T. Matsumoto, R. Ishikawa, T. Tohei, H. Kimura, Q. Yao, H. Zhao, X. Wang, D. Chen, Z. Cheng, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, “Multivariate statistical characterization of charged and uncharged domain walls in multiferroic hexagonal YMnO3 single crystal visualized by a spherical aberration-corrected STEM,” Nano Lett., 13, 4594-4601 (2013).

A. Nakamura, T. Mizoguchi, K. Matsunaga, T. Yamamoto, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, “Periodic nanowire array at the crystal interface,” ACS Nano, 7, 6297-6302 (2013).

S. Azuma, N. Shibata, T. Mizoguchi, S.D. Findlay, K. Nakamura and Y. Ikuhara. “Atomic structure, energetics and chemical bonding of Y doped Σ13 grain boundaries in α-Al2O3,” Phil. Mag., 93, 1158-1171 (2013).

Y. Ogasawara, S. Uchida, T. Maruichi, R. Ishikawa, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and N. Mizuno, “Cubic cesium hydrogen silicododecatungstate with anisotropic morphology and polyoxometalate vacancies exhibiting selective water sorption and cation-exchange properties,” Chem. Mater., 25, 905-911 (2013).

H. Yu, R. Ishikawa, Y.-G. So, N. Shibata, T. Kudo, H. Zhou and Y. Ikuhara, “Direct observation of two phases in the Li1.2Mn0.567Ni0.166Co0.067O2 cathode material for lithium-ion battery at atomic resolution,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52, 5969-5973 (2013).

C. Chen, S. Lv, Z. Wang, M. Saito, N. Shibata, T. Taniguchi and Y. Ikuhara, “Oxygen segregation at coherent grain boundaries of cubic boron nitride,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 102, 091607 (2013).

I. Sugiyama, N. Shibata, ZC. Wang, S. Kobayashi, T. Yamamoto and Y. Ikuhara, “Ferromagnetic dislocations in antiferromagnetic NiO,” Nature Nanotech., 8, 266-270 (2013).

R. Ishikawa, N. Shibata, F. Oba, T. Taniguchi, S.D. Findlay, I. Tanaka and Y. Ikuhara, “Functional complex point-defect structure in a huge-size-mismatch system,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 110, 065504 (2013).

C.L. Chen, R. Huang, Z. Wang, N. Shibata, T. Taniguchi and Y. Ikuhara, “Microstructures and grain boundaries of cubic boron nitrides,” Diamond Relat. Mater., 17, 27-31 (2013).​

T.-Y. Chang, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, “Effects of TiO2 Support on the Initial Stage of Pt Nanoparticle Growth,” Appl. Phys. Express, 6, 025503 (2013).