2005: Special Lecture Award of the Chemical Society of Japan for Young Chemists

"Development of Metalloporphyrin Fullerene Supramolecular Chemistry"


2007: The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists

"Molecular Design of Pi-Electronic Space for Manipulation of Fullerenes"

Awards

Publications

"A Glutathione-Responsive Short Sequence of Metal–Organic Complex Array"

Purnandhu Bose, Toshiaki Takei, Xianglan Li, Takashi Minowa, Rajamani Rajmohan, Pothiappan Vairaprakash, Kentaro Tashiro

ChemBioChem. 2018, 19, 1706–1710. Selected as a cover feature.

"Aerogel Photo-Catalyst Composed of Transparent Mesoporous Polymethylsilsesquioxane Softly Post-Modified with a Visible-Light Absorbing Metal Complex"
Suresh Sanda, Kazuyoshi Kanamori, Toshiaki Takei, Kentaro Tashiro

ChemNanoMat. 2018, 4, 52–55. Selected as a VIP paper.

"Controlled Self-assembly of Oligopeptides Bearing Electron Donor and Acceptor Units on the Side Chains to Form beta-Sheets with Selective π-Stacking Configuration"
Toru Nakayama, Kentaro Tashiro, Toshiaki Takei, Yohei Yamamoto

Chem. Lett. 2017, 46, 423–425.

"A Pt(II) Terpyridine Complex Switches Its Photochemical Reactivity in Response to Its Chromic Behavior in the Crystalline State"

Kentaro Tashiro,  Hiroyoshi Ohtsu, Masaki Kawano, Tatsuhiro Kojima, Tatsuhisa Kato

Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 13079–13082.

"Excellent Oxygen Reduction Reaction Performance in Self-Assembled Amyloid-β/Platinum Nanoparticle Hybrids with Effective Platinum-Nitrogen Bond Formation"

Amandeep Jindal, Kentaro Tashiro, Hiroaki Kotani, Toshiaki Takei, Sven Reichenberger, Galina Marzun, Stephan Barcikowski, Takahiko Kojima, Yohei Yamamoto

ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2019, 2, 6536–6541.

"Amyloid-like Nano-fibrillation of Metal–Organic Complex Arrays Ruled by Their Precisely Designed Metal Sequences"

Rajamani Rajmohan, Geoffrey Vrla, Hisanori Ueki, Kappamveettil Sajna, Toshiaki Takei, Hiroyoshi Ohtsu, Masaki Kawano, Pothiappan Vairaprakash, Kentaro Tashiro

Chemistry - An Asian Journal, 2020, 15, 766–769.

"Gelation of a π-Decorated Glutamate as a Homochiral Selective Self-assembly to Obtain Macroscopic Chiral Symmetry Breaking"

Kentaro Tashiro, Toshiaki Takei, Alejandro M. Fracaroli, Hiroyoshi Ohtsu, Masaki Kawano, Daisuke Hashizume

Chemistry - An Asian Journal, 2022, 17, e202200230. Selected as a VIP paper.

"Mixed Conductive, Injectable, and Fluorescent Supramolecular Eutectogel Composites"

Miryam Criado-Gonzalez, Nuria Alegret, Alejandro M. Fracaroli, Daniele Mantione, Gregorio Guzmán-González, Liliana C. Tomé, Kentaro Tashiro, Matias L. Picchio, David Mecerreyes

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202301489.

"1D Supramolecular Assemblies That Crystallize and Form Gels in Response to the Shape-complementarity of Alcohols"

Alejandro M. Fracaroli, Girishma Grover, Hiroyoshi Ohtsu, Masaki Kawano, Felipe Gándara, Rita H. de Rossi, Richard G. Weiss, Kentaro Tashiro

Langmuir, 2023, 39, 7353–7360.

"Structural, morphological, optical, magnetic and electrochemical behavior of solid state synthesized pure and Sr-doped LaFeO3 nanoparticles"

Natarajan Sivakumar, J. Gajendiran, Ali Alsalme, Kentaro Tashiro

Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2022, 641, 414086.