2025

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1. Constructing two-dimensional, ordered networks of carbon-carbon bonds with precision

   Jui-Han Fu, De-Chian Chen, Yen-Ju Wu, Vincent Tung, ACS Precision Chem. 2025, 3, 3-9

   DOI: 10.1021/prechem.4c00070

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2. Poly(fluorene)-based anion exchange membranes for high-performance and durable alkaline water electrolyzers: effect of the pendent ammonium structure

   Vikrant Yadav, Kenji Miyatake, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Mahmoud, Fanghua Liu, Fang Xian, Lin Guo, Chun Yik Wong, Toshio Iwataki, Makoto Uchida, Katsuyoshi Kakinuma, Energy Fuels 2025, 39, 1418-1431

   DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.4c05582

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3. Deciphering pH mismatching at the electrified electrode–electrolyte interface towards understanding intrinsic water molecule oxidation kinetics

   Miao Wang, Ken Sakaushi, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202419823

   DOI: 10.1002/anie.202419823

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4​. Mass activity elucidation of cobalt-based oxygen evolution catalysts utilizing depth-resolved spectroscopy in the presence of various cations with chloride

   Hiroki Komiya, Keisuke Obata, Oki Sekizawa, Kiyofumi Nitta, Ke Xu, Melody Wada, Kazuhiro Takanabe, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202501579

   DOI: 10.1002/anie.202501579

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5. Evaluating Cation-Exchange Membrane Properties Affecting Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Water Electrolysis

   Miyuki Nara, Katsushi Fujii, Daichi Matsui, Atsushi Ogura, Takeharu Murakami, Takayo Ogawa, Seigo Ito, Chi David Cheng, Colin A. Scholes, Satoshi Wada, ACS Omega 2025, 10, 10425-10431. 

   DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c10548

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6. Effect of biphenyl groups on the properties of poly(fluorenylidene piperidinium) based anion exchange membranes for applications in water electrolyzers

   Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Mahmoud, Kenji Miyatake, Fanghua Liu, Vikrant Yadav, Fang Xian, Lin Guo, Chun Yik Wong, Toshio Iwataki, Makoto Uchida, Katsuyoshi Kakinuma, Polym. Chem. 2025, 16, 2358-2371. 

   DOI: 10.1039/D5PY00210A

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​7. Enhancing the oxygen evolution reaction by tuning the electrode–electrolyte interface in nickel-based electrocatalysts

   Ben Wang, Tomohiro Fukushima, Hiro Minamimoto, Andrey Lyalin, Kei Murakoshi, Tetsuya Taketsugu, Commun. Chem. 2025, 8, 109. 

   DOI: 10.1038/s42004-025-01508-z

 

​​8. Performance and durability of membrane electrode assemblies using Ni-based OER catalysts for anion exchange membrane water electrolysis

   Soichiro Natori, Sayaka Takahashi, Toshio Iwataki, Takayuki Asakawa, Guoyu Shi, Katsuyoshi Kakinuma, Kenji Miyatake, Makoto Uchida, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2025, 8, 5823-5834. 

   DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.5c00214

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9. Development of a Mn2O3-based water oxidation electrocatalyst from a naturally occurring bixbyite ore

   Arisu Sakai, Masahiro Tomomune, Shun Tsunekawa, Yujin Yamada, Kazuki Yoshikawa, Toshiaki Ina, Ke-Hsuan Wang, Keisuke Hatada, Yoshihisa Sakata, Masaaki Yoshida, ChemistrySelect 2025, 10, e00885. 

   DOI: 10.1002/slct.202500885

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10. Reaction kinetics with multiorder cavity modes under vibrational strong coupling

   Tomohiro Fukushima, Masaki Itatani, Kei Murakoshi, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2025, 16, 5745-5754. 

   DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c00264 

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11. Thermoneutrality is not necessary to maximize oxygen evolution reaction rates

   Hideshi Ooka, Tomoharu Suda, Koishi Yatsuzuka, Ryuhei Nakamura, ChemSusChem 2025, 18, e202402625. 

   DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202402625

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12. Dynamic potential–pH diagrams of Ni-based anodes for durable oxygen evolution in the presence of Cl– impurity

   Hiroki Komiya, Swastik Laha, Keisuke Obata, Kalishankar Bhattacharyya, Kazuhiro Takanabe, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2025, 16, 6052-6058. 

   DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c00704

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13. Improved water electrolysis over cobalt oxyhydroxide by carbonate anion adsorption: direct observation of active species using operando hard/soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy

   Kazuki Harada, Arisu Sakai, Shun Tsunekawa, Yuji Takaki, Masanari Nagasaka, Hayato Yuzawa, Ke-Hsuan Wang, Toshiaki Ina, Hiroshi Kondoh, Masaaki Yoshida, ChemSusChem 2025, 18, e202500559. 

   DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202500559

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14.  Current density–voltage relationships of proton exchange membrane water electrolysis depending on the cell components of porous transport layers and cell sealings

   Miyuki Nara, Katsushi Fujii, Takeharu Murakami, Takayo Ogawa, Satoshi Wada, Energy Fuels 2025, 39, 12739-12744. 

   DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5c00654

15. Stability investigation on NiFeOx electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution during on and off cycles in harsh Alkaline Conditions

   Reona Suzuki, Keisuke Obata, Yutaka Sasaki, Kiyohiro Adachi, Kazuhiro Takanabe, ChemElectroChem 2025, 12, e202500081. 

   DOI: 10.1002/celc.202500081

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16. A flow cell designed for in situ/operando observation of electrocatalyst surfaces by attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy

   Tomohiro Goroh Noguchi, Takahiro Matsuu, Miho Yamauchi, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 2025, 96, 075202. 

   DOI: 10.1063/5.0268547​

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17. Liquid-cell annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy imaging of single crystal samples on a low-index zone-axis incidence condition

   Masaki Takeguchi, Jonathan Lueke, Matthew Reynolds, Baibing Zhao, Ayako Hashimoto, Micron 2025, 198 103888. 

   DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2025.103888

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18. Hydrogen evolution intermediate in two-dimensionally confined space between graphene and Au(111)

   Ruifeng Zhou, Tomohiro Fukushima, Hiro Minamimoto, Kei Murakoshi, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2025, 16, 8955-8962. 

   DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01491

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​19. Probing the oxygen evolution reaction intermediates of nickel electrodes: Insights from Raman mapping and machine learning in alkaline environments​

   Tomohiro Fukushima, Kenko Tsuchimoto, Masaki Itatani, Kei Murakoshi, Electrochemistry 2025, 93 094013. 

   DOI: 10.5796/electrochemistry.25-72097

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​20. Pitfalls in artificial intelligence powered discovery due to electrocatalyst evaluation methodologies

   Abraham Castro Garcia, Ken Sakaushi, ACS Electrochem. 2025, 1, 1871-1877. 

   DOI: 10.1021/acselectrochem.5c00153

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21. Integrating electrochemical analyses and operando X-ray spectroscopy of fluorine-doped α-Ni(OH)2 for alkaline water electrolysis

   Rei Togashi, Kazuki Harada, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Minoru Mizuhata, Masaaki Yoshida, Hiro Minamimoto, ACS Electrochem. 2025, 1, 2034-2041. 

   DOI: 10.1021/acselectrochem.5c00136

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22. Corrosion inhibition of nickel achieved by phosphate addition into chloride-rich media toward seawater electrolysis

   Mariko Kadowaki, Taku Moronaga, Akiko Nakamura, Yoshiharu Murase, Tomoya Hashimoto, Hideki Katayama, Kazuhiro Takanabe, Yusuke Tsutsumi, J. Phys. Chem. C 2025, 129, 15939-15948.  

   DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c04712

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23. Microplate-based multielectrochemical cells as a platform for high-throughput parallel experiments for accelerating the discovery of multicomponent electrocatalysts

   Shoichi Matsuda, Ryo Tamura, Misato Takahashi, Kazuha Nakamura, Taiga Ozawa, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2025, 8, 13714-13721. 

   DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.5c02030

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24. Oxygen evolution electrocatalysis resilient to voltage fluctuations

   Ailong Li, Hideshi Ooka, Shuang Kong, Kiyohiro Adachi, Yuchen Zhang, Kazuna Fushimi, Satoru Hamamoto, Masaki Oura, Sun Hee Kim, Daisuke Hashizume, Ryuhei Nakamura, Nat. Sustain. 2025, 8, 1533-1540. 

   DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5973633/v1

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25. Water splitting electrocatalysts from manganese nodules: a structure–function analysis by operando X-ray spectroscopy

   Arisu Sakai, Masahiro Tomomune, Shun Tsunekawa, Yujin Yamada, Kazuki Yoshikawa, Ryohei Ishihara, Ke-Hsuan Wang, Keisuke Hatada, Yoshihisa Sakata, Masaaki Yoshida, Sustainable Energy Fuels 2025, 9, 6294-6301.  

   DOI: ​10.1039/D5SE01199J

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26. Mesoporous Cobalt-Molybdenum Oxide as Highly Efficient Anode in Alkaline Water Electrolysis

   Mohamed M. Abdel-Galeil, Yushi Ouchi, Soma Takahashi, Zenta Kato, Electrocatalysis, 2025, 16, 895-908. 

   DOI: 10.1007/s12678-025-00967-1

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27. Boosting the hydrogen evolution reaction catalytic activity of Pt/C via well-designed anion-exchange ionomers

   Fang Xian, Kenji Miyatake, Lin Guo, Guoyu Shi, Fanghua Liu, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Mahmoud, Vikrant Yadava, Chun Yik Wong, Chem. Commun. 2025, 61, 9412-9415. 

   DOI: ​10.1039/D5CC01899D​​

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28. Hydrophilicity as a key factor in enhancing oxygen evolution reaction on rhombohedral boron monosulfide/Ni-foam electrodes with carbon material

   Karin Oiwa, Ryuki Tsuji, Rimpei Ueno, Jinyu Li, Linghui Li, Myu Kawase, Keita Nakayama, Natsumi Noguchi, Susmita Roy, Osamu Oki, Ryotaro Sakakibara, Ken Sakaushi, Masashi Miyakawa, Takashi Taniguchi, Takahiro Kondo, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2025, 8, 15186-15195. 

   DOI: ​10.1021/acsaem.5c02078

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29. Potential regulation for stable electrocatalysts in alkaline water electrolyzers during dynamic on and off operation through double-layer capacitance engineering

   Tengisbold Gankhuyag, Keisuke Obata, Kazuhiro Takanabe, J. Phys. Chem. C 2025, 129, 18043-18050. 

   DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c04643

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30. Hydration entropy of cations regulates chloride ion diffusion during electrochemical chlorine evolution

   Taejung Lim, Hideshi Ooka, Yuhang Yu, Takeharu Murakami, Satoshi Wada, Ryuhei Nakamura ​, Nat. Chem. 2025. 

   DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01965-y

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31. Numerical analysis on field-enhanced homogeneous dissociation of protonated buffer species within the electrical double layer during hydrogen evolution reaction

   Melody Wada, Keisuke Obata, Venu Agarwal, Francesca Lorenzutti, Sophia Haussener, Kazuhiro Takanabe, ACS Electrochem. 2025, 1, 2521-2532. 

   DOI: 10.1021/acselectrochem.5c00299

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32. Poly(fluorene)-based Anion Exchange Membranes Part 1: Effect of Pendant Alkyl Chain Length on Membrane Properties

   Vikrant Yadav, Kenji Miyatake, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Mahmoud, Fang Xian, Fanghua Liu, Lin Guo, Macromolecules, 2025, 58, 10787-10799.​

   DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5c02111

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