self-Assembly of Azobenzene–Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene–Azobenzene Triads. Chemistry of Materials. 31(17). 6979–6985. 17 indexed citations

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Chen, Qiang, et al.. (2019). Dibenzo[hi,st]ovalene as Highly Luminescent Nanographene: Efficient Synthesis via Photochemical Cyclodehydroiodination, Optoelectronic Properties, and Single-Molecule Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(41). 16439–16449. 52 indexed citations

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Hu, Yunbin, Giuseppe M. Paternò, Xiaoye Wang, et al.. (2019). π-Extended Pyrene-Fused Double [7]Carbohelicene as a Chiral Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(32). 12797–12803. 137 indexed citations

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Hu, Yunbin, Di Wang, Martin Baumgarten, et al.. (2018). Spiro-fused bis-hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene. Chemical Communications. 54(96). 13575–13578. 29 indexed citations

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Chen, Qiang, Luigi Brambilla, Lakshya Daukiya, et al.. (2018). Synthesis of Triply Fused Porphyrin‐Nanographene Conjugates. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(35). 11233–11237. 67 indexed citations

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Paternò, Giuseppe M., Qiang Chen, Kläus Müllen, et al.. (2018). Modulation of the Nonlinear Optical Properties of Dibenzo[hi,st]ovalene by Peripheral Substituents. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(43). 25007–25013. 23 indexed citations

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Zhao, Shen, Gabriela Borin Barin, Loïc Rondin, et al.. (2017). Optical Investigation of On‐Surface Synthesized Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons. physica status solidi (b). 254(11). 13 indexed citations

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Ivanov, Ivan, Yunbin Hu, Silvio Osella, et al.. (2017). Role of Edge Engineering in Photoconductivity of Graphene Nanoribbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(23). 7982–7988. 62 indexed citations

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Chen, Zongping, Hai I. Wang, Nerea Bilbao, et al.. (2017). Lateral Fusion of Chemical Vapor Deposited N = 5 Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(28). 9483–9486. 62 indexed citations

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Keerthi, Ashok, Boya Radha, Hao Lü, et al.. (2017). Edge Functionalization of Structurally Defined Graphene Nanoribbons for Modulating the Self-Assembled Structures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(46). 16454–16457. 46 indexed citations

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