Functional Soft Matter Engineering Team
Research Areas
| This research team aims to create novel molecular-based functional materials through precise controls of physical and structural properties at molecular and nanoscale levels. By taking full advantage of organic, polymer, and supramolecular chemistry, we design component molecules that exhibit not only electronic, optoelectronic, and magnetic properties but also certain mechanical and dynamic behaviors. In parallel, we develop methodologies to achieve site-specific and hierarchal integration of these molecular components into a well-defined assembly or discrete nano-object. Through these works, we intend to provide new design concepts of soft materials with unprecedented functions. We also make an effort to explore fundamental phenomena and establish basic science, which provoke new materials science. |
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List of Selected Publications
| (1) | Sekitani, T., Noguchi, Y., Hata, K., Fukushima, T., Aida, T., and Someya, T.: "A Rubber-like Stretchable Integrated Circuit Using Elastic Conductors." Science, 321, 1468-1472(2008). |
| (2) | Jin, W., Yamamoto, Y., Fukushima, T., Ishii, N., Kim, J., Kato, K., Takata, M., and Aida, T.: "Systematic Studies on Structural Parameters for Nanotubular Assembly of Hexa-peri- hexabenzocoronenes." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 9434-9440(2008) |
| (3) | Li, W.-S., Yamamoto, Y., Fukushima, T., Saeki, A., Seki, S., Tagawa, S., Masunaga, H., Sasaki, S., Takata, M., and Aida, T.: "Amphiphilic Molecular Design as a Rational Strategy for Tailoring Bicontinuous Electron Donor and Acceptor Arrays: Photoconductive Liquid Crystalline Oligothiophene-C60 Dyads." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 8886-8887(2008) |
| (4) | Yamamoto, T., Fukushima, T., Kosaka, A., Jin, W., Yamamoto, Y., Ishii, N., and Aida, T.: "Conductive One-Handed Nanocoils by Coassembly of Hexabenzocoronenes: Control of Morphology and Helical Chirality" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47, 1672-1675(2008) |
| (5) | Mynar, J., Yamamoto, T., Kosaka, A., Fukushima, T., Ishii, N., and Aida, T.: "Radially Diblock Nanotube: Site-Selective Functionalization of a Tubularly Assembled Hexabenzocoronene." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 1530-1531(2008) |
| (6) | Yamamoto, Y., Fukushima, T., Suna, Y., Ishii, N., Saeki, A., Seki, S., Tagawa, S., Taniguchi, M., Kawai, 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., and 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., and Aida, T.: "Fully Plastic Actuator through Layer-by-Layer Casting with Ionic-Liquid-Based Bucky Gel." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 44, 2410-2413(2005) |
| (9) | Hill, J.P., Jin, W., Kosaka, A., Fukushima, T., Ichihara, H., Shimomura, T., Ito, K., Hashizume, T., Ishii, N., and 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., and Aida, T.: "Molecular Ordering of Organic Molten Salts Triggered by Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes." Science, 300, 2072-2074(2003) |