Hitoshi Kasai

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
232 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Hitoshi Kasai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hitoshi Kasai has authored 232 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Materials Chemistry, 84 papers in Organic Chemistry and 54 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hitoshi Kasai's work include Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications (54 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (32 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (27 papers). Hitoshi Kasai is often cited by papers focused on Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications (54 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (32 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (27 papers). Hitoshi Kasai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Hitoshi Kasai's co-authors include Hidetoshi Oikawa, Hachiro Nakanishi, Shuji Okada, Hiro Matsuda, Akito Masuhara, Tsunenobu Onodera, Atsushi Kakuta, Akio Mukoh, Hari Singh Nalwa and Koichi Baba 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

Hitoshi Kasai

215 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

A Novel Preparation Method of Organic Microcrystals

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hitoshi Kasai Japan	36	2.8k	1.2k	1.2k	1.0k	784	232	4.8k
Serge Ravaine France	42	4.0k 1.5×	2.0k 1.6×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.7×	176	6.6k
Marie‐Hélène Delville France	36	2.3k 0.8×	872 0.7×	913 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	714 0.9×	137	4.5k
Matthias Karg Germany	47	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	1.9k 1.7×	964 0.9×	1.8k 2.3×	132	6.0k
Sono Sasaki Japan	32	2.4k 0.9×	827 0.7×	651 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	653 0.8×	156	4.9k
Somobrata Acharya India	37	3.3k 1.2×	693 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	2.2k 2.1×	709 0.9×	135	5.1k
Christophe Mingotaud France	37	2.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	432 0.4×	517 0.5×	1.2k 1.6×	148	4.2k
Michael Wübbenhorst Belgium	44	3.3k 1.2×	553 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	927 1.2×	193	5.9k
Mingjun Huang China	43	2.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.5×	644 0.6×	931 0.9×	1.0k 1.3×	162	5.3k
Michel Rawiso France	27	1.6k 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	568 0.5×	412 0.4×	465 0.6×	71	3.4k
Yudhisthira Sahoo United States	33	2.6k 0.9×	380 0.3×	1.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	53	4.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hitoshi Kasai

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Ichimura, Takumi, Hitoshi Kasai, & Kouki Oka. (2025). Hydrogen gas production & storage cycle with organic hydrides based on hydrogen fixing and release. 3. 100028–100028.

Serizawa, Nobuyuki, et al.. (2025). Water-resistant redox-active metal–organic framework. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10798–10798.

Kasai, Hitoshi, et al.. (2025). Triphenylamine‐Based Porous Organic Polymers with High Porosity: their High Carbon‐Dioxide Adsorption and Proton‐Conductivity Emergence. Small. 21(31). e2410794–e2410794.

Liu, Zhixiang, et al.. (2024). Sustained Drug Release from Dual‐Responsive Hydrogels for Local Cancer Chemo–Photothermal Therapy. Macromolecular Bioscience. 25(3). e2400413–e2400413. 7 indexed citations

Dao, Anh Thi Ngoc, et al.. (2024). Controlling the composition and nanostructure of Au@Ag–Pt core@multi-shell nanoparticles prepared by co-reduction method. Materials Today Chemistry. 38. 102132–102132. 2 indexed citations

Koseki, Yoshitaka, Sanjay Kumar, Hirotaka Nakatsuji, et al.. (2024). Carrier-free nano-prodrugs for minimally invasive cancer therapy. Nanoscale. 16(32). 15256–15264. 4 indexed citations

Imai, Tomohiro, Hitoshi Kasai, Kouki Oka, et al.. (2024). An ionic liquid containing arsonium cation. Chemical Communications. 60(95). 14022–14025. 1 indexed citations

Oka, Kouki, et al.. (2024). Developing porous electrocatalysts to minimize overpotential for the oxygen evolution reaction. Chemical Communications. 61(8). 1533–1558. 7 indexed citations

Sakthivel, Rajalakshmi, et al.. (2023). Polydopamine-Coated Cu-BTC Nanowires for Effective Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Photothermal Therapy. Pharmaceutics. 15(3). 822–822. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qiang, Han Wen, Susana Rocha, et al.. (2023). Selective Detection of Intracellular Drug Metabolism by Metal‐Organic Framework‐Coated Plasmonic Nanowire. Advanced Optical Materials. 11(22). 3 indexed citations

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Onodera, Tsunenobu, Satoshi Kato, Akito Masuhara, et al.. (2022). Structural Correlations of the Nonlinear Optical Response in Polydiacetylene Nanotubes Hybridized with Gold Nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(5). 2763–2771. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qiang, Han Wen, Beatrice Fortuni, et al.. (2020). Low-Cytotoxic Gold-Coated Silver Nanoflowers for Intracellular pH Sensing. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 3(8). 7643–7650. 14 indexed citations

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Onodera, Tsunenobu, et al.. (2020). Solid-state polymerization behaviors of polydiacetylene nanofibers. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. 704(1). 89–96. 5 indexed citations

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Onodera, Tsunenobu, et al.. (2019). Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Layered Type Hybridized Thin Films Consisting of Oriented Polydiacetylene Nanofibers and Silver Nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(42). 25781–25787. 11 indexed citations

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Onodera, Tsunenobu, et al.. (2018). Enhanced Fluorescence Emission and Magnetic Alignment Control of Biphasic Functionalized Composite Janus Particles. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. 36(1). 9 indexed citations

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Masuhara, Akito, Zhenquan Tan, Hitoshi Kasai, Hachiro Nakanishi, & Hidetoshi Oikawa. (2009). Fullerene nano/microcrystals of unique shapes and controlled size. TANSO. 2009(238). 109–114.

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Kasai, Hitoshi, et al.. (2007). Fabrication of Organic Dyes Nano Crystals and Their Apprication. Journal of the Japan Society of Colour Material. 80(10). 425–429. 1 indexed citations

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Kasai, Hitoshi, et al.. (2005). Test Strips for Heavy‐Metal Ions Fabricated from Nanosized Dye Compounds. Angewandte Chemie. 118(6). 927–930. 14 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Masao, Hitoshi Kasai, Shuji Okada, et al.. (2002). Preparation of Poly(amic acid) Nanoparticles Using the Reprecipitation Method and Their Imidization.. KOBUNSHI RONBUNSHU. 59(10). 637–641. 2 indexed citations

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Kasai, Hitoshi, Hideyuki Katagi, Shuji Okada, et al.. (1997). Preparation of Polydiacetylene Microcrystals and Their Properties.. NIPPON KAGAKU KAISHI. 309–317. 4 indexed citations

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