Journal Paper (Update: June 20, 2011)



New Release!

  1. 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
    Kazuaki Furukawa, Joana Durao
    e-J. Surf. Sci. Nanotech. 10 (2012) 121-127. ---> Go To This Paper


  2. Graphene Growth from a Spin-Coated Polymer without a Reactive Gas
    Satoru Suzuki, Yusuke Takei, Kazuaki Furukawa, Hiroki Hibino
    Appl. Phys. Express 4 (2011) 065102. ---> Go To This Paper


  3. Supported Lipid Bilayer Composition Microarrays Fabricated by Pattern-guided Self-spreading
    Kazuaki Furukawa, Takashi Aiba
    Langmuir 27 (2011) 7341-7344 ---> Go To This Paper


  4. Electrostatic Control of Lipid Bilayer Self-Spreading Using a Nanogap Gate on a Solid Support
    Yoshiaki Kashimura, Kazuaki Furukawa, Keiichi Torimitsu
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133 (2011) 6118-6121. ---> Go To This Paper



Lipid Bilayer - Dynamic Properties and Device Application

  1. Pattern Formation and Molecular Transport of Histidine-tagged GFPs Using Supported Lipid Bilayers
    Hiroshi Nakashima, Kazuaki Furukawa, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Koji Sumitomo, Youichi Shinozaki, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Langmuir 26 (2010) 12716-12721. ---> Go To This Paper


  2. Self-spreading Lipid Bilayer as Nanofluidic Medium for Micro- and Nanostructured Biosurface Fabrication
    Kazuaki Furukawa, Yoshiaki Kashimura
    Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1236E (2010) SS03-03. ---> Go To This Paper


  3. Self-Spreading Supported Lipid Bilayer Passing through Single Nanogap Structure: Effect of Position of Dyes in Lipid Molecules
    Yoshiaki Kashimura, Kazuaki Furukawa, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 49 (2010) 04DL15. ---> Go To This Paper


  4. Visualization of Single Membrane Protein Structure in Stretched Lipid Bilayer Suspended over Nanowells
    Youichi Shinozaki, Koji Sumitomo, Kazuaki Furukawa, Hidetoshi Miyashita, Yukihiro Tamba, Nahoko Kasai, Hiroshi Nakashima, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Appl. Phys. Express 3 (2010) 027002. ---> Go To This Paper


  5. Artificial Cell Membrane on Patterned Surface ? Growth Control and Microchannel Device Application
    Kazuaki Furukawa
    NTT Technical Review 8 (2009) 1-6. ---> Go To This Paper


  6. Self-Assembly of Gold Nanorods Induced by Intermolecular Interactions of Surface-Anchored Lipids
    Hiroshi Nakashima, Kazuaki Furukawa, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Langmuir 24 (2008) 5654-5658. ---> Go To This Paper


  7. Effect of Ca2+ on vesicle fusion on solid surface: an in vitro model of protein-accelerated vesicle fusion
    Youichi Shinozaki, Ari M. Siitonen, Koji Sumitomo, Kazuaki Furukawa, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 47 (2008) 6164-6167. ---> Go To This Paper


  8. Elastic modulus of suspended purple membrane measured by atomic force microscopy
    Ari M. Siitonen, Koji Sumitomo, Chandra S. Ramanujan, Youichi Shinozaki, Nahoko Kasai, Kazuaki Furukawa, John F. Ryan, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Appl. Surf. Sci. 254 (2008) 7877-7880. ---> Go To This Paper


  9. Self-spreading Behavior of Supported Lipid Bilayer through Single Sub-100-nm Gap
    Yoshiaki Kashimura, Joana Durao, Kazuaki Furukawa, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 47 (2008) 3248-3252. ---> Go To This Paper


  10. Novel "Lipid-Flow Chip" Configuration to Determine Donor-to-Acceptor Ratio-Dependent Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Efficiency
    Kazuaki Furukawa, Hiroshi Nakashima, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Langmuir 24 (2008) 921-926. ---> Go To This Paper


