Publications
Journal Articles
Soh Ishikawa, Kazuhisa Yamasumi, Shinya Sugiura, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe, Yun Hee Koo, Shu Seki, Yuya Bando, Yohei Haketa, Hiroshi Shinokubo, Hiromitsu Maeda*
"Norcorroles as antiaromatic π-electronic systems that form dimension-controlled assemblies"
Chem. Sci. in press (2024).
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC01633E
Yoshiki Ishii*, Sataro Kiko, Norikazu Ohtori*
“Analysis of the Transport Properties of Alkaline-Earth Halides MX2 (M = Ca, Sr, Ba, and X = F, Cl, Br) by Simulation with a Polarizable Ion Model”
Electrochemistry 92, 043024 (2024).
DOI: 10.5796/electrochemistry.23-69160
Masanori Suzuki*, Yusuke Asano, Yoshiki Ishii
“Surface Ionic Coordination of Al2O3–CaO–Based Molten Slag Induced by Structural Relaxation”
J. Am. Ceram. Soc. in press (2024).
DOI: 10.1111/jace.19818
Tomoya Enjou, Shimpei Goto, Qiming Liu, Fumitaka Ishiwari, Akinori Saeki, Taro Uematsu, Yuka Ikemoto, Sora Watanabe, Go Matsuba, Kouichiro Ishibashi, Go Watanabe, Satoshi Minakata, Yoshimitsu Sagara, Youhei Takeda*
"Water-dispersible donor–acceptor–donor π-conjugated bolaamphiphiles enabling a humidity-responsive luminescence color change"
Chem. Comm. 60, 3653-3656 (2024).
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC05749F
Qiming Liu, Tianyue Zhang, Yuka Ikemoto, Yudai Shinozaki, Go Watanabe, Yuta Hori, Yasuteru Shigeta, Takemi Midorikawa, Koji Harano, Yoshimitsu Sagara*
"Grinding-Induced Water Solubility Exhibited by Mechanochromic Luminescent Supramolecular Fibers"
Small in press (2024).
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202400063
Nozomi Yoneda, Haruka Iyama, Takashi Nagata, Masato Katahira, Yoshiki Ishii, Kohei Tada, Kazuhiko Matsumoto*, Rika Hagiwara
"Fluoride Ion in Alcohols: Isopropanol vs Hexafluoroisopropanol"
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 15, 1677-1685 (2024).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03619
Takashi Kato*, Junya Uchida*, Yoshiki Ishii*, Go Watanabe*
“Aquatic Functional Liquid Crystals: Design, Functionalization, and Molecular Simulation” (Perspective)
Adv. Sci. in press (2024).
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202306529
Tomoyuki Hamachi, Koki Nishimura, Keita Sakamoto, Yusuke Kawashima, Hironori Kouno, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Nobuhiro Yanai*
"Triplet Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Pyruvate via Supramolecular Chemistry"
Chem Sci. 14, 13842-13850 (2023).
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC04123A
Craig P Yu, Shohei Kumagai, Michitsuna Tsutsumi, Tadanori Kurosawa, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Daisuke Hashizume, Hiroki Sugiura, Yukio Tani, Toshihiro Ise, Tetsuya Watanabe, Hiroyasu Sato, Jun Takeya, Toshihiro Okamoto*
"Asymmetrically Functionalized Electron‐Deficient π‐Conjugated System for Printed Single‐Crystalline Organic Electronics"
Adv. Sci. 10, 202207440 (2023).
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202207440
Go Watanabe*, Akane Yamazaki, Jun Yoshida*
"The Missing Relationship between the Miscibility of Chiral Dopants and the Microscopic Dynamics of Solvent Liquid Crystals: A Molecular Dynamics Study"
Symmetry 15, 1092 (2023).
DOI: 10.3390/sym15051092
Yusuke Kawashima, Tomoyuki Hamachi, Akio Yamauchi, Koki Nishimura, Yuma Nakashima, Saiya Fujiwara, Nobuo Kimizuka, Tomohiro Ryu, Tetsu Tamura, Masaki Saigo, Ken Onda, Shunsuke Sato, Yasuhiro Kobori, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Go Watanabe*, Kiyoshi Miyata*, Nobuhiro Yanai*
"Singlet fission as a polarized spin generator for dynamic nuclear polarization"
Nat. Commun. 14, 1056 (2023).
Featured as Editors’ Highlight!
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36698-4
Junsu Park, Yui Sasaki, Yoshiki Ishii, Shunsuke Murayama, Kohei Ohshiro, Kengo Nishiura, Ryohei Ikura, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Akira Harada, Go Matsuba*, Hitoshi Washizu*, Tsuyoshi Minami*, Yoshinori Takashima*
"Leaf-Inspired Host–Guest Complexation-Dictating Supramolecular Gas Sensors”
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 15, 39777-39785 (2023).
