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1) Redetermination of the Structure of α-Copper Phthalocyanine Grown on KCl, Akitaka Hoshino, Yoshiko Takenaka and Hideki Miyaji, Acta Crystallographica, B59, 393-403 (2003).
2) Epitaxial Growth of Copper and Cobalt Phthalocyanines on KCl, Hoshino Akitaka Yoshiko Takenaka, Masahiro Izukashi, Hideki Yoshida and Hideki Miaji, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 43, 4344-4350 (2004).
3) Interface Structure of Epitaxial Polyethylene Crystal Grown on HOPG and MoS2 Substrates, Yoshiko Takenaka, Hideki Miyaji, Akitaka Hoshino, Adam Tracz, Jeremiase K. Jeszka and Iwona Kucinska, Macromolecules, 37, 9667-9669 (2004).
4) Morphological Variation in a Toroid Generated from a Single Polymer Chain，Yoshiko Takenaka, Yuko Yoshikawa, Yoshiyuki Koyama, Toshio Kanbe and Kenichi Yoshikawa，Journal of Chemical Physics，123, 014902_1-014902_4 (2005)．
5) Real-time imaging of the somite segmentation clock: revelation of unstable oscillators in the individual presomitic mesoderm cells，Y. Masamizu, T. Ohtsuka, Y. Takashima, H. Nagahara, Y. Takenaka, K. Yoshikawa, H. Okamura and R. Kageyama，Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA，103 no.5, 1313-1318 (2006).
6) Topology in Morphologies of a Folded Single-Chain Polymer，Yoshiko Takenaka, Damien Baigl and Kenichi Yoshikawa，eds. S. Tanda, T. Matsuyama, M. Oda, Y. Asano and K. Yakubo (World Scientific Publishing Co., 2006)，pp. 108-113.
7) Ultradian oscillations in Stat and Smad signaling and cellular events in response to serum，S.Yoshiura, T.Ohtsuka, Y.Takenaka, H.Nagahara, K.Yoshikawa and R.Kageyama，Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA，104 11292-11297 (2007).
8) Self-regulation of Gene Activity with Structural Transition of a Giant DNA，Y.Takenaka，RIMS Kokyuroku Bessatsu "Pattern formation problems in dissipative systems" and "Mathematical modeling and analysis for nonlinear phenomena"，edited by M. Kuwamura, M. Nagayama, and T. Ogawa (Japan, 2007), p. 149-163.
9) Large-scale on-off switching of genetic activity mediated by the folding-unfolding transition in a giant DNA molecule: An hypothesis，Y.Takenaka，H. Nagahara, H. Kitahata and K. Yoshikawa, Phys. Rev. E, 77 031905 (2007).
10) Self-organized Spatio-temporal Oscillation Observed in a Chain of Non-oscillatory Cells，Y. Ma, Y. Takenaka and K. Yoshikawa, Postceedings of International Workshop on Natural Computing 2008 edited by Y. Suzuki et al. Springer Verlag, PICT 1, 111-121 (2008).
11) High-aspect-ratio gold nanorods synthesizedin a surfactant gel phase，Y.Takenaka and H. Kitahata, Chem. Phys. Lett., 467 327-330 (2009).
12) Analysis of the growth process of gold nanorods with time-resolved observation，Y.Takenaka and H. Kitahata, Phys. Rev. E, 80, 020601(R), 1-4 (2009).
13) Spatiotemporal pattern in somitogenesis: A non-Turing scenario with wave propagation，H. Nagahara, Y. Ma, Y. Takenaka, R. Kageyama and K. Yoshikawa, Phys. Rev. E, 80, 021906, 1-7 (2009).
14) Growth of gold nanorods in gelled surfactant solutions，Y. Takenaka, H. Kitahata, N. L. Yamada, H. Seto and M. Hara, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 356, 111-117 (2011).
15) Gelation Effect on the Synthesis of High-aspect-ratio Gold Nanorods, Y. Takenaka, H. Kitahata, N. L. Yamada, H. Seto and M. Hara, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 12, 714-718 (2012).
16) Salt Has a Biphasic Effect on the Higher-Order Structure of a DNA－Protamine Complex, N. Makita, Y. Yoshikawa, Y. Takenaka, T. Sakaue, M. Suzuki, C. Watanabe, T. Kanai, T. Kanbe, T. Imanaka and K. Yshikawa, J. Phys. Chem. B, 115 (15), 4453-4459 (2011).
17) Focal conics in a smectic-A liquid crystal in microwrinkle grooves, T. Ohzono, Y. Takenaka and J. Fukuda, Soft Matter, 8(24), 6438-6444 (2012).
18) Control of the long-axis length of gold nanorods through temperature variation, Y. Takenaka, Y. Kawabata, H. Kitahata and T. Ohzono, Chem. Lett. 41, (10), 1173-1175 (2012).
19) Effects of surfactant concentration on formation of high-aspect-ratio gold nanorods, Y. Takenaka, Y. Kawabata, H. Kitahata, M. Yoshida, Y. Matsuzawa, T. Ohzono, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 407, 265-272 (2013).
