論文発表

116. Naoto Matsumoto, Sakura Nakagawa, Kei Morisato, Kazuyoshi Kanamori, Kazuki Nakanishi, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Crystalline organic monoliths with bicontinuous porosity"

Chem. Sci., in press.

115. Miku Inoue, Akio Yamauchi, Bhavesh Parmar, Kana Orihashi, Manpreet Singh, Mizue Asada, Toshikazu Nakamura, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Guest-responsive coherence time of radical qubits in a metal-organic framework"

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 6130-6133.

114. Yoichi Sasaki,* Kyriacos Georgiou, Shuangqing Wang, David Geoffrey Bossanyi, Rahul Jayaprakash, Nobuhiro Yanai, Nobuo Kimizuka, David George Lidzey, Andrew J Musser, Jenny Clark*

"Radiative pumping in a strongly coupled microcavity filled with a neat molecular film showing excimer emission"

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted

113. Wataru Ishii, Masaaki Fuki, Eman M Bu Ali, Shunsuke Sato, Bhavesh Parmar, Akio Yamauchi, Catherine Helenna Mulyadi, Masanori Uji, Samara Medina Rivero, Go Watanabe,* Jenny Clark,* Yasuhiro Kobori,* Nobuhiro Yanai*

"A Macrocyclic Parallel Dimer Showing Quantum Coherence of Quintet Multiexcitons at Room Temperature"

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-dkp4s

112. Masanori Uji, Jumpei Kondo, Chikako Hara-Miyauchi, Saori Akimoto, Rena Haruki, Yoichi Sasaki, Nobuo Kimizuka,* Itsuki Ajioka,* Nobuhiro Yanai*

"In Vivo Optogenetics Based on Heavy Metal-Free Photon Upconversion Nanoparticles"

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-689f3

111. Tomoyuki Hamachi, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Recent Developments in Materials and Applications of Triplet Dynamic Nuclear Polarization"

Prog. Nucl. Magn. Reson. Spectrosc., in press.

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-1t8rk

110. Akio Yamauchi, Kentaro Tanaka, Masaaki Fuki, Saiya Fujiwara, Nobuo Kimizuka, Tomohiro Ryu, Masaki Saigo, Ken Onda, Yasuhiro Kobori,* Kiyoshi Miyata,* Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Room-temperature quantum coherence of entangled multiexcitons in a metal-organic framework"

Science Adv., 2024, 10, eadi3147. プレスリリース Press release   EurekAlert!  EETimes 

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-nz6rz

109. Kana Orihashi, Akio Yamauchi, Miku Inoue, Bhavesh Parmar, Saiya Fujiwara, Nobuo Kimizuka, Mizue Asada, Toshikazu Nakamura, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Radical qubits photo-generated in acene-based metal–organic frameworks"

Dalton Trans., 2024,  53, 872-876.  

108. Keita Sakamoto, Tomoyuki Hamachi, Katsuki Miyokawa, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Yuki Kurashige,* Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Polarizing agents beyond pentacene for efficient triplet dynamic nuclear polarization in glass matrices"

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2023, 120, e2307926120. プレスリリース

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-r18p7 

107. Masanori Uji, Till J. B. Zähringer, Christoph Kerzig,* Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Visible-to-UV Photon Upconversion: Recent Progress in New Materials and Applications"

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202301506.

106. Reiya Yabuki, Koki Nishimura, Tomoyuki Hamachi, Naoto Matsumoto, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Generation and Transfer of Triplet Electron Spin Polarization at Solid-Liquid Interface"

J. Phys Chem. Lett., 2023, 14, 4754-4759.

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-rqpzt.

105. Kana Orihashi, Akio Yamauchi, Saiya Fujiwara, Mizue Asada, Toshikazu Nakamura, Joseph Ka-Ho Hui, Nobuo Kimizuka, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Spin-Polarized Radicals with Extremely Long Spin-Lattice Relaxation Time at Room Temperature in a Metal-Organic Framework"

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 27650–27656.

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-2mrsw.

104. 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., 2023, 14, 13842-13850. プレスリリース

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-9rkjf .

103. Koki Nishimura, Reiya Yabuki, Tomoyuki Hamachi, Nobuo Kimizuka, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Dynamic Electron Polarization Lasting More Than 10 μs by Hybridizing Porphyrin and TEMPO with Flexible Linkers"

J. Phys. Chem. B 2023, 127, 1219–1228.

102. Naoyuki Harada, Masanori Uji, Baljeet Singh, Nobuo Kimizuka,* Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Porous film impregnation method for record-efficiency visible-to-UV photon upconversion and subsolar light harvesting"

J. Mater. Chem. C. 2023,11, 8002-8006.

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-jplm7.

