✤ Go Watanabe*, Hiroki Eimura, Nicholas L Abbott, and Takashi Kato*
“Biomolecular Binding at Aqueous Interfaces of Langmuir Monolayers of Bioconjugated Amphiphilic Mesogenic Molecules: A Molecular Dynamics Study”
Langmuir 36, 12281-12287 (2020).
Selected as a “Front Cover” !
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02191
✤ Subaru Konishi, Yu Kashiwagi, Go Watanabe, Motofumi Osaki, Takuya Katashima, Osamu Urakawa, Tadashi Inoue, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Akira Harada*, and Yoshinori Takashima*
“Design and mechanical properties of supramolecular polymeric materials based on host–guest interactions: the relation between relaxation time and fracture energy”
Polym. Chem. 11, 6811-6820 (2020).
DOI: 10.1039/D0PY01347A
✤ Shohei Kumagai*, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Tatsuro Annaka, Eiji Fukuzaki, Yukio Tani, Hiroki Sugiura, Tetsuya Watanabe, Tadanori Kurosawa, Jun Takeya, and Toshihiro Okamoto*
“Cooperative Aggregations of Nitrogen-Containing Perylene Diimides Driven by Rigid and Flexible Functional Groups”
Chem. Mater. 32, 9115-9125 (2020).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01888
✤ Go Watanabe*, Hideyo Watanabe, Kota Suzuki, Hidetaka Yuge, Shintaro Yoshida, Takuyoshi Mandai, Shigetaka Yoneda, Hisako Sato, Mitsuo Hara*, and Jun Yoshida*
“Visualizing the helical stacking of octahedral metallomesogens with a chiral core”
Chem. Commun. 56, 12134-12137 (2020).
Selected as a “Inside Back Cover” !
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC05930G
✤ Toshihiro Okamoto*, Masato Mitani, Craig P. Yu, Chikahiko Mitsui, Masakazu Yamagishi, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Shohei Kumagai, Daisuke Hashizume, Shota Tanaka, Masafumi Yano, Tomokatsu Kushida, Hiroyasu Sato, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Takashi Kato, and Jun Takeya
“Alkyl-Substituted Selenium-Bridged V-Shaped Organic Semiconductors Exhibiting High Hole Mobility and Unusual Aggregation Behavior”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142, 14974-14984 (2020).
Selected as a “Cover” !
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c05522
✤ Yoshiaki Uchida*, Go Watanabe, Takuya Akita, and Norikazu Nishiyama
“Thermal Molecular Motion Can Amplify Intermolecular Magnetic Interactions”
J. Phys. Chem. B 124, 6175–6180 (2020).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c05408
✤ Toshihiro Okamoto*, Shohei Kumagai, Eiji Fukuzaki, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Naoyuki Niitsu, Tatsuro Annaka, Masakazu Yamagishi, Yukio Tani, Hiroki Sugiura, Tetsuya Watanabe, Shun Watanabe, and Jun Takeya
“Robust, High-Performance n-Type Organic Semiconductors”
Sci. Adv. 6, eaaz0632 (2020).
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0632
✤ Katsuhiro Maeda*, Mai Nozaki, Kengo Hashimoto, Kouhei Shimomura, Daisuke Hirose, Tatsuya Nishimura, Go Watanabe, and Eiji Yashima
“Helix-Sense-Selective Synthesis of Right- and Left-Handed Helical Luminescent Poly(diphenylacetylene)s with Memory of the Macromolecular Helicity and Their Helical Structures”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142, 7668–7682 (2020).
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c02542
✤ Nanami Uemura, Tsubasa Kobayashi, Shintaro Yoshida, Ya-xin Li, Karel Goossens, Xiangbing Zeng, Go Watanabe, and Takahiro Ichikawa*
“Double-Gyroid Nanostructure Formation by Aggregation-Induced Atropisomerization and Co-Assembly of Ionic Liquid-Crystalline Amphiphiles”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, 8445–8450 (2020).
