Dr. Taro YOSHIKAWA
H-Index: 15

DAICEL Corporation, Japan & Kanazawa University, Japan

Positions: Director of Research and Development Headquarters, Laboratory for Solid-State Physics of Carbon-Based Materials, DAICEL Corporation, Japan, and Group Leader & Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Advanced Research Center for Diamond Science and Technology (ARCDia), CO₂ Resource Utilization Group, Kanazawa University, Japan

Specialization: Diamond Nanotechnology and Surface Modification.

At the NANOCON´26 Taro Yoshikawa will open the Session B – Industrial and Environmental Applications of Nanomaterials by his invited talk “Precise Nanometer-Scale Manipulation and Deposition of Detonation Nanodiamonds onto Substrates: Techniques and Applications”.

Personal Background and Education:

Taro Yoshikawa attended Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan where he received undergraduate and master’s level education (2007 to 2013). From May 2014 to December 2017, Yoshikawa worked as a PhD candidate and research engineer at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) alongside his doctoral studies. He received his Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) degree from the University of Freiburg (Department of Microsystems Engineering, IMTEK) in Germany (2017).

After obtaining his Dr.-Ing. degree, he continued at the Fraunhofer IAF as a Principal Investigator until 2019. In June 2019, he joined Daicel Corporation as a research engineer and has since progressed through roles, including Chief Research Engineer, to his current leadership role in R&D (from October 2025–present).

He is active also at the academic environment – at Kanazawa University 2023–present), as Group Leader in the Advanced Research Center for Diamond Science and Technology (ARCDia) focused on nanomaterials and diamond science.

Research interests:

Research of Dr. Taro Yoshikawa is focused on functionalization of nanodiamonds, electrostatic deposition, and zeta potential analysis of nanometer-scale materials.

His research areas & expertise involve explicitly: Diamond materials and nanodiamonds — synthesis, surfaces/interfaces, and electronic properties; Electric/electronic materials engineering, thin-film surfaces, and inorganic materials engineering, and Applications in carbon-based solid-state physics, electrochemistry, and sustainable technologies.

His work spans fundamental materials science to applied research, including:

Diamond-Based Electrodes & Catalysts: Studies on heavily nitrogen-doped diamond surfaces aimed at improving reduction selectivity and electrochemical performance of diamond electrodes.
Development of diamond materials that use visible light to drive electron emission, enabling CO₂ reduction — a potential sustainable technology for carbon recycling.
Nanodiamond Functionalization: Research on surface functionalization (e.g., polyglycerol modifications) of detonation nanodiamonds to control dispersibility and surface interactions

Summary of publication activity:

Author/co-author of 37 papers in international peer-reviewed journals; The number of total citations > 600 and H-index: 15 (Google Scholar, February 2026); ORCID ID .