Publications

12. Light-Driven Composite Films with Photomechanical Salicylideneaniline Crystals Aligned in UV-Curing Resins for Soft Actuators [Open Access]

S. Hasebe,+* T. Ueno,+ Y. Hagiwara, T. Goto, J. Odent, J. M. Raquez, H. Koshima,* T. Asahi, Mater. Today Commun., 2026, 50, 114375.

DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2025.114375  (+ co-first)

11. Polarization Dependence of Photothermally Resonated Natural Vibration in an Aminoanthraquinone Crystal

S. Hasebe,* K. Okano, K. Nakagawa, Y. Hagiwara, T. Asahi, H. Koshima,* ChemPhotoChem 2025 9, e20250221, DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202500221

9. Photomechanical motion of three polymorphic salicylideneaniline crystals with distinct bending directions, speeds, and repeatability [Open Access]

S. Hasebe, Y. Hagiwara, T. Asahi, H. Koshima,* Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2025, 98, uoaf032, DOI: 10.1093/bulcsj/uoaf032

Selected as the BCSJ Award Article

8. Actuation Performance and Versatility of Photothermally Driven Organic Crystals [Minireview]

S. Hasebe, Y. Hagiwara, T. Asahi, H. Koshima,* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  2025, 64, e202418570.

DOI: 10.1002/anie.202418570

7. Broad-Wavelength Light-Fuelled Organic Crystal Oscillators Driven by Multimodal Photothermally Resonated Natural Vibration 

S. Hasebe, Y. Hagiwara, T. Goto, T. Ryu, T. Ehara, T. Ogawa, K. Miyata, K. Onda, R. Morioka, J. Morikawa, T. Asahi, H. Koshima,* Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 34, 2410671.

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202410671

6. Prediction of Photochromism of Salicylideneaniline Crystals Using a Data Mining Approach　

[Open Access]

S. Hasebe, K. Hatakeyama-Sato, K. Oyaizu, T. Asahi, H. Koshima,* ACS Omega 2024, 9, 1463–1471. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c0785 

5. Negative to Positive Axial Thermal Expansion Switching of an Organic Crystal: Contribution to Multistep Photoactuation [Open Access]

S. Hasebe,+ Y. Hagiwara,+ T. Ueno, T. Asahi, H. Koshima,* Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 1088–1097. 

DOI: 10.1039/D3SC04796B (+ co-first)

4. Crystal Actuation Switching by Crystal Thickness and Light Wavelength [Open Access]

S. Hasebe, Y. Hagiwara, K. Hirata, T. Asahi, H. Koshima,* Mater. Adv. 2022, 3, 7098–7106. 

DOI: 10.1039/D2MA00825D

3. Polymorph-Derived Diversification of Crystal Actuation by Photoisomerization and the Photothermal Effect

S. Hasebe, Y. Hagiwara, K. Takechi, T. Katayama, A. Furube, T. Asahi, H. Koshima,* Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 1315–1324. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c04007

1. Light-driven Crystal–polymer Hybrid Actuators [Open Access]

S. Hasebe, D. Matsuura, T. Mizukawa, T. Asahi, H. Koshima,* Front. Robot. AI, 2021, 8 684287. DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2021.684287

6. Control of Polymorphism and Alignment in Photochromic Salicylideneaniline Crystals Grown by Directional Crystallization

Y. Hagiwara,* G. Schweicher, S. Das, S. Hasebe, T. Asahi, H. Koshima,* Y. Geerts,* Cryst. Growth Des. 2025, 25, 2090–2098. DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.4c01729

5. Broad-Wavelength Light-Driven High-Speed Hybrid Crystal Actuators Actuated Inside Tissue-Like Phantoms  [Open Access]

D.-W. Kim,+ Y. Hagiwara,+ S. Hasebe, N. O. Dogan, M. Zhang, T. Asahi, H. Koshima,* M. Sitti,* Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 33, 2305916. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202305916 (+ co-first)

4. Mechanical properties and peculiarities of molecular crystals [review][Open Access]

W. M. Awad, D. W. Davies, D. Kitagawa, J. M. Halabi, M. B. Al-Handawi, I. Tahir, F. Tong, G. Campillo-Alvarado, A. G. Shtukenberg, T. Alkhidir, Y. Hagiwara, M. Almehairbi, L. Lan, S. Hasebe, D. P. Karothu, S. Mohamed,* H. Koshima,* S. Kobatake,* Y. Diao,* R. Chandrasekar,* H. Zhang,* C. C. Sun,* C. Bardeen,* R. O. Al-Kaysi,* B. Kahr,* P. Naumov,* Chem. Soc. Rev. 2023, 52, 3098–3169. DOI: 10.1039/D2CS00481J

2. Flexible organic crystals. Understanding the tractable co-existence of elastic and plastic bending [Open Access]

I. S. Divya, S. Kandasamy, S. Hasebe, T. Sasaki, H. Koshima,* K. Wozniak,* S. Varughese,* Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 8989–9003. DOI: 10.1039/D2SC02969C

1. Mechanically Responsive Organic Crystals by Light [minireview]

H. Koshima,* S. Hasebe, Y. Hagiwara, T. Asahi, Isr. J. Chem. 2021, 61, 683–696. 

DOI: 10.1002/ijch.202100093

1. Advances in Organic Crystal Chemistry: Comprehensive Reviews 2025 on Crystal Functions

Chapter 3: Versatile and Fast Organic Crystal Actuation by Photothermal Effect and Natural Vibration

H. Koshima,* S. Hasebe, Y. Hagiwara,　ISBN: 9789819644780

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-4479-7_3