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202000424
✤ Yusaku Ogita, Shuuji Mawaribuchi, Kei Nakasako, Kei Tamura, Masaru Matsuda, Takafumi Katsumura, Hiroki Oota, Go Watanabe, Shigetaka Yoneda, Nobuhiko Takamatsu, and Michihiko Ito*
“Parallel evolution of two dmrt1-derived genes dmy and dm-W for vertebrate sex determination”
iScience 23, 100757 (2020).
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2019.100757
✤ Wanying Zhang, Satoshi Suzuki, SeongYong Cho, Go Watanabe, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Tsuneaki Sakurai*, Mika Aotani, Yusuke Tsutsui, Masanori Ozaki, and Shu Seki*
“Highly Miscible Hybrid Liquid-Crystal Systems Containing Fluorescent Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Molecules”
Langmuir 35, 14031-14041 (2019).
Selected as a “Cover” !
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02272
✤ Atsuya Ishida, Go Watanabe, Mio Oshikawa, Itsuki Ajioka, and Takahiro Muraoka*
“Glycine Substitution Effects on the Supramolecular Morphology and Rigidity of Cell‐Adhesive Amphiphilic Peptides”
Chem. Eur. J. 25, 13523-13530 (2019).
Selected as a “Front Cover” !
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201902083
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201903871
✤ Mayu Fukuda, Rafael Rodríguez, Zulema Fernández, Tatsuya Nishimura, Daisuke Hirose, Go Watanabe, Emilio Quiñoá, Félix Freire*, and Katsuhiro Maeda*
“Macromolecular helicity control of poly(phenyl isocyanate)s with a single stimuli-responsive chiral switch”
Chem. Commun. 55, 7906-7909 (2019).
Selected as a “Inside Back Cover” !
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC03555A
✤ Wanying Zhang, Tsuneaki Sakurai*, Mika Aotani, Go Watanabe, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Vikas S. Padalker, Yusuke Tsutsui, Daisuke Sakamaki, Masanori Ozaki, and Shu Seki*
“Highly Fluorescent Liquid Crystals from Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Molecules”
Adv. Opt. Mater. 7, 1801349-1/12 (2019).
Selected as a “Back Cover” !
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201801349
✤ Keiichi Yano, Yoshimitsu Itoh*, Fumito Araoka, Go Watanabe, Takaaki Hikima, and Takuzo Aida*
“Nematic-to-columnar mesophase transition by in situ supramolecular polymerization”
Science 363, 161-165 (2019).
DOI: 10.1126/science.aan1019
✤ Ako Yokoi, Toshihide Matsumoto, Go Watanabe, Masataka Tochimoto, and Makoto Saegusa*
“Immunophenotypic profile as predictor of prognosis in advanced ovarian carcinoma”
Hum. Pathol. 85, 210-220 (2019).
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2018.10.036
✤ Jun Yoshida*, Syuhei Tamura, Keisuke Hoshino, Hidetaka Yuge, Hisako Sato, Akane Yamazaki, Shigetaka Yoneda, and Go Watanabe*
“Comprehensive Understanding of Host- and Guest-Dependent Helix Inversion in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals: Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study”
J. Phys. Chem. B 122, 10615-10626 (2018).
Selected as a “Cover” !
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b07653
✤ Shigetaka Yoneda*, Yukina Hara-Yamada, Aya Kosugi, Maiko Nanao, Takami Saito, Shunsuke Sato, Nozomu Yamada, and Go Watanabe
“CAPLIB: A New Program Library for the Modeling and Analysis of Isosahedrally Symmetric Viral Capsids”
ACS Omega 3, 4458-4465 (2018).
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00227
✤ Jun Yoshida*, Shuhei Tamura, Hidetaka Yuge, and Go Watanabe*
“Left- and right-circularly polarized light-sensing based on colored and mechano-responsive chiral nematic liquid crystals”
Soft Matter 14, 27-30 (2018).
Selected as a “Back Cover” !
