Publications

1. Tunable thermal diffusivity of silk protein assemblies based on their structural control and photo-induced chemical cross-linking. Michihiro Tanaka, Toshiki Sawada, Keiji Numata, Takeshi Serizawa, RSC Advances, 18, 14, 12449-12453, 2024.
2. Solvation dynamics on the diffusion timescale elucidated using energy-represented dynamics theory. Kazuya Okita, Natsuumi Ito, Nozomi Morishita-Watanabe, Hiroshi Umakoshi, Kento Kasahara, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16, 26, 12852-12861, 2024.
3. How ATP suppresses the fibrillation of amyloid peptides: analysis of the free-energy contributions. Tuan Minh Do, Dominik Horinek, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15, 26, 11880-11892, 2024.
4. Effective alignment method using a diamond notch knife for correlative array tomography. Yumi Goto, Noriko Takeda-Kamiya,Kaori Yamaguchi, Mikio Yamazaki, Kiminori Toyooka, Microscopy, dfae013, 2024.
5. Replacing the Langmuir Isotherm with the Statistical Thermodynamic Fluctuation Theory. Seishi Shimizu, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 15, 13, 3683-3689, 2024.
6. Phenylboronic Acid-Functionalized Micelles Dual-Targeting Boronic Acid Transporter and Polysaccharides for siRNA Delivery into Brown Algae. Naoto Yoshinaga, Takaaki Miyamoto, Mami Goto, Atsuko Tanaka, and Keiji Numata, JACS Au 4, 4, 1385–1395, 2024.
7. Construction of peptide/plasmid DNA complexes for plant gene transfection via the basic leucine zipper domain. Kota Nomura, Seiya Fujita, Yuki Shimatani, Taichi Kurita, Chonprakun Thagun, Naoya Abe, Kazusato Oikawa, Kousuke Tsuchiya, Hirotaka Uji & Keiji Numata, Polymer Journal, 56, 667-675, 2024.
8. Fabrication of Self-Expanding Metal–Organic Cages Using a Ring–Openable Ligand. Ami Nishijima, Yuto Osugi, Takashi Uemura, Angewandte Chemie, International Edition , 63, 17,e202404155, 2024
9. Size exclusion chromatography-based length sorting of single-walled carbon nanotubes stably coated with cross-linked polymer. Ryo Hamano, Naoki Tanaka, Tsuyohiko Fujigaya, Material Advances, 6, 2024
10. Role of Halobenzene Guest Molecules in Modulating Room Temperature Phosphorescence of Benzophenone–Naphthalene Diimide Inclusion Crystals. Yoshifumi Tsukiyama, Yusei Yamamoto, Daiki Koga, Luxia Cui, Yu Hoshino, Yoshio Hisaeda, and Toshikazu Ono, Chemistry An Asian Journal, 19, 5, 2024
11. Hydrogel particles for CO2 capture. Yu Hoshino, Shoma Aki, Polymer Journal, 56, 463-471, 2024.
12. Design Rationale for CO2 Separation Membranes with Micropatterned Surface Structures. Shoma Aki, Yuko Ikeda, Kazushi Imamura, Ryutaro Honda, Yoshiko Miura, Yu Hoshino, ACS Applied Materials Interfaces , 16, 6, 2024.
13. Biased Bowl-Direction of Monofluorosumanene in the Solid State. Yumi Yakiyama, Minghong Li, Dongyi Zhou, Tsuyoshi Abe, Chisato Sato, Kohei Sambe, Tomoyuki Akutagawa, Teppei Matsumura, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, and Hidehiro Sakurai, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146, 8, 5224-5231, 2024.
14. Aquatic Functional Liquid Crystals: Design Functionalization, and Molecular Simulation. Takashi Kato, Junya Uchida, Yoshiki Ishii, and Go Watanabe, Advanced Science, 11, 8, 2024
15. Replicating shear-mediated self-assembly of spider silk through microfluidics. Jianming Chen, Arata Tsuchida, Ali D. Malay, Kousuke Tsuchiya, Hiroyasu Masunaga, Yui Tsuji, Mako Kuzumoto, Kenji Urayama, Hirofumi Shintaku & Keiji Numata, Nature Communications, 15, 527, 2024.
