Hiroaki Imai

15.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
432 papers, 13.6k citations indexed

About

Hiroaki Imai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomaterials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiroaki Imai has authored 432 papers receiving a total of 13.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 246 papers in Materials Chemistry, 120 papers in Biomaterials and 98 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hiroaki Imai's work include Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition (73 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (52 papers) and Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (49 papers). Hiroaki Imai is often cited by papers focused on Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition (73 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (52 papers) and Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (49 papers). Hiroaki Imai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and India. Hiroaki Imai's co-authors include Yuya Oaki, Hiroshi Hirashima, Satoshi Yamabi, Eiji Hosono, Shinobu Fujihara, Hiroaki Uchiyama, Akiko Kotachi, Kazuo Arai, Hideo Hosono and Yoshihiro Abe and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Hiroaki Imai

415 papers receiving 13.3k citations

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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.

Growth conditions for wurtzite zinc oxide films in aqueous solutions

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hiroaki Imai Japan	60	7.8k	4.1k	2.8k	2.8k	2.7k	432	13.6k
Limin Qi China	72	10.0k 1.3×	5.9k 1.5×	2.5k 0.9×	4.0k 1.4×	2.9k 1.0×	238	17.0k
Arthur G. Fink Canada	13	6.8k 0.9×	2.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	3.1k 1.1×	16	12.9k
Philippe Marcus France	76	13.5k 1.7×	5.9k 1.4×	1.5k 0.5×	2.5k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	455	21.0k
Jacques Livage France	71	10.3k 1.3×	5.3k 1.3×	2.9k 1.0×	2.7k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	368	19.8k
Sanjay Mathur Germany	67	8.1k 1.0×	7.4k 1.8×	1.2k 0.4×	2.3k 0.8×	3.7k 1.3×	493	15.5k
Mamoun Muhammed Sweden	62	6.8k 0.9×	2.4k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	2.5k 0.9×	4.5k 1.7×	293	14.1k
Martin Steinhart Germany	49	5.7k 0.7×	2.7k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	3.7k 1.4×	218	10.2k
Donald R. Baer United States	58	6.0k 0.8×	4.9k 1.2×	960 0.3×	1.7k 0.6×	2.4k 0.9×	287	13.2k
Andreas Stein United States	71	13.3k 1.7×	6.6k 1.6×	1.3k 0.5×	2.3k 0.8×	3.5k 1.3×	254	23.5k
Hongyou Fan United States	55	10.3k 1.3×	4.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.4×	2.3k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	118	14.6k

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Takeuchi, Yoshinori, Hiroaki Imai, & Yuya Oaki. (2025). Two-dimensional conjugated polymers with weakened interlayer interaction for highly sensitive visible responsiveness to compression stresses. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(7). 3209–3214.

Oaki, Yuya, et al.. (2025). Brilliant structural colors originating from reflection by nanogaps of nacreous layers in fossilized ammonite shells. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 37541–37541.

Watanabe, Hiroto, et al.. (2024). Stable ring-opened forms of a spiropyran in the confined space of nanoporous silicas. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 371. 113084–113084. 2 indexed citations

Watanabe, Hiroto, et al.. (2024). The size-dependent valence and conduction band-edge energies of Cu quantum dots. Chemical Communications. 60(33). 4419–4422. 2 indexed citations

Kobayashi, Hiroaki, Hiroto Watanabe, Naomi Nishimura, et al.. (2023). Ultraporous, Ultrasmall MgMn₂O₄ Spinel Cathode for a Room-Temperature Magnesium Rechargeable Battery. ACS Nano. 17(3). 3135–3142. 28 indexed citations

Mandai, Toshihiko, et al.. (2023). Toward Improved Anodic Stability of Ether-Based Electrolytes for Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(22). 10419–10433. 7 indexed citations

Kanamori, Kazuyoshi, Kazuki Nakanishi, Takaaki Sato, et al.. (2022). Amphiphilic Copolymer-Modified Eggshell-Based Column Packing Materials for the Preparative Separation of Basic Drugs. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 4(10). 6949–6957. 3 indexed citations

Kanamori, Kazuyoshi, et al.. (2022). Fabrication process development and basic evaluation of eggshell-based column packing material for reversed-phase preparative separation. Journal of Chromatography A. 1688. 463722–463722. 4 indexed citations

Nakamura, Eri, Noriaki Ozaki, Yuya Oaki, & Hiroaki Imai. (2021). Cellulose intrafibrillar mineralization of biological silica in a rice plant. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 18 indexed citations

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Sone, Kazuki, Y. Hayashi, Toshihiko Mandai, et al.. (2021). Effective 3D open-channel nanostructures of a MgMn₂O₄ positive electrode for rechargeable Mg batteries operated at room temperature. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(11). 6851–6860. 23 indexed citations

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Mandai, Toshihiko, et al.. (2020). Spinel-Type MgMn₂O₄ Nanoplates with Vanadate Coating for a Positive Electrode of Magnesium Rechargeable Batteries. Langmuir. 36(29). 8537–8542. 32 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Hiroto, et al.. (2019). Supermicroporous Silica Nanograins: Synthesis and Application. Langmuir. 35(16). 5594–5598. 4 indexed citations

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Ishii, K., et al.. (2019). Structured spinel oxide positive electrodes of magnesium rechargeable batteries: High rate performance and high cyclability by interconnected bimodal pores and vanadium oxide coating. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 816. 152556–152556. 32 indexed citations

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Imai, Hiroaki, et al.. (2019). A biomimetic hybrid material consisting of CaCO₃ mesoporous microspheres and an alternating copolymer for reversed-phase HPLC. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 7(31). 4771–4777. 7 indexed citations

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Ishii, K., et al.. (2017). Enhanced electrochemical properties of MgCo2O4 mesocrystals as a positive electrode active material for Mg batteries. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 739. 793–798. 41 indexed citations

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Oaki, Yuya, et al.. (2015). Fabrication of nanocellulose–hydroxyapatite composites and their application as water-resistant transparent coatings. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 3(28). 5858–5863. 41 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Hiroto, et al.. (2015). Dynamic adsorption of toluene on pore-size tuned supermicroporous silicas. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 214. 41–44. 16 indexed citations

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Kato, Kazumi, Ken‐ichi Mimura, Feng Dang, et al.. (2013). BaTiO₃ nanocube and assembly to ferroelectric supracrystals. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 28(21). 2932–2945. 31 indexed citations

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Coker, Victoria S., Serena A. Cussen, Mark Green, et al.. (2012). Nanoscience: Nanostructures Through Chemistry. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 20 indexed citations

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Lowe, Tao L., et al.. (2009). Tailored Nanogels for Controlled Delivery of Therepeutics across Ocular Biological Barriers. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 50(13). 2425–2425. 2 indexed citations

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