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Toshimi Shimizu is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, with a focus on materials science, chemistry, and engineering.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Materials Science (30 publications)
  • Chemistry (17 publications)
  • Engineering (11 publications)

Subfields of their research cover biomaterials, organic chemistry, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, and materials chemistry.

  • Biomaterials (21 publications)
  • Organic Chemistry (16 publications)
  • Molecular Biology (10 publications)
  • Biomedical Engineering (8 publications)
  • Materials Chemistry (7 publications)

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics, including supramolecular self-assembly in materials, polydiacetylene-based materials and applications, lipid membrane structure and behavior, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, luminescence and fluorescent materials, supramolecular chemistry and complexes, and aspects of robot manipulation and learning.

  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (38 publications)
  • Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications (18 publications)
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (10 publications)
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (6 publications)
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (6 publications)
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (6 publications)
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning (4 publications)

Toshimi Shimizu has contributed to various journals frequently, publishing several papers in key venues associated with chemistry and materials science.

  • Chemical Communications (3 papers)
  • Chemistry of Materials (3 papers)
  • Chemical Reviews (2 papers)
  • Nanoscale (2 papers)
  • Langmuir (2 papers)

Their recent significant papers include:

  • RETRACTED: Soft-Matter Nanotubes: A Platform for Diverse Functions and Applications, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • New solution to the force distribution problem for a special class of musculoskeletal robot arms based on direct sum decomposition, 2020, Mechanism and Machine Theory

In addition to journal articles, Toshimi Shimizu has published at least one book titled Smart Soft-Matter Nanotubes in 2021, through Springer Nature.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Naohiro Kameta
  • Mitsutoshi Masuda
  • Hiroyuki Minamikawa
  • Wuxiao Ding
  • Go Mizuno

Best Publications

  • Supramolecular nanotube architectures based on amphiphilic molecules.

    Toshimi Shimizu;Mitsutoshi Masuda;Hiroyuki Minamikawa

  • Creation of Novel Helical Ribbon and Double-Layered Nanotube TiO2 Structures Using an Organogel Template

    Jong Hwa Jung;Hideki Kobayashi;Kjeld J. C. Van Bommel;Seiji Shinkai

  • Helical ribbon aggregate composed of a crown-appended cholesterol derivative which acts as an amphiphilic gelator of organic solvents and as a template for chiral silica transcription.

    Jong Hwa Jung;Hedeki Kobayashi;Mitsutoshi Masuda;Toshimi Shimizu

  • Stereochemical Effect of Even−Odd Connecting Links on Supramolecular Assemblies Made of 1-Glucosamide Bolaamphiphiles

    Toshimi Shimizu;Mitsutoshi Masuda

  • Dicarboxylic Oligopeptide Bolaamphiphiles: Proton-Triggered Self-Assembly of Microtubes with Loose Solid Surfaces

    Masaki Kogiso;Satomi Ohnishi;Kiyoshi Yase;and Mitsutoshi Masuda

  • Self-Assembly of a Sugar-Based Gelator in Water: Its Remarkable Diversity in Gelation Ability and Aggregate Structure

    Jong Hwa Jung;George John;Mitsutoshi Masuda;Kaname Yoshida

  • Nanotube Formation from Renewable Resources via Coiled Nanofibers

    G. John;M. Masuda;Y. Okada;K. Yase

  • Internucleobase-Interaction-Directed Self-Assembly of Nanofibers from Homo- and Heteroditopic 1,ω-Nucleobase Bolaamphiphiles

    Toshimi Shimizu;Rika Iwaura;Mitsutoshi Masuda;Takeshi Hanada,†,⊥ and

  • Spectral Characterization of Self‐Assemblies of Aldopyranoside Amphiphilic Gelators: What is the Essential Structural Difference Between Simple Amphiphiles and Bolaamphiphiles?

    Jong Hwa Jung;Seiji Shinkai;Toshimi Shimizu

  • Spontaneous Fiber Formation and Hydrogelation of Nucleotide Bolaamphiphiles

    Rika Iwaura;Kaname Yoshida;Mitsutoshi Masuda;and Kiyoshi Yase

  • Lipid nanotubes and microtubes: experimental evidence for unsymmetrical monolayer membrane formation from unsymmetrical bolaamphiphiles.

    Mitsutoshi Masuda;Toshimi Shimizu

  • Soft-Matter Nanotubes: A Platform for Diverse Functions and Applications.

    Toshimi Shimizu;Wuxiao Ding;Naohiro Kameta

  • Vesicle assembly in microtubes

    Toshimi Shimizu;Masaki Kogiso;Mitsutoshi Masuda

  • Lipid Nanotubes: A Unique Template To Create Diverse One-Dimensional Nanostructures†

    Yong Zhou;Toshimi Shimizu

  • Molecular-level helical stack of a nucleotide-appended oligo(p-phenylenevinylene) directed by supramolecular self-assembly with a complementary oligonucleotide as a template

    Rika Iwaura;Freek J. M. Hoeben;Mitsutoshi Masuda;Albertus P. H. J. Schenning

  • Self-assembling structures of long-chain phenyl glucoside influenced by the introduction of double bonds.

    Jong Hwa Jung;George John;Kaname Yoshida;Toshimi Shimizu

  • Oligonucleotide-templated self-assembly of nucleotide bolaamphiphiles: DNA-like nanofibers edged by a double-helical arrangement of A-T base pairs.

    Rika Iwaura;Kaname Yoshida;Mitsutoshi Masuda;Mayumi Ohnishi-Kameyama

  • Current/Voltage Characteristics of Monolayers of Redox‐Switchable [2]Catenanes on Gold

    M. Asakawa;M. Higuchi;G. Mattersteig;T. Nakamura

  • Creation of Novel Double-Helical Silica Nanotubes Using Binary Gel System

    Jong Hwa Jung;Kaname Yoshida;Toshimi Shimizu

  • Switching "on" and "off" the expression of chirality in peptide rotaxanes.

    Masumi Asakawa;Giuseppe Brancato;Marianna Fanti;David A Leigh

Frequent Co-Authors

Jong Hwa Jung
Jong Hwa Jung Gyeongsang National University
Kiyoshi Yase
Kiyoshi Yase National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Kohzo Ito
Kohzo Ito University of Tokyo
Toshio Fukuda
Toshio Fukuda Nagoya University
Seiji Shinkai
Seiji Shinkai Kyushu University
Ichiro Yamashita
Ichiro Yamashita Osaka University
Yoshiki Shimizu
Yoshiki Shimizu National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Fumihito Arai
Fumihito Arai University of Tokyo
Masako Yudasaka
Masako Yudasaka National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Kazuo Sakurai
Kazuo Sakurai The University of Kitakyushu

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