101. Till J. B. Zähringer, Julian A. Moghtader, Maria-Sophie Bertrams, Bibhisan Roy, Masanori Uji, Nobuhiro Yanai,* Christoph Kerzig*

"Blue-to-UVB Upconversion, Solvent Sensitization and Challenging Bond Activation Enabled by a Benzene-Based Annihilator"

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202215340. プレスリリース

100. Akio Yamauchi, Saiya Fujiwara, Nobuo Kimizuka, Mizue Asada, Motoyasu Fujiwara, Toshikazu Nakamura, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Quantum chemical sensing using molecular triplet qubits in a flexible metal–organic framework "

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-4hnsj

99. Pankaj Bharmoria,* Fredrik Edhborg, Hakan Bildirir, Yoichi Sasaki, Shima Ghasemi, Anders Mårtensson, Nobuhiro Yanai,   Nobuo Kimizuka, Bo Albinsson, Karl Börjesson,  Kasper Moth-Poulsen*

"Recyclable Optical Bioplastics Platform for Solid State Red Light Harvesting via Triplet-triplet Annihilation Photon Upconversion"

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022, 10, 21279-21290.

98. Naoto Matsumoto, Koki Nishimura, Nobuo Kimizuka, Yusuke Nishiyama, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Proton Hyperpolarization Relay from Nanocrystals to Liquid Water"

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 18023-18029.

Highlighted as a Supplementary Cover プレスリリース

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-zrnh5

97. 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"

Nature Commun. 2023, 14, 1056.  プレスリリース Behind the paper けむすい論文紹介対談(YouTube) ChemStationにてハイライト スポットライトリサーチムービー

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-r4636

96. Haklae Lee, Myung-Soo Lee, Masanori Uji, Naoyuki Harada, Jeong-Min Park, Jiyeon Lee, Sung Eun Seo, Chul Soon Park, Jinyeong Kim, Seon Joo Park, Suk Ho Bhang, Nobuhiro Yanai, Nobuo Kimizuka, Oh Seok Kwon*, Jae-Hyuk Kim*

"Nanoencapsulated Phase-Change Materials: Versatile and Air-Tolerant Platforms for Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion"

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 4132–4143.

95. Yoichi Sasaki, Nobuhiro Yanai,* Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Osmium Complex–Chromophore Conjugates with Both Singlet-to-Triplet Absorption and Long Triplet Lifetime through Tuning of the Heavy-Atom Effect"

Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 16, 5982–5990.

94. Tsubasa Kashino, Rena Haruki, Masanori Uji, Naoyuki Harada, Masanori Hosoyamada, Nobuhiro Yanai,* Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Design Guidelines for Rigid Epoxy Resins with High Photon Upconversion Efficiency: Critical Role of Emitter Concentration"

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 22771–22780.

93. Saiya Fujiwara, Naoto Matsumoto, Koki Nishimura, Nobuo Kimizuka, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Triplet Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Guest Molecules through Induced Fit in a Flexible Metal-Organic Framework"

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202115792. プレスリリース

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2021-gsq3b

92. Masanori Uji, Naoyuki Harada, Nobuo Kimizuka,* Masaki Saigo, Kiyoshi Miyata, Ken Onda, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Heavy metal-free visible-to-UV photon upconversion with over 20% efficiency sensitized by a ketocoumarin derivative"

J. Mater. Chem. C 2022, 10, 4558-4562. プレスリリース

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2021-3jhbh.

91. Mio Koharagi, Naoyuki Harada, Keisuke Okumura, Junji Miyano, Shota Hisamitsu, Nobuo Kimizuka,* Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Green-to-UV photon upconversion enabled by new perovskite nanocrystal-transmitter-emitter combination"

Nanoscale 2021, 13, 19890-19893. 

Themed collection: Nanoscale 2022 Emerging Investigators (Prof. Yanai)

90. David Bossanyi, Yoichi Sasaki, Shuanqing Wang, Dimitri Chekulaev, Nobuo Kimizuka, Nobuhiro Yanai,* Jenny Clark*

"In optimized rubrene-based nanoparticle blends for photon upconversion, singlet energy collection outcompetes triplet-pair separation, not singlet fission"

J. Mater. Chem. C 2021, 10, 4684-4696.

89. David Bossanyi,* Yoichi Sasaki, Shuanqing Wang, Dimitri Chekulaev, Nobuo Kimizuka, Nobuhiro Yanai, Jenny Clark*

"Spin Statistics for Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion: Exchange Coupling, Intermolecular Orientation, and Reverse Intersystem Crossing"

JACS Au 2021, 1, 2188–2201.

ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.33774/chemrxiv-2021-w2bfz.

88. Akio Yamauchi, Saiya Fujiwara, Koki Nishimura, Yoichi Sasaki, Kenichiro Tateishi*, Tomohiro Uesaka, Nobuo Kimizuka*, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Design Guidelines to Elongate Spin–Lattice Relaxation Times of Porphyrins with Large Triplet Electron Polarization"

J. Phys. Chem. A 2021, 125, 4334-4340.

87. Yoichi Sasaki, Shogo Amemori, Nobuhiro Yanai*, Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Singlet-to-triplet absorption for near-infrared-to-visible photon upconversion"

Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2021, 94, 1760-1768.

Award Account: Award for Young Chemists, Chemical Society of Japan (Prof. Yanai)

86. Tomoyuki Hamachi, Koki Nishimura, Hironori Kouno, Yusuke Kawashima, Kenichiro Tateishi*, Tomohiro Uesaka, Nobuo Kimizuka*, Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Porphyrins as Versatile, Aggregation-Tolerant, and Biocompatible Polarizing Agents for Triplet Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Biomolecules"

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 2645-2650.

85. Tsubasa Kashino, Masanori Hosoyamada, Rena Haruki, Naoyuki Harada, Nobuhiro Yanai,* Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Bulk Transparent Photon Upconverting Films by Dispersing High-Concentration Ionic Emitters in Epoxy Resins"

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 13676−13683.

84. Bruno Ehrler,* Nobuhiro Yanai,* Lea Nienhaus*

"Up- and down-conversion in molecules and materials"

J. Chem. Phys. 2021, 154, 070401.

83. Pankaj Bharmoria, Shota Hisamitsu, Yoichi Sasaki, Tejwant Singh Kang, Masa-aki Morikawa, Biplab Joarder, Kasper Moth-Poulsen, Hakan Bildirir, Anders Mårtensson, Nobuhiro Yanai,* Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Photon upconverting bioplastics with high efficiency and in-air durability"

J. Mater. Chem. C 2021,9, 11655-11661.

Special issue: J. Mater. Chem. C Emerging Investigators 2021 (Prof. Yanai)

82. Hisanori Nagatomi, Leighanne C. Gallington, Subhadip Goswami, Jiaxin Duan, Karena W. Chapman, Nobuhiro Yanai, Nobuo Kimizuka, Omar K. Farha, and Joseph T. Hupp*

"Regioselective Functionalization of the Mesoporous Metal–Organic Framework, NU-1000, with Photo-Active Tris-(2,2′-bipyridine)ruthenium(II)"

ACS Omega 2020, 5, 30299-30305.

81. Naoyuki Harada, Yoichi Sasaki, Masanori Hosoyamada, Nobuo Kimizuka* and Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Discovery of Key TIPS‐Naphthalene for Efficient Visible‐to‐UV Photon Upconversion under Sunlight and Room Light"

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 60, 142-147.  (ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.12893918.v1)

Press Release from Angew. Chem., news release from EurekAlert! and Kyushu Univ., highlighted in ChemStation.

日本語プレスリリース

80. Mika Kinoshita, Yoichi Sasaki, Shogo Amemori, Naoyuki Harada, Zhanhao Hu, Zonghao Liu, Luis K. Ono, Yabing Qi,* Nobuhiro Yanai,* Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Photon Upconverting Solid Films with Improved Efficiency for Endowing Near‐Infrared Sensitivity to Perovskite Solar Cells"

ChemPhotoChem. 2020, 4, 5271-5278.

79. Jie Zhang, Hironori Kouno, Nobuhiro Yanai,* Daichi Eguchi, Tatsuo Nakagawa, Nobuo Kimizuka,* Toshiharu Teranishi,* Masanori Sakamoto*

"Number of Surface-Attached Acceptors on a Quantum Dot Impacts Energy Transfer and Photon Upconversion Efficiencies"

ACS Photon. 2020, 7, 1876-1884.

78. Rena Haruki, Yoichi Sasaki, Kouta Masutani, Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka* 

"Leaping across the visible range: near-infrared-to-violet photon upconversion employing a silyl-substituted anthracene"

Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 7017-7020.

77. Koki Nishimura, Hironori Kouno, Yusuke Kawashima, Kana Orihashi, Saiya Fujiwara, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Nobuo Kimizuka and Nobuhiro Yanai *

"Materials chemistry of triplet dynamic nuclear polarization"

Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 7217-7232. (Review)

76. Karina Shimizu*, Shota Hisamitsu, Nobuhiro Yanai, Nobuo Kimizuka, and José N. Canongia Lopes*

"Photon Upconversion in TTA-Inducing Ionic Liquids: Pinpointing the Role of IL Nanostructured Media Using MD Simulations"

J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124, 3137-3144. 

