Yoshihiro Sekine
Research highlight
I have been working on how the molecular electrical status of metal complexes change during external stimuli such as heat or light. Electrical changes in metal complexes can flexibly induce structural and spin state changes, which enabling concerted control of a physical properties such as color, conductivity and magnetism. In addition, I’m also working on the optimization of machine learning-based molecular synthesis and biomss catalysis, as a mean to design catalyst materials.
Résumé
2014.03: PhD, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Degree program
in Pure and Applied Sciences, Tsukuba University
2014.04 - 2020.10: Assistant professor, Institute for Materials Research,
Tohoku University
2020.11 - present: Associate professor, Priority Organization for Innovation
and Excellence, Kumamoto University

Contact information
Tel:
(+81) 096-342-3478
Email: sekine(at)kumamoto-u.ac.jp
Address:
2-39-1 Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, 860-8555 JAPAN
Kurokami South campus
Faculty of Science Building 2, Room C245
PhD., Associate professor
Metal complex chemistry, chemoinformatics
Department of Molecular Agriculture
Select publications
Synthesis of trans-heteroleptic carboxylate-bridged paddlewheel-type diruthenium(II,II)
complexes with poly aromatic hydrocarbon carboxylate. Wataru Kosaka, Taku
Kitayama, Tomoka Shimada, Yoshihiro Sekine, Hitoshi Miyasaka. Chemistry Letters 2025/4/2
Lanthanide-Based Single-Molecule Magnets Derived from Lacunary Polyoxometalates.
Kenta Hirakawa, Yoshihiro Sekine, Fumiya Kobayashi, Yoji Horii, Hikaru Zenno, Manabu Nakaya, Shinya Hayami.
Crystal Growth & Design 2025/3/13
Enhanced proton conductivity from phytic acid-intercalated three-dimensional
graphene oxide. Shakiba Salehpour, Lutfia Isna Ardhayanti, Yoshiharu Hidaka,
Xinyao Liu, Tatsuki Tsugawa, Kazuto Hatakeyama, Md. Saidul Islam, Yoshihiro Sekine, Shintaro Ida, Shinya Hayami. RSC Applied Interfaces 2025
Efficient S-band Electromagnetic Wave Absorption in Hierarchically Hollow
CoFe2O4/C Nanocomposites Modified by ZIF-67 Derivatives. Ze Cai, Sun Peishuo,
Lutfia Isna Ardhayanti, Md. Saidul Islam, Tatsuki Tsugawa, Keita Kuroiwa,
Yoshihiro Sekine, Shintaro Ida, Shinya Hayami. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2025
Assembling Smallest Prussian Blue Analogs Using Chiral Hydrogen Bond-Donating
Unit toward Complete Phase Transition. Riku Fukushima, Yoshihiro Sekine, Zhongyue Zhang, Shinya Hayami. Journal of the American Chemical Society
2024/9/4
Purification and Tailored Functionalities in Detonation Nanodiamond. Lutfia
Isna Ardhayanti, Islam Md Saidul, Ze Cai, Masahiro Fukuzaki, Xinyao Liu,
Zhongyue Zhang, Yoshihiro Sekine, Shinya Hayami. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 2024/8/23
Engineering Zeolitic-Imidazolate-Framework-Derived Mo-Doped Cobalt Phosphide
for Efficient OER Catalysts. Mohammad Atiqur Rahman, Ze Cai, Zannatul Mumtarin
Moushumy, Ryuta Tagawa, Yoshiharu Hidaka, Chiyu Nakano, Md. Saidul Islam,
Yoshihiro Sekine, Yuta Nishina, Shintaro Ida …. ACS Omega 2024/8/12
Impact of Layer Stacking Manner on the Lithium-Ion-Battery Performance
in Electrically Neutral Tetraoxolene-Bridged Iron(II) Hexagonal Layer Metal–Organic
Frameworks. Wataru Kosaka, Naoki Eguchi, Taku Kitayama, Ryoma Sato, Ryosuke
Nakao, Yoshihiro Sekine, Shinya Hayami, Kouji Taniguchi, Hitoshi Miyasaka. Chemistry of Materials
2024/4/23
Mitigation of salt effect using graphene oxide as additives in plantation.
