2018- Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
2013-2018 Unit Leader, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
2007-2013 Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Tokyo
2003-2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Catholic University of Leuven
2003 Ph.D, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Splayed polarization in the ferroelectric phase of a bent-core liquid crystal as studied by optical second-harmonic generation.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics May, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15244834
Polar structure in a ferroelectric bent-core mesogen as studied by second-harmonic generation.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Aug, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12241194
Coexistence of polar and nonpolar domains and their photocontrol in the B7 phase of a bent-core liquid crystal containing azo dyes.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Jun, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15244592
Twist-grain-boundary structure in the B4 phase of a bent-core molecular system identified by second harmonic generation circular dichroism measurement.
Physical review letters Apr, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15904037
Electric-field-induced polar biaxial order in a nontilted smectic phase of an asymmetric bent-core liquid crystal.
Physical review letters Sep, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 17025886
Electro-optic Kerr effect in the isotropic phase above the columnar phase of a urea derivative.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics May, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17677013
Polar structures in binary mixtures of bent-core liquid crystals showing ferroelectric and antiferroelectric B2 phases.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Sep, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17930258
Three relaxation processes from an electric-field-induced polar structure in a columnar liquid crystalline urea derivative.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Oct, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17995007
Alternating twist structures formed by electroconvection in the nematic phase of an achiral bent-core molecule.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Apr, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18517644
Kerr constant and third-order nonlinear optic susceptibility measurements in a liquid crystal composed of bent-shaped molecules.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Nov, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 19113084
Liquid crystalline corannulene responsive to electric field.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Jan, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19128171
Enhanced optical activity by achiral rod-like molecules nanosegregated in the B4 structure of achiral bent-core molecules.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Sep, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19642676
Anchoring transitions of transversely polar liquid-crystal molecules on perfluoropolymer surfaces.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Jun, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19658464
Spontaneous chirality induction and enantiomer separation in liquid crystals composed of achiral rod-shaped 4-arylbenzoate esters.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Oct, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19764762
Spontaneous deracemization of disc-like molecules in the columnar phase.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 19998399
Perfluoropolymer surface for shock-free homeotropic alignment of smectic liquid crystals.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Jan, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20217692
Polar switching in the smectic- A(d)P(A) phase composed of asymmetric bent-core molecules.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Jan, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20365387
Broadband cavity-mode lasing from dye-doped nematic liquid crystals sandwiched by broadband cholesteric liquid crystal bragg reflectors.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Jun, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20432476
Columnar liquid crystal with a spontaneous polarization along the columnar axis.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Jun, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20527880
Development of laser dyes to realize low threshold in dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal lasers.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Oct, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20803531
Oriented salts: dimension-controlled charge-by-charge assemblies from planar receptor-anion complexes.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) Dec, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21117126
Spectral blue shift via intermolecular interactions in the B2 and B4 phases of a bent-shaped molecule.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Oct, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21230296
Polarization conversion in surface-plasmon-coupled emission from organic light-emitting diodes using spontaneously formed buckles.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Feb, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21341314
Observation of two isotropic-nematic phase transitions near a surface.
Physical review letters Mar, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21469896
Electric-field-responsive handle for large-area orientation of discotic liquid-crystalline molecules in millimeter-thick films.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) Aug, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21732509
Isotropic-nematic transition at the surface of a liquid crystal embedded in an aerosil network.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Jun, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21797394
Ferroelectric behavior of orthogonal smectic phase made of bent-core molecules.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Sep, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22060389
Two transitions between isotropic and nematic phases in confined liquid crystals.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Oct, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22181151
Ferroelectric columnar liquid crystal featuring confined polar groups within core-shell architecture.
Science (New York, N.Y.) Apr, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22499944
Critical behavior in an electric-field-induced anchoring transition in a liquid crystal.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Jul, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23005358
Pattern-stabilized decorated polar liquid-crystal fibers.