16. Advanced Molecular Design for Efficient Multicolor Electrochemiluminescence and Amplified Spontaneous Emission based on Tetra-BF2 Complexes. Luxia Cui, Ami Horioka, Ryoichi Ishimatsu, Masashi Mamada, Chihaya Adachi, Keishiro Tahara, Yu Hoshino, and Toshikazu Ono, Advanced Optical Materials, 12, 14, 2024.
17. Assessment of the Applicability of the LFC/3D-RISM-SCF Scheme for pKa Prediction in Methanol Solutions. Ryo Fujiki,Toru Matsui, Yasuteru Shigeta, Norio Yoshida, Haruyuki Nakano, Chemistry Letters, 53, 1, 2024.
18. Hydrogen-Bonded Structures of Water Molecules in Hydroxy-Functionalized Nanochannels of Columnar Liquid Crystalline Nanostructured Membranes. Kazuma Hamaguchi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Naoya Kurahashi, Yoshihisa Harada, and Takashi Kato, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 15, 2, 454-460, 2024.
19. Influence of Structural Isomers of Naphthalene Diimides on Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties. Yusei Yamamoto, Ami Horioka, Luxia Cui, Yusuke Ishigaki, Yu Hoshino, Toshikazu Ono, Chemistry Letters, 53, 2, 2024.
20. Bright NIR-II fluorescence from biocompatible gel-coated carbon nanotubes for in vivo imaging. Yukiko Nagai, Ryo Hamano, Kenta Nakamura, I. A. Widjaja, Naoki Tanaka, Ming Zhang, Taiki Tanaka, Hiromichi Kataura, Masako Yudasaka, Tsuyohiko Fujigaya, Carbon, 218, 31,118728, 2024.
21. Cross-linking polybutadiene rubber via a thiol-ene reaction with polycysteine as a degradable cross-linker. Kousuke Tsuchiya, Kayo Terada, Yui Tsuji, Simon Sau Yin Law, Hiroyasu Masunaga, Takuya Katashima, Takamasa Sakai & Keiji Numata,　Polymer Journal, 56, 391–400, 2024.
22. Umpolung Isomerization in Radical Copolymerization of Benzyl Vinyl Ether with Pentafluorophenylacrylate Leading to Degradable AAB Periodic Copolymers. Keita Kuroda, Makoto Ouchi, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63, 1, e202316875, 2024.
23. Design of an Artificial Peptide Inspired by Transmembrane Mitochondrial Protein for Escorting Exogenous DNA into the Mitochondria to Restore their Functions by Simultaneous Multiple Gene Expression. Naoto Yoshinaga, Takaaki Miyamoto, Masaki Odahara, Noriko Takeda-Kamiya, Kiminori Toyooka, Seia Nara, Haruna Nishimura, Feng Ling, Masayuki Su'etsugu, Minoru Yoshida, Keiji Numata, Advanced Functional Materials, 34, 8, 2024
24. Polymer-Grafting from MOF Nanosheets for the Fabrication of Versatile 2D Materials. Siyuan Ye, Nobuhiko Hosono,Takashi Uemura, Advanced Functional Materials, 34, 9, 2312265, 2024.
25. Free-energy decomposition of salt effects on the solubilities of small molecules and the role of excluded-volume effects. Stefan Hervø-Hansen, Daoyang Lin, Kento Kasahara, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Chemical Science, 15, 477-489, 2024.
26. Unraveling the Glass-like Dynamic Heterogeneity in Ring Polymer Melts: From Semiflexible to Stiff Chain. Shota Goto, Kang Kim, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, ACS Polymers Au, 3, 6, 437-446, 2023.
27. Stress-independent delay time in yielding of dilute colloidal gels. Atsushi Yamamoto, Takumi Inui, Daisuke Suzuki, Kenji Urayama, Soft Matter, 19, 9082-9091, 2023
28. Pyridine-mediated B–B bond cleavage of tetrahydroxydiboron to synthesize n-doped SWCNTs with long-term air stability. Naoki Tanaka, Aoi Hamasuna, Itsuki Yamaguchi, Koichiro Kato, Tsuyohiko Fujigaya, Scientific Reports, 13, 21926, 2023.
29. Controlled Polymer Orientation via Metal–Organic Framework Nanomolding. Hirotaka Taketomi, Nobuhiko Hosono, Takashi Uemura, Macromolecules, 57, 1, 217–225, 2023.
30. Coexistence of two coacervate phases of polyglycine in water suggested by polymer reference interaction site model theory. Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Song-Ho Chong, and Norio Yoshida, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 159, 245101, 2023
31. High-throughput analysis system of interaction kinetics for data-driven antibody design. Matsunaga R, Ujiie K, Inagaki M, Fernández Pérez J, Yasuda Y, Mimasu S, Soga S, Tsumoto K. Scientific Reports 13, 19417, 2023.
32. Cooperativity in Sorption Isotherms. Seishi Shimizu, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Langmuir, 39, 39, 13820-13829. 2023.
33. All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Poly(ethylene glycol) Networks in Water for Evaluating Negative Energetic Elasticity.　Katsumi Hagita, Sota Nagahara, Takahiro Murashima, Takamasa Sakai, and Naoyuki Sakumichi, Macromolecules 56, 20, 8095–8105, 2023.
34. Elucidating protein-ligand binding kinetics based on returning probability theory. Kento Kasahara, Ren Masayama, Kazuya Okita, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 159, 134103, 2023.
35. Percolation-induced gel–gel phase separation in a dilute polymer network. Shohei Ishikawa, Yasuhide Iwanaga, Takashi Uneyama, Xiang Li, Hironori Hojo, Ikuo Fujinaga, Takuya Katashima, Taku Saito, Yasushi Okada, Ung-il Chung, Naoyuki Sakumichi & Takamasa Sakai. Nature Materials, 22, 1564–1570, 2023.
36. Radical Cyclocopolymerization of a Transformable Divinyl Monomer with a Monovinyl Monomer and Postpolymerization Modification for the Synthesis of AAB-Type Alternating Copolymers Composed of NIPAM and Vinyl Ether. Xiaoyan Xu, Makoto Ouchi, Macromolecules 56, 19, 7950-7960, 2023.
37. Cyclic deformation behavior of agarose hydrogels prepared at different gelation concentrations. Jun-ichi Horinaka, and Soma Ogawa, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 248, 125904, 2023
38. NMR assignment and dynamics of the dimeric form of soluble C-terminal domain major ampullate spidroin 2 from Latrodectus hesperus. Nur Alia Oktaviani, Ali D. Malay, Mami Goto, Toshio Nagashima, Fumiaki Hayashi, Keiji Numata, Biomolecular NMR Assignments, 5, 17, 249–255, 2023.
39. Molecular Dynamics Study of the Antifouling Mechanism of Hydrophilic Polymer Brushes. Takuma Yagasaki, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Langmuir, 39, 37, 13158-13168, 2023
40. Advancing Biomolecule Delivery in Plants: Harnessing Synthetic Nanocarriers to Overcome Multiscale Barriers for Cutting-Edge Plant Bioengineering. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 96, 9, 1026-1044, 2023.
41. Stereospecific Radical Polymerization of a Side-Chain Transformable Bulky Acrylamide Monomer and Subsequent Post-Polymerization Modification for Syntheses of Isotactic Polyacrylate and Polyacrylamide. Yuehang Pan, Makoto Ouchi, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62, 35 2023
42. Extension of the iSoLF implicit-solvent coarse-grained model for multicomponent lipid bilayers. Diego Ugarte, Shoji Takada, and Yuji Sugita, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 159, 075101, 2023.
43. Nanoconfinement Approaches to Two-Dimensional Polymeric Materials. Ami Nishijima, Takashi Uemura, Macromolecules, 56, 16, 6177-6188, 2023.
