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Akichika Kumatani
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Graduate School of Engineering

Professor

■ Office

Tsudanuma Campus, No.2 Building,14th floor room 011411

■ Academic background

〔Doctorial Course〕, University College London, Completed, Ph.D. (Nanotechnology)

■ Research activities

1.		The Chemical Society of Japan
2.		The Electrochemical Society of Japan
3.		The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry
4.		The Japan Society of Applied Physics

■ Works

1.	Book	Interface Ionics: Chapter Scanning Electrochemical Microscopic Analysis on Surface/Interface of the Lithium-Ion Batteries (Collaboration) 2024/10/16
2.	Book	Gate-voltage modulation in graphene Graphene and its Fascinating Attributes pp.179-187 (Collaboration) 2011/01/01
3.	Article	Correlation Between Structural and Local Electrochemical Properties of Ag Nanoparticles on Graphene Oxide Catalysts Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers (Collaboration) 2025/10/19
4.	Article	Decoding pH-Dependent Electrocatalysis through Electric Field Models and Microkinetic Volcanoes Journal of Materials Chemistry A (Collaboration) 2025/09/11
5.	Article	Electrochemical pipette-based Analysis on Anisotropy in Rutile TiO2 for Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Revolution Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B (Collaboration) 2025/08/11
6.	Article	Hydrogen Binding Energy Is Insufficient for Describing Hydrogen Evolution on Single-Atom Catalysts Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Collaboration) 2025/03/20
7.	Article	Direct extraction and evaluation of intraluminal vesicles inside a single cell NANO LETTERS (Collaboration) 2025/02/27
8.	Article	Nanoscale Electrochemical Imaging Technique for Next Generation Energy Devices (Single) 2024/11/28
9.	Article	Crystalline Formation Enhances Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Property of Copper Azaphthalocyanine on Carbon Electrodes ACS Applied Energy Materials (Collaboration) 2024/11/08
10.	Article	Polarization-Switchable Electrochemistry of 2D Layered Bi2O2Se Bifunctional Microreactors by Ferroelectric Modulation (Collaboration) 2024/08/26
11.	Article	Comprehensive electrochemical imaging analyses of redox activities correlated to multilayer graphene and graphite structures Electrochimica Acta pp.144688-144688 (Collaboration) 2024/07
12.	Article	In-situ observation of hydrogen nanobubbles formation on graphene surface by AFM-SECM Electrochimica Acta pp.144425-144425 (Collaboration) 2024/07
13.	Article	Probing Non-Faradaic Process during Elastic Deformation in a Single Sphere of Extremely Soft Mesoporous Carbon Carbon (Collaboration) 2024/06
14.	Article	Electrochemical catalysis of aluminum diboride thin film fabricated by radio-frequency magnetron sputtering (Collaboration) 2024/03/04
15.	Article	Emergence of electrochemical catalytic activity via an electrochemical-probe on defective transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets APL Energy (Collaboration) 2024/03/01
16.	Article	Origin of electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction activity over transition metal disulfides: critical role of in situ generation of S vacancy Journal of Materials Chemistry A (Collaboration) 2024
17.	Article	Facile Synthesis of Pd Nanosheets and Implications for Superior Catalytic Activity ACS Nano (Collaboration) 2023/11/06
18.	Article	Electrochemical imaging correlated to hydrogen evolution reaction on transition metal dichalcogenide, WS2 Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B (Collaboration) 2023/09/01
19.	Article	Electrochemical Li+ Insertion/Extraction Reactions at LiPON/Epitaxial Graphene Interfaces ACS Nano pp.16448-16460 (Collaboration) 2023/08/21
20.	Article	Surface morphology live-cell imaging reveals how macropinocytosis inhibitors affect membrane dynamics Electrochimica Acta 441,pp.141783-141783 (Collaboration) 2023/02
21.	Article	Magnetotransport of thin film Sr_1-xLa_xCuO₂on (110) DyScO₃ pp.040904-040904 (Collaboration) 2022/04/01