75. Hironori Kouno, Kana Orihashi, Koki Nishimura, Yusuke Kawashima, Kenichiro Tateishi,* Tomohiro Uesaka, Nobuo Kimizuka,* and Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Triplet dynamic nuclear polarization of crystalline ice using water-soluble polarizing agents"

Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 3717-3720. 

74. Nobuhiro Yanai* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Stimuli-Responsive Molecular Photon Upconversion"

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 10252-10264. (Minireview)

73. Biplab Joarder, Arijit Mallick, Yoichi Sasaki, Mika Kinoshita, Rena Haruki, Yusuke Kawashima, Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Near‐Infrared‐to‐Visible Photon Upconversion by Introducing an S‐T Absorption Sensitizer into a Metal‐Organic Framework"

ChemNanoMat 2020, 6, 916-919. (Board member special collection for the 5th anniversary of ChemNanoMat)

72. Yusuke Kawashima,   Hironori Kouno,   Kana Orihashi,   Koki Nishimura,   Nobuhiro Yanai,*  and  Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Visible-to-UV photon upconversion in air-saturated water by multicomponent co-assembly"

Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 2020, 5, 792-796. 

Special issue: MSDE Emerging Investigators 2020 (Prof. Yanai)

71. Shota Hisamitsu, Junji Miyano, Keisuke Okumura, Joseph  Ka-Ho Hui, Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Visible-to-UV Photon Upconversion in Nanostructured Chromophoric Ionic Liquids"

ChemistryOpen 2019, 9, 14-17. (Special issue dedicated to 80th birthday of Prof. Lehn)

70. Deepak Asthana, Shota Hisamitsu, Masa-aki Morikawa, Pengfei Duan, Takuya Nakashima, Tsuyoshi Kawai, Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Aqueous Photon Upconversion by Anionic Acceptors Self-Assembled on Cationic Bilayer Membranes with a Long Triplet Lifetime"

Organic Materials 2019, 1, 43-49.

69. Nobuhiro Yanai,* Kengo Suzuki,* Taku Ogawa, Yoichi Sasaki, Naoyuki Harada, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Absolute Method to Certify Quantum Yields of Photon Upconversion via Triplet-Triplet Annihilation"

J. Phys. Chem. A 2019, 123, 46, 10197-10203. 

68. Yoichi Sasaki, Mio Oshikawa, Pankaj Bharmoria, Hironori Kouno, Akiko Hayashi-Takagi, Moritoshi Sato, Itsuki Ajioka*, Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Near-infrared optogenetic genome engineering based on photon upconversion hydrogels"

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 17827-17833.

67. Hak-Lae Lee, Jung Hwan Park, Hyun-Seok Choe, Myung-Soo Lee, Jeong-Min Park, Naoyuki Harada, Yoichi Sasaki, Nobuhiro Yanai,  Nobuo Kimizuka, Jintao Zhu, Suk Ho Bhang,* and Jae-Hyuk Kim*

"Upconverting Oil-Laden Hollow Mesoporous Silica Microcapsules for Anti-Stokes-Based Biophotonic Applications"

ACS Appl. Mater. Inter.. 2019, 11, 26570-26580.  

66. Keisuke Okumura, Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Visible-to-UV Photon Upconversion Sensitized by Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals"

Chem. Lett. 2019, 48, 1347-1350. 

65. Koki Nishimura, Hironori Kouno, Kenichiro Tateishi,* Tomohiro Uesaka, Keiko Ideta, Nobuo Kimizuka,* and Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Triplet dynamic nuclear polarization of nanocrystals dispersed in water at room temperature"

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2019, 21, 16408-16412.  (Selected as a 2019 PCCP HOT Article)

64. Hironori Kouno, Yusuke Kawashima, Kenichiro Tateishi,* Tomohiro Uesaka, Nobuo Kimizuka,* and Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Non-Pentacene Polarizing Agents with Improved Air-Stability for Triplet Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at Room Temperature"

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 2208-2213. 

63. Pankaj Bharmoria,  Nobuhiro Yanai,*  and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Recent Progress in Photon Upconverting Gels" 

Gels 2019, 5, 18. (invited review) (Part of Special Issue "Challenges for Gel Materials in the 21st Century")

62. Francesco Meinardi,* Marco Ballabio,  Nobuhiro Yanai,  Nobuo Kimizuka, Alberto Bianchi, Michele Mauri, Roberto Simonutti, Alessandra Ronchi, Marcello Campione, and Angelo Monguzzi*

"Quasi-thresholdless Photon Upconversion in Metal-Organic Frameworks Nanocrystals"

Nano Lett. 2019, 19, 2169-2177. 

