Keiki Kishikawa

TL;DR: A strategy for mechano-responsive Luminescent materials by imparting amphiphilic and dipolar characteristics to a luminescent π-conjugated system is demonstrated.

TL;DR: Hydrogen-bonded disk-shaped aggregates (rosettes) composed of azobenzene-appended melamine and barbiturate or cyanurate are investigated in view of their hierarchical organization and photoresponsive behavior, and dynamic light scattering and UV-irradiation experiments revealed that the dissociation and the reformation of columnar aggregates can be controlled by the trans-cis isomerization of the azOBenzene moiety.

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel approach for creating non-iridescent bright structural color materials from polydopamine (PDA) black particles is presented, where two biomimetic features, melanin granules and the amorphous structures found in nature, were incorporated into these materials, consisting of PDA black particles to develop a bright and non iridescent structural color without using any additives.

TL;DR: In this article, columnar liquid crystalline compounds N,N‘-bis(3,4,5-trialkoxylphenyl)ureas 1a−c (R = n-C8H17, n -C12H25, and n-c16H33) were synthesized, and their phase transitions were measured by differential scanning calorimetery.

TL;DR: A facile method for the preparation of biomimetic core-shell particles with melanin-like polydopamine (PDA) shell layers that enabled the production of both iridescent and non-iridescent structural colors from only one component.