Masashi Okubo

9.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
132 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Masashi Okubo is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Masashi Okubo has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 65 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 47 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Masashi Okubo's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (83 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (51 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (37 papers). Masashi Okubo is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (83 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (51 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (37 papers). Masashi Okubo collaborates with scholars based in Japan, France and Italy. Masashi Okubo's co-authors include Atsuo Yamada, Eiji Hosono, Haoshen Zhou, Satoshi Kajiyama, Tetsuichi Kudo, Xianfen Wang, Itaru Honma, Hiroki Iinuma, Daisuke Asakura and Yoshifumi Mizuno 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

Masashi Okubo

129 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Pseudocapacitance of MXene nanosheets for high-power sodium-ion hybrid capacitors

2015 1.0k citations Satoshi Kajiyama, Eiji Hosono et al. profile →
Nanosize Effect on High-Rate Li-Ion Intercalation in LiCoO₂ Electrode

2007 690 citations Masashi Okubo, Eiji Hosono et al. profile →
Sodium-Ion Intercalation Mechanism in MXene Nanosheets

2016 495 citations Satoshi Kajiyama, Kazuma Gotoh et al. profile →
MXene as a Charge Storage Host

2018 386 citations Masashi Okubo, Akira Sugahara et al. Accounts of Chemical Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Masashi Okubo Japan	45	6.8k	3.3k	3.2k	1.1k	698	132	8.7k
Zheng‐Wen Fu China	54	8.3k 1.2×	2.4k 0.7×	2.7k 0.8×	1.8k 1.6×	865 1.2×	203	9.2k
Laure Monconduit France	45	7.7k 1.1×	1.9k 0.6×	3.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.7×	187	8.7k
Fei Du China	65	10.1k 1.5×	4.4k 1.3×	4.4k 1.4×	1.7k 1.5×	1.1k 1.5×	281	12.5k
Evgeny V. Antipov Russia	44	3.3k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	758 0.7×	454 0.7×	329	6.8k
Birgit Schwenzer United States	28	5.1k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	2.3k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	342 0.5×	50	6.2k
Yongchun Zhu China	52	6.3k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	397 0.6×	149	7.5k
Tetsuichi Kudo Japan	47	7.9k 1.2×	4.6k 1.4×	4.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	886 1.3×	170	10.4k
Louis F. J. Piper United States	54	5.5k 0.8×	4.1k 1.2×	2.3k 0.7×	944 0.8×	514 0.7×	215	8.5k
Jean‐Marie Tarascon France	39	6.5k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	2.1k 0.6×	1.9k 1.7×	927 1.3×	69	7.9k
Yoshiharu Uchimoto Japan	54	9.2k 1.3×	3.3k 1.0×	2.0k 0.6×	2.9k 2.6×	1.1k 1.5×	455	11.2k

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Shi, Xiang‐Mei, Kosuke Kawai, Masashi Okubo, & Atsuo Yamada. (2025). Sequential Structural Evolution Triggered by O─O Dimerization in Oxygen‐Redox Reactions. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(13). 3 indexed citations

Kawai, Kosuke, Shin‐ichi Nishimura, Masashi Okubo, & Atsuo Yamada. (2025). Advanced positive electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan. 133(8). 434–443.

Kawai, Kosuke, Yasunobu Ando, & Masashi Okubo. (2024). Machine Learning‐Assisted Survey on Charge Storage of MXenes in Aqueous Electrolytes. Small Methods. 9(1). e2400062–e2400062. 4 indexed citations

Chiku, Masanobu, Mozaffar Abdollahifar, Thierry Brousse, et al.. (2024). Redox Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 92(7). 74002–74002. 5 indexed citations

Kawai, Kosuke, Sahana Rößler, Chang‐Yang Kuo, et al.. (2024). Valence study of Li(Ni0.5Mn0.5)1−xCoxO2 and LiNi1−xCoxO2: The role of charge transfer and charge disproportionation. Physical Review Materials. 8(5). 1 indexed citations

Kawai, Kosuke, Hyobin Lee, Yuki Nomura, et al.. (2024). MXene Electrodes for All Strain-Free Solid-State Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(42). 57377–57385. 1 indexed citations

Kawai, Kosuke, Koji Yazawa, Kazuma Gotoh, et al.. (2024). Proton Intercalation into an Open‐Tunnel Bronze Phase with Near‐Zero Volume Change. Angewandte Chemie. 137(3). 1 indexed citations

Okazawa, Atsushi, et al.. (2023). Iron-based catholytes for aqueous redox-flow batteries. APL Materials. 11(11). 3 indexed citations

Kawai, Kosuke, et al.. (2022). Lithium-Rich O2-Type Li _0.66 [Li _0.22 Ru _0.78 ]O ₂ Positive Electrode Material. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 169(4). 40536–40536. 6 indexed citations

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Kawai, Kosuke, Xiang‐Mei Shi, Norio Takenaka, et al.. (2022). Kinetic square scheme in oxygen-redox battery electrodes. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(6). 2591–2600. 56 indexed citations

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Sudayama, Takaaki, Daisuke Asakura, Xiang‐Mei Shi, et al.. (2020). Multiorbital bond formation for stable oxygen-redox reaction in battery electrodes. Energy & Environmental Science. 13(5). 1492–1500. 84 indexed citations

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Ando, Yasunobu, Akira Sugahara, Seongjae Ko, et al.. (2019). Dense Charge Accumulation in MXene with a Hydrate-Melt Electrolyte. Chemistry of Materials. 31(14). 5190–5196. 49 indexed citations

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Ma, Zihan, Laura Lander, Shin‐ichi Nishimura, Masashi Okubo, & Atsuo Yamada. (2019). HPO₃²⁻ as a building unit for sodium-ion battery cathodes: 3.1 V operation of Na_2−xFe(HPO₃)₂ (0 < x < 1). Chemical Communications. 55(94). 14155–14157. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Chi, et al.. (2019). Topochemical synthesis of phase-pure Mo₂AlB₂ through staging mechanism. Chemical Communications. 55(63). 9295–9298. 56 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Eriko, Wenwen Zhao, Akira Sugahara, et al.. (2019). Redox-Driven Spin Transition in a Layered Battery Cathode Material. Chemistry of Materials. 31(7). 2358–2365. 20 indexed citations

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Okubo, Masashi, et al.. (2019). Interfacial Dissociation of Contact-Ion-Pair on MXene Electrodes in Concentrated Aqueous Electrolytes. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 166(15). A3739–A3744. 25 indexed citations

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Okubo, Masashi, Akira Sugahara, Satoshi Kajiyama, & Atsuo Yamada. (2018). MXene as a Charge Storage Host. Accounts of Chemical Research. 51(3). 591–599. 386 indexed citations breakdown →

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Watanabe, Eriko, Hiroshi Ushiyama, Koichi Yamashita, et al.. (2017). Charge Storage Mechanism of RuO₂/Water Interfaces. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(35). 18975–18981. 16 indexed citations

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Nanba, Yūsuke, Benoît Mortemard de Boisse, Wenwen Zhao, et al.. (2016). Redox Potential Paradox in Na_xMO₂ for Sodium-Ion Battery Cathodes. Chemistry of Materials. 28(4). 1058–1065. 96 indexed citations

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Barpanda, Prabeer, Ye Tian, Shin‐ichi Nishimura, et al.. (2012). Sodium iron pyrophosphate: A novel 3.0 V iron-based cathode for sodium-ion batteries. Electrochemistry Communications. 24. 116–119. 323 indexed citations

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