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c04395
Keiko Hiratsuka, Tatsuya Muramatsu, Takuya Seki, Christoph Weder, Go Watanabe*, Yoshimitsu Sagara*
"Tuning the mechanoresponsive luminescence of rotaxane mechanophores by varying the stopper size"
J. Mater. Chem. C. 11, 3949 (2023).
Selected as a “Front Cover” and "HOT Paper"!
DOI: 10.1039/d3tc00330b
Kazuma Hamaguchi, Huanjun Lu, Shota Okamura, Satoshi Kajiyama, Junya Uchida, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe*, Yoshiki Ishii, Hitoshi Washizu, Goran Ungar*, Takashi Kato*
"Reentrant 2D Nanostructured Liquid Crystals by Competition between Molecular Packing and Conformation: Potential Design for Multistep Switching of Ionic Conductivity"
ChemPhysChem. 24, e202200927 (2023).
Selected as a “Front Cover”!
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200927
Takashi Matsui*, Eiji Kojitani, Taichi Takasawa, Arisa Suto, Ami Tamari, Go Watanabe, Yoshio Kodera*
"Assessment of inconsistencies in the solvent-accessible surfaces of proteins between crystal structures and solution structures observed by LC-MS"
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 640, 97-104 (2023).
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.11.094
Senri Tanaka, Naoki Yamamoto, Kento Kasahara, Yoshiki Ishii, Nobuyuki Matubayasi*
“Crystal Growth of Urea and Its Modulation by Additives as Analyzed by All-Atom MD Simulation and Solution Theory”
J. Phys. Chem. B 126, 5274-5290 (2022).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c01764
Hiroya Nishikawa*, Koki Sano, Saburo Kurihara, Go Watanabe, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Barun Dhara, Fumito Araoka*
"Nano-clustering mediates phase transitions in a diastereomerically-stabilized ferroelectric nematic system"
Commun. Mater. 3, 89 (2022).
DOI: 10.1038/s43246-022-00312-9
Yoshiki Ishii*, Nobuyuki Matubayasi*, Hitoshi Washizu*
“Nonpolarizable Force Fields through the Self-Consistent Modeling Scheme with MD and DFT Methods: From Ionic Liquids to Self-Assembled Ionic Liquid Crystals”
J. Phys. Chem. B 126, 4611-4622 (2022).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c02782
Yuka Ikemoto*, Yoshihisa Harada, Masaru Tanaka, Shin-nosuke Nishimura, Daiki Murakami, Naoya Kurahashi, Taro Moriwaki, Kosuke Yamazoe, Hitoshi Washizu, Yoshiki Ishii, Hajime Torii*
“Infrared Spectra and Hydrogen-Bond Configurations of Water Molecules at the Interface of Water-Insoluble Polymers under Humidified Conditions”
J. Phys. Chem. B 126, 4143-4151 (2022).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c01702
Takeshi Serizawa, Saeko Yamaguchi, Moe Amitani, Sawa Ishii, Hiromi Tsuyuki, Yukiko Tanaka, Toshiki Sawada, Izuru Kawamura, Go Watanabe, Masaru Tanaka*
"Alkyl chain length-dependent protein nonadsorption and adsorption properties of crystalline alkyl β-celluloside assemblies"
Colloids Surf. B. 220, 112898 (2022).
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2022.112898
Kenji Shinozaki*, Yoshiki Ishii, Sohei Sukenaga, Koji Ohara
“Ultrafast Nanocrystallization of BaF2 in Oxyfluoride Glasses with Crystal-like Nanostructures: Implications for Upconversion Fiber Devices”
ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 5, 4281-4292 (2022).
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.2c00205
Shohei Kumagai, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Craig P. Yu, Shun Watanabe, Jun Takeya, Toshihiro Okamoto*
“Nitrogen-Containing Perylene Diimides: Molecular Design, Robust Aggregated Structures, and Advances in n-Type Organic Semiconductors”
Acc. Chem. Res. 55, 660–672 (2022).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00548
Yusaku Kawai, Junsu Park, Yoshiki Ishii, Osamu Urakawa, Shunsuke Murayama, Ryohei Ikura, Motofumi Osaki, Yuka Ikemoto, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Akira Harada*, Tadashi Inoue, Hitoshi Washizu*, Go Matsuba*, Yoshinori Takashima*
“Preparation of Dual Cross-Network Polymers by Knitting Method and Evaluation of Their Mechanical Properties”
NPG Asia Mater. 14, 32-pp.1-11 (2022).