Mizuki Yamada, Nonoka Goto, Yuki Hachiya, Tatsuki Tsugawa, Lutfia Isna
Ardhayanti, Md. Saidul Islam, Yoshihiro Sekine, Shintaro Ida, Shinichiro Sawa, Shinya Hayami. Environmental Science:
Nano 2024
Enhanced OH− conductivity from 3D alkaline graphene oxide electrolytes
for anion exchange membrane fuel cells. Nonoka Goto, Mohammad Atiqur Rahman,
Md. Saidul Islam, Ryuta Tagawa, Chiyu Nakano, Muhammad Sohail Ahmed, Yoshihiro Sekine, Yuta Nishina, Shintaro Ida, Shinya Hayami. Energy Advances 2024
SARS-CoV-2 Inactivation: Assessing the Efficacy of GO-Anchored Filters
Versus Various Commercial Masks. Md. Saidul Islam, Nurun Nahar Rabin, Mst
Monira Begum, Nonoka Goto, Ryuta Tagawa, Mami Nagashima, Kenji Sadamasu,
Kazuhisa Yoshimura, Junko Matsuda, Yoshihiro Sekine …. RSC Applied Interfaces 2024
Solvation/desolvation induced reversible distortion change and switching
between spin crossover and single molecular magnet behaviour in a cobalt(ii)
complex. Hikaru Zenno, Yoshihiro Sekine, Zhongyue Zhang, Shinya Hayami. Dalton Transactions 2024
Cu2NiSnS4 Nanoparticles Supported on rGO for Dual Frequency Range Electromagnetic
Shielding. Ze Cai, Md. Saidul Islam, Masahiro Fukuzaki, Mohammad Atiqur
Rahman, Junko Matsuda, Zhongyue Zhang, Yoshihiro Sekine, Buhe Bateer, Shinya Hayami. ACS Applied Nano Materials 2023/12/8
Coupling Dielectric Functionality with Magnetic Properties in Coordination
Metal Complexes. Yoshihiro Sekine, Rikuto Nakamura, Ryohei Akiyoshi, Shinya Hayami. ChemPlusChem 88(6) e202200463
2023/3/21
Crystal Design for Tuning the Mechanical Flexibilities of M(salophen) Complexes.
Yoshihiro Sekine, Sotaro Kusumoto, Akira Sugimoto, Manabu Nakaya, Shinya Hayami. Crystal
Growth & Design 23(4) 2013-2017 2023/2/16
Three-Dimensional Sulfonated Graphene Oxide Proton Exchange Membranes for
Fuel Cells. Mohammad Atiqur Rahman, Junya Yagyu, Md. Saidul Islam, Masahiro
Fukuda, Sora Wakamatsu, Ryuta Tagawa, Zhiqing Feng, Yoshihiro Sekine, Junya Ohyama, Shinya Hayami. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 6(3) 1707-1713 2023/1/20
Thermally stable proton conductivity from nanodiamond oxide. Lutfia Isna
Ardhayanti, Md. Saidul Islam, Masahiro Fukuda, Xinyao Liu, Zhongyue Zhang,
Yoshihiro Sekine, Shinya Hayami. Chemical Communications 59(53) 8306-8309 2023
Efficient oxygen evolution reaction catalyst using Ni-Co layered double
hydroxide anchored on reduced graphene oxide. Sora Wakamatsu, Md. Saidul
Islam, Yuta Shudo, Masahiro Fukuda, Ryuta Tagawa, Nonoka Goto, Michio Koinuma,
Yoshihiro Sekine, Shinya Hayami. Energy Advances 2023
SARS-CoV-2 suppression depending on pH of graphene oxide nanosheet. Md.
Saidul Saidul Islam, Masahiro Fukuda, Md. Jakir Hossain, Nurun Nahar Rabin,
Ryuta Tagawa, Mami Nagashima, Kenji Sadamasu, Kazuhisa Yoshimura, Yoshihiro Sekine, Terumasa Ikeda …. Nanoscale Advances 2023
Free-standing graphene oxide/oxidized carbon nanotube films with mixed
proton and electron conductor properties. Nurun Nahar Rabin, Md. Saidul
Saidul Islam, Mohammad Atiqur Rahman, Ryuta Tagawa, Yuta Shudo, Yoshihiro Sekine, Shinya Hayami. Energy Advances 2023