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Representative Publiccations
 1 Feng, ZQ; Honda, S; Ohyama, J; Iwata, Y; Awaya, K; Yoshida, H; Machida, M; Higashi, K; Uruga, T; Kawamura, N; Goto, R; Ichihara, T; Kojima, R; Moriya, M; Notsu, H; Nagata, S; Miyoshi, M; Hayakawa & T; Nabae, Y 'Structural Effects of FeN4 Active Sites Surrounded by Fourteen-Membered Ring Ligands on Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity and Durability', ACS Catal. 14, 7416-7425 (2024).
Open Access! doi:10.1021/acscatal.4c01122
 2 Ogawa, M.; Usami, S.; Takahama, R.; Iwamoto, K.; Nabeta, T.; Kawashima, S.; Kojima, R.; Ohyama, J.; Hayakawa, T.; Nabae, Y. & Moriya; M., 'One-Pot Gram-Scale Rapid Synthesis of MN4 Complexes with 14-Membered Ring Macrocyclic Ligand as a Precursor for Carbon-Based ORR and CO2RR Catalysts', Dalton Trans. 53, 4426-4431 (2024).
Back Cover! doi:10.1039/d3dt04129h
 3 Ohyama, J.; Moriya, M.; Takahama, R.; Kamoi, K.; Kawashima, S., Kojima, R.; Hayakawa, T. & Nabae, Y., 'High Durability of a 14-Membered Hexaaza Macrocyclic Fe Complex for an Acidic Oxygen Reduction Reaction Revealed by In Situ XAS Analysis', JACS Au 1, 1798-1804 (2021).
Supplymentary Cover! doi:10.1021/jacsau.1c00309
 4 Nabae, Y.; Yuan, Q.: Nagata, S.; Kusaba, K.; Aoki, T.; Takao, N.; Itho, T.; Arao, M.; Imai, H.; Higashi, T.; Sakata, S.; Uruga, T. & Iwasawa, Y. 'In Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy to Monitor the Degradation of Fe/N/C Cathode Catalyst in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells', J. Electrochem. Soc. 168, 01453 (2021).
doi:10.1149/1945-7111/abdc64
 5 Wu, Y & Nabae, Y., 'Rotating ring-disk electrode theory and method to correct quasi-four-electron oxygen reduction over Fe/N/C and N/C cathode catalysts', Curr. Opin. Electrochem. 25, 100633 (2021).
Review Article! doi:10.1016/j.coelec.2020.08.015
 6 Moriya, M.; Takahama, R.; Kamoi, K.; Ohyama, J.; Kawashima, S., Kojima, R.; Okada, M.; Hayakawa, T. & Nabae, Y., 'Fourteen-Membered Macrocyclic Fe Complexes Inspired by FeN 4 -Center-Embedded Graphene for Oxygen Reduction Catalysis', J. Phys. Chem. C 124, 20730-20735 (2020).
Supplymentary Cover! doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c05536
 7 Nabae, Y.; Nagata, S.; Kusaba, K.; Aoki, T.; Hayakawa, T.; Tanida, H.; Imai, H.; Hori, K.; Yamamoto, Y.; Arai, S.; & Ohyama, J., 'Magnetic purification of non-precious metal fuel cell catalysts for obtaining atomically dispersed Fe centers', Catal. Sci. Technol. 10, 493-501 (2016).
doi:10.1039/c9cy02304f
 8 Muthukrishnan, A & Nabae, Y., 'Estimation of the Inherent Kinetic Paramters for Oxygne Reduction over a Pt-Free Cathode Catalyst by Resolving the Quasi-Four-Electron Reduction', J. Phys. Chem. C 120, 22515-22525 (2016).
doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b07905
 9 Nabae, Y.; Nagata, S.; Hayakawa, T.; Niwa, H.; Harada, Y.; Oshima, M.; Isoda, A.; Matsunaga, A.; Tanaka, K. & Aoki, T., 'Pt-free carbon-based fuel cell catalyst prepared from spherical polyimide for enhanced oxygen diffusion', Scientific Reports 6, 23276 (2016).
doi:10.1038/srep23276
 10 Nabae, Y.; Kuang, Y.; Chokai, M.; Ichihara, T.; Isoda, A.; Hayakawa, T. & Aoki, T., 'High performance Pt-free cathode catalysts for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells prepared from widely available chemicals ', J. Mater. Chem. A 2(30), 11561-11564 (2014).
2014 Hot Article! doi:10.1039/C4TA01828A
 11 Nabae, Y.; Sonoda, M.; Yamauchi, C.; Hosaka, Y.; Isoda, A. & Aoki, T., 'Highly durable Pt-free fuel cell catalysts prepared by multi-step pyrolysis of Fe phthalocyanine and phenolic resin', Catal. Sci. Technol. 4(5), 1400-1406 (2014).
doi:10.1039/c4cy00119b
12 Park, J; Nabae, Y.; Hayakawa, T; Kakimoto, M, 'Highly Selective Two-Electron Oxygen Reduction Catalyzed by Mesoporous Nitrogen-Doped Carbon', ACS Catal. 4(10), 3749-3754 (2014).
Highly Cited Paper! doi:10.1021/cs5008206
13 Nabae, Y.; Liang, J.; Huang, X.; Hayakawa, T; Kakimoto, M, 'Sulfonic acid functionalized hyperbranched poly(ether sulfone) as a solid acid catalyst', Green Chem. 16(7), 3596-3602 (2014).
doi:10.1039/C4GC00188E
14 Nabae, Y.; Rokubuichi, H.; Mikuni, M.; Kuang, Y.; Hayakawa, T; Kakimoto, M, 'Catalysis by Carbon Materials for the Aerobic Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation in the Presence of Aldehydes', ACS Catal. 3(2), 230-236 (2013).
doi:10.1021/cs3007928

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