Hiroki Ago

12.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
194 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Hiroki Ago is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiroki Ago has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 171 papers in Materials Chemistry, 64 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 51 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hiroki Ago's work include Graphene research and applications (131 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (60 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (42 papers). Hiroki Ago is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (131 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (60 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (42 papers). Hiroki Ago collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Hiroki Ago's co-authors include Masaharu Tsuji, Pablo Solís‐Fernández, Richard H. Friend, Mark A. Bissett, Alan H. Windle, Milo S. P. Shaffer, Kazuhito Tsukagoshi, Bruce Alphenaar, Motoo Yumura and Kenji Kawahara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Hiroki Ago

188 papers receiving 10.0k 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.

Work Functions and Surface Functional Groups of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

1999 854 citations Hiroki Ago et al. profile →
Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of a Single Carbon Nanotube

2005 697 citations Motoo Fujii, Huaqing Xie et al. profile →
Coherent transport of electron spin in a ferromagnetically contacted carbon nanotube

1999 603 citations Hiroki Ago et al. profile →
Composites of Carbon Nanotubes and Conjugated Polymers for Photovoltaic Devices

1999 558 citations Hiroki Ago et al. profile →
Large-area synthesis and transfer of multilayer hexagonal boron nitride for enhanced graphene device arrays

2023 127 citations Satoru Fukamachi, Pablo Solís‐Fernández et al. Nature Electronics profile →
Ready-to-transfer two-dimensional materials using tunable adhesive force tapes

2024 94 citations Satoru Fukamachi, Pablo Solís‐Fernández et al. Nature Electronics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hiroki Ago Japan	51	8.3k	3.5k	2.4k	1.5k	1.2k	194	10.2k
Rodrigo B. Capaz Brazil	39	7.7k 0.9×	3.6k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	2.5k 1.7×	1.3k 1.1×	155	10.2k
Wonbong Choi United States	53	7.6k 0.9×	4.3k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	883 0.6×	1.9k 1.6×	187	10.5k
Siegmar Roth Germany	46	6.5k 0.8×	2.9k 0.8×	2.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	180	10.0k
Cristina Gómez‐Navarro Spain	30	6.5k 0.8×	3.2k 0.9×	2.9k 1.2×	857 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	56	8.3k
Nicole Grobert United Kingdom	55	8.2k 1.0×	3.3k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	732 0.5×	1.5k 1.3×	180	10.6k
Yi Zheng China	39	9.3k 1.1×	6.0k 1.7×	4.4k 1.8×	1.9k 1.3×	2.6k 2.2×	273	13.0k
Rafael G. Mendes Germany	56	8.3k 1.0×	4.1k 1.2×	2.4k 1.0×	827 0.6×	1.9k 1.6×	251	10.7k
Motoo Yumura Japan	49	9.1k 1.1×	3.5k 1.0×	3.5k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	2.9k 2.5×	142	12.7k
Xiaosong Wu China	33	7.9k 1.0×	3.8k 1.1×	2.5k 1.0×	2.6k 1.7×	1.2k 1.1×	136	9.8k
Ralph Krupke Germany	40	6.3k 0.8×	3.0k 0.8×	3.5k 1.4×	2.0k 1.3×	865 0.7×	120	8.3k

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Solís‐Fernández, Pablo, Yung‐Chang Lin, Keisuke Shinokita, et al.. (2025). Lattice-guided growth of dense arrays of aligned transition metal dichalcogenide nanoribbons with high catalytic reactivity. Science Advances. 11(2). eadr8046–eadr8046. 4 indexed citations

Solís‐Fernández, Pablo, Satoru Fukamachi, Haiming Sun, et al.. (2025). Anomalous Raman signals in multilayer hexagonal boron nitride grown by chemical vapour deposition on metal foil catalysts. Nanoscale Advances. 7(23). 7538–7546. 1 indexed citations

Hung, Nguyen Tuan, Atsushi Taguchi, Pablo Solís‐Fernández, et al.. (2025). Thickness-dependent excitonic properties of hexagonal boron-nitride thin films. Physical Review Materials. 9(7).

