Publications (-2009)

2009

  • Ambipolar-Transporting Coaxial Nanotubes with a Tailored Molecular Graphene-Fullerene Heterojunction
    Y. Yamamoto, G. Zhang, W. Jin, T. Fukushima, N. Ishii, A. Saeki, S. Seki, S. Tagawa, T. Minari, K. Tsukagoshi, T. Aida
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2009, 106, 21051–21056 (DOI:10.1002/anie.201916240 ).
  • 'Bicontinuous Cubic' Liquid Crystalline Materials from Discotic Molecules: A Special Effect of Paraffinic Side Chains with Ionic Liquid Pendants
    Md. A. Alam, J. Motoyanagi, Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukushima, J. Kim, K. Kato, M. Takata, A. Saeki, S. Seki, S. Tagawa, T. Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 17722-17723. (Selected as "Front Cover")(DOI: 10.1021/ja905373d ).
  • An Analytical System for Single Nanomaterials: Combination of Capillary Electrophoresis with Raman Spectroscopy or with Scanning Probe Microscopy for Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Analysis
    T. Yamamoto, Y. Murakami, J. Motoyanagi, T. Fukushima, S. Maruyama, M. Kato
    Anal. Chem. 2009, 81, 7336-7341.(DOI: 10.1021/ac901197v ).
  • Charge Transport Properties of Hexabenzocoronene Nanotubes by Field Effect: Influence of the Oligoether Side Chains on the Mobility
    Y. Yamamoto, W. Jin, T. Fukushima, T. Minari, K. Tsukagoshi, A. Saeki, S. Seki, S. Tagawa, T. Aida
    Chem. Lett. 2009, 38, 888-889.(DOI: 10.1246/cl.2009.888 ).
  • Metal-Ion-Coated Graphite Nanotubes: Controlled Self-Assembly of a Pyridyl-Appended Gemini-Shaped Hexabenzocoronene Amphiphile
    W. Zhang, W. Jin, T. Fukushima, N. Ishii, T. Aida
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 4747-4750.(DOI: 10.1002/anie.200900756 ).
  • Stretchable Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode Display Using Printable Elastic Conductors
    T. Sekitani, H. Nakajima, H. Maeda, T. Fukushima, T. Aida, K. Hata, T. Someya
    Nat. Mater. 2009, 8, 494-499. (Highlighted by NPG Asia Materials)(DOI: 10.1038/NMAT2459 ).
  • Unusual Side-Chain Effects on Charge-Carrier Lifetime in Discotic Liquid Crystals
    J. Motoyanagi, Y. Yamamoto, A. Saeki, Md. A. Alam, A. Kimoto, A. Kosaka, T. Fukushima, S. Seki, S. Tagawa, T. Aida
    Chem. Asian J. 2009, 4, 876-880.(DOI: 10.1002/asia.200800481 ).
  • Highly Conductive Sheets from Millimeter-Long Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Ionic Liquids: Application to Fast-Moving, Low-Voltage Electromechanical Actuators Operable in Air
    K. Mukai, K. Asaka, T. Sugino, K. Kiyohara, I. Takeuchi, N. Terasawa, D. N. Futaba, K. Hata, T. Fukushima, T. Aida
    Adv. Mater. 2009, 21, 1582-1585.(DOI: 10.1002/adma.200802817 ).
  • Electromechanical Behavior of Fully Plastic Actuators Based on Bucky Gel Containing Various Internal Ionic Liquids
    I. Takeuchi, K. Asaka, K. Kiyohara, T. Sugino, N. Terasawa, K. Mukai, T. Fukushima, T. Aida
    Electrochim. Acta 2009, 54, 1762-1768.(DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2008.10.007 ).

