Kazu Suenaga

43.3k total citations · 20 hit papers
418 papers, 32.8k citations indexed

About

Kazu Suenaga is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kazu Suenaga has authored 418 papers receiving a total of 32.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 350 papers in Materials Chemistry, 137 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 88 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kazu Suenaga's work include Graphene research and applications (198 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (124 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (109 papers). Kazu Suenaga is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (198 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (124 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (109 papers). Kazu Suenaga collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and Taiwan. Kazu Suenaga's co-authors include Sumio Iijima, Yung‐Chang Lin, Chuanhong Jin, Zheng Liu, Ying‐Sheng Huang, Dumitru Dumcenco, Po‐Wen Chiu, Masanori Koshino, Zheng Liu and Toshiya Okazaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kazu Suenaga

408 papers receiving 32.3k citations

Hit Papers

Direct evidence for atomi... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2004 2014 2015 2009 2015 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Direct evidence for atomic defects in graphene layers
    2004 1.4k citations Kazu Suenaga, Sumio Iijima et al. profile →
  2. Atomic mechanism of the semiconducting-to-metallic phase transition in single-layered MoS2
    2014 1.2k citations Yung‐Chang Lin, Dumitru Dumcenco et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  3. Epitaxial growth of a monolayer WSe 2 -MoS 2 lateral p-n junction with an atomically sharp interface
    2015 1.0k citations Yung‐Chang Lin, Kazu Suenaga et al. profile →
  4. Fabrication of a Freestanding Boron Nitride Single Layer and Its Defect Assignments
    2009 991 citations Kazu Suenaga, Sumio Iijima et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. Phase patterning for ohmic homojunction contact in MoTe 2
    2015 966 citations Kazu Suenaga et al. profile →
  6. Nano-aggregates of single-walled graphitic carbon nano-horns
    1999 939 citations Sumio Iijima, Shunji Bandow et al. profile →
  7. MoS2 monolayer catalyst doped with isolated Co atoms for the hydrodeoxygenation reaction
    2017 791 citations Yung‐Chang Lin, Kazu Suenaga et al. profile →
  8. New Porous Crystals of Extended Metal-Catecholates
    2012 788 citations Zheng Liu, Kazu Suenaga et al. profile →
  9. Graphene Annealing: How Clean Can It Be?
    2011 780 citations Yung‐Chang Lin, Chao‐Hui Yeh et al. profile →
  10. Graphene Oxide: Structural Analysis and Application as a Highly Transparent Support for Electron Microscopy
    2009 624 citations Zheng Liu, Kazu Suenaga et al. ACS Nano profile →
  11. Tunable Band Gap Photoluminescence from Atomically Thin Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Alloys
    2013 540 citations Dumitru Dumcenco, Zheng Liu et al. ACS Nano profile →
  12. Weaving of organic threads into a crystalline covalent organic framework
    2016 517 citations Zheng Liu, Kazu Suenaga et al. profile →
  13. Deriving Carbon Atomic Chains from Graphene
    2009 505 citations Kazu Suenaga, Sumio Iijima et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  14. Open and Closed Edges of Graphene Layers
    2009 481 citations Kazu Suenaga, Sumio Iijima et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  15. Atomically thin noble metal dichalcogenide: a broadband mid-infrared semiconductor
    2018 453 citations Kazu Suenaga et al. Nature Communications profile →
  16. Confined linear carbon chains as a route to bulk carbyne
    2016 350 citations Kazu Suenaga, Jani Kotakoski et al. profile →
  17. Misoriented high-entropy iridium ruthenium oxide for acidic water splitting
    2023 186 citations Chun Hu, Kaihang Yue et al. Science Advances profile →
  18. Dispersed surface Ru ensembles on MgO(111) for catalytic ammonia decomposition
    2023 178 citations Simson Wu, Jianwei Zheng et al. Nature Communications profile →
  19. 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 →
  20. 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Kazu Suenaga Japan 88 26.7k 11.6k 4.5k 4.5k 3.9k 418 32.8k
Sara Bals Belgium 79 14.8k 0.6× 8.2k 0.7× 4.6k 1.0× 4.5k 1.0× 1.5k 0.4× 568 24.9k
Gustaaf Van Tendeloo Belgium 97 23.6k 0.9× 9.5k 0.8× 5.1k 1.1× 5.8k 1.3× 2.5k 0.6× 946 38.9k
Arkady V. Krasheninnikov Finland 77 23.7k 0.9× 9.6k 0.8× 3.2k 0.7× 3.0k 0.7× 1.1k 0.3× 286 27.1k
Yimei Zhu United States 86 15.7k 0.6× 15.4k 1.3× 9.2k 2.0× 2.6k 0.6× 1.9k 0.5× 692 33.7k
Nigel D. Browning United States 85 14.3k 0.5× 9.3k 0.8× 4.4k 1.0× 2.3k 0.5× 1.2k 0.3× 569 25.0k
Jannik C. Meyer Austria 57 24.7k 0.9× 10.9k 0.9× 1.9k 0.4× 8.2k 1.8× 1.3k 0.3× 163 30.8k
Miquel Salmerón United States 89 16.0k 0.6× 8.9k 0.8× 5.5k 1.2× 4.6k 1.0× 1.5k 0.4× 427 29.6k
Christopher B. Murray United States 90 26.1k 1.0× 12.8k 1.1× 6.3k 1.4× 6.8k 1.5× 2.9k 0.7× 299 34.7k
Jamie H. Warner United Kingdom 72 15.4k 0.6× 8.6k 0.7× 2.9k 0.6× 3.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.3× 385 19.8k
Hans‐Peter Steinrück Germany 74 10.5k 0.4× 7.5k 0.6× 3.7k 0.8× 4.6k 1.0× 1.5k 0.4× 468 19.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kazu Suenaga