DOI: 10.1039/C7SM01975K
✤ Jun Yoshida*, Shuhei Tamura, Go Watanabe*, Yasutoshi Kasahara, and Hidetaka Yuge
“ “Colored” inorganic dopants for inducing liquid crystal chiral nematic and blue phases: monitoring of dopant-host interaction by Raman spectroscopy”
Chem. Commun. 53, 5103-5106 (2017).
Selected as a “Back Cover” !
DOI: 10.1039/C7CC01920C
✤ Keiki Kishikawa*, Yusuke Yamamoto, Go Watanabe, Ayaka Kawamura, Michinari Kohri, and Tatsuo Taniguchi
“Shape-Assisted Self-Organization in Highly Disordered Liquid Crystal Phases”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 4598-4602 (2017).
Selected as a “Very Important Paper (VIP)” ! Highlighted in ChemistryViews !
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201700809
✤ Go Watanabe*, Akane Yamazaki, and Jun Yoshida*
“Improvement of molecular dynamics simulation method applied to nematics doped with racemic metal complexes”
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 647, 235-243 (2017).
DOI: 10.1080/15421406.2017.1289602
✤ Jun Yoshida*, Kyohei Kuwahara, Shuhei Tamura, Hidetaka Yuge, and Go Watanabe*
“Enhancement of the helical twisting power of a ruthenium complex by the introduction of an achiral bulky unit”
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 647, 179-185 (2017).
DOI: 10.1080/15421406.2017.1289586
✤ Go Watanabe* and Jun Yoshida*
“Molecular Dynamics Approach for Predicting Helical Twisting Powers of Metal Complex Dopants in Nematic Solvents”
J. Phys. Chem. B 120, 6858-6864 (2016).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b04669
✤ Go Watanabe, Shunsuke Sato, Mituso Iwadate, Hideaki Umeyama, Michiyo Hayakawa, Yoshiki Murakami, and Shigetaka Yoneda*
“Molecular dynamics simulations to determine the structure and dynamics of hepatitis B virus capsid bound to a novel anti-viral drug”
Chem. Pharm. Bull. 64, 1393-1396 (2016).
DOI: 10.1248/cpb.c16-00132
“Biomolecular Binding at Aqueous Interfaces of Langmuir Monolayers of Bioconjugated Amphiphilic Mesogenic Molecules: A Molecular Dynamics Study”
Langmuir 36, 12281-12287 (2020).
Selected as a “Front Cover” !
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02191
✤ Subaru Konishi, Yu Kashiwagi, Go Watanabe, Motofumi Osaki, Takuya Katashima, Osamu Urakawa, Tadashi Inoue, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Akira Harada*, and Yoshinori Takashima*
“Design and mechanical properties of supramolecular polymeric materials based on host–guest interactions: the relation between relaxation time and fracture energy”
Polym. Chem. 11, 6811-6820 (2020).
DOI: 10.1039/D0PY01347A
✤ Shohei Kumagai*, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Tatsuro Annaka, Eiji Fukuzaki, Yukio Tani, Hiroki Sugiura, Tetsuya Watanabe, Tadanori Kurosawa, Jun Takeya, and Toshihiro Okamoto*
“Cooperative Aggregations of Nitrogen-Containing Perylene Diimides Driven by Rigid and Flexible Functional Groups”
Chem. Mater. 32, 9115-9125 (2020).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01888
✤ Go Watanabe*, Hideyo Watanabe, Kota Suzuki, Hidetaka Yuge, Shintaro Yoshida, Takuyoshi Mandai, Shigetaka Yoneda, Hisako Sato, Mitsuo Hara*, and Jun Yoshida*
“Visualizing the helical stacking of octahedral metallomesogens with a chiral core”
Chem. Commun. 56, 12134-12137 (2020).
Selected as a “Inside Back Cover” !
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC05930G
✤ Toshihiro Okamoto*, Masato Mitani, Craig P. Yu, Chikahiko Mitsui, Masakazu Yamagishi, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Shohei Kumagai, Daisuke Hashizume, Shota Tanaka, Masafumi Yano, Tomokatsu Kushida, Hiroyasu Sato, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Takashi Kato, and Jun Takeya
“Alkyl-Substituted Selenium-Bridged V-Shaped Organic Semiconductors Exhibiting High Hole Mobility and Unusual Aggregation Behavior”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142, 14974-14984 (2020).
