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Takashi Kato

Takashi Kato

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Chemistry
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
106
Citations
41635
World Ranking
952
National Ranking
42

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

Takashi Kato is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Biomaterials, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics focus on liquid crystal advancements, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, esophageal cancer research and treatment, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, nanopore and nanochannel transport studies, membrane separation technologies, and surfactants and colloidal systems.

Several papers published by Takashi Kato illustrate their areas of study and collaboration. These include:

  • Supramolecular Association and Nanostructure Formation of Liquid Crystals and Polymers for New Functional Materials, 2020, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • Molecular insights on confined water in the nanochannels of self-assembled ionic liquid crystal, 2021, Science Advances
  • Nanostructured liquid-crystalline Li-ion conductors with high oxidation resistance: molecular design strategy towards safe and high-voltage-operation Li-ion batteries, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Self-healing and shape memory functions exhibited by supramolecular liquid-crystalline networks formed by combination of hydrogen bonding interactions and coordination bonding, 2021, Chemical Science
  • Ion Selectivity of Water Molecules in Subnanoporous Liquid-Crystalline Water-Treatment Membranes: A Structural Study of Hydrogen Bonding, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent co-authors working with Takashi Kato include:

  • Junya Uchida
  • Go Watanabe
  • Kazuki Fukushima
  • Riki Kato
  • Hironobu Goto

The scientist publishes regularly in various research venues, with multiple works appearing in:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Annals of Surgical Oncology
  • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
  • ChemPhysChem

Best Publications

  • Handbook of liquid crystals

    John W. Goodby;Peter J. Collings;Takashi Kato;Carsten Tschierske

  • Functional liquid-crystalline assemblies: self-organized soft materials.

    Takashi Kato;Norihiro Mizoshita;Kenji Kishimoto

  • Mechanically induced luminescence changes in molecular assemblies.

    Yoshimitsu Sagara;Takashi Kato

  • Self-Assembly of Phase-Segregated Liquid Crystal Structures

    Takashi Kato

  • Mechanoresponsive Luminescent Molecular Assemblies: An Emerging Class of Materials

    Yoshimitsu Sagara;Shogo Yamane;Masato Mitani;Christoph Weder

  • New approach to mesophase stabilization through hydrogen-bonding molecular interactions in binary mixtures

    Takashi Kato;Jean M. J. Frechet

  • An Acidic Matrix Protein, Pif, Is a Key Macromolecule for Nacre Formation

    Michio Suzuki;Kazuko Saruwatari;Toshihiro Kogure;Yuya Yamamoto

  • Stabilization of a liquid-crystalline phase through noncovalent interaction with a polymer side chain

    Takashi Kato;Jean M. J. Frechet

  • One-dimensional ion transport in self-organized columnar ionic liquids.

    Masafumi Yoshio;Tomohiro Mukai;Hiroyuki Ohno;Takashi Kato

  • Functional Liquid Crystals towards the Next Generation of Materials

    Takashi Kato;Junya Uchida;Takahiro Ichikawa;Takahiro Ichikawa;Takeshi Sakamoto

  • Solid-state CP/MAS carbon-13 NMR study of cellulose polymorphs

    Akira Isogai;Makoto Usuda;Takashi Kato;Toshiyuki Uryu

  • One-Dimensional Ion-Conductive Polymer Films: Alignment and Fixation of Ionic Channels Formed by Self-Organization of Polymerizable Columnar Liquid Crystals

    Masafumi Yoshio;Takayoshi Kagata;Koji Hoshino;Tomohiro Mukai

  • Stacking of conical molecules with a fullerene apex into polar columns in crystals and liquid crystals

    Masaya Sawamura;Kenji Kawai;Yutaka Matsuo;Kiyoshi Kanie

  • Transport of ions and electrons in nanostructured liquid crystals

    Takashi Kato;Masafumi Yoshio;Takahiro Ichikawa;Bartolome Soberats

  • Stimuli‐Responsive Luminescent Liquid Crystals: Change of Photoluminescent Colors Triggered by a Shear‐Induced Phase Transition

    Yoshimitsu Sagara;Takashi Kato

  • Calcium Carbonate–Organic Hybrid Materials

    Takashi Kato;Ayae Sugawara;Naoya Hosoda

  • Brightly Tricolored Mechanochromic Luminescence from a Single‐Luminophore Liquid Crystal: Reversible Writing and Erasing of Images

    Yoshimitsu Sagara;Takashi Kato

  • Use of intermolecular hydrogen bonding for the induction of liquid crystallinity in the side chain of polysiloxanes

    Uday Kumar;Takashi Kato;Jean M. J. Frechet

  • Liquid-crystalline physical gels

    Takashi Kato;Yuki Hirai;Suguru Nakaso;Masaya Moriyama

  • Hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals. Novel mesogens incorporating nonmesogenic bipyridyl compounds through complexation between hydrogen-bond donor and acceptor moieties

    Takashi Kato;Jean M. J. Frechet;Paul G. Wilson;Takeshi Saito

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroyuki Ohno
Hiroyuki Ohno Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Takuma Yasuda
Takuma Yasuda Kyushu University
Kenji Hanabusa
Kenji Hanabusa Shinshu University
Jean M. J. Fréchet
Jean M. J. Fréchet University of California, Berkeley
Yuya Oaki
Yuya Oaki Keio University
John W. Goodby
John W. Goodby University of York
Akira Fujishima
Akira Fujishima University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Carsten Tschierske
Carsten Tschierske Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
J. Fraser Stoddart
J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University
Goran Ungar
Goran Ungar Xi'an Jiaotong University

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