Takuzo Aida

Soft materials with graphitic nanostructures.

Photolatently modulable hydrogels using unilamellar titania nanosheets as photocatalytic crosslinkers.

Linear versus dendritic molecular binders for hydrogel network formation with clay nanosheets: studies with ABA triblock copolyethers carrying guanidinium ion pendants.

C₅-symmetric chiral corannulenes: desymmetrization of bowl inversion equilibrium via "intramolecular" hydrogen-bonding network.

Translation of the assembling trajectory by preorganisation: a study of the magnetic properties of 1D polymeric unpaired electrons immobilised on a discrete nanoscopic scaffold.

An anisotropic hydrogel with electrostatic repulsion between cofacially aligned nanosheets.

Noncovalent assembly. A rational strategy for the realization of chain-growth supramolecular polymerization.

Ionic interactions. Subnanoscale hydrophobic modulation of salt bridges in aqueous media.

Thermoresponsive actuation enabled by permittivity switching in an electrostatically anisotropic hydrogel.

Selective synthesis of single- and multi-walled supramolecular nanotubes by using solvophobic/solvophilic controls: stepwise radial growth via "coil-on-tube" intermediates.

Ultrahigh-throughput exfoliation of graphite into pristine 'single-layer' graphene using microwaves and molecularly engineered ionic liquids.

Macroscopic ordering of helical pores for arraying guest molecules noncentrosymmetrically.

Helix Sense-Selective Supramolecular Polymerization Seeded by a One-Handed Helical Polymeric Assembly.

Photoinduced Bioorthogonal 1,3-Dipolar Poly-cycloaddition Promoted by Oxyanionic Substrates for Spatiotemporal Operation of Molecular Glues.

Reductively Cleavable Nanocaplets for siRNA Delivery by Template-Assisted Oxidative Polymerization.

Electrophoretic Deposition for Cholesteric Liquid-Crystalline Devices with Memory and Modulation of Reflection Colors.

Boronic Acid-Appended Molecular Glues for ATP-Responsive Activity Modulation of Enzymes.

Self-Sorting in the Formation of Metal-Organic Nanotubes: A Crucial Role of 2D Cooperative Interactions.

An autonomous actuator driven by fluctuations in ambient humidity.

Supramolecular Nanotube of Chaperonin GroEL: Length Control for Cellular Uptake Using Single-Ring GroEL Mutant as End-Capper.

Magnetically Alignable Bicelles with Unprecedented Stability Using Tunable Surfactants Derived from Cholic Acid.

Photonic water dynamically responsive to external stimuli.

A design principle of polymers processable into 2D homeotropic order.

Redox-Responsive Molecular Systems and Materials.

Jumping Crystals of Pyrene Tweezers: Crystal-to-Crystal Transition Involving π/π-to-CH/π Assembly Mode Switching.

Dynamic propeller conformation for the unprecedentedly high degree of chiral amplification of supramolecular helices.

Crystalline Nanochannels with Pendant Azobenzene Groups: Steric or Polar Effects on Gas Adsorption and Diffusion?

Solving the Mysteries of Emergent Matter for the Benefit of Society: Research at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science.

Adhesive Photoswitch: Selective Photochemical Modulation of Enzymes under Physiological Conditions.

Molecular glues for manipulating enzymes: trypsin inhibition by benzamidine-conjugated molecular glues.

Energetics of Baird aromaticity supported by inversion of photoexcited chiral [4n]annulene derivatives.

Water dynamics: Gliding and trudging.

Swallowing a Surgeon: Toward Clinical Nanorobots.

Exceptionally High Electric Double Layer Capacitances of Oligomeric Ionic Liquids.

Synthesis of Anisotropic Hydrogels and Their Applications.

Guanidinium-based "molecular glues" for modulation of biomolecular functions.

Thermally bisignate supramolecular polymerization.

Protein Nanotube Selectively Cleavable with DNA: Supramolecular Polymerization of "DNA-Appended Molecular Chaperones".

Mechanically robust, readily repairable polymers via tailored noncovalent cross-linking.

Caged Molecular Glues as Photoactivatable Tags for Nuclear Translocation of Guests in Living Cells.

Nitrobenzoxadiazole-Appended Cell Membrane Modifiers for Efficient Optoporation with Noncoherent Light.

Functionalization of Azapentabenzocorannulenes by Fivefold C-H Borylation and Cross-Coupling Arylation: Application to Columnar Liquid-Crystalline Materials.

Redox-Responsive Chiral Dopant for Quick Electrochemical Color Modulation of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal.

Extra-Large Mechanical Anisotropy of a Hydrogel with Maximized Electrostatic Repulsion between Cofacially Aligned 2D Electrolytes.

Self-assembly of lattices with high structural complexity from a geometrically simple molecule.

An Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuator Enabling Earthworm-Like Directed Peristaltic Crawling.

Rewriting the phase diagram of a diamagnetic liquid crystal by a magnetic field.

Reversible Switching of the Magnetic Orientation of Titanate Nanosheets by Photochemical Reduction and Autoxidation.

Nematic-to-columnar mesophase transition by in situ supramolecular polymerization.

Transferrin-Appended Nanocaplet for Transcellular siRNA Delivery into Deep Tissues.