Selected as a “Cover” !
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c05522
✤ Yoshiaki Uchida*, Go Watanabe, Takuya Akita, and Norikazu Nishiyama
“Thermal Molecular Motion Can Amplify Intermolecular Magnetic Interactions”
J. Phys. Chem. B 124, 6175–6180 (2020).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c05408
✤ Toshihiro Okamoto*, Shohei Kumagai, Eiji Fukuzaki, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Naoyuki Niitsu, Tatsuro Annaka, Masakazu Yamagishi, Yukio Tani, Hiroki Sugiura, Tetsuya Watanabe, Shun Watanabe, and Jun Takeya
“Robust, High-Performance n-Type Organic Semiconductors”
Sci. Adv. 6, eaaz0632 (2020).
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0632
✤ Katsuhiro Maeda*, Mai Nozaki, Kengo Hashimoto, Kouhei Shimomura, Daisuke Hirose, Tatsuya Nishimura, Go Watanabe, and Eiji Yashima
“Helix-Sense-Selective Synthesis of Right- and Left-Handed Helical Luminescent Poly(diphenylacetylene)s with Memory of the Macromolecular Helicity and Their Helical Structures”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142, 7668–7682 (2020).
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c02542
✤ Nanami Uemura, Tsubasa Kobayashi, Shintaro Yoshida, Ya-xin Li, Karel Goossens, Xiangbing Zeng, Go Watanabe, and Takahiro Ichikawa*
“Double-Gyroid Nanostructure Formation by Aggregation-Induced Atropisomerization and Co-Assembly of Ionic Liquid-Crystalline Amphiphiles”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, 8445–8450 (2020).
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202000424
✤ Yusaku Ogita, Shuuji Mawaribuchi, Kei Nakasako, Kei Tamura, Masaru Matsuda, Takafumi Katsumura, Hiroki Oota, Go Watanabe, Shigetaka Yoneda, Nobuhiko Takamatsu, and Michihiko Ito*
“Parallel evolution of two dmrt1-derived genes dmy and dm-W for vertebrate sex determination”
iScience 23, 100757 (2020).
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2019.100757
✤ Wanying Zhang, Satoshi Suzuki, SeongYong Cho, Go Watanabe, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Tsuneaki Sakurai*, Mika Aotani, Yusuke Tsutsui, Masanori Ozaki, and Shu Seki*
“Highly Miscible Hybrid Liquid-Crystal Systems Containing Fluorescent Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Molecules”
Langmuir 35, 14031-14041 (2019).
Selected as a “Cover” !
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02272
✤ Atsuya Ishida, Go Watanabe, Mio Oshikawa, Itsuki Ajioka, and Takahiro Muraoka*
“Glycine Substitution Effects on the Supramolecular Morphology and Rigidity of Cell‐Adhesive Amphiphilic Peptides”
Chem. Eur. J. 25, 13523-13530 (2019).
Selected as a “Front Cover” !
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201902083
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201903871
✤ Mayu Fukuda, Rafael Rodríguez, Zulema Fernández, Tatsuya Nishimura, Daisuke Hirose, Go Watanabe, Emilio Quiñoá, Félix Freire*, and Katsuhiro Maeda*
“Macromolecular helicity control of poly(phenyl isocyanate)s with a single stimuli-responsive chiral switch”
Chem. Commun. 55, 7906-7909 (2019).
Selected as a “Inside Back Cover” !
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC03555A
✤ Wanying Zhang, Tsuneaki Sakurai*, Mika Aotani, Go Watanabe, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Vikas S. Padalker, Yusuke Tsutsui, Daisuke Sakamaki, Masanori Ozaki, and Shu Seki*
“Highly Fluorescent Liquid Crystals from Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Molecules”
Adv. Opt. Mater. 7, 1801349-1/12 (2019).
