[Selected Publications (Original)]

1) “Directed assembly of optoelectronically active alkyl-π-conjugated molecules by adding n-alkanes or π-conjugated species”
M. J. Hollamby,* M. Karny, P. H. H. Bomans, N. A. J. M. Sommerdijk, A. Saeki, S. Seki, H. Minamikawa, I. Grillo, B. R. Pauw, P. Brown, J. Eastoe, H. Moehwald, T. Nakanishi*
Nature Chem., 2014, 6 (8), 690-696.

2) “Nonvolatile liquid anthracenes for facile full-colour luminescence tuning at single blue-light excitation”
S. S. Babu, M. J. Hollamby, J. Aimi, H. Ozawa, A. Saeki, S. Seki, K. Kobayashi, K. Hagiwara, M. Yoshizawa, H. Moehwald, T. Nakanishi*
Nature Commun., 2013, 4:1969, doi: 10.1038/ncomms2969. (Open Access)

3) “Alkylated-C60 based soft materials: regulation of self-assembly and optoelectronic properties by chain branching”
H. Li, S. S. Babu, S. T. Turner, D. Neher, M. J. Hollamby, T. Seki, S. Yagai, Y. Deguchi, H. Moehwald, T. Nakanishi*
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, 1 (10), 1943-1951. (Back Inside Cover)

4) “Solvent-Free Luminescent Organic Liquids”
S. S. Babu, J. Aimi, H. Ozawa, N. Shirahata, A. Saeki. S. Seki, A. Ajayaghosh, H. Moehwald, T. Nakanishi*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51 (14), 3391-3395. (Highlighted in Nature, 2012, 484, 9. and ChemistryViews)

5) “CdSe Nanocrystal/C60-liquid composite material with enhanced photoelecteochemical performance”
T. J. Kramer, S. S. Babu, A. Saeki. S. Seki, J. Aimi, T. Nakanishi*
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22 (42), 22370-22373. (Hot Paper in JMC Blog)

6) “Assembly of carbon nanotubes and alkylated fullerenes: nanocarbon hybrid towards photovoltaic applications”
Y. Shen*, J. S. Reparaz, M. R. Wagner, A. Hoffmann, C. Thomsen, J.-O. Lee, S. Heeg, B. Hatting, S. Reich, A. Saeki, S. Seki, K. Yoshida, S. S. Babu, H. Moehwald, T. Nakanishi*
Chem. Sci. 2011, 2 (11), 2243-2250.

7) “Assembly of Fullerene-Carbon Nanotubes: Temperature Indicator for Photothermal Conversion”
Y. Shen, A. G. Skirtach, T. Seki, S. Yagai, H. Li, H. Moehwald, T. Nakanishi*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132 (25), 8566-8568.

8) “Superstructures and superhydrophobic property in hierarchical organized architectures of fullerenes bearing long alkyl tails”
T. Nakanishi,* Y. Shen, J. Wang, H. Li, P. Fernandes, K. Yoshida, S. Yagai, M. Takeuchi, K. Ariga, D. G. Kurth, H. Moehwald
J. Mater. Chem. 2010, 20 (7), 1253-1260. (Back Cover Page)
(Highlighting the work of emerging investigators in materials chemistry)

9) “Self-Assembly Made Durable: Water-Repellent Materials Formed by Cross-Linking Fullerene Derivatives”
J. Wang, Y. Shen, S. Kessel, P. Fernandes, K. Yoshida, S. Yagai, D. G. Kurth, H. Moehwald, T. Nakanishi*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48 (12), 2166-2170.

10) “Supramolecular Templates for Nanoflake-Metal Surfaces”
Y. Shen, J. Wang, U. Kuhlmann, P. Hildebrandt, K. Ariga, H. Moehwald, D. G. Kurth, T. Nakanishi*
Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15 (12), 2763-2767. (Cover Page)

11 “Electron Transport and Electrochemistry of Mesomorphic Fullerenes with Long-Range Ordered Lamellae”
T. Nakanishi,* Y. Shen, J. Wang, S. Yagai, M. Funahashi, T. Kato, P. Fernandes, H. Moehwald, D. G. Kurth
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130 (29), 9236-9237.