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2008

  • Self-Assembled Nanotubes and Nanocoils from π-Conjugated Building Blocks
    T. Yamamoto, T. Fukushima, T. Aida
    Advances in Polymer Science 2008 vol. 220, Self-Assembled Nanomaterials II, pp. 1–27, 4576–4581 ( DOI: 10.1007/12_2008_171).
  • A Rubberlike Stretchable Active Matrix Using Elastic Conductors
    T. Sekitani, Y. Noguchi, K. Hata, T. Fukushima, T. Aida, T. Someya
    Science 2008, 321, 1468-1472. (Selected for "Express On-line Publication", Highlighted by NPG Asia Materials)(DOI: 10.1126/science.1160309 ).
  • Systematic Studies on Structural Parameters for Nanotubular Assembly of Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronenes
    W. Jin, Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukushima, N. Ishii, J. Kim, K. Kato, M. Takata, T. Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 9434-9440.(DOI: 10.1021/ja801179e ).
  • Amphiphilic Molecular Design as a Rational Strategy for Tailoring Bicontinuous Electron Donor and Acceptor Arrays: Photoconductive Liquid Crystalline Oligothiophene-C60 Dyads
    W.-S. Li, Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukushima, A. Saeki, S. Seki, S. Tagawa, H. Masunaga, S. Sasaki, M. Takata, T. Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 8886-8887.(DOI: 10.1021/ja802757w ).
  • High Performance Fully Plastic Actuator Based on Ionic-Liquid-Based Bucky Gel
    K. Mukai, K. Asaka, K. Kiyohara, T. Sugino, I. Takeuchi, T. Fukushima, T. Aida
    Electrochim. Acta 2008, 53, 5555-5562.(DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2008.02.113 ).
  • Improved Bath Sonication Method for Dispersion of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using New Triphenylene-Based Surfactant
    T. Yamamoto, Y. Miyauchi, J. Motayanagi, T. Fukushima, T. Aida, M. Kato, S. Maruyama
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 2008, 47, 2000-2004.(DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.47.2000 ).
  • Possible One-Dimensional Helical Conductor: Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene Nanotube
    T. Hara, K. Furukawa, T. Nakamura, Y. Yamamoto, A. Kosaka, W. Jin, T. Fukushima, T. Aida
    J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 2008, 77, 034710.(DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.77.034710 ).
  • Conductive One-Handed Nanocoils by Coassembly of Hexabenzocoronenes: Control of Morphology and Helical Chirality
    T. Yamamoto, T. Fukushima, A. Kosaka, W. Jin, Y. Yamamoto, N. Ishii, T. Aida
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 1672-1675.(DOI: 10.1002/anie.200704747 ).
  • Radially Diblock Nanotube: Site-Selective Functionalization of a Tubularly Assembled Hexabenzocoronene
    J. Mynar, T. Yamamoto, A. Kosaka, T. Fukushima, N. Ishii, T. Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 1530-1531.(DOI: 10.1021/ja075822b ).

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2007

  • Ionic Liquids for Soft Functional Materials with Carbon Nanotubes
    T. Fukushima, T. Aida
    Chem. Eur. J. 200713, 5048-5058.(DOI: 10.1002/chem.200700554 ).
  • Molecular Engineering of Coaxial Donor-Acceptor Heterojunction by Coassembly of Two Different Hexabenzocoronenes: Graphitic Nanotubes with Enhanced Photoconducting Properties
    Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukushima, A. Saeki, S. Seki, S. Tagawa, N. Ishii, T. Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 9276-9277.(DOI: 10.1021/ja073577q ).
  • Formation of Water-Dispersible Nanotubular Graphitic Assembly Decorated with Isothiouronium Ion Groups and Its Supramolecular Functionalization
    G. Zhang, W. Jin, T. Fukushima, A. Kosaka, N. Ishii, T. Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 719-722.(DOI: 10.1021/ja0671518).
  • Dynamic Redox Systems as Electrochromic Materials: Bistability and Advanced Response
    T. Suzuki, E. Ohta, H. Kawai, K. Fujiwara, T. Fukushima
    Synlett 2007, , 851–869 (DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-973887).
  • Soft Materials with Graphitic Nanostructures
    T. Aida, T. Fukushima
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2007, 365, 1539–1552 (DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2007.2030).
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2006