Selected as a “Back Cover” !
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201801349
✤ Keiichi Yano, Yoshimitsu Itoh*, Fumito Araoka, Go Watanabe, Takaaki Hikima, and Takuzo Aida*
“Nematic-to-columnar mesophase transition by in situ supramolecular polymerization”
Science 363, 161-165 (2019).
DOI: 10.1126/science.aan1019
✤ Ako Yokoi, Toshihide Matsumoto, Go Watanabe, Masataka Tochimoto, and Makoto Saegusa*
“Immunophenotypic profile as predictor of prognosis in advanced ovarian carcinoma”
Hum. Pathol. 85, 210-220 (2019).
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2018.10.036
✤ Jun Yoshida*, Syuhei Tamura, Keisuke Hoshino, Hidetaka Yuge, Hisako Sato, Akane Yamazaki, Shigetaka Yoneda, and Go Watanabe*
“Comprehensive Understanding of Host- and Guest-Dependent Helix Inversion in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals: Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study”
J. Phys. Chem. B 122, 10615-10626 (2018).
Selected as a “Cover” !
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b07653
✤ Shigetaka Yoneda*, Yukina Hara-Yamada, Aya Kosugi, Maiko Nanao, Takami Saito, Shunsuke Sato, Nozomu Yamada, and Go Watanabe
“CAPLIB: A New Program Library for the Modeling and Analysis of Isosahedrally Symmetric Viral Capsids”
ACS Omega 3, 4458-4465 (2018).
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00227
✤ Jun Yoshida*, Shuhei Tamura, Hidetaka Yuge, and Go Watanabe*
“Left- and right-circularly polarized light-sensing based on colored and mechano-responsive chiral nematic liquid crystals”
Soft Matter 14, 27-30 (2018).
Selected as a “Back Cover” !
DOI: 10.1039/C7SM01975K
✤ Jun Yoshida*, Shuhei Tamura, Go Watanabe*, Yasutoshi Kasahara, and Hidetaka Yuge
“ “Colored” inorganic dopants for inducing liquid crystal chiral nematic and blue phases: monitoring of dopant-host interaction by Raman spectroscopy”
Chem. Commun. 53, 5103-5106 (2017).
Selected as a “Back Cover” !
DOI: 10.1039/C7CC01920C
✤ Keiki Kishikawa*, Yusuke Yamamoto, Go Watanabe, Ayaka Kawamura, Michinari Kohri, and Tatsuo Taniguchi
“Shape-Assisted Self-Organization in Highly Disordered Liquid Crystal Phases”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 4598-4602 (2017).
Selected as a “Very Important Paper (VIP)” ! Highlighted in ChemistryViews !
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201700809
✤ Go Watanabe*, Akane Yamazaki, and Jun Yoshida*
“Improvement of molecular dynamics simulation method applied to nematics doped with racemic metal complexes”
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 647, 235-243 (2017).
DOI: 10.1080/15421406.2017.1289602
✤ Jun Yoshida*, Kyohei Kuwahara, Shuhei Tamura, Hidetaka Yuge, and Go Watanabe*
“Enhancement of the helical twisting power of a ruthenium complex by the introduction of an achiral bulky unit”
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 647, 179-185 (2017).
DOI: 10.1080/15421406.2017.1289586
✤ Go Watanabe* and Jun Yoshida*
“Molecular Dynamics Approach for Predicting Helical Twisting Powers of Metal Complex Dopants in Nematic Solvents”
J. Phys. Chem. B 120, 6858-6864 (2016).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b04669
✤ Go Watanabe, Shunsuke Sato, Mituso Iwadate, Hideaki Umeyama, Michiyo Hayakawa, Yoshiki Murakami, and Shigetaka Yoneda*
“Molecular dynamics simulations to determine the structure and dynamics of hepatitis B virus capsid bound to a novel anti-viral drug”
Chem. Pharm. Bull. 64, 1393-1396 (2016).
DOI: 10.1248/cpb.c16-00132
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