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Shiki Yagai

Shiki Yagai

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Chemistry

D-Index
59
Citations
9648
World Ranking
10399
National Ranking
755

Overview

Shiki Yagai is affiliated with Chiba University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of materials science and chemistry. Their work spans several subfields, including organic chemistry, biomaterials, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and molecular biology.

The main focus of their research involves supramolecular self-assembly in materials, with additional emphasis on polydiacetylene-based materials and applications, supramolecular chemistry and complexes, luminescence and fluorescent materials, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, covalent organic framework applications, and photochromic and fluorescence chemistry.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Self-assembled poly-catenanes from supramolecular toroidal building blocks, 2020, Nature
  • Supramolecular copolymerization driven by integrative self-sorting of hydrogen-bonded rosettes, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Nanoengineering of Curved Supramolecular Polymers: Toward Single-Chain Mesoscale Materials, 2022, Accounts of Materials Research
  • Diarylethene-Powered Light-Induced Folding of Supramolecular Polymers, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Amplification of Molecular Asymmetry during the Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Foldable Azobenzene Dyads into Nanotoroids and Nanotubes, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Shiki Yagai frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemical Communications
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications

They collaborate regularly with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Sougata Datta
  • Takuho Saito
  • Martin J. Hollamby
  • Takumi Aizawa
  • Atsushi Isobe

Best Publications

  • Recent advances in photoresponsive supramolecular self-assemblies.

    Shiki Yagai;Shiki Yagai;Akihide Kitamura

  • Design amphiphilic dipolar π-systems for stimuli-responsive luminescent materials using metastable states

    Shiki Yagai;Satoru Okamura;Yujiro Nakano;Mitsuaki Yamauchi

  • Transformation from H- to J-aggregated perylene bisimide dyes by complexation with cyanurates.

    Shiki Yagai;Shiki Yagai;Tomohiro Seki;Takashi Karatsu;Akihide Kitamura

  • Hierarchical organization of photoresponsive hydrogen-bonded rosettes.

    Shiki Yagai;Toshiharu Nakajima;Keiki Kishikawa;Shigeo Kohmoto

  • Self-assembled poly-catenanes from supramolecular toroidal building blocks.

    Sougata Datta;Yasuki Kato;Seiya Higashiharaguchi;Keisuke Aratsu

  • Photocontrollable self-assembly.

    Shiki Yagai;Takashi Karatsu;Akihide Kitamura

  • A Black Perylene Bisimide Super Gelator with an Unexpected J‐Type Absorption Band

    Frank Würthner;Christoph Bauer;Vladimir Stepanenko;Shiki Yagai

  • Photoregulated Living Supramolecular Polymerization Established by Combining Energy Landscapes of Photoisomerization and Nucleation–Elongation Processes

    Mizuki Endo;Mizuki Endo;Tomoya Fukui;Tomoya Fukui;Sung Ho Jung;Shiki Yagai

  • Supramolecular Polymers Capable of Controlling Their Topology.

    Shiki Yagai;Yuichi Kitamoto;Sougata Datta;Bimalendu Adhikari

  • Supramolecularly Engineered Functional π-Assemblies Based on Complementary Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions

    Shiki Yagai

  • Self‐Organization of Hydrogen‐Bonding Naphthalene Chromophores into J‐type Nanorings and H‐type Nanorods: Impact of Regioisomerism

    Shiki Yagai;Yusaku Goto;Xu Lin;Takashi Karatsu

  • Mechanochromic Luminescence Based on Crystal-to-Crystal Transformation Mediated by a Transient Amorphous State

    Shiki Yagai;Tomohiro Seki;Hiroaki Aonuma;Kohsuke Kawaguchi

  • Control over hierarchy levels in the self-assembly of stackable nanotoroids.

    Shiki Yagai;Mitsuaki Yamauchi;Ai Kobayashi;Takashi Karatsu

  • Supramolecularly Engineered Perylene Bisimide Assemblies Exhibiting Thermal Transition from Columnar to Multilamellar Structures

    Shiki Yagai;Mari Usui;Tomohiro Seki;Haruno Murayama

  • Toroidal Nanoobjects from Rosette Assemblies of Melamine‐Linked Oligo(p‐phenyleneethynylene)s and Cyanurates

    Shiki Yagai;Sankarapillai Mahesh;Yoshihiro Kikkawa;Kanako Unoike

  • Reversible transformation between rings and coils in a dynamic hydrogen-bonded self-assembly.

    Shiki Yagai;Shun Kubota;Hikaru Saito;Kanako Unoike

  • Synthetic zinc tetrapyrroles complexing with pyridine as a single axial ligand.

    Hitoshi Tamiaki;Shiki Yagai;Tomohiro Miyatake

  • Diversification of self-organized architectures in supramolecular dye assemblies.

    Shiki Yagai;Tetsuro Kinoshita;Masatsugu Higashi;Keiki Kishikawa

  • Light-induced unfolding and refolding of supramolecular polymer nanofibres.

    Bimalendu Adhikari;Yuki Yamada;Mitsuaki Yamauchi;Kengo Wakita

  • Photoresponsive Self-Assembly and Self-Organization of Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Tapes

    Shiki Yagai;Tomoyuki Iwashima;Keiki Kishikawa;Shoichiro Nakahara

  • Phototriggered self-assembly of hydrogen-bonded rosette.

    Shiki Yagai;Toshiharu Nakajima;Takashi Karatsu;Ken-ichi Saitow

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Karatsu
Takashi Karatsu Chiba University
Shu Seki
Shu Seki Kyoto University
Hitoshi Tamiaki
Hitoshi Tamiaki Ritsumeikan University
Takashi Nakanishi
Takashi Nakanishi National Institute for Materials Science
Shin-ichi Adachi
Shin-ichi Adachi High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
Helmuth Möhwald
Helmuth Möhwald Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh
Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh CSIR – National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology
Takanori Fukushima
Takanori Fukushima Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hiroko Yamada
Hiroko Yamada Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Akinori Saeki
Akinori Saeki Osaka University

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