Ken‐ichi Otake

6.7k citations

116 papers · 5.4k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 40

Impact in

Inorganic Chemistry top 0.2%
- Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
Process Chemistry and Technology top 2%

Papers in

Inorganic Chemistry 100
- Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications 100
Process Chemistry and Technology 8
- Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis 8

Co-authors: Susumu Kitagawa Omar K. Farha Timur İslamoğlu Joseph T. Hupp Jia‐Jia Zheng Cassandra T. Buru Zhanyong Li Cheng Gu
Journals: Journal of the American Chemical Society (16 papers)Angewandte Chemie International Edition (15 papers)Nature Communications (6 papers)Inorganic Chemistry (6 papers)Chemical Communications (5 papers)
Partner nations: Japan China United States

In The Last Decade

Ken‐ichi Otake

109 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Switching molecular recognition selectivities by temperature in a diffusion-regulatory porous material 2024 · 47 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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2024 Nature Communications
2023 Nature Chemistry
2022 Nature Chemistry
2022 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2022 Nature
2021 Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2019 Angewandte Chemie International Edition

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1	Soft porous crystals: flexible MOFs as a new class of adaptive materials Jiahui Guo, 佳美加藤, 王蜀桂, Ken‐ichi Otake, Ming‐Shui Yao, Susumu Kitagawa	2025	6
2	Systematic design and functionalisation of amorphous zirconium metal–organic frameworks Chemical Science ·Nattapol Ma, Soracha Kosasang, D. K. Chernov Prizes, Guy-Franck Richard, Tom Hauffman, Ken‐ichi Otake, Satoshi Horike, Rob Ameloot	2024	5
3	Precise Modulation of CO₂ Sorption in Ti₈Ce₂–Oxo Clusters: Elucidating Lewis Acidity of the Ce Metal Sites and Structural Flexibility Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Xingjie Wang, Haomiao Xie, Debabrata Sengupta, Fanrui Sha, Ken‐ichi Otake, Yongwei Chen, Karam B. Idrees, Kent O. Kirlikovali, Florencia A. Son, Guillaume Schaeffer, Junli Ren, Justin M. Notestein, Susumu Kitagawa, Omar K. Farha	2024	8
4	Pyrolytic Depolymerization of Polyolefins Catalysed by Zirconium‐based UiO‐66 Metal–Organic Frameworks Angewandte Chemie ·Jerry Zhi Xiong Heng, Tristan Tsai Yuan Tan, Xin Li, Wei Wei Loh, Yuting Chen, Zhenxiang Xing, أ.م.د.احمد سعد جاري, Oliver Gapp, 시아만, Yusuke Nishiyama, Takefumi Yoshida, Lili Zhang, Ken‐ichi Otake, Susumu Kitagawa, Xian Jun Loh, Enyi Ye, Jason Y. C. Lim	2024	5
5	Selective sorption of oxygen and nitrous oxide by an electron donor-incorporated flexible coordination network Communications Chemistry ·Mohana Shivanna, Jia‐Jia Zheng, Keith G. Ray, Stanley Y. Fang, 文昭本多, Yoshiki Kubota, Shogo Kawaguchi, Vitalie Stavila, Ming‐Shui Yao, Takao Fujikawa, Ken‐ichi Otake, Susumu Kitagawa	2023	5
6	Biomedically-relevant metal organic framework-hydrogel composites Biomaterials Science ·Jason Y. C. Lim, Ekaterina N. Karpova, Ken‐ichi Otake, Shermin S. Goh, Xian Jun Loh, Susumu Kitagawa	2023	57
7	Growth mechanisms and anisotropic softness–dependent conductivity of orientation-controllable metal–organic framework nanofilms Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ming‐Shui Yao, Ken‐ichi Otake, Tomoyuki Koganezawa, Joseph Delina, Hitoshi Asakawa, Masahiko Tsujimoto, Ziqian Xue, Yanhong Li, Nathan C. Flanders, Ping Wang, Yifan Gu, Tetsuo Honma, Shogo Kawaguchi, Yoshiki Kubota, Susumu Kitagawa	2023	18
8	UiO-66 metal organic frameworks with high contents of flexible adipic acid co-linkers Chemical Communications ·Tristan Tsai Yuan Tan, Xin Li, Ken‐ichi Otake, Ying Chuan Tan, Xian Jun Loh, Susumu Kitagawa, Jason Y. C. Lim	2022	9
9	Single-Atom Metal Oxide Sites as Traps for Charge Separation in the Zirconium-Based Metal–Organic Framework NDC–NU-1000 Energy & Fuels ·Michael Warnock, Brian T. Phelan, Michael Ladurner, Benjamin T. Diroll, Sungsik Lee, Ken‐ichi Otake, 齋藤太雅, Michael W. Mara, Omar K. Farha, Joseph T. Hupp, Lin X. Chen	2021	12
10	Host–Guest Interaction Modulation in Porous Coordination Polymers for Inverse Selective CO₂/C₂H₂Separation Angewandte Chemie ·Yifan Gu, Jia‐Jia Zheng, Ken‐ichi Otake, Mohana Shivanna, Shigeyoshi Sakaki, Haruka Yoshino, Masaaki Ohba, Shogo Kawaguchi, Ying Wang, Fengting Li, Susumu Kitagawa	2021	18
11	Vapor-Phase Cyclohexene Epoxidation by Single-Ion Fe(III) Sites in Metal–Organic Frameworks Inorganic Chemistry ·Ken‐ichi Otake, Sol Ahn, Julia G. Knapp, Joseph T. Hupp, Justin M. Notestein, Omar K. Farha	2021	20
