Yu Ogawa

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Yu Ogawa is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Plant Science and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Ogawa has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Biomaterials, 25 papers in Plant Science and 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yu Ogawa's work include Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (37 papers), Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (20 papers) and Lignin and Wood Chemistry (14 papers). Yu Ogawa is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (37 papers), Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (20 papers) and Lignin and Wood Chemistry (14 papers). Yu Ogawa collaborates with scholars based in France, Japan and Germany. Yu Ogawa's co-authors include Yoshiharu Nishiyama, Masahisa Wada, Jean‐Luc Putaux, Lars A. Berglund, Silvia Vignolini, Karim Mazeau, Satoshi Kimura, Céline Montanari, Peter Olsén and Richard Parker and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yu Ogawa

92 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Structural Color from Cellulose Nanocrystals or Chitin Nanocrystals: Self-Assembly, Optics, and Applications

2023 121 citations Yu Ogawa, Silvia Vignolini et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Ogawa France	27	1.2k	496	365	269	252	95	2.0k
Asako Hirai Japan	21	1.5k 1.3×	656 1.3×	541 1.5×	281 1.0×	156 0.6×	43	2.3k
Päivi Laaksonen Finland	26	1.4k 1.2×	868 1.8×	332 0.9×	683 2.5×	339 1.3×	57	2.6k
Alan R. Esker United States	29	858 0.7×	634 1.3×	410 1.1×	798 3.0×	335 1.3×	88	2.5k
Kun Yao China	26	609 0.5×	396 0.8×	300 0.8×	328 1.2×	503 2.0×	73	2.3k
Jakob Wohlert Sweden	28	1.9k 1.6×	1.2k 2.4×	620 1.7×	295 1.1×	533 2.1×	65	3.2k
Richard Reiner Germany	27	1.1k 1.0×	944 1.9×	426 1.2×	539 2.0×	60 0.2×	146	2.9k
Gaobo Yu China	26	370 0.3×	479 1.0×	381 1.0×	541 2.0×	199 0.8×	76	1.9k
Juan José Valle‐Delgado Finland	26	642 0.5×	1.1k 2.2×	432 1.2×	279 1.0×	372 1.5×	56	2.2k
Justin O. Zoppe Switzerland	23	2.0k 1.6×	948 1.9×	413 1.1×	606 2.3×	152 0.6×	49	3.3k
Giulia Guidetti United States	18	1.1k 0.9×	384 0.8×	290 0.8×	414 1.5×	70 0.3×	33	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Ogawa

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yu Ogawa. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yu Ogawa 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 Yu Ogawa. Yu Ogawa is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wei, Lihong, Lingfeng Zhou, Pan Chen, et al.. (2025). Right-Handed Chiral Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Films. ACS Nano. 19(51). 42941–42950.

Ogawa, Yu, et al.. (2024). Enzyme‐triggered assembly of glycan nanomaterials. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(42). e202410634–e202410634. 2 indexed citations

Jing, Yun, et al.. (2024). Synthetic chitin oligosaccharide nanocrystals and their higher-order assemblies. Chemical Science. 16(3). 1390–1395. 1 indexed citations

Vargová, Denisa, Giulio Fittolani, Yang Yu, et al.. (2023). Controlling the Assembly of Cellulose‐Based Oligosaccharides through Sequence Modifications. Angewandte Chemie. 135(47).

Nishiyama, Yoshiharu, et al.. (2023). Nonclassical Crystal Growth of Supramolecular Polymers in Aqueous Medium. Small. 20(6). e2306175–e2306175. 6 indexed citations

Ogawa, Yu, et al.. (2023). Mesostructural changes in cellulose within wood cell wall upon hydrothermal treatment at 200 °C. Cellulose. 30(13). 8405–8413. 6 indexed citations

Bovin, Nicolai V., Annabelle Varrot, Yu Ogawa, et al.. (2022). The choanoflagellate pore-forming lectin SaroL-1 punches holes in cancer cells by targeting the tumor-related glycosphingolipid Gb3. Communications Biology. 5(1). 954–954. 8 indexed citations

Suzuki, Takeshi, Yu Ogawa, M. Fujisawa, et al.. (2022). Photo-Excitation Band-Structure Engineering of 2H-NbSe₂ Probed by Time- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 91(6). 3 indexed citations

Middleton, Rox, Yu Ogawa, Gianni Jacucci, et al.. (2022). Multiple origins of lipid‐based structural colors contribute to a gradient of fruit colors in Viburnum (Adoxaceae). New Phytologist. 237(2). 643–655. 10 indexed citations

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Ogawa, Yu, et al.. (2022). Convergent evolution of disordered lipidic structural colour in the fruits of Lantana strigocamara (syn. L. camara hybrid cultivar). New Phytologist. 235(3). 898–906. 6 indexed citations

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Sawada, Daisuke, Yu Ogawa, Hannes Orelma, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of Keratin–Cellulose Blend Fibers as Precursors for Carbon Fibers. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 10(26). 8314–8325. 11 indexed citations

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Sawada, Daisuke, Shogo Kumagai, Yu Ogawa, et al.. (2021). Evolution of carbon nanostructure during pyrolysis of homogeneous chitosan-cellulose composite fibers. Carbon. 185. 27–38. 17 indexed citations

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Middleton, Rox, Yu Ogawa, Alexander Kovalev, et al.. (2021). Cell wall composition determines handedness reversal in helicoidal cellulose architectures of Pollia condensata fruits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(51). 16 indexed citations

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Ogawa, Yu, Frédéric Dubreuil, Florent Grimaud, et al.. (2021). Crystal and molecular structure of V-amylose complexed with ibuprofen. Carbohydrate Polymers. 261. 117885–117885. 23 indexed citations

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Ogawa, Yu, et al.. (2020). Carbohydrate-attached fullerene derivative for selective localization in ordered carbohydrate-block-poly(3-hexylthiophene) nanodomains. Carbohydrate Polymers. 255. 117528–117528. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Pan, Yu Ogawa, Yoshiharu Nishiyama, Ahmed E. Ismail, & Karim Mazeau. (2018). Iα to Iβ mechano-conversion and amorphization in native cellulose simulated by crystal bending. Cellulose. 25(8). 4345–4355. 14 indexed citations

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Okazaki, Kozo, Yu Ogawa, Takeshi Suzuki, et al.. (2018). Photo-induced semimetallic states realised in electron–hole coupled insulators. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4322–4322. 68 indexed citations

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Wilts, Bodo D., Paula J. Rudall, Edwige Moyroud, et al.. (2018). Ultrastructure and optics of the prism‐like petal epidermal cells of Eschscholzia californica (California poppy). New Phytologist. 219(3). 1124–1133. 32 indexed citations

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Nakashima, Keisuke, Yu Ogawa, Soichi Watanabe, et al.. (2018). Chitin-based barrier immunity and its loss predated mucus-colonization by indigenous gut microbiota. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3402–3402. 61 indexed citations

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Liu, Ro-Ya, Yu Ogawa, Peng Chen, et al.. (2017). Femtosecond to picosecond transient effects in WSe 2 observed by pump-probe angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 15981–15981. 11 indexed citations

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