  11. Supported Lipid Bilayer Self-Spreading on a Nanostructured Silicon Surface
    Kazuaki Furukawa, Koji Sumitomo, Hiroshi Nakashima, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Langmuir 23 (2007) 367-371. ---> Go To This Paper


  12. Microchannel device using self-spreading lipid bilayer as molecule carrier
    Kazuaki Furukawa, Hiroshi Nakashima, Yoshiaki Kashimura,
    Lab Chip 6 (2006) 1001-1006. ---> Go To This Paper



Molecular Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics

  1. Transistor Properties of Novel Organic Conducting Polymers Bearing Tetrathiafulvalene Unit in the Backbone
    Yoshiaki Kashimura, Touichiro Goto, Hiroshi Nakashima, Kazuaki Furukawa, Erjing Wang, Hongxiang Li, Wenping Hu, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 49 (2010) 01AB08. ---> Go To This Paper


  2. Structural and electrical properties of organic conducting polymers bearing tetrathiafulvalene backbone
    Yoshiaki Kashimura, Touichiro Goto, Kazuaki Furukawa, Erjing Wang, Hongxiang Li, Wengping Hu, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 504 (2009) 231-237. ---> Go To This Paper


  3. Anisotropic assembly of gold nanorods assisted by selective ion recognition of surface-anchored crown ether derivatives
    Hiroshi Nakashima, Kazuaki Furukawa, Katsuhiro Ajito, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Chem. Commun. (2007) 1080-1082. ---> Go To This Paper


  4. Influence of the Local Environment on Determining Aspect-Ratio Distributions of Gold Nanorods in Solution Using Gans Theory
    Daan P. Sprunken, Hiroo Omi, Kazuaki Furukawa, Hiroshi Nakashima, Ilya Sychugov, Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Keiichi Torimitsu Keiichi Torimitsu
    J. Phys. Chem. C 111 (2007) 14299-14306. ---> Go To This Paper


  5. A new morphology of copper 7,7,8,8-tetracyano-p-quinodimethane
    Yaling Liu, Hongxiang Li, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Qingxin Tang, Kazuaki Furukawa, Keiichi Torimitsu, Wenping Hu, Daoben Zhu
    Micron 38 (2007) 536-542. ---> Go To This Paper


  6. Advancing conjugated polymers into nanometer-scale devices
    Wenping Hu, Hiroshi Nakashima, Erjing Wang, Kazuaki Furukawa, Hongxiang Li, Yi Luo, Zhigang Shuai, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Yunqi Liu, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Pure Appl. Chem. 78 (2006) 1803-1822. ---> Go To This Paper


  7. Molecular-Mediated Single-Electron Devices Operating at Room Temperature
    Touichiro Goto, Katsuhiko Degawa, Hiroshi Inokawa, Kazuaki Furukawa, Hiroshi Nakashima, Koji Sumitomo, Takafumi Aoki, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) 4285-4289. ---> Go To This Paper


  8. Electron Transport in Self-Assembled Polymer Molecular Junctions
    Wenping Hu, Jun Jiang, Hiroshi Nakashima, Yi Luo, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Ke-Qiu Chen, Z. Shuai, Kazuaki Furukawa, Wei Lu, Yunqi Liu, Daoben Zhu, Keiichi Torimitsu
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 027801 (4 pages). ---> Go To This Paper


  9. A Self-assembled Nano Optical Switcher and Transistor Based on a Rigid Conjugated Polymer, Thioacetyl-end-functionalized Poly(para-phenylene ethynylene)s
    Wenping Hu, Hiroshi Nakashima, Kazuaki Furukawa, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Katsuhiro Ajito, Yunqi Liu, Daoben Zhu, and Keiichi Torimitsu
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 (2005) 2804-2805. ---> Go To This Paper


  10. Selective Chemisorption of End-Functionalized Conjugated Polymer on Macro- and Nanoscale Surfaces
    H. Nakashima, K. Furukawa, K. Ajito, Y. Kashimura, K. Torimitsu
    Langmuir 21 (2005) 511-515. ---> Go To This Paper


