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✤ Noriyuki Uchida*, Ryu Ishizaka, Anju Kawakita, Hiroshi Ueno, Hiroyuki Noji, Rinshi S. Kasai, Takeshi Yokoyama, Saburo Kurihara, Tomoki Noguchi, Go Watanabe, Ayaka Iwasaki, Itsuki Ajioka, Kazuyoshi Muranishi, Ken Yoshizawa, Shingo Kanemura, Masaki Okumura, Takahiro Muraoka*
"A Structurally Robust Phospholipid Microtube Constructed by Membrane Phase Separation as a Scaffold for On-Tube Characterization of Membrane-Bound Proteins"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. in press (2025).
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c13384
✤ Shinnosuke Horiuchi*, Shota Ogura, Kazuya Otsubo, Yuka Ikemoto, Hisao Kiuchi, Yudai Shinozaki, Hiromi Tsuyuki, Go Watanabe, Osamu Takahashi, Mikihiro Hayashi, Eri Sakuda, Yasuhiro Arikawa, Keisuke Umakoshi, Yoshihisa Harada
"Low-entropy supramolecular crystals elucidating the inhomogeneity of interfacial water molecules at atomic resolution"
Nat. Commun. 16, 7588 (2025).
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62578-0
✤ Atsuya Yaguchi, Noriyuki Uchida*, Daiki Miura, Go Watanabe, Hirotsugu Hiramatsu, Itsuki Ajioka, Teruhiko Matsubara, Toshinori Sato, Chinbat Enkhzaya, Shunto Itani, Tomokazu Saito, Takahiro Muraoka*
"A Photoresponsive Hybrid of Viruses and Supramolecular Peptide Fibers for Multidimensional Control of Patterning and Infection"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 64, e202508528 (2025).
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202508528
✤ Shiho Akiba, Kozue Nishimoto, Hidetaka Yuge, Hisako Sato, Go Watanabe*, Mitsuo Hara*, Jun Yoshida*
"Optically Active Micellar-Cubic Liquid Crystals from Quasi-Racemic Octahedral Metallomesogens"
Macromol. Rapid Commun. in press (2025).
DOI: 10.1002/marc.202500485
✤ Yuki Nodera, Yuichiro Watanabe, Yoshiki Ishii*, Go Watanabe, Christian Ganser, Takayuki Uchihashi*, Kazunori Sugiyasu*
"The Role of Hydrogen Bonding in the Formation and Dynamics of Two Distinct Types of Cyclic Supramolecular Polymers"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 64, e202512811 (2025).
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202512811
✤ Hideyo Yoshida, Kozue Nishimoto, Hidetaka Yuge, Takuyoshi Mandai, Shintaro Yoshida, Shunsuke Sato, Hisako Sato, Mitsuo Hara*, Go Watanabe*, Jun Yoshida*
"Racemic Assembly of Octahedral Metallomesogens via Δ−Λ Chiral Interaction: Detection of Novel VCD Signals in Quasi-Racemate"
Small 21, 2500564 (2025).
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202500564
✤ Yohei Haketa, Ryoya Nakajima, Yuto Maruyama, Hiroki Tanaka, Wookjin Choi, Shu Seki, Shunsuke Sato, Hitomi Baba, Yoshiki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Kirill Bulgarevich, Kazuo Takimiya, Kenzo Deguchi, Shinobu Ohki, Kenjiro Hashi, Takashi Nakanishi, Yukihide Ishibashi, Tsuyoshi Asahi, Kazuchika Ohta, Hiromitsu Maeda*
"Electrically conductive charge-segregated pseudo-polymorphs comprising highly planar expanded p-electronic cations"
Chem. Sci. 16, 4998-5006 (2025).
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC07576E
✤ Shunsuke Sato, Barun Dhara, Dan He, Daigo Miyajima*, Go Watanabe*
"Molecular dynamics simulation to predict assembly structures of bowl-shaped π-conjugated molecules"
Chem. Commun. 61, 4951-4954 (2025).