20) Development of multi-environment dual-probe atomic force microscopy system using optical beam deflection sensors with vertically incident laser beams, E. Tsunemi, K. Kobayashi, N. Oyabu, M. Hirose, Y. Takenaka, K. Matsushige, H. Yamada, Rev. Sci. Instrum, 84, 083701 (2013).
21) Photosystem II antenna phosphorylation-dependent protein diffusion determined by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, M. Iwai, C.-G. Park, Y. Takenaka, Y. Sako, A. Nakano, Scientific Reports, 3, 2833, 1-7 (2013).
22) Direct Observation of Periodic Swelling and Collapse of Polymer Chain Induced by the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction, Y. Hara, H. Mayama, Y. Yamaguchi, Y. Takenaka, R. Fukuda, J. Phys. Chem. B, 117 (46), 14351–14357 (2013).
23) Autonomous Oscillation of Polymer Chains induced by the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, Y. Hara, Y. Takenaka, Sensors, 14(1), 1497-1510 (2014).
24) Dewetting of a droplet induced by the adsorption of surfactants on a glass substrate, Y. Takenaka, Y. Sumino, T. Ohzono, Soft Matter, 10, 5597-5602 (2014).
25) Aspect-ratio-controlled Au Nanorods: Preparation and Dispersion toward Applications, Y. Takenaka. "Materials Challenges and Testing for Manufacturing, Mobility, Biomedical Applications and Climate", Springer, 161-165 (2014).
26) Global Genetic Response in a Cancer Cell: Self-Organized Coherent Expression Dynamics, M. Tsuchiya, M. Hashimoto, Y. Takenaka, I. N. Motoike and K. Yoshikawa, PLoS One, 9, e97411 (2014).
27) One-pot synthesis of long twin gold nanorods in a gelled surfactant solution, Y. Takenaka, RSC Adv., 5, 34690 - 34695 (2015).
28) Light-induced displacement of a microbead through the thermal expansion of liquid crystals, Y. Takenaka, T. Yamamoto, Soft Matter, 13, 1116-1119 (2017).
29) Sandwich‐Type Nanocomposite of Reduced Graphene Oxide and Periodic Mesoporous Silica with Vertically Aligned Mesochannels of Tunable Pore Depth and Size, Z.‐M. Wang, W. Peng, Y. Takenaka, N. Yoshizawa, K. Kosuge, W. Wang and G. A. Ozin, Adv. Funct. Mater., 27, 1704066 (2017).
30) Near-infrared-light-responsive liquid-crystalline composite gels with photo-healing ability, T. Yamamoto, J. Noguchi, M. Kinoshita, Y. Takenaka and H. Kihara, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 662, 38-45 (2018).
31) Molecular Technology, Material Transfer and Spontaneous Motion in Mesoscopic Scale with Molecular Technology, Y. Kageyama, Y. Takenaka and K. Higashiguchi, Wiley-VCH., (2018).
32) Effect of the Crystallization Process of Surfactant Bilayer Lamellar Structures on the Elongation of High-Aspect-Ratio Gold Nanorods, Takamichi Inaba, Yoshiko Takenaka, Youhei Kawabata and Tadashi Kato, J. Phys. Chem. B, 123, 4776-4783 (2019).
33) Directed assembly of gold nanorods by microwrinkles, Yoshiko Takenaka, Yoko Matsuzawa and Takuya Ohzono, Chem. Lett., 48, 1292-1295 (2019).
34) Nematic Liquid-Crystal Necklace Structure Made by Microfluidics System, Y. Takenaka, Miha Skarabot and Igor Musevic, Langmuir, 36, 3234−3241 (2020).
35) Gold nanorod synthesis by using the gelled structure of surfactants, Yoshiko Takenaka, Account of Materials & Surface Research (Zairyo Hyomen in Japanese), Research Meeting on Zairyo Hyomen, 5, 183-188 (2020).
36) Fibrous self-assembly of liquid crystal made by self-organisation, Y. Takenaka, D. Sato and T. Yamamoto, Liquid Crystals Today, 31, 64-72 (2022).
37) The effect of polymerizable monomers on the thickness and the growth rate of self-assembled smectic fibers, Daichi Sat, Yutaka Sumino, Takahiro Yamamoto, Igor Musevic, Yoshiko Takenaka, Chemistry Letters, 53(2), 1-5 (2023).
38) Reversible morphological transformation of liquid crystal droplet induced by UV light irradiation, Y. Takenaka, T. Yamamoto, M. Aizawa, U. Jagodic, A. Aizawa, I. Musevic, OrganizerSPIE. Photonics West, 13387 (2023).
39) Morphological changes in smectic liquid crystal microstructures, Daichi Sato, Yutaka Sumino, Takahiro Yamamoto, Igor Muševič, Yoshiko Takenaka, Soft Matter, 22 (20), 3569–3578 (2026).
※This paper was chosen for the cover of Soft Matter.