Yojiro Yamamoto

TL;DR: It is clarified that microbeads covered with a vast number of Ag nanoparticles can induce a large PTE and generate a submillimeter bubble within several tens of seconds under the synergetic effect of the light-induced force (LIF) and photothermal convection enhanced by collective phenomena of LSPs.

TL;DR: Gold nanoparticles, modified withAlkyl thiol, formed a film on polystyrene substrate, and it was found that the deposited film drastically changes its conductivity and hydrophobicity, depending on the alkyl chain length of the thiol used.

TL;DR: In this paper, an interesting feature of this chemical synthesis is that compact ultra thin polypyrrole films of 50 nm thickness doped with sulphate are obtained by a simple technique, although, films grown in the presence of different dopants were thicker (100 nm).

TL;DR: The direct quantification of electron-transfer processes for a single noncovalently linked porphyrin-fullerene dyad is reported, opening up a way to explore quantitatively the rich electronic properties of supramolecules at the single-molecule level.

TL;DR: A photothermal film with densely assembled gold nanoparticle-fixed beads on a polymer substrate is fabricated, and a temperature rise higher than 40 °C is achieved with only 100 seconds of artificial solar irradiation, and the output power of the thermoelectric device was enhanced to be one order higher than that without PTF.