• Satoru Inoue, Takayuki Watanabe, Tetsuji Yano, Osamu Sakamoto, Keizo Satoh, Shinji Kawachi, and Toru Iseda: “Future of Glass Melting through the In-flight Melting Technique”, in Processing, Properties, and Applications of Glass and Optical Materials: Ceramic Transactions, Volume 231, p.37-44, edited by Arun K. Varshneya, Helmut A. Schaeffer, Kathleen. R. Richardson, Marlene Wightman, L. David Pye, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey (2012.8).
• Md. Mofazzal Hossain and Takayuki Watanabe: “Thermal Treatment of Granulated Particles by Induction Thermal Plasma”, in Development in Heat Transfer, p.435-454, edited by Marco Aurelio dos Santos Bernardes, InTech, Rijeka (2011.8).
• Takayuki Watanabe and Masaya Shigeta: “Nanoparticle Synthesis by Thermal Plasmas”, in Nanoparticles: Properties, Classification, Characterization, and Fabrication, p.149-212, edited by Aiden E. Kestell and Gabriel T. DeLorey, Nova Science Publishers, New York (2010.6.30).
• Takayuki Watanabe: “Water Plasmas for Environmental Application”, in Industrial Plasma Technology: Applications from Environmental to Energy Technologies, edited by Yoshinobu Kawai, Wiley-VCH, WeinHeim (2010.3).
• Takayuki Watanabe and Masaya SHIGETA: “Nanoparticle Synthesis by Thermal Plasmas”, in Nanomaterials: Properties, Preparation and Processes, p.116-176, edited by Vinicius Cabral and Renan Silva, Nova Science Publishers, New York (2010.3).
• Takayuki Watanabe and Maria Natalia Roxas Dimaano: Thermal Performance Characterization of Capric Acid and Lauric Acid Mixture for Low Temperature Energy Storage, in Solar Energy: New Research, edited by Tom P. Hough, p.1-41, Nova Science Publishers, New York (2006).
• Ken Okazaki and Takayuki Watanabe: Plasma Chemical Thermophysics in the Application to Material Conversion Processes, in Annual Review of Heat Transfer, Volume X, edited by Chang-Lin Tien, Begell House, New York (1999).

Patents

• Japanese Patent 6803028, Method for manufacturing lithium metal composite oxide powder and lithium metal oxide powder (2020.12.2)
• Japanese Patent 6743159, Si particle bonded body and method for manufacturing the same (2020.7.31)
• Japanese Patent 6629705, Decomposition apparatus, vehicle equipped with decomposition apparatus, and decomposition method (2019.12.13).
• Japanese Patent 6552469, Method and apparatus for plasma generation and nanopowder production (2019.7.12).
• Japanese Patent 6434351, Method and apparatus for amorphous silicon powder (2018.11.16).
• Japanese Patent 6351524, Method and apparatus for spinel LiaMxMnyO4 powder (2018.6.15).
• Japanese Patent 6329097, Method and Apparatus for coated nanopowder (2018.4.27).
• Japanese Patent 5725556, Apparatus and method for recycling for glass production (2015.4.10).
• Japanese Patent 5252675, Method and apparatus for c-BN synthesis (2013.4.26).
• Japanese Patent 4570847, Method and apparatus for halogenated material by plasma reaction (2010.8.20).
• Japanese Patent 4565185, Melting method and melting device for glass raw materials and the glass manufacturing device (2010.8.13).
• Japanese Patent 4475517, Method of recycling plastic scrap, process of manufacture of plastic molding body, plastic molding body and plastic recycling device (2010.3.19).
• Japanese Patent 4403240, Method for treatment of low-level radio-active ion-exchange resins (2009.11.13).
• Japanese Patent 4356313, Preparation method for metal powders (2009.8.14).
• Japanese Patent 4140324, Preparation method for metal boride (2008.6.20).
• Method for Producing Fluorohydrocarbon, Published International Patent WO 2023/182304 A1 (2023.9.28).
• Method for Producing Fluorohydrocarbon, Published Japanese Patent WO 2022-184047 (2022.12.13).
• Method for Producing Fluorohydrocarbon, Published International Patent WO 2022/255120 A1 (2022.12.8).
• Metal oxide reducing device and its application, Published Japan Patent 2022-044946 (2022.3.18).
• Method for producing lithium metal complex oxide powder, Published Japan Patent 2020-158343 (2020.10.1).
• Method for producing lithium metal complex oxide powder, Published Japan Patent 2020-158341 (2020.10.1).
• Method for producing lithium metal complex oxide powder, Published Japan Patent 2020-158339 (2020.10.1).
• Method for producing lithium metal complex oxide powder, Published Japan Patent 2020-158335 (2020.10.1).
• Methode for producing oxygen-deficient metal oxide, Published Japan Patent 2020-37491 (2020.3.12).
• Method of producing slug, Published Japan Patent 2019-104640 (2017.12.8).
• Vortex water flow generator, water plasma generating device, decomposition treatment device, vehicle equipped with decomposition treatment device, and decomposition treatment method, Published International Patent WO 2017/119326 A1 (2017.7.13).
• Phtocatalist, Published Japan Patent 2015-051387 (2015.3.19).
• Method for production of tetrafluoroethylene, Published Japan Patent 2013-40151 (2013.2.28).
• Lead-free Solder Paste using nanoparticles, Published Japan Patent 2011-104649 (2011.6.2).
• Apparatus and method for recycling of waste, and the recycled metal, ceramics, and substrate, Published Japan Patent 2008-246428 (2008.10.16).
• Method and apparatus for hydrogen production by plasma reaction, Published Japan Patent 2004-111137 (2004.4.8).
• Method and device for generation of low-temperature energy, Published Japan Patent H8-35737 (1996.3.7).

Projects

• JAEA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Nanoparticle Production for Transparent Neutron Shielding Materials (2018-2020).
• JAXA (Japan Aerospace exploration Agency) Space Exploration Innovation Hub Center, Functional Materials Production from Irreducible Oxides by Hydrogen Reduction System (2018-20).
• Ministry of Economy, Strategic Core Technology Advancement Program, Development of Multiphase AC Arc System for Nanomaterial Production (2018-20).
• JAXA (Japan Aerospace exploration Agency) Space Exploration Innovation Hub Center, Hydrogen Reduction System of Lunar Soil -Industrial Utilization of Low-Grade Materials- (2016).
• NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization), Development of Innovative Glass Production (2008-2012).
• NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization), Development of Innovative In-Flight Glass Melting Technology for Energy Conservation (2005-2007).
• NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization), Preparation of Highly Functional Materials for Energy Technology by Nano-structure Control in Inorganic Materials (1996-1999)

Awards

• Plasma Innovation Prize, Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies, Division of Plasma Physics (2023).
• Plasma Materials Science Awards, Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences, 153rd Committee on Plasma Materials Science (2014).
• Seiichi Tejima Invention Award. Innovative In-Flight Melting for Glass Production (2013).
• Microsoft Innovation Japan Award, Waste Treatment by Plasmas under Atmospheric Pressure (2007).
• Outstanding Paper Award of Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan (2007).
• Research Award, The Society of Inorganic Materials, Japan (2005).
• Plasma Materials Science Awards, Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences, 153rd Committee on Plasma Materials Science (2000).