Professor Yusuke Yamauchi
Professor

Yusuke Yamauchi

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Background

Professor Yusuke Yamauchi received his Bachelor's degree (2003), Master's degree (2004), and Ph.D. degree (2007) from Waseda University, Japan. After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan, to start his own research group. At the same time, he began to serve as an adjunct professor to supervise Ph.D. students at the Department of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Waseda University. After being granted the ARC Future Fellowship, in May 2016, he joined the Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials (ISEM), the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM) at the University of Wollongong (UOW) as a Professor. In 2017, he moved to the University of Queensland (UQ). Presently, he is a Senior Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) (on secondment from the School of Chemical Engineering until 2026), a Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, and a Director at the Australian Materials nanoTectonics Centre, UQ. He concurrently serves as an ERATO Research Director at the JST-ERATO Yamauchi Materials Space-Tectonics, a Distinguished Professor at Nagoya University (Japan), an Honorary Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University (South Korea), an Invited Researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a Guest Senior Researcher (Guest Professor) at Waseda University, an Advisory Board Member of prestigious journals (Small, Small Structures, Precision Chemistry, ChemCatChem, J. Inorg. Organomet. Polym. Mater., etc.) and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier).

He has published more than 900 papers in international refereed journals (>10 Nature's and Science's sister journals, >1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, >1 Chemical Reviews, >26 J Am Chem Soc (ACS), >18 ACS Nano (ACS), >28 Chem Mater (ACS), >3 Chemical Society Reviews (RSC), >17 Chem Sci (RSC), >13 Mater Hor (RSC), >58 Chem Commun (RSC), >20 Bull Chem Soc Jpn (CSJ), >20 Chem Lett (CSJ), >20 Adv Mater (Wiley), >35 Angew Chem Int Ed (Wiley), >30 Small (Wiley), etc.) with >70,000 Times Cited (h-index >137, Google Scholar; h-index >128, Web-of-Science). He was selected as one of the Highly-Cited Researchers in Chemistry in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 and in Materials Science in 2020, 2021, and 2022. He has received many outstanding awards, such as the NISTEP Award from the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (2016), the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award for Young Chemists (2014), the Young Scientists' Prize of the Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT (2013), the PCCP Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2013), the Tsukuba Encouragement Prize (2012), the Ceramic Society of Japan (CerSJ) Award (2010), and the Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists (2010). Recently, he was selected as one of Australia's Top 40 Researchers of Research Report published by The Australian in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

AIBN: https://aibn.uq.edu.au/yamauchi

Yamauchi's publications

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=568w7h8AAAAJ&hl=en

Researcher ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-2780-2015

Availability

Professor Yusuke Yamauchi is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Engineering, Waseda University
  • Masters (Coursework) of Engineering, Waseda University
  • Doctoral Diploma of Engineering, Waseda University

Research impacts

Professor Yusuke Yamauchi specialises in the design of exotic nanospaces in inorganic materials with controlled compositions and morphologies toward practical applications. Yamauchi Group creates novel “inorganic nanosolids containing internal nanospaces, as unprecedented nanospace materials, and develop several methodologies for their effective integration with the aim of exploiting functions obtained based on the synergistic fusion of various supramolecular, photonic, and magnetic behaviors occurring in nanospace. The research area will cover a wide range of various porous systems such as metals, carbons, sulfides, phosphides, transition metal oxides, etc. The group will efficiently combine ‘machine learning’ with our inorganic synthesis methods to accelerate the optimization of synthetic parameters for the design of target materials, and to select proper patterns of the combination of each inorganic block for the integration of materials.

An architect can design houses and buildings, while a nano-architect can design materials. We are always targetting THE WORLD-FIRST game-changing materials. - See the details; Yamauchi Y. (2019) Nano-architect (Nature Index 2019). Nature 567, S12.