  11. Synthesis and Electrolytic Polymerization of the Ethylenedioxy-Substituted Terthiophene-Fullerene Dyad
    T. Yamazaki, Y. Murata, K. Komatsu, K. Furukawa, M. Morita, N. Maruyama, T. Yamao, S. Fujita
    Org. Lett. 21 (2004) 4865-4868. ---> Go To This Paper


  12. Oxygen Plasma Generated Copper/Copper Oxides Nanoparticles
    W.-P. Hu, M. Matsumura, K. Furukawa, K. Torimitsu
    J. Phys. Chem. B 108 (2004) 13116-13118. ---> Go To This Paper


  13. Vapor-liquid-solid growth of vertically aligned InP nanowires by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy
    Satyaban Bhunia, T. Kawamura, S. Fujikawa, H. Nakashima, K. Furukawa, K. Torimitsu, Y. Watanabe
    Thin Solid Films 464-465 (2004) 244-247. ---> Go To This Paper


  14. Heteroepitaxial metalorganic vapor phase epitaxial growth of InP nanowires on GaP(111)B
    Y. Watanabe, Satyaban Bhunia, T. Kawamura, S. Fujikawa, H. Nakashima, K. Furukawa, K. Torimitsu
    Thin Solid Films 464-465 (2004) 244-247. ---> Go To This Paper


  15. A Self-assembled Rigid Conjugated Polymer Nanojunction and Its Nonlinear Current-Voltage Characteristics at Room Temperature
    W.-P. Hu, H. Nakashima, K. Furukawa, Y. Kashimura, K. Ajito, K. Torimitsu
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 (2004) 115-117. ---> Go To This Paper


  16. Carrier Injection from Gold Electrodes into Thioacetyl-end-functionalized Poly(para-phenyleneethynylene)s
    W.-P. Hu, H. Nakashima, K. Furukawa, Y. Kashimura, K. Ajito, C.-X. Han, K. Torimitsu
    Phys. Rev. B 69 (2004) 165207 (6 pages). ---> Go To This Paper
    also in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Volume 9, Issue 17.


  17. Fabrication of Nano-Gap Electrodes Using Electroplating Technique
    Y. Kashimura, H. Nakashima, K. Furukawa, K. Torimitsu
    Thin Solid Films 438-439 (2003) 317-321.


  18. Conductive Polymer-Based Nano-Molecular Wire: Selective Connection to Various Solid Surfaces
    H. Nakashima, K. Furukawa, Y. Kashimura, K. Torimitsu
    Polym. Prepr. 44(1) (2003) 482-483.


  19. Synthesis and Atomic Force Microscopy Observations of the Single Peptide Nanotubes and their Micro-order Assemblies
    T. Nakanishi, H. Okamoto, Y. Nagai, K. Takeda, I. Obataya, H. Mihara, H. Azehara, W. Mizutani, K. Furukawa, K. Torimitsu
    Phys. Rev. B. 66 (2002) 165417 (8 pages). ---> Go To This Paper
    also in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Volume 4, Issue 9.



Polysilane Single Chain

  1. Observation and manipulation of nanostructures formed by rigid rod-like polymers
    K. Furukawa, H. Nakashima, K. Ajito, Y. Kashimura, W.-P. Hu, K. Torimitsu
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 43 (2004) 4521-24. ---> Go To This Paper


  2. Side Chain Effect on Thermochromism and Solvatochromism of End-Grafted Polysilane [Si(CH3)2SiR2]n (R = C2H5, n-C4H9, n-C6H13, n-C8H17, n-C10H21)
    K. Furukawa, K. Ebata, D. Ichikawa, N. Matsumoto
    Macromolecules 36 (2003) 7681-7688. ---> Go To This Paper


  3. End-Grafted Polysilane --An Approach to Single Polymer Science
    K. Furukawa
    Acc. Chem. Res. 36 (2003) 102-110. ---> Go To This Paper


