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Functional Soft Matter Engineering Team
Takanori FUKUSHIMA
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Takanori FUKUSHIMA (D.Sci.)
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Research Areas

We aim to create novel molecular-based functional materials through precise control of physical and structural properties at molecular and nanoscale levels. By taking full advantage of organic, polymer, and supramolecular chemistry, we design molecular components, which not only respond to light, electric and magnetic stimuli, but also exhibit mechanical and dynamic properties. We also develop methodologies to achieve a site-specific integration of such molecular components into a hierarchical structure, so that small changes of individual molecule triggered by external stimuli are accumulated, amplified, and converted into a different energy output. Through these works, we intend to establish new design concepts of soft materials with highly efficient energy-conversion systems.

Research Subject

  1. Design of Functional Organic, Polymeric, Supramolecular Molecules
  2. New Methods for Large-Scale Molecular Ordering
  3. Development of Stimuli Responsive Soft Materials
  4. Development of Molecular Systems for Energy Conversion

RIKEN RESEARCH

July 24, 2009
Rolling out the nanotubes
Synthesis of graphitic nanotubes containing platinum metals achieved through self-assembly techniques New Window

List of Selected Publications

  1. 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
  2. Alam, Md. A., Motoyanagi, J., Yamamoto, Y., Fukushima, T., Kim, J., 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
  3. Zhang, W., Jin, W., Fukushima, T., Ishii, N., Aida, T.: "Metal-Ion-Coated Graphite Nanotubes: Controlled Self-Assembly of a Pyridyl-Appended Gemini-Shaped Hexabenzocoronene Amphiphile." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48, 4747-4750. 2009
  4. Sekitani, T., Noguchi, Y., Hata, K., Fukushima, T., Aida, T., Someya, T.: "A Rubber-like Stretchable Integrated Circuit Using Elastic Conductors." Science 321, 1468-1472. 2008
  5. Jin, W., Yamamoto, Y., Fukushima, T., Ishii N.,, Kim, J., Kato, K.. Takata, M., Aida, T.: "Systematic Studies on Structural Parameters for Nanotubular Assembly of Hexa-peri- hexabenzocoronenes." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 9434-9440. 2008
  6. Yamamoto, Y., Fukushima, T., Suna, Y., Ishii, N., Saeki, A., Seki, S., Tagawa, S., Taniguchi, M., Kawa, T.,and Aida, T.: "Photoconductive Coaxial Nanotubes of Molecularly Connected Electron Donor and Acceptor Layers." Science, 314, 1761-1764. 2006
  7. Jin, W., Fukushima, T., Niki, M., Kosaka, A., Ishii, N., Aida, T.: "Self-Assembled Graphitic Nanotubes with One-Handed Helical Arrays of a Chiral Amphiphilic Molecular Graphene." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102, 10801-10806. 2005
  8. Fukushima, T., Asaka, K., Kosaka, A., Aida, T.: "Fully Plastic Actuator through Layer-by-Layer Casting with Ionic-Liquid-Based Bucky Gel." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 2410-2413.
  9. Hill,J. P., Jin, W., Kosaka, A., Fukushima, T., Ichihara, H., Shimomura, T., Ito, K., Hashizume, T., Ishii, N., Aida, T.: "Self-Assembled Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene Graphitic Nanotube." Science, 304, 1481-1483. 2004
  10. Fukushima, T., Kosaka, A., Ishimura, Y., Yamamoto, T., Takigawa, T., Ishii, N., Aida, T.: "Molecular Ordering of Organic Molten Salts Triggered by Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes." Science, 300, 2072-2074. 2003
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