Physical review letters Jul, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23031131
Amplification of the stereochemistry of biomolecular adsorbates by deracemization of chiral domains in bent-core liquid crystals.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Jan, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23109049
Evolution of the discontinuous anchoring transition under an electric field.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Jan, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23410349
A general method for the enantioselective formation of helical nanofilaments.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) Jul, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23716417
High-optical-quality ferroelectric film wet-processed from a ferroelectric columnar liquid crystal as observed by non-linear-optical microscopy.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Aug, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23740767
Highly elastic liquid crystals with a sub-nanonewton bending elastic constant mediated by the resident molecular assemblies.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Mar, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24449478
Labyrinthine instability in freely suspended films of a polarization-modulated smectic phase.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Dec, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24483473
Discontinuous thermal diffusivity change due to the anchoring transition of a liquid crystal on a perfluoropolymer surface.
Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry May, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24677707
Homochiral columns constructed by chiral self-sorting during supramolecular helical organization of hat-shaped molecules.
Journal of the American Chemical Society May, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24758745
Photoresponsive stripe pattern in achiral azobenzene liquid crystals.
Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry Jan, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25278272
Stepwise heat-capacity change at an orientation transition in liquid crystals.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Feb, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25353494
Structure-sensitive bend elastic constants between piconewton and subnanonewton in diphenylacetylene-core-based liquid crystals.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Oct, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25375514
Photomodulated Supramolecular Chirality in Achiral Photoresponsive Rodlike Compounds Nanosegregated from the Helical Nanofilaments of Achiral Bent-Core Molecules.
ACS applied materials & interfaces Oct, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26397122
Macroscopic ordering of helical pores for arraying guest molecules noncentrosymmetrically.
Nature communications Sep, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26416086
Corrigendum: macroscopic ordering of helical pores for arraying guest molecules noncentrosymmetrically.
Nature communications Oct, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26499341
A supramolecular helix that disregards chirality.
Nature chemistry Jan, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26673268
Unusual Electro-Optic Kerr Response in a Self-Stabilized Amorphous Blue Phase with Nanoscale Smectic Clusters.
Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry 05, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26910727
Electrophoretic Deposition for Cholesteric Liquid-Crystalline Devices with Memory and Modulation of Reflection Colors.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Jun, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27027423
An autonomous actuator driven by fluctuations in ambient humidity.
Nature materials Oct, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27429210
Lasing properties of polymerized chiral nematic Bragg onion microlasers.
Optics express Aug, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27557203
Thermodynamically Anchoring-Frustrated Surface to Trigger Bulk Discontinuous Orientational Transition.
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids Oct, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27673490
Large-scale self-organization of reconfigurable topological defect networks in nematic liquid crystals.
Nature communications Nov, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27819290
Chiral Superstructure Mesophases of Achiral Bent-Shaped Molecules - Hierarchical Chirality Amplification and Physical Properties.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Dec, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27966798
Polymer Stabilization of Liquid-Crystal Blue Phase II toward Photonic Crystals.
ACS applied materials & interfaces Mar, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28215076
Photomanipulation of the anchoring strength using a spontaneously adsorbed layer of azo dendrimers.
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP Mar, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28252118
Polymer-Stabilized Micropixelated Liquid Crystals with Tunable Optical Properties Fabricated by Double Templating.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Oct, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28758707
Nanosegregated Chiral Materials with Self-Assembled Hierarchical Mesophases: Effect of Thermotropic and Photoinduced Polymorphism in Rodlike Molecules.
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Dec, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 29052914
Topology-dependent self-structure mediation and efficient energy conversion in heat-flux-driven rotors of cholesteric droplets.
Nature communications 01, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29382841
Redox-Responsive Chiral Dopant for Quick Electrochemical Color Modulation of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Sep, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30070108
An Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuator Enabling Earthworm-Like Directed Peristaltic Crawling.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) Nov, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30315618
Reversible Switching of the Magnetic Orientation of Titanate Nanosheets by Photochemical Reduction and Autoxidation.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Nov, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30444605
Nematic-to-columnar mesophase transition by in situ supramolecular polymerization.
Science (New York, N.Y.) Jan, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30630928
Spherical-cap droplets of a photo-responsive bent liquid crystal dimer.
Soft matter Jan, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30657150
Satoshi Aya1,
Péter Salamon2,
Daniel A. Paterson3,
John M. D. Storey3,
Corrie T. Imrie3,
Fumito Araoka1,
Antal Jákli4,
Ágnes Buka2
1, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS),
2Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Center for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
3Department of Chemistry, School of Natural and Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen,
4Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University