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Akira Harada

Akira Harada

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Chemistry
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
93
Citations
35657
World Ranking
1770
National Ranking
92

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Akira Harada is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science, Engineering, and Chemistry. Their research spans several subfields including Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work mainly focuses on topics such as Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials, Polymer composites and self-healing, Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications, Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes, Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, and Advanced Materials and Mechanics.

Harada has published research in notable venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • ACS Applied Polymer Materials
  • The Proceedings of the Dynamics & Design Conference
  • Chemical Communications
  • Chemistry Letters
  • The Cambridge Structural Database

Frequent collaborators of Akira Harada include Yoshinori Takashima, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Motofumi Osaki, Junsu Park, and Go Matsuba, with collaboration counts ranging from 9 to 44 joint works.

Recent papers authored or coauthored include:

  • "Supramolecular self-healing materials from non-covalent cross-linking host-guest interactions," 2020, Chemical Communications
  • "Design of self-healing and self-restoring materials utilizing reversible and movable crosslinks," 2022, NPG Asia Materials
  • "Mechanical stimulation of single cells by reversible host-guest interactions in 3D microscaffolds," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Biofunctional hydrogels based on host-guest interactions," 2020, Polymer Journal
  • "Extremely Rapid Self-Healable and Recyclable Supramolecular Materials through Planetary Ball Milling and Host-Guest Interactions," 2020, Advanced Materials

Best Publications

  • Cyclodextrin-based molecular machines.

    Akira Harada

  • Redox-responsive self-healing materials formed from host–guest polymers

    Masaki Nakahata;Yoshinori Takashima;Hiroyasu Yamaguchi;Akira Harada

  • The molecular necklace: a rotaxane containing many threaded α-cyclodextrins

    Akira Harada;Jun Li;Mikiharu Kamachi

  • Complex formation between poly(ethylene glycol) and α-cyclodextrin

    Akira Harada;Mikiharu Kamachi

  • Cyclodextrin-based supramolecular polymers

    Akira Harada;Yoshinori Takashima;Hiroyasu Yamaguchi

  • Supramolecular polymeric materials via cyclodextrin-guest interactions.

    Akira Harada;Yoshinori Takashima;Masaki Nakahata

  • Macroscopic self-assembly through molecular recognition

    Akira Harada;Ryosuke Kobayashi;Yoshinori Takashima;Akihito Hashidzume

  • Expansion-contraction of photoresponsive artificial muscle regulated by host-guest interactions

    Yoshinori Takashima;Shogo Hatanaka;Miyuki Otsubo;Masaki Nakahata

  • Preorganized hydrogel: self-healing properties of supramolecular hydrogels formed by polymerization of host-guest-monomers that contain cyclodextrins and hydrophobic guest groups

    Takahiro Kakuta;Yoshinori Takashima;Masaki Nakahata;Miyuki Otsubo

  • Synthesis of a tubular polymer from threaded cyclodextrins

    Akira Harada;Jun Li;Mikiharu Kamachi

  • Self-Healing, Expansion–Contraction, and Shape-Memory Properties of a Preorganized Supramolecular Hydrogel through Host–Guest Interactions†

    Kohei Miyamae;Masaki Nakahata;Yoshinori Takashima;Akira Harada

  • Photoswitchable supramolecular hydrogels formed by cyclodextrins and azobenzene polymers.

    Shingo Tamesue;Yoshinori Takashima;Hiroyasu Yamaguchi;Seiji Shinkai

  • Photoswitchable gel assembly based on molecular recognition

    Hiroyasu Yamaguchi;Yuichiro Kobayashi;Ryosuke Kobayashi;Yoshinori Takashima

  • Fast response dry-type artificial molecular muscles with [c2]daisy chains

    Kazuhisa Iwaso;Yoshinori Takashima;Akira Harada

  • Preparation and properties of inclusion complexes of polyethylene glycol with .alpha.-cyclodextrin

    Akira Harada;Jun Li;Mikiharu Kamachi

  • Chemical Sensors Based on Cyclodextrin Derivatives

    Tomoki Ogoshi;Tomoki Ogoshi;Akira Harada

  • Preparation and structures of supramolecules between cyclodextrins and polymers

    Akira Harada

  • Double-stranded inclusion complexes of cyclodextrin threaded on poly(ethylene glycol)

    Akira Harada;Jun Li;Mikiharu Kamachi

  • Switchable hydrogels obtained by supramolecular cross-linking of adamantyl-containing LCST copolymers with cyclodextrin dimers.

    Oliver Kretschmann;Soo Whan Choi;Masahiko Miyauchi;Itsuro Tomatsu

  • Preparation and Characterization of Inclusion Complexes of Poly(propylene glycol) with Cyclodextrins

    Akira Harada;Miyuko Okada;Jun Li;Mikiharu Kamachi

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshinori Takashima
Yoshinori Takashima Osaka University
Hiroyasu Yamaguchi
Hiroyasu Yamaguchi Osaka University
Mikiharu Kamachi
Mikiharu Kamachi Osaka University
Jun Li
Jun Li National University of Singapore
Shigetoshi Takahashi
Shigetoshi Takahashi Osaka University
Tomoki Ogoshi
Tomoki Ogoshi Kyoto University
Motomu Tanaka
Motomu Tanaka Heidelberg University
Hajime Yasuda
Hajime Yasuda Hiroshima University
Makoto Komiyama
Makoto Komiyama University of Tokyo
Hiroshi Uyama
Hiroshi Uyama Osaka University

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