61. Hironori Kouno, Yoichi Sasaki, Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Supramolecular Crowding Can Avoid Oxygen Quenching of Photon Upconversion in Water"

Chem.-Eur. J. 2019, 25, 6124-6130. 

60. Rena Haruki, Hironori Kouno, Masanori Hosoyamada, Taku Ogawa, Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Oligo(ethylene glycol)/alkyl‐modified chromophore assemblies for photon upconversion in water"

Chem.-Asian J. 2019, 14, 1723-1728. (Part of Special Issue "π-Conjugated Compounds for Molecular Materials")

59. Saiya Fujiwara, Masanori Hosoyamada, Kenichiro Tateishi,* Tomohiro Uesaka, Keiko Ideta, Nobuo Kimizuka,* and Nobuhiro Yanai*

"Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Metal–Organic Frameworks Using Photoexcited Triplet Electrons"

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 15606-15610. 

58. Ah-Young Jee, Nobuhiro Yanai, and Steve Granick*

"Comparing Geometry and Chemistry When Confined Molecules Diffuse in Monodisperse Metal-Organic Framework Pores"

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2018, 9, 6399-6403. 

57. Biplab Joarder, Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Solid-State Photon Upconversion Materials: Structural Integrity and Triplet/Singlet Dual Energy Migration"

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2018, 9, 4613-4624. (Review article, part of the themed collection "Excitonic Up- and Down-Conversion")

56. Pankaj Bharmoria, Shota Hisamitsu, Hisanori Nagatomi, Taku Ogawa, Masa-aki Morikawa, Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"A Simple and Versatile Platform for Air-Tolerant Photon Upconverting Hydrogels by Biopolymer-Surfactant-Chromophore Co-assembly"

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 10848-10855. 

55. Taku Ogawa,  Masanori Hosoyamada, Brett Yurash, Thus-Quyen  Nguyen,* Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Donor-Acceptor-Collector Ternary Crystalline Films for Efficient Solid-State Photon Upconversion"

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 8788-8796. 

54. Marleen Haring, Alex Abramov, Keisuke Okumura, Indrajit Ghosh, Burkhard Konig, Nobuhiro Yanai, Nobuo Kimizuka, and David Diaz Diaz*

"Air-sensitive Photoredox Catalysis Performed under Aerobic Conditions in Gel Networks"

J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 7928-7938. 

53. Taku Ogawa, Nobuhiro Yanai,* Saiya Fujiwara, Thus-Quyen Thai Nguyen, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Aggregation-free Sensitizer Dispersion in Rigid Ionic Crystals for Efficient Solid-State Photon Upconversion and Demonstration of Defect Effects"

J. Mater. Chem. C 2018, 6, 5609-5615. 

52. Masanori Hosoyamada, Nobuhiro Yanai,* Keisuke Okumura, Takayuki Uchihashi, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Translating MOF chemistry into supramolecular chemistry: soluble coordination nanofibers showing efficient photon upconversion"

Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 6828-6831. (part of the themed collection "2018 Emerging Investigators")

51. Shogo Amemori, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Marcus Leo Bohm, James Xiao, Uyen Huynh, Tomoki Oyama, Kenji Kaneko, Akshay Rao,* Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Hybridizing semiconductor nanocrystals with metal-organic frameworks for visible and near-infrared photon upconversion"

Dalton Trans. 2018, 47, 8590-8594.  (Themed Issue "Metal Complexes and Nanoparticles for Energy Upconversion")

50. Kazuma Mase, Yoichi Sasaki, Yoshimitsu Sagara,* Nobuyuki Tamaoki, Christoph Weder, 

Nobuhiro Yanai,* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Stimuli-Responsive Dual-color Photon Upconversion: an S-T Absorption Sensitizer in a Soft Luminescent Cyclophane"

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 2806-2810. 

49. Daisuke Kichise, Kazuma Mase, Shigenori Fujikawa,* Nobuhiro Yanai, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Specific Uniaxial Self-assembly of Columnar Perylene Liquid Crystals in Au Nanofin Arrays" 

Chem. Lett. 2018, 47, 354-357. 

48. Hisanori Nagatomi,  Nobuhiro Yanai,*  Teppei Yamada,* Kanji Shiraishi, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Synthesis and Electric Properties of a Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Framework based on Phthalocyanine" 

Chem.-Eur. J. 2018, 24, 1806-1810. 

47. Angelo Monguzzi,* Marco Ballabio,  Nobuhiro Yanai,  Nobuo Kimizuka, Daniele Fazzi, Marcello Campione, and Francesco Meinardi*

"Highly Fluorescent Metal-Organic-Framework Nanocomposites for Photonic Applications" 

Nano Lett. 2018, 18, 528-534. 