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC06482H
✤ Dan He, Barun Dhara, Cheng Zhang, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Hiroyuki Inuzuka, Eiju Hara, Shunsuke Sato, Kiyohiro Adachi, Go Watanabe*, Daisuke Hashizume, Kou Okuro, Daigo Miyajima*
“Tailoring One-dimensional Assemblies of Chiral Bowl-Shaped Molecules with Diverse Enantiomers and Polar Column Alignments”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 64, e202424162 (2025).
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202424162
✤ Shunsuke Ogita, Yoshiki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Hitoshi Washizu, Kang Kim*, Nobuyuki Matubayasi
"Atomistic analysis of nematic phase transition in 4-cyano-4′-n-alkyl biphenyl liquid crystals: Sampling for the first-order phase transition and the free-energy decomposition"
J. Chem. Phys. 162, 054905 (2025).
DOI: 10.1063/5.0242416
✤ Junya Uchida, Shingo Takegawa, Soshi Ito, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe, Takashi Kato*
"Nanostructured liquid-crystalline ion conductors based on linear carbonate moieties: effects of oligooxyethylene and alkylene spacers on self-assembled properties and ionic conductivities"
Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 10, 184-193 (2025).
DOI: 10.1039/D4ME00176A
✤ Shohei Kumagai*, Takeru Koguma, Yutaro Arai, Go Watanabe, Hiroyuki Ishii, Jun Takeya, Toshihiro Okamoto*
"Phenyl- versus cyclohexyl-terminated substituents: comparative study on aggregated structures and electron-transport properties in n-type organic semiconductors"
Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 10, 32-39 (2025).
DOI: 10.1039/D4ME00110A
✤ Takashi Nakamura*, Hayato Takayanagi, Masaki Nakahata*, Takumi Okubayashi, Hitomi Baba, Yoshiki Ishii, Go Watanabe*, Daisuke Tanabe, Tatsuya Nabeshima
"Amide cyclodextrin that recognises monophosphate anions in harmony with water molecules"
Chem. Sci. 16, 171-181 (2025).
DOI:10.1039/D4SC04529G
✤ Shingo Takegawa, Kazuma Hamaguchi, Eiji Hosono, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe, Junya Uchida, Takashi Kato*
"Lithium-ion batteries with fluorinated mesogen-based liquid-crystalline electrolytes: molecular design towards enhancing oxidation stability"
Nanoscale 16, 21118 (2024).
DOI: 10.1039/D4NR03559C
✤ Wataru Ishii, Masaaki Fuki, Eman M. Bu Ali, Shunsuke Sato, Bhavesh Parmar, Akio Yamauchi, Catherine Helenna Mulyadi, Masanori Uji, Samara Medina Rivero, Go Watanabe*, Jenny Clark*, Yasuhiro Kobori*, Nobuhiro Yanai*
“Macrocyclic Parallel Dimer Showing Quantum Coherence of Quintet Multiexcitons at Room Temperature”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146, 25527 (2024).
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c05677
✤ Taichi Takasawa, Takashi Matsui*, Go Watanabe*, Yoshio Kodera
"Molecular dynamics simulations reveal differences in the conformational stability of FtsZs derived from Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis"
Sci. Rep. 14, 16043 (2024).
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-66763-x
✤ Soh Ishikawa, Kazuhisa Yamasumi, Shinya Sugiura, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe, Yun Hee Koo, Shu Seki, Yuya Bando, Yohei Haketa, Hiroshi Shinokubo, Hiromitsu Maeda*
"Norcorroles as antiaromatic π-electronic systems that form dimension-controlled assemblies"
Chem. Sci. 15, 7603-7609 (2024).
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC01633E
✤ Tomoya Enjou, Shimpei Goto, Qiming Liu, Fumitaka Ishiwari, Akinori Saeki, Taro Uematsu, Yuka Ikemoto, Sora Watanabe, Go Matsuba, Kouichiro Ishibashi, Go Watanabe, Satoshi Minakata, Yoshimitsu Sagara, Youhei Takeda*
"Water-dispersible donor–acceptor–donor π-conjugated bolaamphiphiles enabling a humidity-responsive luminescence color change"
Chem. Comm. 60, 3653-3656 (2024).
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC05749F
✤ Qiming Liu, Tianyue Zhang, Yuka Ikemoto, Yudai Shinozaki, Go Watanabe, Yuta Hori, Yasuteru Shigeta, Takemi Midorikawa, Koji Harano, Yoshimitsu Sagara*
"Grinding-Induced Water Solubility Exhibited by Mechanochromic Luminescent Supramolecular Fibers"
Small 20, 2400063 (2024).
