Emergent Bioengineering Materials Research Team

Advanced materials composed of biological and artificial components are synthesized for development of environmentally friendly energy collection and conversion systems. By combination of organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and biotechnology, novel material synthesis using biological and artificial elements, their chemical fabrication, and the characterization of the interfaces between biological and artificial elements for highly efficient energy collection and conversion are investigated.

Research Fields

Engineering / Chemistry / Materials Sciences

Research Subjects

• Nano biocomposite materials
• Environmentally friendly emergent materials
• Emergent materials for energy collection and conversion

Publications

1. Li, Z., Uzawa, T., Tanaka, T., Hida, A., Ishibashi, K., Katakura,H., Kobatake, E., and Ito, Y.:
   "In vitro selection of peptide aptamers with affinity to single-wall carbon nanotubes using a ribosome display""
   Biotechnol. Lett., 35, 39-45 (2013).
2. Uzawa, T., Tada, S., Wang, W., and Ito, Y.:
   "Expansion of Aptamer Library from "Natural soup" to "Unnatural soup""
   Chem. Commun. in press (2013).
3. Liu, M., Tada, S., Ito, M., Abe, H., and Ito, Y.:
   "In vitro selection of a photo-responsive peptide aptamer by ribosome display"
   Chem. Commun., 48, 11871-11873 (2012).
4. Okabayashi Y., Ito E., Isoshima T., and Hara M.:
   "Positive giant surface potential of tris(8-hydroxyquinolinolato) Aluminum (Alq3) film evaporated onto backside of Alq3 film showing negative giant surface potential"
   Appl. Phys. Exp., 5, 055601 (2012).
5. Takaishi, K., Kawamoto, M., Muranaka, A., and Uchiyama, M.:
   "Fusion of photochromic reaction and synthetic reaction: photoassisted cyclization to highly strained chiral azobenzenophanes"
   Org. Lett., 14, 3252-3255 (2012).
6. Choi E., Kim J., Chun S., Kim A., Lee K., Jeong M., Lim C., Isoshima T., Hara M., and Lee S.-B.:
   "Fabrication of a flexible and transparent touch sensor using single-walled carbon nanotube thin films"
   J. Nanosci. Nanotech., 11, 5845-5849 (2011)
7. Kawamoto, M., Shiga, N., Takaishi, K., and Yamashita T.:
   "Non-destructive erasable molecular switches and memory using light-driven twisting motions"
   Chem. Commun., 46, 8344-8346 (2010).
8. Kawamoto, M., Sassa, T., and Wada, T.:
   "Photoinduced control over the self-organized orientation of amorphous molecular materials using polarized light"
   J. Phys. Chem. B, 114, 1227-1232 (2010).
9. Yagai S., Nakano Y., Seki S., Asano A., Okubo T., Isoshima T., Karatsu T., Kitamura A., and Kikkawa Y.:
   "Supramolecularly engineered aggregation of a dipolar dye : vesicular and ribbon like architectures"
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 49, 9990-9994 (2010).
10. Kawamoto, M., Aoki, T., Shiga, N., and Wada, T.
    "Thermo and photoresponsive behavior of liquid-crystalline helical structures with the aid of dual molecular motions"
    Chem. Mater., 21,564-572 (2009).