is a Japanese professor of

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, ...

at the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

who has published almost 1,000 articles, which have appeared in such journals as the

Chemical Physics Chemical physics is a subdiscipline of chemistry and physics that investigates physicochemical phenomena using techniques from atomic and molecular physics and condensed matter physics; it is the branch of physics that studies chemical proce ...

and

Optics Letters ''Optics Letters'' is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by The Optical Society (formerly known as Optical Society of America). It was established in July 1977. The editor-in-chief is Miguel Alonso (University of Rochester). The ...

, along with

Physical Review B ''Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics'' (also known as PRB) is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal, published by the American Physical Society (APS). The Editor of PRB is Laurens W. Molenkamp. It is part of the ''Physical Re ...

and many others. His most cited paper is ''Low-temperature synthesis of high-purity single-walled carbon nanotubes from alcohol'' which have over 9840 citations as of 2014. He is currently the president of the Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Graphene Research Society.

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Japanese mechanical engineers 20th-century births Living people Academic staff of the University of Tokyo Year of birth missing (living people) {{Japan-engineer-stub