  • Photoconductive Coaxial Nanotubes of Molecularly Connected Electron Donor and Acceptor Layers
    Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukushima, Y. Suna, N. Ishii, A. Saeki, S. Seki, S. Tagawa, M. Taniguchi, T. Kawai, T. Aida
    Science 2006, 314, 1761-1764.
    (Selected as "Perspectives" in Science 2006, 314, 1693-1694; Highlighted in Nature Nanotech. 2007, 2, 77-78, News & Views of C&EN, Chemistry World, Newscientist, nanotechweb, Technology Review)(DOI: 10.1126/science.1134441).
  • Stabilization of a Kinetically Favored Nanostructure: Surface ROMP of Self- Assembled Conductive Nanocoils from a Norbornene-Appended Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene
    T. Yamamoto, T. Fukushima, Y. Yamamoto, A. Kosaka, W. Jin, N. Ishii, T. Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 14337-14340.(DOI: 10.1021/ja064461h).
  • Self-Assembled Graphitic Nanotubes from an Amphiphilic Hexabenzocoronene Bearing Thiol Functionalities: Redox-Mediated Polymerization and Depolymerization
    J. Motoyanagi, T. Fukushima, A. Kosaka, N. Ishii, T. Aida
    J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem. 2006, 44, 5120-5127.(DOI: 10.1002/pola.21615).
  • A Glass Hook Allows Fishing of Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene Graphitic Nanotubes: Fabrication of a Macroscopic Fiber with Anisotropic Electrical Conduction
    Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukushima, W. Jin, A. Kosaka, T. Hara, T. Nakamura, A. Saeki, S. Seki, S. Tagawa, T. Aida
    Adv. Mater. 2006, 18, 1297-1300. (Selected as "Front Cover")(DOI: 10.1002/adma.200502116).
  • Dramatic Effect of Dispersed Carbon Nanotubes on the Mechanical and Electroconductive Properties of Polymers Derived from Ionic Liquids
    T. Fukushima, A. Kosaka, Y. Yamamoto, T. Aimiya, S. Notazawa, T. Takigawa, T. Inabe, T. Aida
    Small 2006, 2, 554-560.(DOI: 10.1002/smll.200500404).
  • Photochemical Stitching of a Tubularly Assembled Hexabenzocoronene Amphiphile by Dimerization of Coumarin Pendants
    J. Motoyanagi, T. Fukushima, N. Ishii, T. Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 4220-4221.(DOI: 10.1021/ja060593z).
  • Amorphous Carbon-Promoted Low-Temperature Crystallization of Silica
    A. Okabe, M. Niki, T. Fukushima, T. Aida
    Chem. Lett. 2006, 35, 228-229. (DOI: 10.1246/cl.2006.228).
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2005

  • Novel Soft Composite Materials Composed of Ionic Liquids and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
    T. Fukushima, T. Aida
    In ACS Symposium Series 2005, vol. 913, pp. 163-174.Ionic Liquids in Polymer Systems: Solvents, Additives, and Novel Applications, C. S. Brazel and R. D. Rogers. Eds., Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • Electric Double-Layer Capacitors Using "Bucky Gels" Consisting of an Ionic Liquid and Carbon Nanotubes
    T. Katakabe, T. Kaneko, M. Watanabe, T. Fukushima, T. Aida
    J. Electrochem. Soc. 2005, 152, A1913-A1916.(DOI: 10.1149/1.2001187).
  • Self-Assembled Graphitic Nanotubes with One-Handed Helical Arrays of a Chiral Amphiphilic Molecular Graphene
    W. Jin, T. Fukushima, M. Niki, A. Kosaka, N. Ishii, T. Aida
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2005, 102, 10801-10806.(DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0500852102).
  • Controlled Self-Assembly Triggered by Olefin Metathesis: Cross-linked Graphitic Nanotubes from an Amphiphilic Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene
    W. Jin, T. Fukushima, A. Kosaka, M. Niki, N. Ishii, T. Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 8284-8285. (Highlighted in Science 2005, 308, 1519, "Editor's Choice")(DOI: 10.1021/ja051859p).
  • Fully Plastic Actuator through Layer-by-Layer Casting with Ionic-Liquid-Based Bucky Gel
    T. Fukushima, K. Asaka, A. Kosaka, T. Aida
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 2410-2413.(DOI: 10.1002/anie.200462318).
  • A Simple Route to Bimodal Mesoporous Silica via Tetrafluoroborate Ion-Mediated Hydrophobic Transformation of Template Micellar Surface
    A. Okabe, M. Niki, T. Fukushima, T. Aida
    J. Mater. Chem. 2005, 15, 1329-1331.(DOI: 10.1039/b500348b).
  • Discotic Liquid Crystals Stabilized by Interionic Interactions: Imidazolium Ion- Anchored Paraffinic Triphenylene
    J. Motoyanagi, T. Fukushima, T. Aida
    Chem. Commun. 2005, 101-103.(DOI: 10.1039/b414649b).