22.	Article	Fast divalent conduction in MB₁₂H₁₂·12H₂O (M = Zn, Mg) complex hydrides: effects of rapid crystal water exchange and application for solid-state electrolytes Journal of Materials Chemistry A 10(46),pp.24877-24887 (Collaboration) 2022
23.	Article	Stable Resistance Switching in Lu3N@C80 Nanowires Promoted by the Endohedral Effect: Implications for Single-Fullerene Motion Resistance Switching ACS Applied Nano Materials (Collaboration) 2021/08/10
24.	Article	A porous microneedle electrochemical glucose sensor fabricated on a scaffold of a polymer monolith JPhys Energy pp.024006-024006 (Collaboration) 2021/04
25.	Article	Nanoscale Visualization of Morphological Alteration of Live-Cell Membranes by the Interaction with Oligoarginine Cell-Penetrating Peptides Analytical Chemistry pp.5383-5393 (Collaboration) 2021/04
26.	Article	Micropipet-Based Navigation in a Microvascular Model for Imaging Endothelial Cell Topography Using Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy Analytical Chemistry pp.4902-4908 (Collaboration) 2021/03/23
27.	Article	Spin injection characteristics of Py/graphene/Pt by gigahertz and terahertz magnetization dynamics driven by femtosecond laser pulse AIP Advances pp.015321-015321 (Collaboration) 2021/01/01
28.	Article	Spin injection characteristics of Py/graphene/Pt by gigahertz and terahertz magnetization dynamics driven by femtosecond laser pulse (Collaboration) 2020/10/15
29.	Article	Development and application of scanning electrochemical cell microscope for electrochemical imaging of catalytic active sites Denki Kagaku pp.229-234 (Collaboration) 2020/09/05
30.	Article	Nanoscale kinetic imaging of lithium ion secondary battery materials using scanning electrochemical cell microscopy Chemical Communications 56(65),pp.9324-9327 (Collaboration) 2020/08/21
31.	Article	Recent advances in scanning electrochemical microscopic analysis and visualization on lithium-ion battery electrodes Current Opinion in Electrochemistry pp.228-233 (Collaboration) 2020/08
32.	Article	S/N Co-Doped Hollow Carbon Particles for Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts Prepared by Spontaneous Polymerization at Oil-Water Interfaces ACS Omega pp.18391-18396 (Collaboration) 2020/07/28
33.	Article	Origin of Optical Transparency in a Transparent Superconductor LiTi<inf>2</inf>O<inf>4</inf> ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2(2),pp.517-522 (Collaboration) 2020/02/25
34.	Article	High-Resolution Electrochemical Mapping of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Nanosheets Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 59(9),pp.3601-3608 (Collaboration) 2020/02/24
35.	Article	Chemical Dopants on Edge of Holey Graphene Accelerate Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Advanced Science pp.1900119 (Collaboration) 2019/05/17
36.	Article	Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy for Analysis of Solid Electrolyte Interface on Negative Electrodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries ECS Meeting Abstracts pp.2267-2267 (Collaboration) 2019/05/01
37.	Article	Visualization of Inhomogeneuous Reactivity on Battery Material Using Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy ECS Meeting Abstracts pp.2259-2259 (Collaboration) 2019/05/01
38.	Article	Scanning electrochemical cell microscopy for visualization and local electrochemical activities of lithium-ion (de) intercalation process in lithium-ion batteries electrodes Surface and Interface Analysis pp.27-30 (Collaboration) 2019/01
39.	Article	N- and Fe-containing Carbon Films Prepared by Calcination of Polydopamine Composites Self-assembled at Air/Water Interface for Oxygen Reduction Reaction Chemistry Letters pp.102-105 (Collaboration) 2019
40.	Article	Visualization of inhomogeneous current distribution on ZrO<inf>2</inf>-coated LiCoO<inf>2</inf> thin-film electrodes using scanning electrochemical cell microscopy Chemical Communications pp.545-548 (Collaboration) 2019
41.	Article	Nanoscale Electrochemical Imaging of Aligned Semiconducting and Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles ECS Meeting Abstracts pp.564-564 (Collaboration) 2018/07/23
