| Hiromichi Kataura | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Fields | Nanotechnology |
| Known for | Carbon nanotubes |
Hiromichi Kataura (片浦 弘道 Kataura Hiromichi) is a Japanese scientist known for his work on synthesis and characterization of single-wall and double-wall[1][2] carbon nanotubes and on encapsulation of water,[3] fullerene and other organic molecules[4][5][6][7] into carbon nanotubes.
Kataura is the leader of self-assembled nano-electronics group at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
Kataura plot is a graph relating the energy of the band gaps in a carbon nanotube and its diameter. A nanotube of certain diameter can be metallic M or semiconducting S; it can have several band gaps, conventionally labeled as S11, S22, M11, M22, etc. This property results in multiple branches in the Kataura plot.
The original article on the Kataura plot[8] has been reported in a lesser-known journal Synthetic Metals. Nevertheless, this article has been cited more than 900 times in refereed journals published between 2000 and March 2010.