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1264 works between 2004 and 2025
All (1264) Journal Article (1248) Book Chapter (1) Conference Publication (13) Book (2)

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2025

Journal Article

Mesoporous gold decorated MXene (Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub>T<sub>x</sub>) flexible composite films for photo-enhanced solid-state micro-supercapacitors

Luo, Yijia, Que, Wenxiu, Nugraha, Asep Sugih, Kang, Yunqing, Tang, Yi, Wu, Zhenwei, Henzie, Joel and Yamauchi, Yusuke (2025). Mesoporous gold decorated MXene (Ti3C2Tx) flexible composite films for photo-enhanced solid-state micro-supercapacitors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 13 (2), 1-13. doi: 10.1039/d4ta06043a

Mesoporous gold decorated MXene (Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub>T<sub>x</sub>) flexible composite films for photo-enhanced solid-state micro-supercapacitors

2025

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Expression of concern: Reduced graphene oxide nanosheets decorated with Au, Pd and Au–Pd bimetallic nanoparticles as highly efficient catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen generation

Darabdhara, Gitashree, Amin, Mohammed A., Mersal, Gaber A. M., Ahmed, Emad M., Das, Manash R., Zakaria, Mohamed B., Malgras, Victor, Alshehri, Saad M., Yamauchi, Yusuke, Szunerits, Sabine and Boukherroub, Rabah (2025). Expression of concern: Reduced graphene oxide nanosheets decorated with Au, Pd and Au–Pd bimetallic nanoparticles as highly efficient catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen generation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 13 (1), 808-808. doi: 10.1039/d4ta90214a

Expression of concern: Reduced graphene oxide nanosheets decorated with Au, Pd and Au–Pd bimetallic nanoparticles as highly efficient catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen generation

2025

Journal Article

Graphene-sponges containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes for electrosorption of salt-ions

Patil, Rahul, Jiang, Dong, Xu, Xingtao, Kumar, Nitish, Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Yadav, Sunil Kumar, Kalyanasundaram, Dinesh, Salunkhe, Rahul R., Bhaumik, Asim, Khaorapapong, Nithima, Yamauchi, Yusuke and Dutta, Saikat (2025). Graphene-sponges containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes for electrosorption of salt-ions. Chemical Engineering Journal 159270, 159270. doi: 10.1016/j.cej.2025.159270

Graphene-sponges containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes for electrosorption of salt-ions

2025

Journal Article

Advances in reticular materials for sustainable rare earth element recovery

Liu, Ke, Liu, Yang, Wu, You, Liu, Jiale, Shuai, Qin, Huang, Lijin, Hu, Zhaochu and Yamauchi, Yusuke (2025). Advances in reticular materials for sustainable rare earth element recovery. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 522 216199, 216199. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2024.216199

Advances in reticular materials for sustainable rare earth element recovery

2025

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Sulfur-doped g-C3N4/Polycaprolactone nanofibers based smart sensor for 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine biomarker monitoring

El-Said, Waleed A., El-Hady, Deia A., Alshitari, Wael, Khan, Ziya A., Akhtar, Naeem and Yamauchi, Yusuke (2025). Sulfur-doped g-C3N4/Polycaprolactone nanofibers based smart sensor for 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine biomarker monitoring. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 329 130120, 130120. doi: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2024.130120

Sulfur-doped g-C3N4/Polycaprolactone nanofibers based smart sensor for 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine biomarker monitoring

2024

Journal Article

Vacancy‐Anchored Sub‐Nanometer Ru Catalyst with High Activity and Strong Durability at 800 °C Dry Reforming of Methane

Yang, Juanjuan, Cao, Zhiyang, Wan, Yujie, Guan, Shuhui, Jiang, Bo, Yamauchi, Yusuke and Li, Hexing (2024). Vacancy‐Anchored Sub‐Nanometer Ru Catalyst with High Activity and Strong Durability at 800 °C Dry Reforming of Methane. Advanced Energy Materials. doi: 10.1002/aenm.202404936

Vacancy‐Anchored Sub‐Nanometer Ru Catalyst with High Activity and Strong Durability at 800 °C Dry Reforming of Methane

2024

Journal Article

Nanoarchitectonics of point-of-care diagnostics for sweat biomarkers analysis

Lin, Xuan, Vasanth, Arya, Ashok, Aditya, Phan, Hoang-Phuong, Koo, Kevin M., Amin, Mohammed A., Kaneti, Yusuf Valentino, Salomon, Carlos, Hossain, Md Shahriar A., Yamauchi, Yusuke and Masud, Mostafa Kamal (2024). Nanoarchitectonics of point-of-care diagnostics for sweat biomarkers analysis. Nano Materials Science, 6 (6), 647-671. doi: 10.1016/j.nanoms.2024.01.010

