Y. Kageshima, T. Minegishi, S. Sugisaki, Y. Goto, H. Kaneko, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata and K. Domen, “Surface Protective and Catalytic Layer Consisting of RuO2 and Pt for Stable Production of Methylcyclohexane Using Solar Energy,” ACS Appl. Mater. Inter., 10, 44396-44402 (2018).

Q. Wang, S. Okunaka, H. Tokudome, T. Hisatomi, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, T. Yamada and K. Domen, “Printable Photocatalyst Sheets Incorporating a Transparent Conductive Mediator for Z-Scheme Water Splitting,” Joule, 2, 2667-2680 (2018).

K. Kawahara, R. Ishikawa, H. Takuma, T. Kimura, Y.H. Ikuhara, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, “Unique fitting of electrochemical impedance spectra by random walk Metropolis Hastings algorithm,” J. Power Source, 403, 184-191 (2018).

R. Ishikawa, S.D. Findlay, T. Seki, G. Sánchez-Santolino, Y. Kohno, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, “Direct electric field imaging of graphene defects,” Nature comm., 9, 3878 (2018).

G. Sánchez-Santolino, N. R. Lugg, T. Seki, R. Ishikawa, S. D. Findlay, Y. Kohno, Y. Kanitani, S. Tanaka, S. Tomiya, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, “Probing the internal atomic charge density distributions in real-space,” ACS Nano, 12, 8875-8881 (2018).

Z. Wang, Y. Inoue, T. Hisatomi, R. Ishikawa, Q. Wang, T. Takata, S. Chen, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and K. Domen, “Overall water splitting by Ta3N5 nanorod single crystals grown on the edges of KTaO3 particles,” Nature Catal., 1, 756-763(2018).

E. Nurlaela, Y. Sasaki, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, T. Yamada and K. Domen, “Towards zero bias photoelectrochemical water splitting: onset potential improvement on a Mg:GaN modified-Ta3N5 photoanode,” J. Mater. Chem. A., 6, 15265-15273 (2018).

Y. Asakura, T. Higashi, H. Nishiyama, H. Kobayashi, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, T. Minegishi, T. Hisatomi, M. Katayama, T. Yamada and K. Domen, “Activation of a particulate Ta3N5 water-oxidation photoanode with a GaN hole-blocking layer,” Sus. Ener. Fuels, 2, 73-78 (2018).

J. Seo, T. Hisatomi, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, T. Minegishi, M. Katayama and K. Domen, “Efficient Solar‐Driven Water Oxidation over Perovskite‐Type BaNbO2N Photoanodes Absorbing Visible Light up to 740 nm,” Adv. Energy Mater., 8, 1800094 (2018).

P. Gao, S. Yang, R. Ishikawa, N. Li, B. Feng, A. Kumamoto, N. Shibata, P. Yu and Y. Ikuhara, “Atomic-scale measurement of flexoelectric polarization at SrTiO3 dislocations,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 120, 267601(2018).

K. Szot, C. Rodenbucher, G. Bihlmayer, W. Speier, R. Ishikawa, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, “Influence of Dislocations in Transition Metal Oxides on Selected Physical and Chemical Properties,” Crystals, 8, 241 (2018).

T. Seki, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, “Theoretical framework of statistical noise in scanning transmission electron microscopy,” Ultramicoscopy 193, 118-125 (2018).

H. Kaneko, T. Minegishi, T. Higashi, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata and K. Domen, “Stable hydrogen production from water on an NIR‐responsive photocathode under harsh conditions,” Small Methods, 2, 1800028 (2018).

B. Feng, N.R. Lugg, A. Kumamoto, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, “On the quantitativeness of grain boundary chemistry using STEM EDS: A ZrO2 Σ9 model grain boundary case study,” Ultramicoscopy 193, 33-38 (2018).

J. Hoemke, E. Tochigi, T. Tohei, H. Yoshida, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and Y. Sakka, “Inversion domain network stabilization and spinel phase suppression in ZnO,” J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 101, 2616-2626 (2018).

L. Clark, H. G. Brown, D. M. Paganin, M. J. Morgan, T. Matsumoto, N. Shibata, T. C. Petersen, and S. D. Findlay, “Probing the limits of the rigid-intensity-shift model in differential-phase-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy,” Phys. Rev. A, 97, 043843 (2018).

T. Matsudaira, S. Kitaoka, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara, M. Takeuchi and T. Ogawa, “Effects of an oxygen potential gradient and water vapor on mass transfer in polycrystalline alumina at high temperatures,” Acta mater., 151, 21-30 (2018).

E. Tochigi, T. Mizoguchi, E. Okunishi, A. Nakamura, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, “Dissociation reaction of the 1/3<-1101> edge dislocation in α–alumina,” J. Mater. Sci., 53, 8049-8058 (2018).

C. Chen, H. Li, T. Seki, D. Yin, G. Sánchez-Santolino, K. Inoue, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, “Direct Determination of Atomic Structure and Magnetic Coupling of Magnetite Twin Boundaries,” ACS Nano, 12, 2662–2668 (2018).

E. Tochigi, A. Nakamura, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, “Dislocation structures in low-angle grain boundaries of α-Al2O3, “ Crystals, 8, 133 (2018).

T. Matsumoto, Y.-G. So, Y. Kohno, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, “Stable magnetic skyrmion states at room temperature confined to corrals of artificial surface pits fabricated by a focused electron beam,” Nano Lett., 18, 754-762 (2018).

S. Morishita, R. Ishikawa, Y. Kohno, H. Sawada, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, “Attainment of 40.5 pm spatial resolution using 300 kV scanning transmission electron microscope equipped with fifth-order aberration corrector,” Microscopy, 67, 46-50 (2018).

P. Gao, R. Ishikawa, B. Feng, A. Kumamoto, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, “Atomic-Scale Structure Relaxation, Chemistry and Charge Distribution of Dislocation Cores in SrTiO3,” Ultramicoscopy 184, 217-224 (2018).​

P. Gao, A. Kumamoto, R. Ishikawa, N. Lugg, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, “Picometer-scale atom position analysis in annular bright-field STEM imaging,” Ultramicoscopy 184, 177-187 (2018).