Nakanishi's Research Team in 2014
@MANA, NIMS

2015/7/6 (Schedule)
Dr. Alberto BIANCO will provide his talk at the MANA Seminar
First Class Director of Research at CNRS
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, CNRS, STrasbourg, France
"Design of functionalized of carbon-based nanomaterials and their applications"

2015/5/28
Dr. Hao Wang
Hao has joined us as an Internship Student from Kent State Univeristy, USA.

2015/5/8
Farewell to Mr. Christopher Hassam
Chris has completed his Joint PhD program at NIMS and returned back to Flinders University in Australia

2015/3/27
Farewell to Dr. Ken Okamoto
Dr. Okamoto has appointed an Associate Professor @ National Institute of Technology, Ichinoseki College, Iwate



[Publications in 2015]
・Adv. Optical Mater., 2015, in press. (DOI: 10.1002/adom.201400619)
“Exfoliation of Graphene and Assembly Formation with Alkylated-C60: A Nanocarbon
Hybrid towards Photo-Energy Conversion Electrode Devices”
Y. Shen,* A. Saeki, S. Seki, J.-O. Lee, J. Aimi, T. Nakanishi*


・Sci. Technol. Adv. Mater., 2015, 16 (1), 014805 (20pp). (Open Access Article, Hot Paper)
“Alkyl-π engineering in state control toward versatile optoelectronic soft materials”
F. Lu, T. Nakanishi*
(Focus on Future Leaders in Nanoarchitectonics, Invited Review)

・J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3 (11), 2484-2490. (Back Cover Picture)
“Synthesis and self-assembly of phthalocyanine-tethered block copolymers”
J. Aimi,* M. Komura, T. Iyoda, A. Saeki, S. Seki, M. Takeuchi, T. Nakanishi*



2015/3/17
The 457th MANA Seminar
(The 2nd Colloquium for Novel Organic Materials)
WPI-MANA Auditorium, 15:00-16:30



2015/3/11-13
Excellent Poster Presentation Award
Dr. Takashi NAKANISHI
"π-Conjugated Molecule Based Room Temperature Liquid Materials"
The 8th MANA International Symposium 2015 (@Tsukuba, Japan)



・H index = 35 (1st Jan, 2015)


2015/1/28
The 448th MANA Seminar
Dr. Stephane CAMPIDELLI

(Laboratoire d'Innovation en Chimie des Surfaces et Nanoscience, CEA Saclay, France)
“Development of New Functionalization Methods of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene”


Photo taken with Stephane


・Nature Chem., 2014, 6 (8), 690-696.
“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*



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

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


・Curr. Opin. Coll. Interface Sci., 2014, 19, 131-139.
“Controlled self-assembly of alkylated-π compounds for soft materials - Towards optical and optoelectronic applications”
A. Zielinska, M. Leonowicz, H. Li,* T. Nakanishi*


・Best Presentation Award at WUT-NIMS Joint Symposium 2014
Agnieszka Zielinska (19th September, 2014 @ WUT)



2014/12/2
The 444th MANA Seminar
Prof. Ben Zhong TANG

(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
“Aggregation-Induced Emission”


2014/11/5
The 436th MANA Seminar
Prof. Suhrit GHOSH

(Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India)
“H-Bonding Driven Supramolecular Assembly of Donor-Acceptor Chromophores and Amphiphilic Macromolecules”


2014/7/22
The 421st MANA Seminar
Prof. Martin J. HOLLAMBY

(Physical and Geographical Sciences, Keele University, UK)
“Directed assembly of π-system-containing materials for organic electronics”


2014/2/7
The 391st MANA Seminar
(The 1st Colloquium for Novel Organic Materials)

Dr. Yasuhiro ISHIDA

(RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan)
“Magnetically Oriented Single-Crystal-Like Polymer Networks”

Dr. Eijiro MIYAKO

(National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (ASIT), Japan)
“Light-driven functional nanocarbon complexes for nanobiotechnological applications”

Prof. Shohei SAITO

(Nagoya University, Japan)
“Flexible-Rigid Hybrid π Systems that Show Environment-Dependent Multi-Luminescence for Materials Imaging Technique”


・Dr. Avijit Ghosh （MANA Postdoc） has joined （November, 2014-）
・Izabela Osica （WUT-NIMS Graduate School PhD Student from Warsaw Univ Tech., Poland） has joined （Aug, 2014-）
・Joanna Burno （Internship Student from Warsaw Univ Tech., Poland） has joined （July, 2014-August, 2014）
・Dr. Ken Okamoto （NIMS/MANA Postdoc） has joined （June, 2014-）
・Christopher Hassam （PhD Student from Flinders Univ, Australia） has joined （May, 2014-）
・Dr. Fengniu Lu (NIMS Postdoc) has joined (April, 2014-)
・Dr. Kuemhee Jang （NIMS Postdoc） has joined （October, 2013-March, 2014）
・Kinga Ludwichowska & Olga Urbanek （Internship Student from Warsaw Univ Tech., Poland） has joined （July, 2013-August, 2013）


・Nature Commun., 2013, 4:1969, doiI: 10.1038/ncomms2969.
“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*



・Yumeno Akasaka (Research Assistant) has joined (April, 2013-)
・Agnieszka Zielinska （WUT-NIMS Graduate School PhD Student from Warsaw Univ Tech., Poland） has joined （July, 2012-）
・Monika Wyszomirska & Maciej Karny （Internship Student from Warsaw Univ Tech., Poland） has joined （July, 2012-August, 2012）
・Dr. Debdas Ray（NIMS Postdoc） has joined （June, 2012-May, 2013）
・Dr. Jiyoung Choi （NIMS Postdoc） has joined （April, 2012-July, 2013）
・Daniel Mangos （PhD Student from Flinders Univ, Australia） has joined （March, 2012-March, 2013）
・Miyuki Matsuda (Research Assistant) has joined (March, 2012-)
・Keita Hagiwara （Internship Student from TITECH, Japan） has joined （Feb, 2012-May, 2012）
・Dr. Hidehiki Asanuma （JSPS Postdoc Fellow） has joined （Dec, 2011-October, 2013）


・H index = 31 (1st May, 2013)


[Selected Publications]
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, Press released from Wiley)

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. Seki, S. Seki, K. Yoshida, S. S. Babu, H. Moehwald, T. Nakanishi*
Chem. Sci., 2011, 2, 2243-2250. (DOI: 10.1039/c1sc00360g)

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. Kessek, 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)


[Selected Review Articles]
1) “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)

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

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

4) “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)

5) “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)

6) “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)

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

International Symposium for Young Organic Chemists (ISYOC)
7-8th of March, 2007 (NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan)