Past Research Activities

2011.12
Invited talk entitled "Donor-to-acceptor distance dependent fluorescence resonance energy transfer efficiency for multiple donors and acceptors system confined within 2-dimensional fluid of supported lipid bilayer" at International Symposium on Surface Science (ISSS6).
2011.5
Our paper "Supported Lipid Bilayer Composition Microarrays Fabricated by Pattern-guided Self-spreading" was published on the web in Langmuir.
2011.4
Our paper "Electrostatic Control of Lipid Bilayer Self-Spreading Using a Nanogap Gate on a Solid Support" was published in J. Am. Chem. Soc..
2010.9
Poster presentation entitled "Supported Lipid Bilayer Microarray Fabricated by Self-spreading Technique" at Gordon Research Conference, Biointerface Science.
2010.7
Our paper "Pattern Formation and Molecular Transport of Histidine-tagged GFPs Using Supported Lipid Bilayers" was published on the web in Langmuir.
2009.11
Give a talk "Self-spreading Lipid Bilayer as Nanofluidic Medium for Micro- and Nanostructured Biosurface Fabrication" in MRS 2009 Fall Meeting.
2007.12
Our paper "Novel "Lipid-Flow Chip" Configuration to Determine Donor-to-Acceptor Ratio-Dependent Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Efficiency" was published on the web in Langmuir.
2007.9
Our paper "Influence of the Local Environment on Determining Aspect-Ratio Distributions of Gold Nanorods in Solution Using Gans Theory" was published in J. Phys. Chem. C.
2007.7
Poster presentation entitled "Microfluidics of self-spreading lipid bilayers on patterned surfaces: fundamental properties and their microfluidic device application" at Gordon Research Conference, Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics.
2007.4
Give a talk "Self-Spreading Supported Lipid Bilayer on Patterned Surface: Basic Properties and Lipid-Flow Chip Application" in International Symposium of Nanomedicine.
2007.3
Give a talk "FRET Observations Using Lipid-Flow Chip" at International Symposium of Surface Forces (Matsushima, Japan).
2006.12
Our paper "Supported Lipid Bilayer Self-Spreading on a Nanostructured Silicon Surface" was published on the web in Langmuir.
2006.12
Our paper "Anisotropic assembly of gold nanorods assisted by selective ion recognition of surface-anchored crown ether derivatives" was published on the web in Chem. Commun.
2006.8
Our paper "Microchannel device using self-spreading lipid bilayer as molecule carrier" was published in Lab on a Chip.
2004.7
Our paper "Observation and manipulation of nanostructures formed by rigid rod-like polymers" was published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics.
2004.7
Our paper "A Self-assembled Rigid Conjugated Polymer Nanojunction and Its Nonlinear Current-Voltage Characteristics at Room Temperature" was published in Applied Physics Letters.
2004.4
Our paper "Carrier injection from gold electrodes into thioacetyl-end-functionalized poly(para-phen\ yleneethynylene)s" was published in Physical Review B.
2003.10
Our paper "Thermochromism and Solvatochromism of End-Grafted Polysilane [Si(CH3)2SiR2]n ( R = C2H5, n-C4H9, n-C6H13, n-C8H17, n-C10H21)" was published in Macromolecules.
2003.2
The paper "End-Grafted Polysilane-An Approach to Single Polymer Science " was published in Accounts of Chemical Research.
2003.1
Our paper "Polysilane Bearing "Sulfide Tripod" Terminus: Preparation and Selective Chemisorption on Gold Surface" was published in Macromolecules as communications.
2002.10
Report on "One-dimensional Silicon Chain Covalently Bonded to Solid Surface" was published in Hyomen Kagaku , or Journal of The Surface Science Society of Japan (in Japanese).
2002.1
Our paper "Conformational Transition of End-Grafted Poly(di-n-hexylsilane) in Solventless Conditions" was published in Macromolecules as communications.
2001.7
Review of "End-Grafted Polysialne" was published in Oyo Butsuri (in Japanese).
2001.6.21
Invited lecture at Int. Workshop on Si-Containing Polymers (Kent Univ. at Canterbury, UK).
2001.5
Mini review of "End-Grafted Polysilane" was published in Molecular Electronics and Bioelectronics (in Japanese).
2001.3.7
My presentation was honored with "Poster Award" at 1st Int. Conf. on Molecular Electronics and Bioelectronics (M&BE1).
2000.8---2001.2
Visiting researcher at University of Basel, Prof. Schoenenberger's group.
2000.7
Our work was on the cover picture of Advanced Materials.