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202400063
✤ Takashi Kato*, Junya Uchida*, Yoshiki Ishii*, Go Watanabe*
"Aquatic Functional Liquid Crystals: Design, Functionalization, and Molecular Simulation"
Adv. Sci. 11, 2306529 (2024).11, 2306529 (2024).11, 2306529 (2024).
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202306529
✤ Tomoyuki Hamachi, Koki Nishimura, Keita Sakamoto, Yusuke Kawashima, Hironori Kouno, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Nobuhiro Yanai*
"Triplet Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Pyruvate via Supramolecular Chemistry"
Chem Sci. 14, 13842-13850 (2023).
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC04123A
✤ Craig P Yu, Shohei Kumagai, Michitsuna Tsutsumi, Tadanori Kurosawa, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Daisuke Hashizume, Hiroki Sugiura, Yukio Tani, Toshihiro Ise, Tetsuya Watanabe, Hiroyasu Sato, Jun Takeya, Toshihiro Okamoto*
"Asymmetrically Functionalized Electron‐Deficient π‐Conjugated System for Printed Single‐Crystalline Organic Electronics"
Adv. Sci. 10, 202207440 (2023).
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202207440
✤ Go Watanabe*, Akane Yamazaki, Jun Yoshida*
"The Missing Relationship between the Miscibility of Chiral Dopants and the Microscopic Dynamics of Solvent Liquid Crystals: A Molecular Dynamics Study"
Symmetry 15, 1092 (2023).
DOI: 10.3390/sym15051092
✤ Yusuke Kawashima, Tomoyuki Hamachi, Akio Yamauchi, Koki Nishimura, Yuma Nakashima, Saiya Fujiwara, Nobuo Kimizuka, Tomohiro Ryu, Tetsu Tamura, Masaki Saigo, Ken Onda, Shunsuke Sato, Yasuhiro Kobori, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Go Watanabe*, Kiyoshi Miyata*, Nobuhiro Yanai*
"Singlet fission as a polarized spin generator for dynamic nuclear polarization"
Nat. Commun. 14, 1056 (2023).
Featured as Editors’ Highlight !
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36698-4
✤ Keiko Hiratsuka, Tatsuya Muramatsu, Takuya Seki, Christoph Weder, Go Watanabe*, Yoshimitsu Sagara*
"Tuning the mechanoresponsive luminescence of rotaxane mechanophores by varying the stopper size"
J. Mater. Chem. C. 11, 3949 (2023).
Selected as a “Front Cover” and "HOT Paper"!
DOI: 10.1039/d3tc00330b
✤ Kazuma Hamaguchi, Huanjun Lu, Shota Okamura, Satoshi Kajiyama, Junya Uchida, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe*, Yoshiki Ishii, Hitoshi Washizu, Goran Ungar*, Takashi Kato*
"Reentrant 2D Nanostructured Liquid Crystals by Competition between Molecular Packing and Conformation: Potential Design for Multistep Switching of Ionic Conductivity"
ChemPhysChem. 24, e202200927 (2023).
Selected as a “Front Cover”
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200927
✤ Takashi Matsui*, Eiji Kojitani, Taichi Takasawa, Arisa Suto, Ami Tamari, Go Watanabe, Yoshio Kodera*
"Assessment of inconsistencies in the solvent-accessible surfaces of proteins between crystal structures and solution structures observed by LC-MS"
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 640, 97-104 (2023).
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.11.094
✤ Hiroya Nishikawa*, Koki Sano, Saburo Kurihara, Go Watanabe, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Barun Dhara & Fumito Araoka*
"Nano-clustering mediates phase transitions in a diastereomerically-stabilized ferroelectric nematic system"
Commun. Mater. 3, 89 (2022).
DOI: 10.1038/s43246-022-00312-9
✤ Takeshi Serizawa, Saeko Yamaguchi, Moe Amitani, Sawa Ishii, Hiromi Tsuyuki, Yukiko Tanaka, Toshiki Sawada, Izuru Kawamura, Go Watanabe, Masaru Tanaka*
"Alkyl chain length-dependent protein nonadsorption and adsorption properties of crystalline alkyl β-celluloside assemblies"
Colloids Surf. B. 220, 112898 (2022).