42.	Article	酸化還元反応の差異による半導体・金属カーボンナノチューブの検出応用物理学会春季学術講演会講演予稿集(CD-ROM) pp.ROMBUNNO.17p‐P5‐4 (Collaboration) 2018/03/05
43.	Article	電気化学イメージングによる金属/半導体カーボンナノチューブの酸化還元反応の検証電気化学会大会講演要旨集(CD-ROM) pp.ROMBUNNO.1J12 (Collaboration) 2018/02/23
44.	Article	Calcinated Composite Polydopamine Films and Application for Electrocatalytic Electrodes 電池討論会講演要旨集 (Collaboration) 2018
45.	Article	Gelatin-Polyaniline Composite Nanofibers Enhanced Excitation-Contraction Coupling System Maturation in Myotubes ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 9(49),pp.42444-42458 (Collaboration) 2017/12/13
46.	Article	Nanosheet-structured NiCoO<inf>2</inf>/carbon nanotubes hybrid composite as a novel bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst Electrochimica Acta 252,pp.338-349 (Collaboration) 2017/10/20
47.	Article	Redox Reaction on the Surface/Edge Strturtures of Graphene/Graphite ECS Meeting Abstracts pp.660-660 (Collaboration) 2017/09/01
48.	Article	High Speed Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy for Quantitative Analysis of Nanoscale Dynamics of Microvilli Analytical Chemistry 89(11),pp.6015-6020 (Collaboration) 2017/06/06
49.	Article	Scanning Probe Microscopy for Nanoscale Electrochemical Imaging Analytical Chemistry 89(1),pp.342-357 (Collaboration) 2017/01/03
50.	Article	3D electrochemical and ion current imaging using scanning electrochemical-scanning ion conductance microscopy Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19(39),pp.26728-26733 (Collaboration) 2017
51.	Article	Advanced scanning electrochemical microscope system for high-resolution imaging and electrochemical applications Electrochemistry pp.319-326 (Collaboration) 2017
52.	Article	Localized Electrochemical Analysis of Polyacrylate Binders on Graphite-Silicon Negative Electrodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries ECS Meeting Abstracts pp.492-492 (Collaboration) 2016/09/01
53.	Article	Preparation and in-situ characterization of well-defined solid electrolyte/electrode interfaces in thin-film lithium batteries Solid State Ionics 285,pp.118-121 (Collaboration) 2016/02/01
54.	Article	Localized Electrochemical Analyses on Electrodes Using by Nano-Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy Hyomen Kagaku pp.494-498 (Collaboration) 2016
55.	Article	Current Response at Grain and Grain Boundaries in LiFePO₄ Thin Films By Nano-Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy ECS Meeting Abstracts pp.88-88 (Collaboration) 2015/07/07
56.	Article	エネルギーデバイスの最前線電気化学セル顕微鏡を用いた電池材料表面における充放電特性のナノスケール画像化技術エネルギーデバイス pp.66-69 (Collaboration) 2015/04
57.	Article	ナノ電気化学セル顕微鏡:有機ゲルピペットの電池材料評価への応用電気化学会大会講演要旨集(CD-ROM) pp.ROMBUNNO.PBT03 (Collaboration) 2015/03/09
58.	Article	Improving the Electrochemical Imaging Sensitivity of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy-Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy by Using Electrochemical Pt Deposition ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 87(6),pp.3484-3489 (Collaboration) 2015/03
59.	Article	Negligible "Negative Space-Charge Layer Effects" at Oxide-Electrolyte/Electrode Interfaces of Thin-Film Batteries NANO LETTERS 15(3),pp.1498-1502 (Collaboration) 2015/03
60.	Article	ナノ電気化学セル顕微鏡:有機ゲルピペットを用いた局所電気化学測定条件の検討応用物理学会春季学術講演会講演予稿集(CD-ROM) pp.ROMBUNNO.14A-D9-4 (Collaboration) 2015/02/26
61.	Article	Fabrication of all-solid-state battery using epitaxial Li CoO2 thin films JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES 267,pp.881-887 (Collaboration) 2014/12
62.	Article	LiFePO₄正極薄膜材料表面のイオン電流応答における結晶粒・粒界の影響電池討論会講演要旨集 pp.252 (Collaboration) 2014/11/19
63.	Article	界面イオン伝導顕微鏡を利用した充放電特性の局所イメージング電池討論会講演要旨集 pp.251 (Collaboration) 2014/11/19
64.	Article	界面イオン伝導顕微鏡を利用した充放電特性のリアルタイムイメージング電気化学秋季大会講演要旨集 pp.245 (Collaboration) 2014/09/27
65.	Article	界面イオン伝導顕微鏡を用いたLiイオン電池電極表面におけるLi挿入脱離特性のマッピング化学系学協会東北大会プログラムおよび講演予稿集 pp.206 (Collaboration) 2014/09/20
66.	Article	界面イオン伝導顕微鏡による正極薄膜材料表面におけるLiイオン挿入・脱離機構の可視化応用物理学会秋季学術講演会講演予稿集(CD-ROM) pp.ROMBUNNO.19A-A8-1 (Collaboration) 2014/09/01
67.	Article	Epitaxial growth of Li4Ti5O12 thin films using RF magnetron sputtering Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 53(5) (Collaboration) 2014/05