46. Shota Hisamitsu,  Nobuhiro Yanai*,  Hironori Kouno, Eisuke Magome, Masaya Matsuki, Teppei Yamada, Angelo Monguzzi, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Two-dimensional structural ordering in a chromophoric ionic liquid for triplet energy migration-based photon upconversion" 

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2018, 20, 3233-3240.

45. Hisanori Nagatomi, Nobuhiro Yanai and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Reentrant Gel-Sol-Gel Transition of a Lipophilic Co(II) Coordination Polymer" 

Chem. Lett. 2018, 47, 97-99.

44. Taku Ogawa,  Nobuhiro Yanai*,  Hironori Kouno, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Kinetically controlled crystal growth approach to enhance triplet energy migration-based photon upconversion"

J. Photon. Energy 2017, 8, 022003. Open Access! (special issue on spectral management for renewable energy conversion)

43. Nobuhiro Yanai* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"New Triplet Sensitization Routes for Photon Upconversion: Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecules, Inorganic Nanocrystals, and Singlet-to-Triplet Absorption" 

Acc. Chem. Res. 2017, 50, 2487-2495.

42. Keisuke Okumura, Masaya Matsuki, Teppei Yamada, Nobuhiro Yanai* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Sensitizer-Free Photon Upconversion in Single-Component Brominated Aromatic Crystals" 

ChemistrySelect. 2017, 2, 7597-7601.

41. Kazuma Mase, Keisuke Okumura, Nobuhiro Yanai* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Triplet Sensitization by Perovskite Nanocrystals for Photon Upconversion" 

Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 8261-8264.

40. Yoichi Sasaki, Shogo Amemori, Hironori Kouno, Nobuhiro Yanai* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Near infrared-to-blue photon upconversion by exploiting direct S-T absorption of a molecular sensitizer" 

J. Mater. Chem. C. 2017, 5, 5063-5067.

39. Pengfei Duan, Deepak Asthana, Takuya Nakashima, Tsuyoshi Kawai, Nobuhiro Yanai* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"All-or-None Switching of Photon Upconversion in Self-Assembled Organogel Systems" 

Faraday Discussions, 2017, 196, 305-316.

38. Nobuo Kimizuka*, Nobuhiro Yanai and Masa-aki Morikawa

"Photon Upconversion and Molecular Solar Energy Storage by Maximizing the Potential of Molecular Self-Assembly" 

Langmuir, 2016, 32, 12304-12322. (invited review)

37. Shogo Amemori, Yoichi Sasaki, Nobuhiro Yanai*, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Near Infrared-to-Visible Photon Upconversion Sensitized by a Metal Complex with Spin-Forbidden yet Strong S0-T1 Absorption" 

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 8702-8705.

36. Nobuhiro Yanai*, Mariko Kozue, Shogo Amemori, Ryota Kabe, Chihaya Adachi, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Increased Vis-to-UV upconversion performance by energy level matching be

tween a TADF donor and high triplet energy acceptors" 

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 6447-6451.

35. Keisuke Okumura, Kazuma Mase, Nobuhiro Yanai* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Employing Core-Shell Quantum Dots as Triplet Sensitizers for Photon Upconversion" 

Chem.-Eur. J., 2016, 22, 7721-7726.

34. Hironori Kouno, Taku Ogawa, Shogo Amemori, Prasenjit Mahato, Nobuhiro Yanai* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Triplet energy migration-based photon upconversion by amphiphilic molecular assemblies in aerated water" 

Chem. Sci, 2016, 7, 5224-5229.

33. Nobuhiro Yanai* and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Recent emergence of photon upconversion based on triplet energy migration in molecular assemblies" 

Chem. Commun, 2016, 52, 5354-5370. (invited review) 

32. Masanori Hosoyamada, Nobuhiro Yanai*, Taku Ogawa, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Molecularly Dispersed Donors in Acceptor Molecular Crystals for Photon Upconversion under Low Excitation Intensity" 

Chem. Eur. J., 2016, 22, 2060-2067.

31. Shota Hisamitsu, Nobuhiro Yanai*, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Photon-Upconverting Ionic Liquids: Effective Triplet Energy Migration in Contiguous Ionic Chromophore Arrays" 

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 11550-11554.

30. Shogo Amemori, Nobuhiro Yanai*, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Metallonaphthalocyanines as Triplet Sensitizers for Near-Infrared Photon Upconversion beyond 850 nm"

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 22557-22560.

