Hiroki Nara

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Hiroki Nara is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiroki Nara has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 42 papers in Automotive Engineering and 30 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Hiroki Nara's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (70 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (58 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (42 papers). Hiroki Nara is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (70 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (58 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (42 papers). Hiroki Nara collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Australia and China. Hiroki Nara's co-authors include Tetsuya Ōsaka, Toshiyuki Momma, Tokihiko Yokoshima, Daikichi Mukoyama, Yusuke Yamauchi, Seongki Ahn, Jongbeom Na, Tao Hang, Toru Asahi and Yunwen Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Hiroki Nara

94 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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Mesoporous multimetallic nanospheres with exposed highly entropic alloy sites

2023 195 citations Yunqing Kang, Ovidiu Cretu et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hiroki Nara Japan	34	2.7k	1.2k	800	628	626	97	3.3k
David Reed United States	32	3.8k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	497 0.8×	824 1.3×	83	4.0k
Yue Ma China	35	3.8k 1.4×	1.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.7×	903 1.4×	571 0.9×	125	4.3k
Yongbiao Mu China	29	2.5k 0.9×	567 0.5×	696 0.9×	513 0.8×	571 0.9×	120	2.9k
Hui Xu China	34	3.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	800 1.3×	280 0.4×	97	4.0k
Bifa Ji China	23	2.8k 1.1×	626 0.5×	936 1.2×	840 1.3×	589 0.9×	38	3.5k
Xiao Wang China	36	4.4k 1.7×	1.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	756 1.2×	437 0.7×	111	4.7k
Xingchao Wang China	34	2.7k 1.0×	650 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	560 0.9×	353 0.6×	140	3.2k
Xian‐Xiang Zeng China	35	4.7k 1.8×	2.2k 1.9×	937 1.2×	710 1.1×	397 0.6×	90	5.2k
Woosung Choi South Korea	21	2.6k 1.0×	819 0.7×	860 1.1×	539 0.9×	435 0.7×	45	2.9k
Kevin N. Wood United States	19	3.9k 1.5×	2.2k 1.8×	541 0.7×	681 1.1×	427 0.7×	31	4.3k

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Nandan, Ravi, et al.. (2025). Mesoporous Single-Crystal High-Entropy Alloy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(22). 18651–18661. 11 indexed citations

Kim, Minjun, Hiroki Nara, Yusuke Asakura, et al.. (2024). End‐to‐End Pierced Carbon Nanosheets with Meso‐Holes. Advanced Science. 12(3). e2409546–e2409546. 9 indexed citations

Septiani, Ni Luh Wulan, Silvia Chowdhury, Andri Hardiansyah, et al.. (2024). Selective synthesis of monodisperse bimetallic nickel–cobalt phosphates with different nanoarchitectures for battery-like supercapacitors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(23). 14045–14058. 19 indexed citations

Kotp, Mohammed G., Nagy L. Torad, Hiroki Nara, et al.. (2023). Tunable thiophene-based conjugated microporous polymers for the disposal of toxic hexavalent chromium. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(27). 15022–15032. 16 indexed citations

Kang, Yunqing, Ovidiu Cretu, Jun Kikkawa, et al.. (2023). Mesoporous multimetallic nanospheres with exposed highly entropic alloy sites. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4182–4182. 195 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhao, Yingji, Hiroki Nara, Dong Jiang, et al.. (2023). Open‐Mouthed Hollow Carbons: Systematic Studies as Cobalt‐ and Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Small. 19(48). e2304450–e2304450. 13 indexed citations

Song, Yujie, Xiaokai Song, Xiaoke Wang, et al.. (2022). Two-Dimensional Metal–Organic Framework Superstructures from Ice-Templated Self-Assembly. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(38). 17457–17467. 102 indexed citations

Kang, Yunqing, Yanna Guo, Jingjing Zhao, et al.. (2022). Soft Template‐Based Synthesis of Mesoporous Phosphorus‐ and Boron‐Codoped NiFe‐Based Alloys for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Small. 18(33). e2203411–e2203411. 73 indexed citations

Kim, Minjun, Konstantin L. Firestein, Joseph F. S. Fernando, et al.. (2022). Strategic design of Fe and N co-doped hierarchically porous carbon as superior ORR catalyst: from the perspective of nanoarchitectonics. Chemical Science. 13(36). 10836–10845. 162 indexed citations

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Yokoshima, Tokihiko, et al.. (2021). Polypyrrole Modification of High Sulfur-Loaded Three-Dimensional Aluminum Foam Cathode in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries for High-Rate Capability. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 168(4). 40517–40517. 8 indexed citations

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Yu, Qianchuan, Changgang Li, Shengping Wang, et al.. (2021). Electrochemical Activity of Nitrogen‐Containing Groups in Organic Electrode Materials and Related Improvement Strategies. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(7). 91 indexed citations

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Yokoshima, Tokihiko, et al.. (2020). High-rate and high sulfur-loaded lithium-sulfur batteries with a polypyrrole-coated sulfur cathode on a 3D aluminum foam current collector. Materials Letters. 285. 129115–129115. 10 indexed citations

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Iqbal, Muhammad, Yena Kim, Adhitya Gandaryus Saputro, et al.. (2020). Tunable Concave Surface Features of Mesoporous Palladium Nanocrystals Prepared from Supramolecular Micellar Templates. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(46). 51357–51365. 17 indexed citations

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Ahn, Seongki, et al.. (2020). Facile fabrication of sulfur/Ketjenblack-PEDOT:PSS composite as a cathode with improved cycling performance for lithium sulfur batteries. Chemical Physics Letters. 749. 137426–137426. 16 indexed citations

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Ahn, Seongki, Yusuke Nakamura, Hiroki Nara, et al.. (2019). Application of Sn-Ni Alloy as an Anode for Lithium-Ion Capacitors with Improved Volumetric Energy and Power Density. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 166(15). A3615–A3619. 11 indexed citations

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Ahn, Seongki, et al.. (2019). Tin addition for mechanical and electronic improvement of electrodeposited Si–O–C composite anode for lithium-ion battery. Journal of Power Sources. 437. 226858–226858. 5 indexed citations

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Momma, Toshiyuki, et al.. (2019). In-situ lithiation through an ‘injection’ strategy in the pouch type sulfur-graphite battery system. Journal of Power Sources. 430. 228–232. 8 indexed citations

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Wu, Yunwen, et al.. (2018). Potentiostatic way to fabricate Li2Sx cathode with suppressed polysulfide formation. Journal of Power Sources. 399. 287–293. 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Yunwen, Toshiyuki Momma, Tokihiko Yokoshima, Hiroki Nara, & Tetsuya Ōsaka. (2018). High performance sulfur graphite full cell for next generation sulfur Li-ion battery. Journal of Power Sources. 388. 5–10. 9 indexed citations

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Ōsaka, Tetsuya, Hiroki Nara, Daikichi Mukoyama, & Tokihiko Yokoshima. (2013). New Analysis of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for Lithium-ion Batteries. Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology. 4(4). 157–162. 12 indexed citations

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