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2004

  • Asymmetric Photoreaction in Peptide Assemblies Confined in Mesoporous Silica Nanopores
    T. Aimiya, K. Ariga, A. Okabe, T. Fukushima, M. Niki, T. Aida
    Trans. Mater. Res. Soc. Jpn. 2004, 29, 3187-3190.
  • Immobilization of One-Dimensional Charge-Transfer Assemblies in Mesoporous Silica Films through Discotic Molecule Templating
    A. Okabe, T. Fukushima, K. Ariga, T. Aida
    Trans. Mater. Res. Soc. Jpn. 2004, 29, 3183-3186.
  • Ethanol Vapor-Mediated Maturing for the Enhancement of Structural Regularity of Hexagonal Mesoporous Silica Films
    A. Okabe, M. Niki, T. Fukushima, T. Aida
    Chem. Commun. 2004, 2572-2573.(DOI: 10.1039/b410095f).
  • Tetrafluoroborate Salts as Site-Selective Promoters for Sol-Gel Synthesis of Mesoporous Silica
    A. Okabe, T. Fukushima, K. Ariga, M. Niki, T. Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 9013-9016.(DOI: 10.1021/ja0478532).
  • Self-Assembled Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene Graphitic Nanotube
    J. P. Hill, W. Jin, A. Kosaka, T. Fukushima, H. Ichihara, T. Shimomura, K. Ito, T. Hashizume, N. Ishii, T. Aida
    Science 2004, 304, 1481-1483. (Selected as Perspectives in Science 2004, 304, 1457-1458; Highlighted in New &Views of C&EN)(DOI: 10.1126/science.1097789).
  • Pyrazino-tetracyanonaphthoquinodimethanes: Sterically Deformed Electron Acceptors Affording Zwitterionic Radicals
    T. Suzuki, S. Miyanari, H. Kawai, K. Fujiwara, T. Fukushima, T. Miyashi, Y. Yamashita
    Tetrahedron 2004, 60, 1997-2003.(DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2004.01.005).
  • Intramolecular Photoinduced Electron-transfer Processes in Tetrathienylethylene-Quaterthiophene-[60]Fullerene Triad in Solutions
    K. Yamanaka, M. Fujitsuka, Y. Araki, O. Ito, T. Aoshima, T. Fukushima, T. Miyashi
    J. Phys. Chem. A 2004, 108, 250-256.(DOI: 10.1021/jp036932h).
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2003

    • Nanostructured Silicate Film Templated by Discotic CT-Complex Column
      A. Okabe, T. Fukushima, K. Ariga, T. Aida
      In Nanotechnology in Mesostructured Materials: Proceedings of the 3rd International Mesostructured Material Symposium, Jeju, Korea, July 8-11, 2002 (Stud. Surf. Sci. Catal.), 2003 146, 73–76  , Elsevier, 2003. (DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2991(03)80330-0).
    • 4,7-Bis(dimethylamino)benzimidazoles and Twin-Type Derivatives: Reversible Two- Stage Redox System Modulated by Proton-Transfer
      T. Suzuki, Y. Tsubata, Y. Obana, T. Fukushima, T. Miyashi, M. Saito, H. Kawai, K. Fujiwara, K. Akiyama
      Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 7881-7884.(DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2003.09.012).
    • Photoinduced Electron Transfer from Tetrathienylethylenes to Fullerenes (C60/C70): Tetrathienylethylene-Dendrimer Effect
      K. Yamanaka, M. Fujitsuka, O. Ito, T. Aoshima, T. Fukushima, T. Miyashi
      Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2003, 76, 1341-1349.(DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.76.1341).
    • Molecular Ordering of Organic Molten Salts Triggered by Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
      T. Fukushima, A. Kosaka, Y. Ishimura, T. Yamamoto, T. Takigawa, N. Ishii, T. Aida
      Science 2003, 300, 2072-2074. (Highlighted in News & Views of C&EN, Technology Review; nanotechweb)(DOI: 10.1126/science.1082289).
    • Solvation Dynamics of Fluorophores with an Anthroyloxy Group at the Heptane/Water Interface as Studied by Time-Resolved Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Spectroscopy
      T. Yamashita, T. Uchida, T. Fukushima, N. Teramae
      J. Phys. Chem. B 2003, 107, 4786-4792.(DOI: 10.1021/jp026163m).

    2002

    • Photoinduced Electron-Transfer from Two-Electron Donor to C60 and C70
      K. Yamanaka, M. Fujitsuka, O. Ito, T. Aoshima, T. Fukushima, T. Miyashi
      Proc. Electrochem. Soc. 2002, 12, 38-51.

