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Toshikazu Takata is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a significant contribution in subfields such as Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Biomaterials, and Molecular Biology.

The main research topics covered by Takata include:

  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry
  • Polymer composites and self-healing

Takata has contributed to multiple scholarly articles, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Switchable Polymer Materials Controlled by Rotaxane Macromolecular Switches," 2020, ACS Central Science
  • "Mechanical Chirality of Rotaxanes: Synthesis and Function," 2020, Symmetry
  • "Macrocyclic Dinuclear Palladium Complex as a Novel Doubly Threaded [3]Rotaxane Scaffold and Its Application as a Rotaxane Cross-Linker," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "The Effect of the Axle End Structure and Number of Through-Space Bonds on the Properties of Rotaxane Crosslinked Polymers," 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Visualization of the slide-ring effect: a study on movable cross-linking points using mechanochromism," 2020, Chemical Communications

Takata's frequent co-authors include:

  • Hiromitsu Sogawa
  • Shigeki Kuwata
  • Yosuke Akae
  • Kōji Yamamoto
  • Jun Sawada

Their work has been published regularly in various venues, with several publications in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • NIPPON GOMU KYOKAISHI
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie

Best Publications

  • A concept for recyclable cross-linked polymers: topologically networked polyrotaxane capable of undergoing reversible assembly and disassembly.

    Tomoya Oku;Yoshio Furusho;Toshikazu Takata

  • Polyrotaxane and Polyrotaxane Network: Supramolecular Architectures Based on the Concept of Dynamic Covalent Bond Chemistry

    Toshikazu Takata

  • Polyrotaxanes and Polycatenanes: Recent Advances in Syntheses and Applications of Polymers Comprising of Interlocked Structures

    Toshikazu Takata;Nobuhiro Kihara;Yoshio Furusho

  • Asymmetric benzoin condensation catalyzed by chiral rotaxanes tethering a thiazolium salt moiety via the cooperation of the component: can rotaxane be an effective reaction field?

    Yuya Tachibana;Nobuhiro Kihara;Toshikazu Takata

  • Electrochemical reactions of lithium–sulfur batteries: an analytical study using the organic conversion technique

    Ayako Kawase;Soichi Shirai;Yoshinari Yamoto;Ryuichi Arakawa

  • Cationic Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Carbonates with Alkyl Halides To Yield Polycarbonate without the Ether Unit by Suppression of Elimination of Carbon Dioxide1

    Toshiro Ariga;Toshikazu Takata;Takeshi Endo

  • Optically Active Poly(aryl carbonates) Consisting of Axially Chiral Units. Chiral Binaphthyl Group Induced Helical Polymer

    Toshikazu Takata;Yoshio Furusho;Ken-ichi Murakawa;Takeshi Endo

  • Photoinduced Intrarotaxane Electron Transfer between Zinc Porphyrin and [60]Fullerene in Benzonitrile†

    Nobuhiro Watanabe;Nobuhiro Kihara;Yoshio Furusho;Toshikazu Takata

  • Sequential O- and N-Acylation Protocol for High-Yield Preparation and Modification of Rotaxanes: Synthesis, Functionalization, Structure, and Intercomponent Interaction of Rotaxanes

    Yuya Tachibana;Hiroaki Kawasaki;Nobuhiro Kihara;Toshikazu Takata

  • Addition-Elimination Reaction in the Trifluoroacetylation of Electron-Rich Olefins

    Takeshi Moriguchi;Takeshi Endo;Toshikazu Takata

  • New Click Chemistry: Polymerization Based on 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of a Homo Ditopic Nitrile N-Oxide and Transformation of the Resulting Polymers into Reactive Polymers

    Young-Gi Lee;Yasuhito Koyama;Morio Yonekawa;Toshikazu Takata

  • Solid-State End-Capping of Pseudopolyrotaxane Possessing Hydroxy-Terminated Axle to Polyrotaxane and Its Application to the Synthesis of a Functionalized Polyrotaxane Capable of Yielding a Polyrotaxane Network

    Nobuhiro Kihara;Kazuma Hinoue;Toshikazu Takata

  • Dynamic Covalent Approach to [2]- and [3]Rotaxanes by Utilizing a Reversible Thiol–Disulfide Interchange Reaction

    Yoshio Furusho;Tomoya Oku;Toshihide Hasegawa;Akiyoshi Tsuboi

  • Recent advances in the development of expanding monomers: Synthesis, polymerization and volume change

    Toshikazu Takata;Takeshi Endo

  • Synthesis of Vinylic Macromolecular Rotaxane Cross-Linkers Endowing Network Polymers with Toughness

    Jun Sawada;Daisuke Aoki;Satoshi Uchida;Hideyuki Otsuka

  • Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Processes between [C60]Fullerene and Triphenylamine Moieties Tethered by Rotaxane Structures. Through-Space Electron Transfer via Excited Triplet States of [60]Fullerene

    Atula S. D. Sandanayaka;Hisahiro Sasabe;Yasuyuki Araki;Yoshio Furusho

  • Size‐Complementary Rotaxane Cross‐Linking for the Stabilization and Degradation of a Supramolecular Network

    Yasuhiro Kohsaka;Kazuko Nakazono;Yasuhito Koyama;Shigeo Asai

  • Synthesis of fluorene‐based high performance polymers. I. Poly(arylene thioether)s with excellent solubility and high refractive index

    Surasak Seesukphronrarak;Shinichi Kawasaki;Kana Kobori;Toshikazu Takata

  • Redox Behavior of Ferrocene-Containing Rotaxane: Transposition of the Rotaxane Wheel by Redox Reaction of a Ferrocene Moiety Tethered at the End of the Axle

    Nobuhiro Kihara;Makiko Hashimoto;Toshikazu Takata

  • Synthesis and Chemical, Physical, and Optical Properties of 9,9-Diarylfluorene-Based Poly(ether−ether−ketone)

    Shinichi Kawasaki;Masahiro Yamada;Kana Kobori;Fengzhe Jin

Frequent Co-Authors

Takeshi Endo
Takeshi Endo Kyushu Institute of Technology
Yoshio Furusho
Yoshio Furusho Shiga University of Medical Science
Yasuyuki Araki
Yasuyuki Araki Tohoku University
Osamu Ito
Osamu Ito Tohoku University
Hideyuki Otsuka
Hideyuki Otsuka Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tsutomu Yokozawa
Tsutomu Yokozawa Kanagawa University
Ken Nakajima
Ken Nakajima Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takashi Ishizone
Takashi Ishizone Tokyo Institute of Technology
Robert West
Robert West University of Wisconsin–Madison
Akira Hirao
Akira Hirao National Taiwan University

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