Liu, Qiunan, Haiming Sun, Yung‐Chang Lin, et al.. (2025). Defect Migration and Phase Transformations in Two-Dimensional Iron Chloride inside Bilayer Graphene. ACS Nano. 19(4). 4845–4854.

Lin, Yung‐Chang, Rika Matsumoto, Mahdi Ghorbani‐Asl, et al.. (2025). Na Intercalation in Bilayer Graphene: Formation of a Close-Packed Trilayer. ACS Nano. 19(47). 40612–40619.

Lin, Yung‐Chang, Rika Matsumoto, Qiunan Liu, et al.. (2024). Alkali metal bilayer intercalation in graphene. Nature Communications. 15(1). 425–425. 27 indexed citations

Fukamachi, Satoru, Pablo Solís‐Fernández, Satoshi Honda, et al.. (2024). Ready-to-transfer two-dimensional materials using tunable adhesive force tapes. Nature Electronics. 7(2). 119–130. 94 indexed citations breakdown →

Fukamachi, Satoru, Pablo Solís‐Fernández, Satoshi Honda, et al.. (2024). Publisher Correction: Ready-to-transfer two-dimensional materials using tunable adhesive force tapes. Nature Electronics. 7(4). 325–325.

Lin, Yung‐Chang, Haiming Sun, Satoru Fukamachi, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of Few-Layer Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Magnetic Tunnel Junction Application. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(24). 31457–31463. 5 indexed citations

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Sato, Shunsuke, et al.. (2024). Hot electron effect in high-order harmonic generation from graphene driven by elliptically polarized light. APL Photonics. 9(7). 2 indexed citations

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Koyama, Takeshi, et al.. (2023). Complex third-order nonlinear susceptibility of single-layer graphene governing third-harmonic generation. Physical review. B.. 108(7). 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Hsiang‐Lin, Nguyen Tuan Hung, Pablo Solís‐Fernández, et al.. (2023). Interference of excitons and surface plasmons in the optical absorption spectra of monolayer and bilayer graphene. Physical review. B.. 107(16). 9 indexed citations

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Kawahara, Kenji, Hisato Yamaguchi, Gaoxue Wang, et al.. (2023). Effects of nonlinear photoemission on mean transverse energy from metal photocathodes. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. 26(9). 3 indexed citations

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Fukamachi, Satoru, Pablo Solís‐Fernández, Kenji Kawahara, et al.. (2023). Large-area synthesis and transfer of multilayer hexagonal boron nitride for enhanced graphene device arrays. Nature Electronics. 6(2). 126–136. 127 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ding, Dong, Hiroki Hibino, & Hiroki Ago. (2017). Grain Boundaries and Gas Barrier Property of Graphene Revealed by Dark-Field Optical Microscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(1). 902–910. 10 indexed citations

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Aji, Adha Sukma, et al.. (2017). Two-step synthesis and characterization of vertically stacked SnS–WS₂ and SnS–MoS₂ p–n heterojunctions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(2). 889–897. 29 indexed citations

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Ago, Hiroki. (2013). Epitaxial CVD growth of graphene: Growth mechanism, nanofabrication, and properties. 55–58. 1 indexed citations

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Ago, Hiroki, et al.. (2010). Effective Patterning of Metal Nanoparticles on Sapphire Surface for Aligned Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 10(6). 3867–3872. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xing, Huaqing Xie, Motoo Fujii, et al.. (2005). Measurements of In-Plane Thermal Conductivity and Electrical Conductivity of Suspended Platinum Thin Film. Netsu Bussei. 19(1). 9–14. 7 indexed citations

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Ohshima, Satoshi, Hiroki Ago, Hitoshi Inoue, & Motoo Yumura. (2001). Development of Mass-Production Technology for Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes. 11(6). 437–448. 1 indexed citations

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