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Masahiro Irie

Masahiro Irie

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Chemistry
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
101
Citations
42516
World Ranking
1004
National Ranking
33

Chemistry

D-Index
114
Citations
51818
World Ranking
662
National Ranking
28

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

Masahiro Irie is affiliated with Rikkyo University in Japan and has a significant body of research focusing on materials science and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including materials chemistry, cellular and molecular neuroscience, physical and theoretical chemistry, organic chemistry, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The main topics covered in Irie's research include:

  • Photochromic and fluorescence chemistry
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Luminescence and fluorescent materials
  • Photochemistry and electron transfer studies
  • Radical photochemical reactions
  • Advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques
  • Click chemistry and applications

Frequent co-authors in Irie's research include Masakazu Morimoto, Hiroshi Miyasaka, Hikaru Sotome, Tatsuhiro Nagasaka, and Seiya Kobatake.

Their publications are often found in the following scientific venues:

  • ChemPhysChem
  • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
  • Chemical Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Materials Horizons

Some notable papers by Masahiro Irie include:

  • "Turn-on mode diarylethenes for bioconjugation and fluorescence microscopy of cellular structures," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Optical microresonator arrays of fluorescence-switchable diarylethenes with unreplicable spectral fingerprints," 2020, Materials Horizons
  • "Photochemically Switchable Interconnected Microcavities for All-Organic Optical Logic Gate," 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Turn-on mode fluorescent diarylethenes: effect of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing substituents on photoswitching performance," 2020, Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
  • "Multicolour fluorescent 'sulfide-sulfone' diarylethenes with high photo-fatigue resistance," 2020, Chemical Communications

This collection of work demonstrates a focus on developing and characterizing advanced photochromic materials, fluorescence chemistry, and their applications in biological imaging and optical devices.

Best Publications

  • Diarylethenes for Memories and Switches

    Masahiro Irie

  • Photochromism of Diarylethene Molecules and Crystals: Memories, Switches, and Actuators

    Masahiro Irie;Tuyoshi Fukaminato;Kenji Matsuda;Seiya Kobatake

  • Organic chemistry: a digital fluorescent molecular photoswitch.

    Masahiro Irie;Tuyoshi Fukaminato;Takatoshi Sasaki;Naoto Tamai

  • Rapid and reversible shape changes of molecular crystals on photoirradiation

    Seiya Kobatake;Shizuka Takami;Hiroaki Muto;Tomoyuki Ishikawa

  • Photochromism: Memories and Switches-Introduction.

    M. Irie

  • Thermally irreversible photochromic systems. Reversible photocyclization of diarylethene derivatives

    Masahiro Irie;Masaaki Mohri

  • Reversible Surface Morphology Changes of a Photochromic Diarylethene Single Crystal by Photoirradiation

    Masahiro Irie;Seiya Kobatake;Masashi Horichi

  • A Diarylethene Cocrystal that Converts Light into Mechanical Work

    Masakazu Morimoto;Masahiro Irie

  • Photochromism of 1,2-Bis(2-methyl-5-phenyl-3-thienyl)perfluorocyclopentene in a Single-Crystalline Phase

    Masahiro Irie;Thorsten Lifka;and Seiya Kobatake;Nobuo Kato

  • Diheteroarylethenes as thermally stable photoswitchable acceptors in photochromic fluorescence resonance energy transfer (pcFRET).

    Luciana Giordano;Thomas M. Jovin;Masahiro Irie;Elizabeth A. Jares-Erijman

  • PHOTOCHROMISM OF DITHIENYLETHENES WITH ELECTRON-DONATING SUBSTITUENTS

    Masahiro Irie;Kazuyuki Sakemura;Masakazu Okinaka;Kingo Uchida

  • Synthesis and Properties of Photochromic Diarylethenes with Heterocyclic Aryl Groups.

    Masahiro Irie;Kingo Uchida

  • Photoinduced phase transition of gels

    Akira Mamada;Toyoichi Tanaka;Dawan Kungwatchakun;Masahiro Irie

  • Digital photoswitching of fluorescence based on the photochromism of diarylethene derivatives at a single-molecule level.

    Tuyoshi Fukaminato;Takatoshi Sasaki;Tsuyoshi Kawai;Naoto Tamai

  • Thermally irreversible photochromic systems: a theoretical study

    Shinichiro Nakamura;Masahiro Irie

  • Light‐Driven Molecular‐Crystal Actuators: Rapid and Reversible Bending of Rodlike Mixed Crystals of Diarylethene Derivatives

    Fumitaka Terao;Masakazu Morimoto;Masahiro Irie

  • Thermally irreversible photochromic systems. Reversible photocyclization of 1,2-bis (2-methylbenzo[b]thiophen-3-yl)perfluorocyclocoalkene derivatives

    Makoto Hanazawa;Ritsuo Sumiya;Yukio Horikawa;Masahiro Irie

  • A Diarylethene with Two Nitronyl Nitroxides: Photoswitching of Intramolecular Magnetic Interaction

    Kenji Matsuda and;Masahiro Irie

  • Full-color photochromism of a fused dithienylethene trimer.

    Kenji Higashiguchi;Kenji Matsuda;Naoki Tanifuji;Masahiro Irie

  • Single-crystalline photochromism of diarylethenes: reactivity–structure relationship

    Seiya Kobatake;Kingo Uchida;Eriko Tsuchida;Masahiro Irie

  • Photochromism of diarylethene single crystals: crystal structures and photochromic performance.

    Masakazu Morimoto;Masahiro Irie

Frequent Co-Authors

Seiya Kobatake
Seiya Kobatake Osaka Metropolitan University
Kenji Matsuda
Kenji Matsuda Kyoto University
Kingo Uchida
Kingo Uchida Ryukoku University
Hiroshi Miyasaka
Hiroshi Miyasaka Osaka University
Tsuyoshi Kawai
Tsuyoshi Kawai Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Hiroshi Masuhara
Hiroshi Masuhara National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Stefan W. Hell
Stefan W. Hell Max Planck Society
Masahiro Yamashita
Masahiro Yamashita Tohoku University
Naoto Tamai
Naoto Tamai Kwansei Gakuin University
Shinzo Kohjiya
Shinzo Kohjiya Kyoto University

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