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2022.112898
✤ Shohei Kumagai, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Craig P. Yu, Shun Watanabe, Jun Takeya, and Toshihiro Okamoto*
“Nitrogen-Containing Perylene Diimides: Molecular Design, Robust Aggregated Structures, and Advances in n-Type Organic Semiconductors”
Acc. Chem. Res. 55, 660–672 (2022).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00548
✤ Kazuki Fukushima*, Kodai Matsuzaki, Masashi Oji, Yuji Higuchi, Go Watanabe, Yuki Suzuki, Moriya Kikuchi, Nozomi Fujimura, Naofumi Shimokawa, Hiroaki Ito, Takashi Kato, Seigou Kawaguchi*, and Masaru Tanaka*
“Anisotropic, Degradable Polymer Assemblies Driven by a Rigid Hydrogen-Bonding Motif That Induce Shape-Specific Cell Response”
Macromolecules 55, 15-25 (2022).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01894
✤ Atsuya Yaguchi, Mio Oshikawa, Go Watanabe, Hirotsugu Hiramatsu, Noriyuki Uchida, Chikako Hara, Naoko Kaneko, Kazunobu Sawamoto, Takahiro Muraoka*, and Itsuki Ajioka*
“Efficient protein incorporation and release by a jigsaw-shaped self-assembling peptide hydrogel for injured brain regeneration”
Nat. Commun. 12, 6623 (2021).
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26896-3
✤ Chiharu Ueda, Junsu Parka, Kazuya Hirose, Subaru Konishi, Yuka Ikemoto, Motofumi Osaki, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Akira Harada*, Masaru Tanaka*, Go Watanabe*, and Yoshinori Takashima*
“Behavior of supramolecular cross-links formed by host-guest interactions in hydrogels responding to water contents”
Supramol. Mater. 1, 100001 (2021).
DOI: 10.1016/j.supmat.2021.100001
✤ Craig P. Yu, Naoya Kojima, Shohei Kumagai, Tadanori Kurosawa, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Jun Takeya, and Toshihiro Okamoto*
“Approaching isotropic charge transport of n-type organic semiconductors with bulky substituents”
Communs. Chem. 4, 155 (2021).
DOI: 10.1038/s42004-021-00583-2
✤ Yoshiki Ishii*, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Go Watanabe, Takashi Kato*, and Hitoshi Washizu*
“Molecular insights on confined water in the nanochannels of self-assembled ionic liquid crystal”
Sci. Adv. 7, eabf0669 (2021).
Selected as a “Cover” !
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf0669
✤ So Shikita, Go Watanabe, Dai Kanouchi, Junya Saito, Takuma Yasuda*
"Alternating Donor–Acceptor π‐Conjugated Macrocycle Exhibiting Efficient Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Spontaneous Horizontal Molecular Orientation"
Adv. Photonics Res. 2, 2100021 (2021).
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202100021
✤ Shigetaka Yoneda*, Takami Saito, Daisuke Nakajima, Go Watanabe
"Potential of mean force and umbrella sampling simulation for the transport of 5‐oxazolidinone in heterotetrameric sarcosine oxidase"
Proteins 89, 811-818 (2021).
DOI: 10.1002/prot.26060
✤ Cheng Zhang, Yuan Guo, Dan He, Jouji Komiya, Go Watanabe, Takuya Ogaki, Chengyuan Wang, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Hiroyuki Inuzuka, Hao Gong, Yuanping Yi*, Kazuo Takimiya, Daisuke Hashizume, and Daigo Miyajima*
”A Design Principle for Polar Assemblies with C3-Sym Bowl-Shaped π-Conjugated Molecules”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 3216-3267 (2021).
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202013333
✤ Kazuto Nakamura, Shinya Sugiura, Fumito Araoka, Satoshi Aya, Yoichi Takanishi, Go Watanabe, Ryuma Sato, Yasuteru Shigeta, and Hiromitsu Maeda*
”Conformation-Changeable π-Electronic Systems with Metastable Bent-Core Conformations and Liquid-Crystalline-State Electric-Field-Responsive Properties”
Org. Lett. 23, 305-310 (2021).
