Yusuke Kofuji

3.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
15 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Yusuke Kofuji is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yusuke Kofuji has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 11 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yusuke Kofuji's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (10 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (5 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (3 papers). Yusuke Kofuji is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (10 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (5 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (3 papers). Yusuke Kofuji collaborates with scholars based in Japan. Yusuke Kofuji's co-authors include Satoshi Ichikawa, Takayuki Hirai, Yasuhiro Shiraishi, Shunsuke Tanaka, Hirokatsu Sakamoto, Shunsuke Kanazawa, Y. Isobe, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Hiroaki Hirakawa and Masaki Hashimoto and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yusuke Kofuji

13 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Resorcinol–formaldehyde resins as metal-free semiconductor photocatalysts for solar-to-hydrogen peroxide energy conversion

2019 710 citations Yasuhiro Shiraishi, Yusuke Kofuji et al. Nature Materials profile →
Sunlight‐Driven Hydrogen Peroxide Production from Water and Molecular Oxygen by Metal‐Free Photocatalysts

2014 565 citations Yasuhiro Shiraishi, Shunsuke Kanazawa et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Carbon Nitride–Aromatic Diimide–Graphene Nanohybrids: Metal-Free Photocatalysts for Solar-to-Hydrogen Peroxide Energy Conversion with 0.2% Efficiency

2016 519 citations Yusuke Kofuji, Y. Isobe et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yusuke Kofuji Japan	11	2.8k	2.3k	1.3k	283	129	15	3.1k
Yang Xia China	25	2.8k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	174 0.6×	112 0.9×	33	3.1k
Fuyu Wen China	16	3.3k 1.2×	3.0k 1.3×	1.0k 0.8×	164 0.6×	112 0.9×	23	3.7k
Yang Qu China	34	3.1k 1.1×	2.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	374 1.3×	219 1.7×	72	3.6k
Guping Zhang China	18	2.1k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	967 0.7×	168 0.6×	106 0.8×	26	2.4k
Xuliang Zhang China	25	2.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	193 0.7×	86 0.7×	44	2.8k
Chuanbiao Bie China	25	4.1k 1.5×	3.6k 1.5×	1.8k 1.4×	350 1.2×	178 1.4×	46	4.6k
Xianshun Sun China	12	1.9k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	926 0.7×	188 0.7×	76 0.6×	15	2.3k
Lisha Yin China	22	2.6k 0.9×	2.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	292 1.0×	64 0.5×	37	3.3k
Linlu Bai China	29	2.5k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	929 0.7×	641 2.3×	186 1.4×	50	3.1k
Hirokatsu Sakamoto Japan	20	3.6k 1.3×	3.1k 1.3×	1.6k 1.2×	344 1.2×	105 0.8×	28	4.1k

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Kiyota, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2025). Development of High‐Performance Zero‐Gap Carbon Dioxide Electrolysis Cells Using a Hydrophilic Porous Membrane. Advanced Sustainable Systems. 9(8).

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Fujiwara, Naoya, et al.. (2023). Development of Durable Large-Sized CO₂ Electrolysis Cells for Industrial Applications. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2023-02(47). 2328–2328.

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Kiyota, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2022). Development of Highly-Efficient CO₂ Electrolysis Cell Stacks. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2022-02(49). 1942–1942. 1 indexed citations

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Kofuji, Yusuke, et al.. (2020). Efficient Electrochemical Conversion of CO₂ to CO Using a Cathode with Porous Catalyst Layer under Mild pH Conditions. Chemistry Letters. 50(3). 482–484. 3 indexed citations

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Shiraishi, Yasuhiro, Yusuke Kofuji, Yasutaka Kitagawa, et al.. (2019). Resorcinol–formaldehyde resins as metal-free semiconductor photocatalysts for solar-to-hydrogen peroxide energy conversion. Nature Materials. 18(9). 985–993. 710 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kofuji, Yusuke, Y. Isobe, Yasuhiro Shiraishi, et al.. (2018). Hydrogen Peroxide Production on a Carbon Nitride–Boron Nitride‐Reduced Graphene Oxide Hybrid Photocatalyst under Visible Light. ChemCatChem. 10(9). 2070–2077. 117 indexed citations

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Shiraishi, Yasuhiro, Yusuke Kofuji, Masaki Hashimoto, et al.. (2018). Nitrogen Fixation with Water on Carbon-Nitride-Based Metal-Free Photocatalysts with 0.1% Solar-to-Ammonia Energy Conversion Efficiency. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(8). 4169–4177. 119 indexed citations

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Shiraishi, Yasuhiro, Haruki Tanaka, Hirokatsu Sakamoto, et al.. (2017). Synthesis of Au Nanoparticles with Benzoic Acid as Reductant and Surface Stabilizer Promoted Solely by UV Light. Langmuir. 33(48). 13797–13804. 29 indexed citations

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Kofuji, Yusuke, Yasuhiro Shiraishi, Hirokatsu Sakamoto, et al.. (2017). Mellitic Triimide-Doped Carbon Nitride as Sunlight-Driven Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Peroxide Production. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 5(8). 6478–6485. 118 indexed citations

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Kofuji, Yusuke, Y. Isobe, Yasuhiro Shiraishi, et al.. (2016). Carbon Nitride–Aromatic Diimide–Graphene Nanohybrids: Metal-Free Photocatalysts for Solar-to-Hydrogen Peroxide Energy Conversion with 0.2% Efficiency. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(31). 10019–10025. 519 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kofuji, Yusuke, Yasuhiro Shiraishi, Hirokatsu Sakamoto, et al.. (2016). Graphitic Carbon Nitride Doped with Biphenyl Diimide: Efficient Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Peroxide Production from Water and Molecular Oxygen by Sunlight. ACS Catalysis. 6(10). 7021–7029. 337 indexed citations

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Shiraishi, Yasuhiro, Yusuke Kofuji, Hirokatsu Sakamoto, et al.. (2015). Effects of Surface Defects on Photocatalytic H₂O₂ Production by Mesoporous Graphitic Carbon Nitride under Visible Light Irradiation. ACS Catalysis. 5(5). 3058–3066. 328 indexed citations

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Shiraishi, Yasuhiro, Shunsuke Kanazawa, Yusuke Kofuji, et al.. (2014). Sunlight‐Driven Hydrogen Peroxide Production from Water and Molecular Oxygen by Metal‐Free Photocatalysts. Angewandte Chemie. 126(49). 13672–13677. 55 indexed citations

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Shiraishi, Yasuhiro, Shunsuke Kanazawa, Yusuke Kofuji, et al.. (2014). Sunlight‐Driven Hydrogen Peroxide Production from Water and Molecular Oxygen by Metal‐Free Photocatalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(49). 13454–13459. 565 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shiraishi, Yasuhiro, Yusuke Kofuji, Shunsuke Kanazawa, et al.. (2014). Platinum nanoparticles strongly associated with graphitic carbon nitride as efficient co-catalysts for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution under visible light. Chemical Communications. 50(96). 15255–15258. 177 indexed citations

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