  4. Polysilane Bearing "Sulfide Tripod" Terminus: Preparation and Selective Chemisorption on Gold Surface
    K. Furukawa, K. Ebata, H. Nakashima, Y. Kashimura, K. Torimitsu
    Macromolecules 36 (2003) 9-11. ---> Go To This Paper


  5. Conformational Transition of End-Grafted Poly(di-n-hexylsilane) in Solventless Conditions
    K. Furukawa, K. Ebata
    Macromolecules 35 (2002) 327-329. ---> Go To This Paper


  6. Preparation and Single Molecule Structure of Electroactive Polysilane End-Grafted on a Crystalline Silicon Surface
    K. Furukawa, K. Ebata
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 77 (2000) 4289-4291. ---> Go To This Paper.


  7. Adv. Mater. One-dimensional Silicon Chain Architecture: Molecular Dot, Rope, Octopus and Toroid
    K. Furukawa, K. Ebata, M. Fujiki
    Adv. Mater. 12 (2000) 1033-36. ---> Cover Picture of Advanced Materials!


  8. End-Grafted Semiconducting Polymer --Candidate for Molecular Wire
    K. Furukawa, K. Ebata, M. Fujiki
    Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Volume 582
    Molecular Electronics     (2000) H10.2.1.
    Edited by S. T. Pantelides, M. A. Reed, J. S. Murday and A. Aviram


  9. Tip-Detected Tunneling-Current-Excited Luminescence from Polysilane Thin Film
    S. Sasaki, K. Furukawa, K. Ebata
    Phys. Rev. B (submitted)


  10. End-Grafted Polysilane on a Substrate Surface: Surface-Tethered Sigma-Conjugated Polymer Chain
    K. Ebata, K. Furukawa, N. Matsumoto, M. Fujiki
    Polym. Prepr. 40(2) (1999) 157-158.


  11. An Isolated Silicon Single Chain End-Grafted onto a Substrate Surface
    K. Furukawa, K. Ebata, N. Matsumoto
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 75 (1999) 781-783. ---> Go To This Paper.


  12. Synthesis and Characterization of End-Grafted Polysilane on a Substrate Surface
    K. Ebata, K. Furukawa, N. Matsumoto
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120 (1998) 7367-7368. ---> Go To This Paper.


Optoelectronic Properties of Polysilane Thin Film
---Electroluminescence, Carrier Drift Mobility

  1. Polysilane Light-Emitting Diodes
    H. Suzuki, S. Hoshino, K. Furukawa, K. Ebata, C.-H. Yuan, and I. Bleyl
    Polym. Adv. Tech. 11 (2000) 460-467. --->Go To This Paper


  2. Molecular Weight Dependence of Conformational Phase Transition and Electroluminescence of Diarylpolysilane Diodes
    S. Hoshino, K. Furukawa, K. Ebata, I. Bleyl, and H. Suzuki
    J. Appl. Phys. 88 (2000) 3408-3413. ---> Go To This Paper.


  3. Molecular Weight Dependent Elecroluminescence of Silicon Polymer Near-Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes
    S. Hoshino, K. Furukawa, K. Ebata, C.-H. Yuan, H. Suzuki
    J. Appl. Phys. 88 (2000) 2892-2897. ---> Go To This Paper.


  4. Near-Ultraviolet Electroluminescent Performance of Polysilane-Based Light Emitting Diodes with a Double-Layer Structure
    S. Hoshino, K. Ebata, K. Furukawa
    J. Appl. Phys. 87 (2000) 1968-1973. ---> Go To This Paper.


  5. Effects of Structural Defects on Hole Drift Mobility in Aryl-Substituted Polysilanes
    S. Seki, Y. Yoshida, S. Tagawa, K. Asai, K. Ishigure, K. Furukawa, M. Fujiki, N. Matsumoto
    Philos. Mag. B 79 (1999) 1631-1645. ---> Go To This Paper.