Selected as a “Supplementary Cover” !
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c03791
"A Structurally Robust Phospholipid Microtube Constructed by Membrane Phase Separation as a Scaffold for On-Tube Characterization of Membrane-Bound Proteins"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. in press (2025).
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c13384
✤ Shinnosuke Horiuchi*, Shota Ogura, Kazuya Otsubo, Yuka Ikemoto, Hisao Kiuchi, Yudai Shinozaki, Hiromi Tsuyuki, Go Watanabe, Osamu Takahashi, Mikihiro Hayashi, Eri Sakuda, Yasuhiro Arikawa, Keisuke Umakoshi, Yoshihisa Harada
"Low-entropy supramolecular crystals elucidating the inhomogeneity of interfacial water molecules at atomic resolution"
Nat. Commun. 16, 7588 (2025).
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62578-0
✤ Atsuya Yaguchi, Noriyuki Uchida*, Daiki Miura, Go Watanabe, Hirotsugu Hiramatsu, Itsuki Ajioka, Teruhiko Matsubara, Toshinori Sato, Chinbat Enkhzaya, Shunto Itani, Tomokazu Saito, Takahiro Muraoka*
"A Photoresponsive Hybrid of Viruses and Supramolecular Peptide Fibers for Multidimensional Control of Patterning and Infection"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 64, e202508528 (2025).
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202508528
✤ Shiho Akiba, Kozue Nishimoto, Hidetaka Yuge, Hisako Sato, Go Watanabe*, Mitsuo Hara*, Jun Yoshida*
"Optically Active Micellar-Cubic Liquid Crystals from Quasi-Racemic Octahedral Metallomesogens"
Macromol. Rapid Commun. in press (2025).
DOI: 10.1002/marc.202500485
✤ Yuki Nodera, Yuichiro Watanabe, Yoshiki Ishii*, Go Watanabe, Christian Ganser, Takayuki Uchihashi*, Kazunori Sugiyasu*
"The Role of Hydrogen Bonding in the Formation and Dynamics of Two Distinct Types of Cyclic Supramolecular Polymers"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 64, e202512811 (2025).
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202512811
✤ Hideyo Yoshida, Kozue Nishimoto, Hidetaka Yuge, Takuyoshi Mandai, Shintaro Yoshida, Shunsuke Sato, Hisako Sato, Mitsuo Hara*, Go Watanabe*, Jun Yoshida*
"Racemic Assembly of Octahedral Metallomesogens via Δ−Λ Chiral Interaction: Detection of Novel VCD Signals in Quasi-Racemate"
Small 21, 2500564 (2025).
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202500564
✤ Yohei Haketa, Ryoya Nakajima, Yuto Maruyama, Hiroki Tanaka, Wookjin Choi, Shu Seki, Shunsuke Sato, Hitomi Baba, Yoshiki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Kirill Bulgarevich, Kazuo Takimiya, Kenzo Deguchi, Shinobu Ohki, Kenjiro Hashi, Takashi Nakanishi, Yukihide Ishibashi, Tsuyoshi Asahi, Kazuchika Ohta, Hiromitsu Maeda*
"Electrically conductive charge-segregated pseudo-polymorphs comprising highly planar expanded p-electronic cations"
Chem. Sci. 16, 4998-5006 (2025).
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC07576E
✤ Shunsuke Sato, Barun Dhara, Dan He, Daigo Miyajima*, Go Watanabe*
"Molecular dynamics simulation to predict assembly structures of bowl-shaped π-conjugated molecules"
Chem. Commun. 61, 4951-4954 (2025).
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC06482H
✤ Dan He, Barun Dhara, Cheng Zhang, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Hiroyuki Inuzuka, Eiju Hara, Shunsuke Sato, Kiyohiro Adachi, Go Watanabe*, Daisuke Hashizume, Kou Okuro, Daigo Miyajima*
“Tailoring One-dimensional Assemblies of Chiral Bowl-Shaped Molecules with Diverse Enantiomers and Polar Column Alignments”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 64, e202424162 (2025).
