Responsive Matter Chemistry & Engineering Research Group
Group Director
Takuzo AIDA (D.Eng.)
Water is essential for life on earth and considered as an ultimate green substance. If many useful materials are available from water, they not only give rise to breakthroughs in materials science but also provide a solution to address an important global issue how to reduce fossil-fuel consumption. In this context, our group aims to create water-based materials, referred to as "aqua materials", as alternatives to conventional plastics, which allow for many applications in environmental, biological, medical, and materials sciences. To this goal, we intend to (1) establish the concept of aqua materials by demonstrating their potentials to a wide variety of applications, (2) realize highly efficient and clean chemical and biological reactions through the design of particular aqueous environments, and (3) develop new energy-conversion systems using soft materials. In order to achieve these missions, three research teams involved are to cooperate together closely and actively.
- Development of functional organic, polymeric, supramolecular nanomaterials
- Development of dynamically responsive soft materials
- Construction of new catalytic reaction fields via molecular self-assembly
- Instantaneous organic transformations with microchannel reactors
- Environment conscious alternatives to conventional plastic based on hydrogels
- October 9, 2009
- Developing new stimuli-responsive molecular devices
- Li, W.-S., and Aida, T.:
"Dendrimer Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines."
Chem. Rev., 109, 6047-6076 (2009). - Wang, Q., Mynar, J. L., Yoshida, M., Lee, E., Lee, M., Okuro, K., Kinbara, K., and Aida T.:
"High-Water-Content Hydrogel by Mixing Clay and Dendritic Molecular Glue."
Nature 463, 339-343 (2010). - Ishida, Y., Iwasa, E., Matsuoka, Y., Miyauchi, H., and Saigo, K.
"An Enantiopure Cyclophane-Type Imidazole with No Central but Planar Chirality."
Chem. Commun., 3401-3403 (2009). - Yamamoto, Y., Zhang, G., Jin, W., Fukushima, T., Ishii, N., Saeki, A., Seki, S., Tagawa, S., Minari, T., Tsukagoshi, K., and Aida ,T.:
"Ambipolar-transporting Coaxial Nanotubes with a Tailored Molecular Graphene-Fullerene Heterojunction."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 106, 21051-21056 (2009). - Alam, M. A., Motoyanagi, J., Yamamoto, Y., Fukushima, T., Kim, K., Kato, K., Takata, M., Saeki, A., Seki, S., Tagawa, S., and Aida, T.:
"'Bicontinuous Cubic' Liquid Crystalline Materials from Discotic Molecules: A Special Effect of Paraffinic Side Chains with Ionic Liquid Pendants."
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 17722-17723 (2009). - Zhang, W., Jin, W., Fukushima, T., Ishii, N., and Aida, T.:
"Metal Ion-Coated 'Graphite' Nanotubes: Coordination Chemistry for Controlled Self-Assembly of a Pyridyl-Appended Gemini-Shaped Hexabenzocoronene Amphiphile"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48, 4747-4750 (2009). - Sekitani, T., Nakajima, H., Maeda, H., Fukushima, T., Aida, T., Hata, K., and Someya T.:
"Stretchable Active Matrix Organic Light-emitting Diode Display using Printable Elastic Conductors."
Nat. Mater., 8, 494-499 (2009). - Yamada, Y. M. A., Watatabe, T., Torii, K., and Uozumi, Y.:
"Catalytic Membrane-installed Microchannel Reactors for One-second Allylic Arylation"
Chem. Commun., 5594-5596 (2009). - Yamada, Y. M. A., Arakawa, T., Hoche, H., and Uozumi, Y.:
"An Amphiphilic Resin-dispersion of Nanoparticles of Platinum (ARP-Pt): A Highly Active and Recyclable Catalyst for the Aerobic Oxidation of a Variety of Alcohols in Water"
Chem. Asian. J. 4, 1092-1098 (2009). - Uozumi, Y, Matsu-ura, Y., Arakawa, T., and Yamada, Y. M. A.:
"Aquacatalytic Asymmetric Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling with an Amphiphilic Resin-Supported Chiral Palladium Complex"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48, 2708-2710 (2009).
| Nanocomposite Soft Materials Engineering Team |
| Chemical Process Engineering Laboratory |
| Functional Soft Matter Engineering Laboratory |