12	Structural‐Deformation‐Energy‐Modulation Strategy in a Soft Porous Coordination Polymer with an Interpenetrated Framework Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Yifan Gu, Jia‐Jia Zheng, Ken‐ichi Otake, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Nobuhiko Hosono, Shigeyoshi Sakaki, Fengting Li, Susumu Kitagawa	2020	50
13	Facile Upcycling of Hazardous Cr-Containing Electroplating Sludge into Value-Added Metal–Organic Frameworks for Efficient Adsorptive Desulfurization ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ·Daniel Manaye Kabtamu, Yi‐nan Wu, Qian Chen, Zheng Lu, Ken‐ichi Otake, Ljiljana Matović, Fengting Li	2020	37
14	A square lattice topology coordination network that exhibits highly selective C₂H₂/CO₂ separation performance SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Naveen Kumar, Soumya Mukherjee, Andrey A. Bezrukov, Matthias Vandichel, Mohana Shivanna, Debobroto Sensharma, Alankriti Bajpai, Victoria Gascón, Ken‐ichi Otake, Susumu Kitagawa, Michael J. Zaworotko	2020	9
15	Control of local flexibility towards p-xylene sieving in Hofmann-type porous coordination polymers Chemical Communications ·Mohana Shivanna, Ken‐ichi Otake, Jia‐Jia Zheng, Shigeyoshi Sakaki, Susumu Kitagawa	2020	25
16	Supramolecular Porous Assemblies of Atomically Precise Catalytically Active Cerium-Based Clusters Chemistry of Materials ·Megan C. Wasson, Xuan Zhang, Ken‐ichi Otake, Andrew Rosen, Selim Alayoǧlu, Matthew D. Krzyaniak, Zhijie Chen, Louis R. Redfern, Lee Robison, Florencia A. Son, Yongwei Chen, Timur İslamoğlu, Justin M. Notestein, Randall Q. Snurr, Michael R. Wasielewski, Omar K. Farha	2020	33
17	Confined water-mediated high proton conduction in hydrophobic channel of a synthetic nanotube Nature Communications ·Ken‐ichi Otake, Kazuya Otsubo, Tokutaro Komatsu, Shun Dekura, Jared M. Taylor, Ryuichi Ikeda, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Akihiko Fujiwara, Chien‐Pin Chou, Aditya Wibawa Sakti, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Hiromi Nakai, Hiroshi Kitagawa	2020	148
18	Structural‐Deformation‐Energy‐Modulation Strategy in a Soft Porous Coordination Polymer with an Interpenetrated Framework Angewandte Chemie ·Yifan Gu, Jia‐Jia Zheng, Ken‐ichi Otake, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Nobuhiko Hosono, Shigeyoshi Sakaki, Fengting Li, Susumu Kitagawa	2020	6
19	Enhanced Activity of Heterogeneous Pd(II) Catalysts on Acid-Functionalized Metal–Organic Frameworks ACS Catalysis ·Ken‐ichi Otake, Jingyun Ye, Mukunda Mandal, Timur İslamoğlu, Cassandra T. Buru, Joseph T. Hupp, Massimiliano Delferro, Donald G. Truhlar, Christopher J. Cramer, Omar K. Farha	2019	88
20	Vanadium Catalyst on Isostructural Transition Metal, Lanthanide, and Actinide Based Metal–Organic Frameworks for Alcohol Oxidation Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Xingjie Wang, Xuan Zhang, Peng Li, Ken‐ichi Otake, Yuexing Cui, Jiafei Lyu, Matthew D. Krzyaniak, Yuanyuan Zhang, Zhanyong Li, Jian Liu, Cassandra T. Buru, Timur İslamoğlu, Michael R. Wasielewski, Zhong Li, Omar K. Farha	2019	127

About Ken‐ichi Otake

Ken‐ichi Otake is a scholar working on Inorganic Chemistry, Process Chemistry and Technology, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Catalysis, having authored 116 papers that have together received 5.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (100 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (55 papers), Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (10 papers), Membrane Separation and Gas Transport (10 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (10 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (9 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (9 papers) and Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Inorganic Chemistry (4.0k citations), Process Chemistry and Technology (250 citations), Materials Chemistry (3.5k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (744 citations) and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (695 citations). Ken‐ichi Otake has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Frequent co-authors include Susumu Kitagawa, Omar K. Farha, Timur İslamoğlu, Joseph T. Hupp, Jia‐Jia Zheng, Cassandra T. Buru, Zhanyong Li, Cheng Gu, Yuexing Cui and Yan Su. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications, Inorganic Chemistry and Chemical Communications.

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