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202424162
✤ Shunsuke Ogita, Yoshiki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Hitoshi Washizu, Kang Kim*, Nobuyuki Matubayasi
"Atomistic analysis of nematic phase transition in 4-cyano-4′-n-alkyl biphenyl liquid crystals: Sampling for the first-order phase transition and the free-energy decomposition"
J. Chem. Phys. 162, 054905 (2025).
DOI: 10.1063/5.0242416
✤ Junya Uchida, Shingo Takegawa, Soshi Ito, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe, Takashi Kato*
"Nanostructured liquid-crystalline ion conductors based on linear carbonate moieties: effects of oligooxyethylene and alkylene spacers on self-assembled properties and ionic conductivities"
Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 10, 184-193 (2025).
DOI: 10.1039/D4ME00176A
✤ Shohei Kumagai*, Takeru Koguma, Yutaro Arai, Go Watanabe, Hiroyuki Ishii, Jun Takeya, Toshihiro Okamoto*
"Phenyl- versus cyclohexyl-terminated substituents: comparative study on aggregated structures and electron-transport properties in n-type organic semiconductors"
Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 10, 32-39 (2025).
DOI: 10.1039/D4ME00110A
✤ Takashi Nakamura*, Hayato Takayanagi, Masaki Nakahata*, Takumi Okubayashi, Hitomi Baba, Yoshiki Ishii, Go Watanabe*, Daisuke Tanabe, Tatsuya Nabeshima
"Amide cyclodextrin that recognises monophosphate anions in harmony with water molecules"
Chem. Sci. 16, 171-181 (2025).
DOI:10.1039/D4SC04529G
✤ Shingo Takegawa, Kazuma Hamaguchi, Eiji Hosono, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe, Junya Uchida, Takashi Kato*
"Lithium-ion batteries with fluorinated mesogen-based liquid-crystalline electrolytes: molecular design towards enhancing oxidation stability"
Nanoscale 16, 21118 (2024).
DOI: 10.1039/D4NR03559C
✤ Wataru Ishii, Masaaki Fuki, Eman M. Bu Ali, Shunsuke Sato, Bhavesh Parmar, Akio Yamauchi, Catherine Helenna Mulyadi, Masanori Uji, Samara Medina Rivero, Go Watanabe*, Jenny Clark*, Yasuhiro Kobori*, Nobuhiro Yanai*
“Macrocyclic Parallel Dimer Showing Quantum Coherence of Quintet Multiexcitons at Room Temperature”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146, 25527 (2024).
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c05677
✤ Taichi Takasawa, Takashi Matsui*, Go Watanabe*, Yoshio Kodera
"Molecular dynamics simulations reveal differences in the conformational stability of FtsZs derived from Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis"
Sci. Rep. 14, 16043 (2024).
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-66763-x
✤ Soh Ishikawa, Kazuhisa Yamasumi, Shinya Sugiura, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe, Yun Hee Koo, Shu Seki, Yuya Bando, Yohei Haketa, Hiroshi Shinokubo, Hiromitsu Maeda*
"Norcorroles as antiaromatic π-electronic systems that form dimension-controlled assemblies"
Chem. Sci. 15, 7603-7609 (2024).
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC01633E
✤ Tomoya Enjou, Shimpei Goto, Qiming Liu, Fumitaka Ishiwari, Akinori Saeki, Taro Uematsu, Yuka Ikemoto, Sora Watanabe, Go Matsuba, Kouichiro Ishibashi, Go Watanabe, Satoshi Minakata, Yoshimitsu Sagara, Youhei Takeda*
"Water-dispersible donor–acceptor–donor π-conjugated bolaamphiphiles enabling a humidity-responsive luminescence color change"
Chem. Comm. 60, 3653-3656 (2024).
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC05749F
✤ Qiming Liu, Tianyue Zhang, Yuka Ikemoto, Yudai Shinozaki, Go Watanabe, Yuta Hori, Yasuteru Shigeta, Takemi Midorikawa, Koji Harano, Yoshimitsu Sagara*
"Grinding-Induced Water Solubility Exhibited by Mechanochromic Luminescent Supramolecular Fibers"
Small 20, 2400063 (2024).