DOI: 10.1038/s41427-021-00348-2
Kengo Takemoto, Yoshiki Ishii, Hitoshi Washizu, Kang Kim*, Nobuyuki Matubayasi
“Simulating the Nematic-Isotropic Phase Transition of Liquid Crystal Model via Generalized Replica-Exchange Method”
J. Chem. Phys. 156, 014901-pp.1-8 (2022).
DOI: 10.1063/5.0073105
Kazuki Fukushima*, Kodai Matsuzaki, Masashi Oji, Yuji Higuchi, Go Watanabe, Yuki Suzuki, Moriya Kikuchi, Nozomi Fujimura, Naofumi Shimokawa, Hiroaki Ito, Takashi Kato, Seigou Kawaguchi*, Masaru Tanaka*
“Anisotropic, Degradable Polymer Assemblies Driven by a Rigid Hydrogen-Bonding Motif That Induce Shape-Specific Cell Response”
Macromolecules 55, 15-25 (2022).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01894
Yoshiki Ishii*, Tomohiro Murakami, Norikazu Ohtori*
“Molecular Size and Shape Effects: Tracer Diffusion and the Stokes-Einstein Relation”
J. Mol. Liq. 346, 118235-pp.1-7 (2022).
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.118235
Masanori Suzuki*, Norimasa Umesaki, Yoshiki Ishii
“Highly Disordered Ionic Distribution in α‐Dicalcium Silicate for Structure Relaxation”
J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 105, 700-711 (2022).
DOI: 10.1111/jace.18096
Atsuya Yaguchi, Mio Oshikawa, Go Watanabe, Hirotsugu Hiramatsu, Noriyuki Uchida, Chikako Hara, Naoko Kaneko, Kazunobu Sawamoto, Takahiro Muraoka*, Itsuki Ajioka*
“Efficient protein incorporation and release by a jigsaw-shaped self-assembling peptide hydrogel for injured brain regeneration”
Nat. Commun. 12, 6623 (2021).
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26896-3
Chiharu Ueda, Junsu Parka, Kazuya Hirose, Subaru Konishi, Yuka Ikemoto, Motofumi Osaki, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Akira Harada*, Masaru Tanaka*, Go Watanabe*, Yoshinori Takashima*
“Behavior of supramolecular cross-links formed by host-guest interactions in hydrogels responding to water contents”
Supramol. Mater. 1, 100001 (2021).
DOI: 10.1016/j.supmat.2021.100001
Craig P. Yu, Naoya Kojima, Shohei Kumagai, Tadanori Kurosawa, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Jun Takeya, Toshihiro Okamoto*
“Approaching isotropic charge transport of n-type organic semiconductors with bulky substituents”
Communs. Chem. 4, 155 (2021).
DOI: 10.1038/s42004-021-00583-2
Yoshiki Ishii*, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Go Watanabe, Takashi Kato*, Hitoshi Washizu*
“Molecular insights on confined water in the nanochannels of self-assembled ionic liquid crystal”
Sci. Adv. 7, eabf0669 (2021).
Selected as a “Cover” !
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf0669
So Shikita, Go Watanabe, Dai Kanouchi, Junya Saito, Takuma Yasuda*
"Alternating Donor–Acceptor π‐Conjugated Macrocycle Exhibiting Efficient Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Spontaneous Horizontal Molecular Orientation"
Adv. Photonics Res. 2, 2100021 (2021).
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202100021
Shigetaka Yoneda*, Takami Saito, Daisuke Nakajima, Go Watanabe
"Potential of mean force and umbrella sampling simulation for the transport of 5‐oxazolidinone in heterotetrameric sarcosine oxidase"
Proteins 89, 811-818 (2021).
DOI: 10.1002/prot.26060
Lukman Hakim*, Yoshiki Ishii, Nobuyuki Matubayasi*
“Spatial-Decomposition Analysis of Electrical Conductivity in Mixtures of Ionic Liquid and Sodium Salt for Sodium-Ion Battery Electrolytes”
J. Phys. Chem. B 125, 3374-3385 (2021).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c00372
Cheng Zhang, Yuan Guo, Dan He, Jouji Komiya, Go Watanabe, Takuya Ogaki, Chengyuan Wang, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Hiroyuki Inuzuka, Hao Gong, Yuanping Yi*, Kazuo Takimiya, Daisuke Hashizume, Daigo Miyajima*
”A Design Principle for Polar Assemblies with C3-Sym Bowl-Shaped π-Conjugated Molecules”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 3216-3267 (2021).
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202013333
Kazuto Nakamura, Shinya Sugiura, Fumito Araoka, Satoshi Aya, Yoichi Takanishi, Go Watanabe, Ryuma Sato, Yasuteru Shigeta, Hiromitsu Maeda*
”Conformation-Changeable π-Electronic Systems with Metastable Bent-Core Conformations and Liquid-Crystalline-State Electric-Field-Responsive Properties”
Org. Lett. 23, 305-310 (2021).
Selected as a “Supplementary Cover” !
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c03791