    2001

    • Preparation, Structure, and Amphoteric Redox Properties of p-Phenylenediamine-Type Dyes Fused with a Chalcogenadiazole Unit
      T. Suzuki, T. Tsuji, T. Okubo, A. Okada, Y. Obana, T. Fukushima, T. Miyashi, Y. Yamashita
      J. Org. Chem. 2001, 66, 8954-8960.(DOI: 10.1021/jo010808h).
    • Photosensitized Electron-Transfer Reactions of 1-Isopropylidene-2-methylene-3,3-diphenylcyclobutane - [4 + 4] Cycloaddition and Cyclodimerization Initiated by a Buta-1,3-diene Radical Cation Functionality
      H. Ikeda, N. Aburakawa, F. Tanaka, T. Fukushima, T. Miyashi
      Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2001, 18, 3445-3452.
    • Single-Component Organic Semiconductors Based on Novel Radicals that Exhibit Electrochemical Amphotericity: Preparation, Crystal Structures, and Solid-State Properties of N,N'-Dicyanopyrazinonaphthoquinodiimines Substituted with an N-Alkylpyridinium Unit
      T. Suzuki, S. Miyanari, Y. Tsubata, T. Fukushima, T. Miyashi, Y. Yamashita, K. Imaeda, Kenichi, T. Ishida, Takayuki, T. Nogami
      J. Org. Chem. 2001, 66, 216-224.(DOI: 10.1021/jo001352r).
    • Synthesis of para-tert-Butylthiacalix[4]arene and Its Inclusion Property
      N. Iki, C. Kabuto, T. Fukushima, H. Kumagai, H. Takeya, S. Miyanari, T. Miyashi, S. Miyano
      Tetrahedron 2000, 56, 1437-1443.(DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(00)00030-2).
    • Supramolecular Aggregation of m-Nitrobenzoic Acid by C-H---O and O-H---O Hydrogen Bondings in the Crystalline Charge-Transfer Complexes with Aromatic Hydrocarbons
      T. Suzuki, T. Tsuji, T. Fukushima, S. Miyanari, T. Miyashi, Y. Sakata, T. Kouda, H. Kamiyama
      J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 7107-7113.(DOI: 10.1021/jo990658z).
    • First Stable Tetracyanodiphenoquinodimethane with a Completely Planar Geometry: Preparation, X-ray Structure, and Highly Conductive Complexes of Bis[1,2,5]thiadiazolo-TCNDQ
      T. Fukushima, N. Okazeri, T. Miyashi, K. Suzuki, Y. Yamashita, T. Suzuki
      Tetrahedron Lett. 1999, 40, 1175-1178.(DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(98)02557-X).
    • Tetracyanoquinodimethanes Fused with a 1,2,5-Chalcogenadiazole Ring
      T. Suzuki, Y. Yamashita, T. Fukushima, T. Miyashi
      Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 1997, 296, 165-180.(DOI: 10.1080/10587259708032319).
    • Isolation and X-ray Structural Determination of Both Folded and Twisted Conformers of Bi{4H,8H-4(dicyanomethylene)benzo-[1,2-c:4,5-c']bis[1,2,5]thiadiazol-8-ylidene}, an Overcrowded Ethylene with High Electron Affinity
      T. Suzuki, T. Fukushima, T. Miyashi, T. Tsuji
      Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1997, 36, 2495-2497.(DOI: 10.1002/anie.199724951).
    • Dibenzotetrathiafulvalenes inserted with cycloalkanes and Their Tricyclic Valence Isomers: Reversible C-C Bond Making/breaking upon Electron Transfer
      T. Suzuki, M. Kondo, T. Nakamura, T. Fukushima, T. Miyashi
      Chem. Commun. 1997, 2325-2326.(DOI: 10.1039/a706342c).
    • An Absolute Asymmetric Synthesis of the [2 + 2] Cycloadduct via Single Crystal-to- Single Crystal Transformation by Charge-Transfer Excitation of Solid-State Molecular Complexes Composed of Arylolefins and Bis[1,2,5]thiadiazolotetracyanoquino-dimethane
      T. Suzuki, T. Fukushima, Y. Yamashita, T. Miyashi
      J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1994, 116, 2793-2803.(DOI: 10.1021/ja00086a012).


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Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science
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School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Department of Chemical Science and Engineering

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