Nanoarchitectonics of point-of-care diagnostics for sweat biomarkers analysis

2024

Journal Article

Excess heat production of the pair annihilation of ionic vacancies in a copper redox reaction using a double bipolar MHD electrode

Miura, Makoto, Sugiyama, Atsushi, Oshikiri, Yoshinobu, Morimoto, Ryoichi, Mogi, Iwao, Miura, Miki, Yamauchi, Yusuke and Aogaki, Ryoichi (2024). Excess heat production of the pair annihilation of ionic vacancies in a copper redox reaction using a double bipolar MHD electrode. Scientific Reports, 14 (1) 1424. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-51834-w

Excess heat production of the pair annihilation of ionic vacancies in a copper redox reaction using a double bipolar MHD electrode

2024

Journal Article

Strategic design of porous interfacial evaporators: A comprehensive review unveiling the significant role of pore engineering

Dai, Chenyang, Li, Zhengtong, Zheng, Kaidan, Zhang, Jia-Han, Dai, Rongrong, Luo, Dan, Gao, Huimin, Thabet, Hamdy Khamees, El-Bahy, Zeinhom M., Pan, Likun, Mai, Yiyong, Yamauchi, Yusuke and Xu, Xingtao (2024). Strategic design of porous interfacial evaporators: A comprehensive review unveiling the significant role of pore engineering. Nano Energy, 131 110244, 1-22. doi: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2024.110244

Strategic design of porous interfacial evaporators: A comprehensive review unveiling the significant role of pore engineering

2024

Journal Article

Fundamental understanding of Prussian blue and its analogues for superior capacitive deionization: a perspective from nanoarchitectonics

Li, Changle, Xiong, Yuecheng, Shen, Xiaojie, Luo, Dan, Wu, Wenjie, Li, Zhengtong, Helal, Mohamed H., El-Bahy, Zeinhom M., Mai, Yiyong, Liu, Zhong, Yamauchi, Yusuke and Xu, Xingtao (2024). Fundamental understanding of Prussian blue and its analogues for superior capacitive deionization: a perspective from nanoarchitectonics. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 520 216100, 216100. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2024.216100

Fundamental understanding of Prussian blue and its analogues for superior capacitive deionization: a perspective from nanoarchitectonics

2024

Journal Article

Curvature-induced ion docking effect in capacitive deionization

Xiang, Luoxing, Xu, Xingtao, Liu, Yijie, Zhang, Han, Xu, Ruibo, Li, Chen, Xu, Fugui, Yamauchi, Yusuke and Mai, Yiyong (2024). Curvature-induced ion docking effect in capacitive deionization. Nature Water, 2 (12), 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s44221-024-00340-4

Curvature-induced ion docking effect in capacitive deionization

2024

Journal Article

Plasma‐induced oxygen defect engineering in perovskite oxide for boosting oxygen evolution reaction

Wang, Kaiteng, Zhou, Jun, Fu, Lei, Kang, Yunqing, Zhou, Zilin, Cheng, Yonghong, Wu, Kai and Yamauchi, Yusuke (2024). Plasma‐induced oxygen defect engineering in perovskite oxide for boosting oxygen evolution reaction. Small, 20 (48) 2404239, e2404239. doi: 10.1002/smll.202404239

Plasma‐induced oxygen defect engineering in perovskite oxide for boosting oxygen evolution reaction

2024

Journal Article

End‐to‐end pierced carbon nanosheets with meso‐holes

Kim, Minjun, Nara, Hiroki, Asakura, Yusuke, Hamada, Takashi, Yan, Peng, Earnshaw, Jacob, An, Meng, Eguchi, Miharu and Yamauchi, Yusuke (2024). End‐to‐end pierced carbon nanosheets with meso‐holes. Advanced Science e2409546, 1-9. doi: 10.1002/advs.202409546

