Research Summary

Selected Publications

Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.

• 1.Sano, K., Kim, Y. S., Ishida, Y., Ebina, Y., Sasaki, T., Hikima, T., and Aida, T.
  "Photonic Water Dynamically Responsive to External Stimuli"
  Nature Communications 2016, 7, 12559.
• 2.Matsui, R., Ohtani, M., Yamada, K., Hikima, T., Takata, M., Nakamura, T., Koshino, H., Ishida, Y., and Aida, T.:
  "Chemically Locked Bicelles with High Thermal and Kinetic Stability"
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 54, 13284–13288 (2015).
• 3.Li, C., Cho, J., Yamada, K., Hashizume, D., Araoka, F., Takezoe, H., Aida, T., and Ishida, Y.:
  "Macroscopic Ordering of Helical Pores for Arraying Guest Molecules Noncentrosymmetrically"
  Nature Communications 2015, 6, 8418.
• 4.Kim, Y. S., Liu, M., Ishida, Y., Ebina, Y., Osada, M., Sasaki, T., Hikima, T., Takata, M., and Aida, T.:
  "Thermoresponsive Actuation Enabled by Permittivity Switching in an Electrostatically Anisotropic Hydrogel"
  Nature Materials 14, 1002–1007 (2015).
• 5.Liu, M., Ishida, Y., Ebina, Y., Sasaki, T., Hikima, T., Takata, M., and Aida, T.:
  "An Anisotropic Hydrogel with Electrostatic Repulsion between Cofacially Aligned Nanosheets"
  Nature 517, 68–74 (2015).
• 6.Wu, L., Ohtani, M., Takata, M., Saeki, A., Seki, S., Ishida, Y., and Aida, T.:
  "Magnetically Induced Anisotropic Orientation of Graphene Oxide Locked by in Situ Hydrogelation"
  ACS Nano 8, 4640–4649 (2014).
• 7.Tamesue, S., Ohtani, M., Yamada, K., Ishida, Y., Spruell, J. M., Lynd, N. A., Hawker, C. J., and Aida, T.:
  "Linear versus Dendritic Molecular Binders for Hydrogel Network Formation with Clay Nanosheets: Studies with ABA Triblock Copolyethers Carrying Guanidinium Ion Pendants"
  Journal of the American Chemical Society 135, 15650–15655 (2013).
• 8.Liu, M., Ishida, Y., Ebina, Y., Sasaki, T., and Aida, T.:
  "Photolatently Modulable Hydrogels using Unilamellar Titania Nanosheets as Photocatalytic Crosslinkers"
  Nature Communications 4, 2029 (2013).
• 9.Maggini, L., Liu, M., Ishida, Y., and Bonifagi, D.:
  "Anisotropically Luminescent Hydrogels Containing Magnetically-aligned MWCNTs-Eu(III) Hybrids"
  Advanced Materials 25, 2462–2467 (2013).
• 10.Ishida, Y., Matsuoka, Y., Kai, Y., Yamada, K., Nakagawa, K., Asahi, T., and Saigo, K.:
  "Metastable Liquid Crystal as Time-responsive Reaction Medium: Aging-induced Dual Enantioselective Control"
  Journal of the American Chemical Society 135, 6407–6410 (2013).

Recent Research Results

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  May 10, 2023
  Channeling mechanical energy in a preferred direction

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  Dec. 27, 2021
  Gelatin foams show unexpected ultralong organic phosphorescence for optical applications

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  Nov. 25, 2021
  Creating coherent motion based on coordinated microscopic movements

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  Dec. 1, 2020
  A shapeshifting material based on inorganic matter

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  Jan. 18, 2019
  Photoreactions activate magnetic nanoswitches

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  Dec. 2, 2016
  Photonic water shows nanosheets’ true colors

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  Dec. 18, 2015
  Helical pores make perfect hosts

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  Dec. 4, 2015
  Building better bilayers

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  Oct. 16, 2015
  A hydrogel flexes its muscles

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  Aug. 11, 2015
  New hydrogel stretches and contracts like a heat-driven muscle

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  Mar. 6, 2015
  Nanosheets line up to mimic nature

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  Dec. 30, 2014
  A repulsive material

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