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Seiya Kobatake is affiliated with Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan and has a significant publication record focusing primarily on materials science and chemistry. Their research spans domains including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and biomaterials.

The main research topics explored by Kobatake include:

  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions

Kobatake has published frequently in several venues. Major journals featuring their work include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kobatake comprise the following:

  • Mechanical properties and peculiarities of molecular crystals, 2023, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Light-Driven Rapid Peeling of Photochromic Diarylethene Single Crystals, 2021, Crystal Growth & Design
  • Correlating Reaction Dynamics and Size Change during the Photomechanical Transformation of 9-Methylanthracene Single Crystals, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Mechanical Actuation and Patterning of Rewritable Crystalline Monomer−Polymer Heterostructures via Topochemical Polymerization in a Dual-Responsive Photochromic Organic Material, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Photoluminescence On/Off Switching of a Single Colloidal Quantum Dot Using Photochromic Diarylethene, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

The scientist frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Daichi Kitagawa
  • Shota Hamatani
  • Christopher J. Bardeen
  • Hiroshi Miyasaka
  • Hikaru Sotome

Best Publications

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

    Masahiro Irie;Tuyoshi Fukaminato;Kenji Matsuda;Seiya Kobatake

  • Rapid and reversible shape changes of molecular crystals on photoirradiation

    Seiya Kobatake;Shizuka Takami;Hiroaki Muto;Tomoyuki Ishikawa

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

    Masahiro Irie;Seiya Kobatake;Masashi Horichi

  • Mechanisms and kinetics of nitroxide-controlled free radical polymerization

    Takeshi Fukuda;Tomoya Terauchi;Atsushi Goto;Kohji Ohno

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

    Seiya Kobatake;Kingo Uchida;Eriko Tsuchida;Masahiro Irie

  • Mechanical properties and peculiarities of molecular crystals.

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  • Photochromism of 1,2-Bis(2,5-dimethyl-3-thienyl)perfluoro- cyclopentene in a Single Crystalline Phase

    Seiya Kobatake;Taro Yamada;Kingo Uchida;Nobuo Kato

  • Photoinduced Twisting of a Photochromic Diarylethene Crystal

    Daichi Kitagawa;Hiroyasu Nishi;Seiya Kobatake

  • Single-Crystalline Photochromism of Diarylethenes

    Seiya Kobatake;Masahiro Irie

  • Synthesis and photoisomerization of dithienylethene-bridged diporphyrins.

    Atsuhiro Osuka;Daisuke Fujikane;Hideyuki Shinmori;Seiya Kobatake

  • Multicolor photochromism of two- and three-component diarylethene crystals.

    Masakazu Morimoto;Seiya Kobatake;Masahiro Irie

  • Fatigue resistant properties of photochromic dithienylethenes: by-product formation

    Masahiro Irie;Thorsten Lifka;Kingo Uchida;Seiya Kobatake

  • Photocyclization/cycloreversion quantum yields of diarylethenes in single crystals

    Katsunori Shibata;Keishi Muto;Seiya Kobatake;Masahiro Irie

  • Control of Photomechanical Crystal Twisting by Illumination Direction

    Daichi Kitagawa;Hajime Tsujioka;Fei Tong;Xinning Dong

  • Dithienylethenes with a novel photochromic performance.

    Kentaro Morimitsu;Katsunori Shibata;Seiya Kobatake;Masahiro Irie

  • Photochromism of 1,2-Bis(2-methyl-6-nitro-1-benzothiophen-3-yl)perfluorocyclopentene in a Single-Crystalline Phase: Dichroism of the Closed-Ring Form Isomer

    Seiya Kobatake;Motoki Yamada;Taro Yamada;Masahiro Irie

  • X-Ray Crystallographic Study on Single-Crystalline Photochromism of 1,2-Bis(2,5-dimethyl-3-thienyl)perfluorocyclopentene

    Taro Yamada;Seiya Kobatake;Masahiro Irie

  • Fluorescence of Photochromic 1,2-Bis(3-methyl-2-thienyl)ethene

    Tuyoshi Fukaminato;Tsuyoshi Kawai;Seiya Kobatake;Masahiro Irie

  • Efficient Photocyclization of Dithienylethene Dimer, Trimer, and Tetramer: Quantum Yield and Reaction Dynamics

    Teruaki Kaieda;Seiya Kobatake;Hiroshi Miyasaka;Masataka Murakami

  • Reversible Diastereoselective Photocyclization of a Diarylethene in a Single-Crystalline Phase

    Tetsuhiro Kodani;Kenji Matsuda;Taro Yamada;Seiya Kobatake

  • An ab Initio MO Study of the Photochromic Reaction of Dithienylethenes

    Dominique Guillaumont;Takao Kobayashi;Katsuya Kanda;Hiroshi Miyasaka

  • X-Ray Crystallographic Study on Single-Crystalline Photochromism of 1,2-Bis(2,5-dimethyl-3-thienyl)perfluorocyclopentene

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Frequent Co-Authors

Masahiro Irie
Masahiro Irie Rikkyo University
Hiroshi Miyasaka
Hiroshi Miyasaka Osaka University
Kingo Uchida
Kingo Uchida Ryukoku University
Tsuyoshi Asahi
Tsuyoshi Asahi Ehime University
Tsuyoshi Kawai
Tsuyoshi Kawai Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Kenji Matsuda
Kenji Matsuda Kyoto University
Christopher J. Bardeen
Christopher J. Bardeen University of California, Riverside
Roderic P. Quirk
Roderic P. Quirk University of Akron
Takayuki Otsu
Takayuki Otsu Osaka Metropolitan University
Akikazu Matsumoto
Akikazu Matsumoto Osaka Metropolitan University

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