Publications

Publications
　

• A magnetically responsive photonic crystal of graphene oxide nanosheets
  Daisuke Ogawa, Tomoki Nishimura, Yuta Nishina, and Koki Sano*
  Nanoscale 2024, Advance Article. [DOI: 10.1039/D3NR06114K]
  Selected as “Nanoscale 2024 Emerging Investigators“
  　
• Reconfigurable photonic crystal reversibly exhibiting single and double structural colors
  Yi-Yang Zhan, Daisuke Ogawa, Koki Sano,* Xiang Wang, Fumito Araoka, Nobuyuki Sakai, Takayoshi Sasaki, and Yasuhiro Ishida*
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202311451. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202311451]
  Selected as “Inside Cover“
  　
• Countercation engineering of graphene-oxide nanosheets for imparting a thermoresponsive ability
  Shoma Kondo, Tomoki Nishimura, Yuta Nishina, and Koki Sano*
  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 37837–37844. [DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c07820]
  Selected as “Supplementary Cover“
  　
• Mechanical nonreciprocity in a uniform composite material
  Xiang Wang,* Zhihao Li, Shuxu Wang, Koki Sano, Zhifang Sun, Zhenhua Shao, Asuka Takeishi, Seishiro Matsubara, Dai Okumura, Nobuyuki Sakai, Takayoshi Sasaki, Takuzo Aida, and Yasuhiro Ishida*
  Science 2023, 380, 192–198. [DOI: 10.1126/science.adf1206]
  　
• Closed-loop recycling of microparticle-based polymers
  Takumi Watanabe,† Haruka Minato,† Yuma Sasaki, Seina Hiroshige, Hayato Suzuki, Nahomi Matsuki, Koki Sano, Takeshi Wakiya, Yuichiro Nishizawa, Takayuki Uchihashi, Takuma Kureha, Mitsuhiro Shibayama, Toshikazu Takata, and Daisuke Suzuki*
  Green Chem. 2023, 25, 3418–3424. [DOI: 10.1039/D3GC00090G]
  　
• Nano-clustering mediates phase transitions in a diastereomerically-stabilized ferroelectric nematic system
  Hiroya Nishikawa,* Koki Sano, Saburo Kurihara, Go Watanabe, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Barun Dhara, and Fumito Araoka*
  Commun. Mater. 2022, 3, 89. [DOI: 10.1038/s43246-022-00312-9]
  　
• Anisotropic fluid with phototunable dielectric permittivity
  Hiroya Nishikawa,* Koki Sano,* and Fumito Araoka*
  Nature Commun. 2022, 13, 1142. [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28763-1]
  　
• A water-soluble corannulene with highly efficient ROS production
  Chengfeng Cai,† Jing-Ju Huang,† Koki Sano,† Yicheng Zhu, Yunhua Zhang, Qing Wu, Bo Zhu,* Yasuhiro Ishida,* Shyh-Chyang Luo,* and Hsing-An Lin*
  Mater. Chem. Phys. 2022, 281, 125885. [DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2022.125885]
  　
• Propagating wave in a fluid by coherent motion of 2D colloids
  Koki Sano, Xiang Wang, Zhifang Sun, Satoshi Aya, Fumito Araoka, Yasuo Ebina, Takayoshi Sasaki, Yasuhiro Ishida,* and Takuzo Aida*
  Nature Commun. 2021, 12, 6771. [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26917-1]
  　
• Brush polymers as nanoscale building blocks for hydrogel synthesis
  Fei Jia, Jake Song, Joshua M. Kubiak, Michika Onoda, Peter J. Santos, Koki Sano, Niels Holten-Andersen, Ke Zhang, and Robert J. Macfarlane*
  Chem. Mater. 2021, 33, 5748–5756. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c01585]
  　
• A mechanically adaptive hydrogel with a reconfigurable network consisting entirely of inorganic nanosheets and water
  Koki Sano,* Naoki Igarashi, Yasuo Ebina, Takayoshi Sasaki, Takaaki Hikima, Takuzo Aida,* and Yasuhiro Ishida*
  Nature Commun. 2020, 11, 6026. [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19905-4]
  　
• Molecularly engineered “Janus GroEL”: Application to supramolecular copolymerization with a higher level of sequence control
  Daiki Kashiwagi,† Hao K. Shen,† Seunghyun Sim, Koki Sano, Yasuhiro Ishida, Ayumi Kimura, Tatsuya Niwa, Hideki Taguchi, and Takuzo Aida*
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 13310–13315. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c05937]
  　
• Internal structure and mechanical property of an anisotropic hydrogel with electrostatic repulsion between nanosheets
  Koki Sano, Naoki Igarashi, Yuka O. Arazoe, Yasuhiro Ishida,* Yasuo Ebina, Takayoshi Sasaki, Takaaki Hikima, and Takuzo Aida*
  Polymer 2019, 177, 43–48. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2019.05.064]
  　
• One-pot universal initiation-growth methods from a liquid crystalline block copolymer
  Bixin Jin, Koki Sano, Satoshi Aya, Yasuhiro Ishida, Nathan Gianneschi, Yunjun Luo,* and Xiaoyu Li*
  Nature Commun. 2019, 10, 2397. [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10341-7]
  　
• Extra-large mechanical anisotropy of a hydrogel with maximized electrostatic repulsion between cofacially aligned 2D electrolytes
  Koki Sano, Yuka O. Arazoe, Yasuhiro Ishida,* Yasuo Ebina, Minoru Osada, Takayoshi Sasaki, Takaaki Hikima, and Takuzo Aida*
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 12508–12513. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201807240]
  　
• Spontaneous direct band gap, high hole mobility, and huge exciton energy in atomic-thin TiO₂ nanosheet
  Wei Zhou,* Naoto Umezawa, Renzhi Ma, Nobuyuki Sakai, Yasuo Ebina, Koki Sano, Mingjie Liu, Yasuhiro Ishida, Takuzo Aida, and Takayoshi Sasaki*
  Chem. Mater. 2018, 30, 6449–6457. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b02792]
  　
• Synthesis of anisotropic hydrogels and their applications
  Koki Sano, Yasuhiro Ishida,* and Takuzo Aida*
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 2532–2543. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201708196]
  　
• Photonic water dynamically responsive to external stimuli
  Koki Sano, Youn Soo Kim, Yasuhiro Ishida,* Yasuo Ebina, Takayoshi Sasaki, Takaaki Hikima, and Takuzo Aida*
  Nature Commun. 2016, 7, 12559. [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12559]

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