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kazu Suenaga. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kazu Suenaga based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kazu Suenaga. Kazu Suenaga is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tal, Alexey, Pedro Melo, Ryosuke Senga, et al.. (2025). Core-hole induced misalignment between Van Hove singularities and K-edge fine structure in carbon nanotubes. Physical Review Research. 7(1).
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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.
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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
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Nakanishi, Yusuke, Naoyuki Kanda, Yasufumi Takahashi, et al.. (2024). Superatomic Layer of Cubic Mo4S4 Clusters Connected by Cl Cross‐Linking. Advanced Materials. 36(39). e2404249–e2404249. 7 indexed citations
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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 →
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Lin, Gaoxin, Zhuang Zhang, Qiangjian Ju, et al.. (2023). Bottom-up evolution of perovskite clusters into high-activity rhodium nanoparticles toward alkaline hydrogen evolution. Nature Communications. 14(1). 280–280. 46 indexed citations
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Deng, Mingxue, Qiunan Liu, Qiunan Liu, et al.. (2023). Reducing Luminescence Intensity and Suppressing Irradiation‐induced Darkening of Bi4Ge3O12 by Ce‐doping for Radiation Detection. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(2). 13 indexed citations
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Feng, Ya, Yuta Sato, Taiki Inoue, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Thermal Conductivity of Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotube with Axial Tensile Strain Enabled by Boron Nitride Nanotube Anchoring. Small. 20(16). e2308571–e2308571. 5 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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Hu, Chun, Kaihang Yue, Jiajia Han, et al.. (2023). Misoriented high-entropy iridium ruthenium oxide for acidic water splitting. Science Advances. 9(37). eadf9144–eadf9144. 186 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zheng, Jianwei, Lilin Lu, К. А. Лебедев, et al.. (2021). Fe on molecular-layer MoS2 as inorganic Fe-S2-Mo motifs for light-driven nitrogen fixation to ammonia at elevated temperatures. Chem Catalysis. 1(1). 162–182. 49 indexed citations
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Yeh, Chao‐Hui, Zheng-Yong Liang, Yung‐Chang Lin, et al.. (2020). Graphene–Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterojunctions for Scalable and Low-Power Complementary Integrated Circuits. ACS Nano. 14(1). 985–992. 56 indexed citations
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Gogoi, Pranjal Kumar, Yung‐Chang Lin, Ryosuke Senga, et al.. (2019). Layer Rotation-Angle-Dependent Excitonic Absorption in van der Waals Heterostructures Revealed by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy. ACS Nano. 13(8). 9541–9550. 30 indexed citations
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Lin, Yung‐Chang, Chao‐Hui Yeh, Ming‐Deng Siao, et al.. (2018). Stable 1T Tungsten Disulfide Monolayer and Its Junctions: Growth and Atomic Structures. ACS Nano. 12(12). 12080–12088. 77 indexed citations
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Susi, Toma, Demie Kepaptsoglou, Yung‐Chang Lin, et al.. (2017). Towards atomically precise manipulation of 2D nanostructures in the electron microscope. 2D Materials. 4(4). 42004–42004. 75 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Yu, Zheng Liu, Kazu Suenaga, et al.. (2016). Growth and optical properties of Nb-doped WS 2 monolayers. The Japan Society of Applied Physics. 2 indexed citations
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Lin, Yung‐Chang, Dumitru Dumcenco, Ying‐Sheng Huang, & Kazu Suenaga. (2014). Atomic mechanism of the semiconducting-to-metallic phase transition in single-layered MoS2. Nature Nanotechnology. 9(5). 391–396. 1188 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sasaki, Takeo, Hidetaka Sawada, F. Hosokawa, et al.. (2010). Performance of low-voltage STEM/TEM with delta corrector and cold field emission gun. Journal of Electron Microscopy. 59(S1). S7–S13. 78 indexed citations
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Hashimoto, Ayako, Kazu Suenaga, Koki Urita, et al.. (2005). Atomic Correlation Between Adjacent Graphene Layers in Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes. Physical Review Letters. 94(4). 45504–45504. 79 indexed citations
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Hirahara, Kaori, Kazu Suenaga, Shunji Bandow, et al.. (2000). One-Dimensional Metallofullerene Crystal Generated Inside Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Physical Review Letters. 85(25). 5384–5387. 420 indexed citations

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