29. Taku Ogawa, Nobuhiro Yanai*, Angelo Monguzzi, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Highly Efficient Photon Upconversion in Self-Assembled Light-Harvesting Molecular Systems"

Sci. Rep., 2015, 5, 10882.

28. Shota Hisamitsu, Nobuhiro Yanai*, Shigenori Fujikawa, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Photoinduced Crystallization in Ionic Liquids: Photodimerization-induced Equilibrium Shift and Crystal Patterning"

Chem. Lett., 2015, 44, 908-910.

27. Pengfei Duan, Nobuhiro Yanai*, Hisanori Nagatomi and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Photon Upconversion in Supramolecular Gel Matrixes: Spontaneous Accumulation of Light-Harvesting Donor-Acceptor Arrays in Nanofibers and Acquired Air Stability" 

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 1887-1894.

26. Pengfei Duan, Nobuhiro Yanai*, Yuki Kurashige, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Aggregation-induced Photon Upconversion through Control of the Triplet Energy Landscapes of the Solution and Solid States"

 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 7554-7549.

25. Pengfei Duan, Nobuhiro Yanai*, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"A bis-cyclometalated iridium complex as a benchmark sensitizer for efficient visible-to-UV photon upconversion

Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 13111-13113.

24. Pengfei Duan, Nobuhiro Yanai*, and Nobuo Kimizuka*

"Photon Upconverting Liquids : Matrix-Free Molecular Upconversion Systems Functioning in Air"

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 19056-19059.

23. Melinda Sindoro, Nobuhiro Yanai, Ah-young Jee, and Steve Granick

"Collidal-sized Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications" 

Acc. Chem. Res., 2014, 47, 459-469.

22. Hirotaka Ejima, Nobuhiro Yanai, James P. Best, Melinda Sindoro, Steve Granick, and Frank Caruso

"Near-incompressible Faceted Polymer Microcapsules from Metal-Organic Framework Templates" 

Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 5767-5771.

21. Takashi Uemura, Gosuke Washino, Nobuhiro Yanai, Susumu Kitagawa

"Controlled Encapsulation of Photo-Responsive Macromolecules in Porous Coodination Polymer"

Chem. Lett. 2013, 42, 222-223. (Editor's Chice)  

20. Nobuhiro Yanai, Melinda Sindoro, Jing Yan, and Steve Granick

"Electric Field-Induced Assembly of Monodisperse Polyhedral Metal-Organic Framework Crystals"

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 34-37. 

19. Nobuhiro Yanai and Steve Granick 

"Directional Self-Assembly of a Colloidal Metal-Organic Framework"

 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 5638-5641.  (selected as a Hot Paper)

18. Nobuhiro Yanai, Takashi Uemura, Susumu Kitagawa

"Behavior of Binary Guests in a Porous Coordination Polymer" 

Chem. Mater. 2012, 24, 4744-4749.


17. Masakazu Higuchi, Kohei Nakamura, Satoshi Horike, Yuh Hijikata, Nobuhiro Yanai, Tomohiro Fukushima, Jungeun Kim, Kenichi Kato, Masaki Takata, Daisuke Watanabe, Shinji Oshima, and Susumu Kitagawa

"Design of Flexible Lewis Acidic Sites in Porous Coordination Polymers by using the Viologen Moiety"

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 8369-8372.

16.  Nobuhiro Yanai, Takashi Uemura, Masafumi Inoue, Ryotaro Matsuda, Tomohiro Fukushima, Masahiko Tsujimoto, Seiji Isoda, and Susumu Kitagawa

"Guest-to-Host Transmission of Structural Changes for Stimuli-Responsive Adsorption Property"

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 4501-4504

15.   Nobuhiro Yanai, Takashi Uemura, Wataru Kosaka, Ryotaro Matsuda, Tetsuhiro Kodani, Meiten Koh, Takashi Kanemura, and Susumu Kitagawa

"Inclusion and Dielectric Properties of a Vinylidene Fluoride Oligomer in Coordination Nanochannels"

Dalton Transactions, 2012, 41, 4195-4198.

14.    Nobuhiro Yanai, Koji Kitayama,Yuh Hijikata, Hiroshi Sato, Ryotaro Matsuda,   Yoshiki Kubota, Masaki Takata, Motohiro Mizuno, Takashi Uemura, and Susumu Kitagawa 

"Gas detection by structural variations of fluorescent guest molecules in a flexible porous coordination polymer"

Nature Materials, 2011, 10. 787.   Highlighted in Noteworthy Chemistry of the ACS website

13.    J. Alberto Rodríguez-Velamazán, Miguel González, José A. Real, Miguel Castro, M. C. Muñoz, A. B. Gaspar, Ryo Ohtani, Masaaki Ohba, Ko Yoneda, Yuh Hijikata, Nobuhiro Yanai, Motohiro Mizuno, Susumu Kitagawa       

"A Switchable Molecular Rotor: Neutron Spectroscopy Study on a Spin-Crossover Polymer"

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 5083-5089.