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202400063
✤ Takashi Kato*, Junya Uchida*, Yoshiki Ishii*, Go Watanabe*
"Aquatic Functional Liquid Crystals: Design, Functionalization, and Molecular Simulation"
Adv. Sci. 11, 2306529 (2024).11, 2306529 (2024).11, 2306529 (2024).
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202306529
✤ Tomoyuki Hamachi, Koki Nishimura, Keita Sakamoto, Yusuke Kawashima, Hironori Kouno, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Nobuhiro Yanai*
"Triplet Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Pyruvate via Supramolecular Chemistry"
Chem Sci. 14, 13842-13850 (2023).
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC04123A
✤ Craig P Yu, Shohei Kumagai, Michitsuna Tsutsumi, Tadanori Kurosawa, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Daisuke Hashizume, Hiroki Sugiura, Yukio Tani, Toshihiro Ise, Tetsuya Watanabe, Hiroyasu Sato, Jun Takeya, Toshihiro Okamoto*
"Asymmetrically Functionalized Electron‐Deficient π‐Conjugated System for Printed Single‐Crystalline Organic Electronics"
Adv. Sci. 10, 202207440 (2023).
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202207440
✤ Go Watanabe*, Akane Yamazaki, Jun Yoshida*
"The Missing Relationship between the Miscibility of Chiral Dopants and the Microscopic Dynamics of Solvent Liquid Crystals: A Molecular Dynamics Study"
Symmetry 15, 1092 (2023).
DOI: 10.3390/sym15051092
✤ Yusuke Kawashima, Tomoyuki Hamachi, Akio Yamauchi, Koki Nishimura, Yuma Nakashima, Saiya Fujiwara, Nobuo Kimizuka, Tomohiro Ryu, Tetsu Tamura, Masaki Saigo, Ken Onda, Shunsuke Sato, Yasuhiro Kobori, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Go Watanabe*, Kiyoshi Miyata*, Nobuhiro Yanai*
"Singlet fission as a polarized spin generator for dynamic nuclear polarization"
Nat. Commun. 14, 1056 (2023).
Featured as Editors’ Highlight !
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36698-4
✤ Keiko Hiratsuka, Tatsuya Muramatsu, Takuya Seki, Christoph Weder, Go Watanabe*, Yoshimitsu Sagara*
"Tuning the mechanoresponsive luminescence of rotaxane mechanophores by varying the stopper size"
J. Mater. Chem. C. 11, 3949 (2023).
Selected as a “Front Cover” and "HOT Paper"!
DOI: 10.1039/d3tc00330b
✤ Kazuma Hamaguchi, Huanjun Lu, Shota Okamura, Satoshi Kajiyama, Junya Uchida, Shunsuke Sato, Go Watanabe*, Yoshiki Ishii, Hitoshi Washizu, Goran Ungar*, Takashi Kato*
"Reentrant 2D Nanostructured Liquid Crystals by Competition between Molecular Packing and Conformation: Potential Design for Multistep Switching of Ionic Conductivity"
ChemPhysChem. 24, e202200927 (2023).
Selected as a “Front Cover”
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200927
✤ Takashi Matsui*, Eiji Kojitani, Taichi Takasawa, Arisa Suto, Ami Tamari, Go Watanabe, Yoshio Kodera*
"Assessment of inconsistencies in the solvent-accessible surfaces of proteins between crystal structures and solution structures observed by LC-MS"
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 640, 97-104 (2023).
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.11.094
✤ Hiroya Nishikawa*, Koki Sano, Saburo Kurihara, Go Watanabe, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Barun Dhara & Fumito Araoka*
"Nano-clustering mediates phase transitions in a diastereomerically-stabilized ferroelectric nematic system"
Commun. Mater. 3, 89 (2022).
DOI: 10.1038/s43246-022-00312-9
✤ Takeshi Serizawa, Saeko Yamaguchi, Moe Amitani, Sawa Ishii, Hiromi Tsuyuki, Yukiko Tanaka, Toshiki Sawada, Izuru Kawamura, Go Watanabe, Masaru Tanaka*
"Alkyl chain length-dependent protein nonadsorption and adsorption properties of crystalline alkyl β-celluloside assemblies"
Colloids Surf. B. 220, 112898 (2022).