End‐to‐end pierced carbon nanosheets with meso‐holes

2024

Journal Article

In Situ Clustering of Copper Nanoparticles in Mesoporous Cerium-Based Metal−Organic Frameworks for Efficient Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia

Shen, Cheng-Hui, Zhao, Yingji, Zhu, Liyang, Kung, Chung-Wei and Yusuke, Yamauchi (2024). In Situ Clustering of Copper Nanoparticles in Mesoporous Cerium-Based Metal−Organic Frameworks for Efficient Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia. ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2024-02 (37), 2558-2558. doi: 10.1149/ma2024-02372558mtgabs

In Situ Clustering of Copper Nanoparticles in Mesoporous Cerium-Based Metal−Organic Frameworks for Efficient Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia

2024

Journal Article

Bimetallic Cofe Nanoparticles Embedded in Hierarchically Meso-Macroporous N-Doped Carbon Nanospheres As Electrocatalyst for Excellent Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Li, Yulin, Guo, Yanna, Yusuke, Yamauchi and Sugahara, Yoshiyuki (2024). Bimetallic Cofe Nanoparticles Embedded in Hierarchically Meso-Macroporous N-Doped Carbon Nanospheres As Electrocatalyst for Excellent Oxygen Reduction Reaction. ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2024-02 (11), 1519-1519. doi: 10.1149/ma2024-02111519mtgabs

Bimetallic Cofe Nanoparticles Embedded in Hierarchically Meso-Macroporous N-Doped Carbon Nanospheres As Electrocatalyst for Excellent Oxygen Reduction Reaction

2024

Journal Article

Evolution of Cu-Co-Fe Prussian Blue Analogues with Open Nanoframe Architectures for Enhanced Electrochemical Capacitive Deionization

Guo, Yanna, Chen, Zeqiu, Jiang, Dong, Li, Yulin, Zhang, Wenyang, Kozumi, Kazuya, Kang, Yunqing, Yusuke, Yamauchi and Sugahara, Yoshiyuki (2024). Evolution of Cu-Co-Fe Prussian Blue Analogues with Open Nanoframe Architectures for Enhanced Electrochemical Capacitive Deionization. ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2024-02 (70), 5017-5017. doi: 10.1149/ma2024-02705017mtgabs

Evolution of Cu-Co-Fe Prussian Blue Analogues with Open Nanoframe Architectures for Enhanced Electrochemical Capacitive Deionization

2024

Journal Article

Precise regulation of interlayer stacking modes in trinuclear copper organic frameworks for efficient photocatalytic reduction of uranium(VI)

Gao, Zhi, Lv, Sijia, Wang, Yue, Xu, Zhenzhen, Zong, Yingtong, Tao, Yuan, Zhao, Yingji, Liu, Xingyu, Yu, Shuhui, Luo, Mingbiao, Khaorapapong, Nithima, Zhang, Ruikang and Yamauchi, Yusuke (2024). Precise regulation of interlayer stacking modes in trinuclear copper organic frameworks for efficient photocatalytic reduction of uranium(VI). Advanced Science, 11 (43) e2406530, 1-11. doi: 10.1002/advs.202406530

Precise regulation of interlayer stacking modes in trinuclear copper organic frameworks for efficient photocatalytic reduction of uranium(VI)

2024

Journal Article

Ultrafine CoFe alloy nanoparticles confined in highly ordered mesoporous carbon films as catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

Zhou, Yi, Guo, Yanna, Yamauchi, Yusuke and Sugahara, Yoshiyuki (2024). Ultrafine CoFe alloy nanoparticles confined in highly ordered mesoporous carbon films as catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 7 (22), 25360-25368. doi: 10.1021/acsanm.4c04249

Ultrafine CoFe alloy nanoparticles confined in highly ordered mesoporous carbon films as catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

2024

Journal Article

Nanoarchitectured MOF-derived porous carbons: Road to future carbon materials

Kim, Minjun, Leong, Kwang Keat, Amiralian, Nasim, Bando, Yoshio, Ahamad, Tansir, Alshehri, Saad M. and Yamauchi, Yusuke (2024). Nanoarchitectured MOF-derived porous carbons: Road to future carbon materials. Applied Physics Reviews, 11 (4) 041317, 1-32. doi: 10.1063/5.0213150