12.    Nobuhiro Yanai, Takashi Uemura, Noriyuki Uchida, Silvia Bracco, Angiolina Comotti, Piero Sozzani, Tetsuhiro Kodani, Meiten Koh, Takashi Kanemura, and Susumu Kitagawa   

"End-Functionalization of a Vinidene Fluoride Oligomer in Coordination Nanochannels" 

J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 8021-8025.


11.    Satoru Shimomura, Nobuhiro Yanai, Ryotaro Matsuda, and Susumu Kitagawa 

"Impact of Metal-Ion Dependence on the Porous and Electronic Properties of TCNQ-Dianion-Based Porous Coordination Polymers"    

Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 172–177.


10.    Nobuhiro Yanai, Takashi Uemura, Satoshi Horike, Satoru Shimomura, and Susumu Kitagawa

"Inclusion and Dynamics of a Polymer–Li Salt Complex in Coordination Nanochannels"

Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 1722-1724.


9.    Takashi Uemura, Nobuhiro Yanai, Satoshi Watanabe, Hideki Tanaka, Ryohei Numaguchi, Minoru T. Miyahara, Yusuke Ohta, Masataka Nagaoka, and Susumu Kitagawa 

"Unveiling Thermal Transitions of Polymers in Subnanometre Pores"                  

Nature Commun. 2010, 1:83.                                                                          


8.    Takashi Uemura, Nobuhiro Yanai, and Susumu Kitagawa      

 "Polymerization Reactions in Porous Coordination Polymers"

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2009, 38, 1228-1236.


7.    Takashi Uemura, Yu Kadowaki, Nobuhiro Yanai, and Susumu Kitagawa      

 "Template Synthesis of Porous Polypyrrole in 3D Coordination Nanochannels"

Chem. Mater., 2009, 21, 4096-4098.


6.    Sareeya Bureekaew, Satoshi Horike, Masakazu Higuchi, Motohiro Mizuno, Takashi Kawamura, Daisuke Tanaka, Nobuhiro Yanai, and Susumu Kitagawa  

"One-Dimensional Imidazole Aggregate in Aluminum Porous Coordination Polymers with High Proton Conductivity"                 Nature Mater., 2009, 8, 831-836.


5.    Masakazu Higuchi, Daisuke Tanaka, Satoshi Horike, Hirotoshi Sakamoto, Kohei Nakamura, Yohei Takashima, Yuh Hijikata, Nobuhiro Yanai, Jungeun Kim, Kenichi Kato, Yoshiki Kubota, Masaki Takata, and Susumu Kitagawa           

"Porous Coordination Polymer with Pyridinium Cationic Surface, [Zn2(tpa)2(cpb)]" 

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 131, 10336-10337.


4.    Nobuhiro Yanai, Takashi Uemura, Masaaki Ohba, Yu Kadowaki, Mitsuhiko Maesato, Mikihito Takenaka, Shotaro Nishitsuji, Hirokazu Hasegawa, and Susumu Kitagawa                                                                                 

"Fabrication of Two-Dimensional Polymer Arrays: Template Synthesis of Polypyrrole between Redox-Active Coordination Nanoslits"                            

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 9883-9886. (Selected as Hot Paper)     Highlighted: Science, 2009, 323, 187.


3.    Shin-ichiro Noro, Nobuhiro Yanai, Susumu Kitagawa, Tomoyuki Akutagawa, and Takayoshi Nakamura

"Binding Properties of Solvatochromic Indicators [Cu(X)(acac)(tmen)] (X = PF6-and BF4-; acac- = acetylacetonate; tmen = N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine) in Solution and the Solid State" 

Inorg. Chem., 2008, 47, 7360-7365.


2.    Daisuke Tanaka, Masakazu Higuchi, Satoshi Horike, Ryotaro Matsuda, Yoshinori Kinoshita, Nobuhiro Yanai, and Susumu Kitagawa

"Storage and Sorption Properties of Acetylene in Jungle-Gym-like Open Frameworks" 

Chem. Asian. J., 2008, 3, 1343-1349.


1.    Nobuhiro Yanai, Wakako Kaneko, Ko Yoneda, Masaaki Ohba, and Susumu Kitagawa                                                                         

"Reversible Water-Induced Magnetic and Structural Conversion of a Flexible Microporous Ni(II)Fe(III) Ferromagnet" 

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 3496-3497.