  6. Bipolar Carrier Behavior in a Near Ultraviolet Electroluminescent Silicon Polymer
    K. Furukawa, C.-H. Yuan, S. Hoshino, H. Suzuki, N. Matsumoto
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 327 (1999) 181-184. ---> Go To This Paper


  7. Conformational Phase Transition in a High-Efficiency Near-Ultraviolet Electroluminescent Diarylpolysilane
    I. Bleyl, K. Ebata, S. Hoshino, K. Furukawa, H. Suzuki
    Synth. Met. 105 (1999) 17-22. ---> Go To This Paper.


  8. High-Efficiency Near-Ultraviolet Electroluminescence From a New Class of Emissive Polymers: a One-dimensional Poly[bis(p-n-butylphenyl)silane]
    H. Suzuki, S. Hoshino, C.-H. Yuan, K. Furukawa, N. Matsumoto
    Polym. Prep. 39(2) (1998) 996-997.


Synthesis, Characterization and Proeprties of Silicon-Backbone Materials
---Silicon Network Polymers, Octasilacubane

  1. STM study of the initial adsorption stage of octa-tert-butyloctasilacubane on Si (100) 2x1 surface
    T. Fukuda, K. Furukawa, M. Fujino, T. Ogino, N. Matsumoto
    Surf. Sci. 397 (1998) 58-62.


  2. Stoichiometric Silicon Carbide Smiconductor Prepared from a Preceramic Polycarbosilane
    C.-H. Yuan, M Fujino, K. Ebata, K. Furukawa
    Polym. Prepr. 38(2) (1997) 309-310.


  3. Novel Pyrolytic Conversion of Poly[(di-i-butylsilylene)methylene] to Stoichiometric Silicon Carbide
    C.-H. Yuan, M Fujino, K. Ebata, K. Furukawa
    Macromolecules 30 (1997) 7618-7620. ---> Go To This Paper


  4. Soft X-ray Emission and Absorption Spectroscopy for Electronic Structure Analysis of Cubic Silicon Clusters in SiK-Shell Threshold
    Y. Muramatsu, M. Sugiyama, S. Maeyama, K. Furukawa, K. Ebata, M. Fujino, N. Matsumoto, S. Kawai, M. Motoyama
    J. Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 85 (1997) 159-165.


  5. Electronic Structures of Polysilanes and Related Compounds
    K. Seki, H. Ishii, A. Yuyama, M. Watanabe, K. Fukui, E. Ishiguro, J. Yamazaki, S. Hasegawa, K. Horiuchi, T. Ohta, H. Isaka, M. Fujino, M. Fujiki, K. Furukawa, N. Matsumoto
    J. Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 78 (1996) 403-406.


  6. Superlattice structure of octa-tert-butylpentacyclo[4.2.0.02,5.03,8.04,7]octasilane found by reinvestigation of X-ray structure analysis
    K. Furukawa, M. Fujino, N. Matsumoto
    J. Organomet. Chem. 515 (1996) 37-41.


  7. Comment on "Crystal structure and optical properties of polymorphic octasilacubane"
    K. Furukawa, M. Fujino, N. Matsumoto
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 66 (1995) 1291. ---> Go To This Paper.


  8. A New Si Doping Source for GaAs Growth by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
    Y. Horikoshi, M. R. Fahy, M. Kawashima, K. Furukawa, M. Fujino, N. Matsumoto
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 33 (1994) L413-L416. ---> Go To This Paper.


  9. Cubic Silicon Cluster
    K. Furukawa, M. Fujino, N. Matsumoto
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 60 (1992) 2744-2745. ---> Go To This Paper.


  10. Optical Properties of Silicon Network Polymers
    K. Furukawa, M. Fujino, N matsumoto
    Macromolecules 23 (1990) 3423-3426. ---> Go To This Paper.


Others

  1. Possibility of Ferroelectricity in Yttrium Iron Garnet Single Crystal
    S . Takano, E. Kita, A. Tasaki, K. Furukawa, K. Kohn, K. Siratori, S. Kimura
    Ferroelectrics 96 (1989) 251-255.