12) “Nano-Carbon Superhydrophobic Surfaces Created from Fullerene Based Hierarchical Supramolecular Assemblies”
T. Nakanishi,* T. Michinobu, K. Yoshida, N. Shirahata, K. Ariga, H. Moehwald, D. G. Kurth
Adv. Mater. 2008, 20 (3), 443-446.

13) “Flower-Shaped Supramolecular Assemblies: Hierarchical Organization of a Fullerene Bearing Long Aliphatic Chains”
T. Nakanishi,* K. Ariga, T. Michinobu, K. Yoshida, H. Takahashi, T. Teranishi, H. Moehwald, D. G. Kurth
Small 2007, 3 (12), 2019-2023. (Cover Page)

14) “Perfectly Straight Nanowires of Fullerenes Bearing Long Alkyl-Chains on Graphite”
T. Nakanishi,* N. Miyashita, T. Michinobu, Y. Wakayama, T. Tsuruoka, K. Ariga, D. G. Kurth
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128 (19), 6328-6329.

15) “Room Temperature Liquid Fullerenes: An Uncommon Morphology of C60 Derivatives”
T. Michinobu, T. Nakanishi,* J. P. Hill, M. Funahashi, K. Ariga
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128 (32), 10384-10385.

16) “Hierarchical supramolecular fullerene architectures with controlled dimensionality”
T. Nakanishi,* W. Schmitt, T. Michinobu, D. G. Kurth, K. Ariga
Chem. Commun. 2005, (48), 5982-5984. (Hot Article)

17) “Structure and Electrochemistry of Self-Organized Fullerene-Lipid Bilayer Films”
T. Nakanishi, M. Morita, H. Murakami, T. Sagara, N. Nakashima
Chem. Eur. J. 2002, 8 (7), 1641-1648.


[Selected Review Articles]
1) “Alkyl-π engineering in state control toward versatile optoelectronic soft materials”
F. Lu, T. Nakanishi*
Sci. Technol. Adv. Mater., 2015, 16 (1), 014805 (20pp). (Open Access Article)

2) “Room Temperature Liquid Formulation by Attaching Alkyl Chains on π-Conjugated Molecules”
T. Nakanishi*
J. Synth. Org. Chem., Jpn., 2014, 72 (11), 1265-1270. (Open Access Article)

3) “Fullerene assemblies toward photo-energy conversions”
Y. Shen, T. Nakanishi*
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16 (16), 7199-7204. (Perspective)

4) “Nonvolatile functional molecular liquids”
S. S. Babu, T. Nakanishi*
Chem. Commun., 2013, 49 (82), 9373-9382. (Feature Article, Front Cover Picture)

5) “The power of branched chains: optimising functional molecular materials”
M. J. Hollamby, T. Nakanishi*
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, 1 (39), 6178-6183. (Highlight, Hot Article in JMC Blog)

6) “Optoelectronic Functional Materials Based on Alkylated-π Molecules: Self-Assembled Architectures and Nonassembled Liquids”
H. Li, J. Choi, T. Nakanishi*
Langmuir, 2013, 29 (18), 5394-5406. (Feature Article, Front Cover Picture)

7) “Recent progresses in morphology control of supramolecular fullerene assemblies and its applications”
S. S. Babu, H. Moehwald, T. Nakanishi*
Chem. Soc. Rev. 2010, 39 (11), 4021-4035. (Cover Page)

8) “Supramolecular soft and hard materials based on self-assembly algorithms of alkyl-conjugated fullerenes”
T. Nakanishi*
Chem. Commun. 2010, 46 (20), 3425-3436. (Feature Article)