68.	Article	Nanoscale Cell Surface Topography Imaging using Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy ELECTROCHEMISTRY 82(5),pp.331-334 (Collaboration) 2014/05
69.	Article	Nanoscale visualisation of redox activity and Li+ (de)intercalation dynamics at LiFePO4 battery cathodes Nature Commun (5),pp.6450-6450 (Collaboration) 2014
70.	Article	Antiphase inversion domains in lithium cobaltite thin films deposited on single-crystal sapphire substrates ACTA MATERIALIA 61(20),pp.7671-7678 (Collaboration) 2013/12
71.	Article	On Practical Charge Injection at the Metal/Organic Semiconductor Interface SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 3,pp.1026 (Collaboration) 2013/01
72.	Article	Self-assembly of semiconductor/insulator interfaces in one-step spin-coating: a versatile approach for organic field-effect transistors PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS 15(21),pp.7917-7933 (Collaboration) 2013
73.	Article	Growth processes of lithium titanate thin films deposited by using pulsed laser deposition Applied Physics Letters 101(12) (Collaboration) 2012/09
74.	Article	Solution-processed, Self-organized Organic Single Crystal Arrays with Controlled Crystal Orientation SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 2,pp.393 (Collaboration) 2012/05
75.	Article	Temperature dependence of frequency response characteristics in organic field-effect transistors Applied Physics Letters 100(18) (Collaboration) 2012/04
76.	Article	Large plate-like organic crystals from direct spin-coating for solution-processed field-effect transistor arrays with high uniformity ORGANIC ELECTRONICS 13(2),pp.264-272 (Collaboration) 2012/02
77.	Article	Reduction of charge injection barrier by 1-nm contact oxide interlayer in organic field effect transistors Applied Physics Letters 100(1) (Collaboration) 2012/01
78.	Article	Direct formation of organic semiconducting single crystals by solvent vapor annealing on a polymer base film JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY 22(17),pp.8462-8469 (Collaboration) 2012
79.	Article	Fabrication of LiCoO2 thin films on the reconstructed surfaces of metal single crystals Abstract of annual meeting of the Surface Science of Japan pp.82-82 (Collaboration) 2012
80.	Article	Surface Selectively Deposited Organic Single-crystal Transistor Arrays with High Device Performance MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS 566,pp.13-17 (Collaboration) 2012
81.	Article	Bottom-Contact Pentacene Thin-Film Transistors on Silicon Nitride IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS 32(9),pp.1305-1307 (Collaboration) 2011/09
82.	Article	Effect of air exposure on metal/organic interface in organic field-effect transistors Applied Physics Letters 98(24) (Collaboration) 2011/06
83.	Article	Patterning solution-processed organic single-crystal transistors with high device performance AIP ADVANCES 1(2) (Collaboration) 2011/06
84.	Article	Solution-Processable Organic Single Crystals with Bandlike Transport in Field-Effect Transistors ADVANCED MATERIALS 23(4),pp.523-+ (Collaboration) 2011/01
85.	Article	Low Operating Bias and Matched Input-Output Characteristics in Graphene Logic Inverters NANO LETTERS 10(7),pp.2357-2362 (Collaboration) 2010/07
86.	Article	Characterization of the disaggregation state of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles by dielectrophoresis and Raman spectroscopy Applied Physics Letters 92(24) (Collaboration) 2008/06
87.	Other	Study and Research Work in Under/Post-Graduate School of University in UK J. Surf. Sci. Soc. Jpn. pp.144-145 (Single) 2015
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1.	2025/12/01～	Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry Guest Editor for Special Issue
2.	2025/11/01～	Nano Research Guest Editor for Special Issue: Theme issue on NanoC
3.	2024/07/16～	ACS Electrochemistry Editorial Advisory Board
4.	2024/02/01～	MBA
5.	2024～2025	Elsevier: Carbon Guest Editor for Special Issue: Nanocarbons: from synthesis to advanced applications
6.	2023/02/01～	Materials Reports: Energy Associate Editor
7.	2019/07/01～	IAOEES Board Committee Member
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