44. Optimal glycan density for interactions between Siglec-8 and sialyl sulfo oligosaccharides. Risa Naka, Simon Sau Yin Law, Ayaka Tateishi, Keiji Numata & Masashi Ohmae, Polymer Journal, 55, 1379–1386, 2023.
45. Plant Mitochondrial-Targeted Gene Delivery by Peptide/DNA Micelles Quantitatively Surface-Modified with Mitochondrial Targeting and Membrane-Penetrating Peptides. Naoya Abe, Seiya Fujita, Takaaki Miyamoto, Kousuke Tsuchiya, and Keiji Numata, Biomacromolecules 24, 8, 3657–3665, 2023.
46. Selective molecular recognition of amino acids and their derivatives by cucurbiturils in aqueous solution: an MD/3D-RISM study. Natthiti Chiangraeng. Haruyuki Nakano, Piyarat Nimmanpipug, and Norio Yoshida, Journal of Molecular Liquids, 386, 122503, 2023.
47. A method for protein structure sampling under three-dimensional reference interaction site model solvation based on hybrid Monte Carlo framework. Norio Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi,Journal of Molecular Liquids, 385, 122418, 2023.
48. Photocatalyzed Hydrogen Atom Transfer Degradation of Vinyl Polymers: Cleavage of a Backbone C-C Bond Triggered by Radical Activation of a C-H Bond in a Pendant. Taichi Kimura, Makoto Ouchi, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62, 33, 2023.
49. Decoding Polymer Chains via Gated Inclusion into Flexible Nanoporous Crystals. Biplab Manna, Mizuki Asami, Nobuhiko Hosono, Takashi Uemura, Chem, 9, 10, 2817-2829, 2023.
50. An Approach to MOFaxanes by Threading Ultralong Polymers through Metal–Organic Framework Microcrystals.　Tomoya Iizuka, Hiroyuki Sano, Benjamin Le Ouay, Nobuhiko Hosono,Takashi Uemura, Nature Communications, 13, 3241,2023.
51. Chain-Increment Approach to the Mutual Miscibility of Polymers with All-Atom Molecular Simulation. Kazuo Yamada, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Macromolecules, 56, 3857-3872, 2023.
52. Miscibility and ternary diagram of aqueous polyvinyl alcohols with different degrees of saponification. Junhyuk Kim, Shohei Ishikawa, Mitsuru Naito, Xiang Li, Ung-il Chung & Takamasa Sakai, Scientific Report, 13, 8791, 2023.
53. Organelle-targeted gene delivery in plants by nanomaterials. Simon Sau Yin Law, Takaaki M. moto, Keiji Numata, Chemical Communications., 59, 7166, 2023.
54. Deuterium- and Alkyne-Based Bioorthogonal Raman Probes for In Situ Quantitative Metabolic Imaging of Lipids within Plants. Simon Sau Yin Law, Masato Asanuma, Jingwen Shou, Yasuyuki Ozeki, Yutaka Kodama, Keiji Numata, JACS Au, 3, 6, 1604-1614, 2023.
55. In Situ Monitoring of Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly and Gelation During the Synthesis of Triblock Copolymers via Time-Resolved Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Rheology, Riku Yamanaka, Ayae Sugawara-Narutaki, Rintaro Takahashi, Macromolecules, 56, 11, 4354–4361, 2023.
56. Composition of Minor Ampullate Silk Makes Its Properties Different from Those of Major Ampullate Silk. Hiroyuki Nakamura, Nobuaki Kono, Masaru Mori, Hiroyasu Masunaga, Keiji Numata, Kazuharu Arakawa, Biomacromolecules, 24, 5, 2042–2051, 2023.
57. Molecular Weight-Dependent Diffusion, Biodistribution, and Clearance Behavior of Tetra-Armed Poly(ethylene glycol) Subcutaneously Injected into the Back of Mice. Shohei Ishikawa, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, More by Shohei Ishikawa, Motoi Kato, Jinyan Si, Lin Chenyu, Kohei Kimura, Takuya Katashima, Mitsuru Naito, Masakazu Kurita, and Takamasa Sakai, ACS Macro Lettter, 12, 4, 510–517, 2023.