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2022.112898
✤ Shohei Kumagai, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Craig P. Yu, Shun Watanabe, Jun Takeya, and Toshihiro Okamoto*
“Nitrogen-Containing Perylene Diimides: Molecular Design, Robust Aggregated Structures, and Advances in n-Type Organic Semiconductors”
Acc. Chem. Res. 55, 660–672 (2022).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00548
✤ Kazuki Fukushima*, Kodai Matsuzaki, Masashi Oji, Yuji Higuchi, Go Watanabe, Yuki Suzuki, Moriya Kikuchi, Nozomi Fujimura, Naofumi Shimokawa, Hiroaki Ito, Takashi Kato, Seigou Kawaguchi*, and Masaru Tanaka*
“Anisotropic, Degradable Polymer Assemblies Driven by a Rigid Hydrogen-Bonding Motif That Induce Shape-Specific Cell Response”
Macromolecules 55, 15-25 (2022).
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01894
✤ Atsuya Yaguchi, Mio Oshikawa, Go Watanabe, Hirotsugu Hiramatsu, Noriyuki Uchida, Chikako Hara, Naoko Kaneko, Kazunobu Sawamoto, Takahiro Muraoka*, and Itsuki Ajioka*
“Efficient protein incorporation and release by a jigsaw-shaped self-assembling peptide hydrogel for injured brain regeneration”
Nat. Commun. 12, 6623 (2021).
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26896-3
✤ Chiharu Ueda, Junsu Parka, Kazuya Hirose, Subaru Konishi, Yuka Ikemoto, Motofumi Osaki, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Akira Harada*, Masaru Tanaka*, Go Watanabe*, and Yoshinori Takashima*
“Behavior of supramolecular cross-links formed by host-guest interactions in hydrogels responding to water contents”
Supramol. Mater. 1, 100001 (2021).
DOI: 10.1016/j.supmat.2021.100001
✤ Craig P. Yu, Naoya Kojima, Shohei Kumagai, Tadanori Kurosawa, Hiroyuki Ishii, Go Watanabe, Jun Takeya, and Toshihiro Okamoto*
“Approaching isotropic charge transport of n-type organic semiconductors with bulky substituents”
Communs. Chem. 4, 155 (2021).
DOI: 10.1038/s42004-021-00583-2
✤ Yoshiki Ishii*, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Go Watanabe, Takashi Kato*, and Hitoshi Washizu*
“Molecular insights on confined water in the nanochannels of self-assembled ionic liquid crystal”
Sci. Adv. 7, eabf0669 (2021).
Selected as a “Cover” !
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf0669
✤ So Shikita, Go Watanabe, Dai Kanouchi, Junya Saito, Takuma Yasuda*
"Alternating Donor–Acceptor π‐Conjugated Macrocycle Exhibiting Efficient Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Spontaneous Horizontal Molecular Orientation"
Adv. Photonics Res. 2, 2100021 (2021).
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202100021
✤ Shigetaka Yoneda*, Takami Saito, Daisuke Nakajima, Go Watanabe
"Potential of mean force and umbrella sampling simulation for the transport of 5‐oxazolidinone in heterotetrameric sarcosine oxidase"
Proteins 89, 811-818 (2021).
DOI: 10.1002/prot.26060
✤ Cheng Zhang, Yuan Guo, Dan He, Jouji Komiya, Go Watanabe, Takuya Ogaki, Chengyuan Wang, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Hiroyuki Inuzuka, Hao Gong, Yuanping Yi*, Kazuo Takimiya, Daisuke Hashizume, and Daigo Miyajima*
”A Design Principle for Polar Assemblies with C3-Sym Bowl-Shaped π-Conjugated Molecules”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 3216-3267 (2021).
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202013333
✤ Kazuto Nakamura, Shinya Sugiura, Fumito Araoka, Satoshi Aya, Yoichi Takanishi, Go Watanabe, Ryuma Sato, Yasuteru Shigeta, and Hiromitsu Maeda*
”Conformation-Changeable π-Electronic Systems with Metastable Bent-Core Conformations and Liquid-Crystalline-State Electric-Field-Responsive Properties”
Org. Lett. 23, 305-310 (2021).
Selected as a “Supplementary Cover” !
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c03791
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