Takashi Okubo

Takashi Okubo
Associate Professor
Kindai University
Japan

Specialization

Visiting Professor
2016-2017

Bio

Takashi Okubo is an Associate Professor at Kindai University in Japan. He was born in 1972. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from Tokyo Metropolitan University (1999) in Japan under the supervision of Professor Susumu Kitagawa. In 1999 He worked at RIKEN as a special research associate. Form 2000 to 2006, he was a research associate in the research group of Professor Tadaoki Mitani at JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). From 2004 to 2005, he was also a postdoctoral fellow in the research group of Professor Joseph T. Hupp at Northwestern University as a JSPS fellow for research abroad. In 2007, he becomes an assistant professor at Kindai University. He was also a research member of the PRESTO project (JST) from 2007 to 2010. In 2011, he started as an associate professor at Kindai University, and he also become a research member of the PRESTO project (JST) from 2012 to 2015. His current research interests focus on the development of conducting and ferroelectric coordination polymers, and the application to photovoltaic devices. He also studies organic solar cells with non-fullerene acceptors.

Research

I’m interested in developing organic solar cells based on metal complexes. Recently I focused on design, synthesis and characterization of conducting and ferroelectric coordination polymers. I also attempted to apply the coordination polymers to the active layers of thin-film solar cells. Now I’m studying organic solar cells with non-fullerene acceptors.