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Hirotomo NISHIHARA,
Associate Professor
Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University
Contact Information
Address: 2-1-1, Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577
E-mail: nisihara“at”tagen.tohoku.ac.jp (but replace "at" with "@")
Personal Homepage:http://www.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp/labo/kyotani/nishihara/nishihara_e.html
Fields of Interest
Inorganic Materials, Carbon Materials, Adsorption, Energy Storage
Professional Experience
2005-2011 Assistant Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University
2011- present Associate Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University
Education
Ph. D., Kyoto University, 2005
Membership of Academic Societies
The Carbon Society of Japan, The Japan Society on Adsorption, The Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Graphene Research Society, The Chemical Society of Japan, The Societies of Chemical Engineers, Japan
Awards & Honors
  1. The Japan Carbon Award for Young Researcher in Carbon 2008 (2008)
  2. 2009 Gordon Research Conference on Hydrocarbon Resources, Best Poster Award (2009)
  3. The Carbon Society of Japan, Award for Young Researchers (2010)
  4. The Prize of the Tokin Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology (2012)
Research Project
Synthesis and Application of Nanocarbon-Based Fusion Materials by Template Method
Selected Publications
  1. Iwamura, S., Nishihara, H., Kyotani, T.
    “Fast and Reversible Lithium Storage in a Wrinkled Structure Formed from Si Nanoparticles during Lithiation/Delithiation Cycling”,
    J. Power Sources, 222, 400-409 (2013).

  2. Nishihara, H., Kyotani, T.
    “Templated Nanocarbons for Energy Storage”,
    Adv. Mater., 24, 4473-4498 (2012).

  3. Iwamura, S., Nishihara, H., Kyotani, T.
    “Effect of Buffer Size around Nanosilicon Anode Particles for Lithium-Ion Batteries”,
    J. Phys. Chem. C, 116, 6004-6011 (2012).

  4. Nishihara, H., Kwon, T., Fukura, Y., Nakayama, W., Hoshikawa, Y., Iwamura, S., Nishiyama, N., Itoh, T., Kyotani, T.
    “Fabrication of a Highly Conductive Ordered Porous Electrode by Carbon-Coating of a Continuous Mesoporous Silica Film”,
    Chem. Mater., 23, 3144-3151 (2011).

  5. Itoi, H., Nishihara, H., Kogure, T., Kyotani, T.
    “Three-Dimensionally Arrayed and Mutually Connected 1.2-nm Nanopores for High-Performance Electric Double Layer Capacitor”,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 1165-1167 (2011).


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