Nanoarchitectured MOF-derived porous carbons: Road to future carbon materials

2024

Journal Article

Substrate curvature-induced regulation of charge distribution of covalent organic frameworks promotes capacitive deionization

Jiang, Dong, Xu, Ruibo, Bai, Liang, Hill, Jonathan P., Henzie, Joel, Zhu, Liyang, Xia, Wei, Bu, Ran, Zhao, Yingji, Kang, Yunqing, Hamada, Takashi, Ma, Renzhi, Torad, Nagy, Wang, Jie, Asahi, Toru, Xu, Xingtao and Yamauchi, Yusuke (2024). Substrate curvature-induced regulation of charge distribution of covalent organic frameworks promotes capacitive deionization. Advanced Functional Materials, 34 (45) 2407479. doi: 10.1002/adfm.202407479

Substrate curvature-induced regulation of charge distribution of covalent organic frameworks promotes capacitive deionization

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2027
    Porous Two-Dimensional Inorganic Semiconductors for Optoelectronic Devices
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2026
    Development of Nanoarchitectured Metal Nanoparticles for High Performance SERS device
    King Saud University
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2027
    A next generation 'smart' superconducting magnet system in persistent mode
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2027
    Converting Biomass into Value-Added Catalysts for Water Electrolysis
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2029
    Materials Nanotectonics: Designing Conductive Inorganic Porous Materials
    ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2026
    Nagoya University - The University of Queensland: Collaborative Research and Academic Agreement Initiative
    Tokai National Higher Education and Research System Nagoya University
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2025
    Characterizations of nanomaterials
    King Saud University
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2025
    Integrated high-throughput material synthesis and characterisation system
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2025
    International Joint Research Project with Yonsei University
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2025
    JST-ERATO Yamauchi Materials Space Tectonics
    Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2025
    Low-cost, Lightweight and Liquid Helium-free Superconducting MRI Magnet
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2025
    Ovarian cancer early detection, monitoring and therapeutic intervention using extracellular vesicles
    NHMRC MRFF EPCDR - Ovarian Cancer Research
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2024
    Compositional analysis of nanomaterials
    King Saud University
    Open grant
  • 2023
    Characterization of nanostructured materials using advanced electron microscopy facilities at UQ
    King Saud University
    Open grant
  • 2023
    Characterizations of nanomaterials
    King Saud University
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2023
    Development of Nanoarchitectured Electrodes for High Performance Energy Storage Device
    King Saud University
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2023
    A customised triple-beam microscope for precise fabricating/characterising
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Development of spectroscopy-based sensor substrate for detection of drug and drug metabolite with integrated pretreatment
    Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2022
    Nanoarchitectured anti-corrosive protection layer coating for zinc-plated steel sheets
    Baosteel-Australia Joint Research and Development
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2023
    Functional biomass carbons for low-cost sodium and potassium-ion batteries
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2020
    Converting Biomass into Value-Added Products Using Nanoporous Catalysts
    Global Connections Fund
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2020
    Nanoarchitectured Functional Porous Materials as Adsorbents of Greenhouse Gases and Catalysts: Converting them into Valuable ... (Foundation for Australia-Japan Studies grant administered by UTokyo)
    University of Tokyo
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2022
    Nanoarchitectured Multifunctional Porous Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2022
    Development of Nanoarchitectural Porous Electrode Materials for High Performance Energy Storage Systems
    Korean Institute of Materials Science
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2021
    Controlled Release of Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery by Magnetic Fields
    Dr Macs Bio-Pharma Private Limited
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2021
    IOT enabled and nano-engineered catalytic freshness preservation system
    PolTechCare Sdn Bhd
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2022
    Nanostructure Engineered Low Activation Superconductors for Fusion Energy
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2019
    Development of Lithium-Air Battery with 1,000 Wh/kg for Energy Storage System (ESS) to meet Environmental Regulations (Korean National R&D Program, KETEP / Dongguk University)
    Dongguk University
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2020
    All-Metal Nanoprous Materials as Highly Active Electrocatalysts
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant

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