Research & Publications
Microwave heating and catalysis, photovoltaic materials, and electrocatalytic interfaces for water splitting.
Google Scholar2026
2025
Microwave-Assisted Heating for Dehydration of Ethanol to Ethylene Using HPW/SBA-15
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 64, 2686–2695 (2025)
Vacancy-Catalyzed Cation Homogenization for High-Performance AgBiS₂ Nanocrystal Solar Cells
ACS Energy Letters 10, 2068–2074 (2025)
Modulating the Local Charge Distribution of Single-Atomic Ru Sites for an Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
Carbon Energy 7, e690 (2025)
Overcoming Efficiency and Cost Barriers for Large-Area Quantum Dot Photovoltaics through Stable Ink Engineering
Nature Energy 10, 592–604 (2025)
Atomically Dispersed Co–P Moieties via Direct Thermal Exfoliation for Alkaline Hydrogen Electrosynthesis
Journal of the American Chemical Society 147, 3994–4004 (2025)
Publications, 2024–2020 (14 papers)
2024
Comparative Evaluation of Microwave Heating Performance across Structurally Diverse Tungsten Oxides
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128, 13807–13815 (2024)
Interfacial Electric Field Stabilized Ru Single-Atom Catalysts for Efficient Water Oxidation
ACS Catalysis 14, 10820–10828 (2024)
Heterogeneous Bimetallic Oxides/Phosphides Nanorod with Upshifted d Band Center for Efficient Overall Water Splitting
Chinese Chemical Letters 35, 109268 (2024)
2023
Interfacial Electronic Engineering of Heterostructured Co₂P-MoNiP/NF Nano-Sea-Urchin Catalysts for Efficient and Stable Hydrogen Evolution via Water/Seawater Splitting
Chemical Engineering Journal 477, 147092 (2023)
2022
Phosphorus and Selenium Co-Doped WO₃ Nanoparticles for Interface Modification and Photovoltaic Properties Enhancement of Monolayer Planar Silicon/PEDOT:PSS Hybrid Solar Cells
Advanced Materials Interfaces 9, 2200812 (2022)
Enhanced Photocatalytic Benzene Oxidation to Phenol over Monoclinic WO₃ Nanorods under Visible Light
ACS Catalysis 12, 14976–14989 (2022)
Interface Engineering of Bimetallic Nitrides Nanowires as a Highly Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Water Splitting
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 919, 165862 (2022)
2021
Bifunctional Heterostructured Nitrogen and Phosphorus Co-Doped Carbon-Layer-Encapsulated Co₂P Electrocatalyst for Efficient Water Splitting
Cell Reports Physical Science 2, 100586 (2021)
3D Melamine Sponge-Derived Cobalt Nanoparticle-Embedded N-Doped Carbon Nanocages as Efficient Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction.
ACS Omega, 6(31), 20130–20138, 2021.
2020
Planar Organic-Si Hybrid Solar Cell with MoOₓ Mixed PEDOT:PSS as Hole Injection Layer Profits from Mo⁵⁺ and Mo⁶⁺ Synergistic Effects
Advanced Materials Interfaces 7, 2000754 (2020)
The Ideal Doping Concentration of Silicon Wafer for Single Junction Hybrid n-Si/PEDOT:PSS Solar Cells with 3.2% Elevated PCE and Vₒ꜀ of 620 mV
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 31, 6398–6405 (2020)
The Degradation Kinetics Study of Aromatic Organics with Different Functional Compounds on Anatase 001 Surface.
Nano, 15(07), 2050087, 2020.
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Conference presentations
Ni, Z., Fang, W., Sun, T., & Yang, Y.* "Investigation of n-Si/PEDOT:PSS Heterojunction Solar Cell Performance and PEDOT:PSS Modification." China SoG Silicon and PV Power Conference (CSPV), Shanghai, China. (Oral Presentation, Accepted)
Ni, Z., Hojo, H., & Einaga, H.* "Comparative Evaluation of Microwave Heating Performance across Structurally Diverse Tungsten Oxides." 9th Asia-Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT-9), Hangzhou, China. (Oral Presentation, Accepted)
Ni, Z., Hojo, H., & Einaga, H.* "Microwave-Assisted Heating for Dehydration of Ethanol to Ethylene Using HPW/SBA-15." The 5th Global Congress on Microwave Energy Applications 2024 (5GCMEA), Fukuoka, Japan. (Oral Presentation, Accepted)