58. Revealing the hidden dynamics of confined water in acrylate polymers: Insights from hydrogen-bond lifetime analysis. Kokoro Shikata, Takuma Kikutsuji, Nobuhiro Yasoshima, Kang Kim, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, The Journal of Chemistry and Physics, 158, 174901, 2023.
59. Understanding Sorption Mechanisms Directly from Isotherms. Seishi Shimizu, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Langmuir, 39, 6113-6125, 2023.
60. Effect of Oligomers Derived from Biodegradable Polyesters on Eco- and Neurotoxicity. Naoto Yoshinaga, Ayaka Tateishi, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Tomohiro Kubo, Hitoshi Miyakawa, Kotaro Satoh, and Keiji Numata, Biomacromolecules, 24, 6, 2721–2729, 2023.
61. Unusual pKa Values Mediate the Self-Assembly of Spider Dragline Silk Proteins. Nur Alia Oktaviani, Ali D. Malay, Akimasa Matsugami, Fumiaki Hayashi, and Keiji Numata, Biomacromolecules, 24, 1604-1616, 2023.
62. Molecular mechanisms of the high performance of spider silks revealed through multi-omics analysis. Yasuha Watanabe, Kazuharu Arakawa, Biophysics and Physicobiology, 20, 1, e200014,2023.
63. Individually separated supramolecular polymer chains toward solution-processable supramolecular polymeric materials. Takuma Shimada, Yuichiro Watanabe, Takashi Kajitani, Masayuki Takeuchi, Yutaka Wakayama, Kazunori Sugiyasu, Chemical Science, 14, 822-826, 2023.
64. Biological properties of self-assembled nanofibers of elastin-like block polypeptides for tissue-engineered vascular grafts: platelet inhibition, endothelial cell activation and smooth muscle cell maintenance. Kazuki Natsume, Jin Nakamura, Kazuhide Sato, Chikara Ohtsuki, Ayae Sugawara-Narutaki, Regenerative Biomaterials, 10, rbac111, 2023.
65. Decoupling between Translational Diffusion and Viscoelasticity in Transient Networks with Controlled Network Connectivity. Takuya Katashima, Ryunosuke Kobayashi, Shohei Ishikawa, Mitsuru Naito, Kanjiro Miyata, Ung-il Chung andTakamasa Sakai, Gels, 8, 830, 2022.
66. 1000 spider silkomes: Linking sequences to silk physical properties. Kazuharu Arakawa, Nobuaki Kono, Ali D. Malay, Ayaka Tateishi, Nao Ifuku, Hiroyasu Masunaga, Ryota Sato, Kousuke Tsuchiya, Rintaro Ohtoshi, Daniel Pedrazzoli, Asaka Shinohara, Yusuke Ito, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Akio Tanikawa, Yuya Suzuki,Takeaki Ichikawa, Shohei Fujita, Masayuki Fujiwara, Masaru Tomita, Sean J. Blamires, Jo-Ann Chuah, Hamish Craig, Choon P. Foong, Gabriele Greco, Juan Guan, Chris Holland, David L. Kaplan, Kumar Sudesh, Biman B. Mandal, Y. Norma-Rashid, Nur A. Oktaviani, Rucsanda C. Preda, Nicola M. Pugno, Rangam Rajkhowa, Xiaoqin Wang, Kenjiro Yazawa, Zhaozhu Zheng, Keiji Numata, Science Advances, 8, 41, eabo6043, 2022.
67. Complexity of Spider Dragline Silk. Ali D. Malay, Hamish C. Craig, Jianming Chen, Nur Alia Oktaviani, and Keiji Numata, Biomacromolecules, 23, 1827-1840, 2022.
68. Engineered Nanogel Particles Enhance the Photoautotrophic Biosynthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoate in Marine Photosynthetic Bacteria. Pisanee Srisawat, Mieko Higuchi-Takeuchi, Ryutaro Honda, Tomokazu Shirai, Akihiko Kondo, Yu Hoshino, and Keiji Numata, ACS Sustainable Chemistry Engineering, 10, 4133-4142, 2022.