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2025
Chromosome-scale whole genome assembly and annotation of the Jamaican field cricket Gryllus assimilis
Yuki Ito‡, Ryuto Sanno‡, Seiya Ashikari, Kei Yura, Toru Asahi, Guillem Ylla & Kosuke Kataoka, Scientific Data, 2025, 12(826), 8309–8318.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05197-0　‡These authors contributed equally to this work.

Precise positioning of Au islands within mesoporous Pd–Pt nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced methanol oxidation
Liyang Zhu‡, Yunqing Kang‡, Miharu Eguchi, Yingji Zhao, Dong Jiang, Xiaoqian Wei, Xingtao Xu, Kenta Nakagawa, Toru Asahi, Tokihiko Yokoshima, Yusuke Yamauchi, Chem. Sci., 2025, 16, 8309–8318.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC07345B　‡These authors contributed equally to this work.

Machine learning-driven optimization of the output force in photo-actuated organic crystals
Kazuki Ishizaki, Toru Asahi, Takuya Taniguchi, Digital Discovery, 2025, 4, 1199–1208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4DD00380B

Photomechanical motion of three polymorphic salicylideneaniline crystals with distinct bending directions, speeds, and repeatability
Shodai Hasebe, Yuki Hagiwara, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 2025, 98, uoaf032.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bulcsj/uoaf032
BCSJ Award Article に選出されました。 カバーアートも公開されました。

Selective Electrochemical Capture of Monovalent Cations Using Crown Ether-Functionalized COFs
Dong Jiang, Jonathan P. Hill, Joel Henzie, Ho Ngoc Nam, Quan Manh Phung, Liyang Zhu, Jie Wang, Wei Xia, Yingji Zhao, Yunqing Kang, Toru Asahi, Ran Bu, Xingtao Xu, Yusuke Yamauchi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 12460–12468.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c16346

How Temperature Change Affects the Lattice Parameters, Molecular Conformation, and Reaction Cavity in Enantiomeric and Racemic Crystals of Thalidomide
Ayaka Matsumoto‡, Kenta Nakagawa‡, Takuya Nakanishi, Akiko Sekine, Sosuke Kojo, Mizuki Kira, Sota Sato, Norio Shibata, Toru Asahi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 11988-11997.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c18394　‡These authors contributed equally to this work.
本研究は早稲田大学プレスリリースにも掲載されました。

Mitochondrial damage and ER stress in CB1 receptor antagonist-induced apoptosis in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells
Kazuaki Mori, Akinobu Togo, Kota Yamashita, Shigeo Sakuragi, Hiroko Bannai, Taishi Umezawa, Keisuke Ohta, Toru Asahi, Chihiro Nozaki, Kosuke Kataoka, Neuropharmacology, 2025, 273, 110440.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2025.110440

Full-Multiscale Spontaneous Organization for Optically Anisotropic Titania Films
Hirokatsu Miyata, Haruaki Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Kun Zhang, Toru Asahi, and Yusuke Yamauch small, 2025, 2501782.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202501782

Control of Polymorphism and Alignment in Photochromic Salicylideneaniline Crystals Grown by Directional Crystallization
Yuki Hagiwara, Guillaume Schweicher, Susobhan Das, Shodai Hasebe, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima, Yves Henri Geerts, Cryst. Growth Des., 2025, 25, 2090–2098
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.4c01729

Knotty topology, chirality, and sustainability: interdisciplinary learning at WPI-SKCM² schools in Japan
Y. Yuan, J. Lee, A. Kumari, S. Takano and J. Tay Liquid Crystals Today, 2025, 33(2),24-27. (学会レポート)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1358314X.2024.2437866

Actuation Performance and Versatility of Photothermally Driven Organic Crystals
Shodai Hasebe, Yuki Hagiwara, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025 64, e202418570
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202418570

2024
Interaction between intrinsically disordered proteins Praja1 and α-synuclein on gold electrodes
Wataru Mori, Wataru Onodera, Terutoshi Kojima, Toru Asahi, Takuya Nakanishi Chem. Lett., 2024, 53, upae205 .
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/chemle/upae205

Wavelength dependence of linear birefringence and linear dichroism of Bi2−xPbxSr2CaCu2O8+δ single crystals
Keigo Tokita, Kenta Nakagawa, Kun Zhang, Komei Okano, Masataka Matsumoto, Takuya Nakanishi, Masaki Fujita, Toru Asahi Sci. Rep., 2024, 14. 27102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78208-6
本研究は早稲田大学プレスリリースにも掲載されました。

Direct capture of the alanine ghost in alanine-doped triglycine sulfate crystals
Yukana Terasawa, Toshimichi Shibue, Toru Asahi Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26, 28332-28336.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CP03839H

Substrate Curvature-Induced Regulation of Charge Distribution of Covalent Organic Frameworks Promotes Capacitive Deionization
Dong Jiang, Ruibo Xu, Liang Bai, Jonathan P. Hill, Joel Henzie, Liyang Zhu, Wei Xia, Ran Bu, Yingji Zhao, Yunqing Kang, Takashi Hamada, Renzhi Ma, Nagy Torad, Jie Wang, Toru Asahi, Xingtao Xu, and Yusuke Yamauch Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024, 34, 2407479.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202407479

Sulfonate-functionalized covalent organic frameworks for capacitive deionization
Dong Jiang, Xingtao Xu, Yoshio Bando, Saad M. Alshehri, Miharu Eguchi, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 2024, 97, uoae074.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bulcsj/uoae074

Cannabinoid CB2 receptors enhance high-fat diet evoked peripheral neuroinflammation
Haruka Hosoki, Toru Asahi, Chihiro Nozaki Life Sciences, 2024, 355, 123002.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lfs.2024.123002

A serum-free culture medium production system by co-culture combining growth factor-secreting cells and l-lactate-assimilating cyanobacteria for sustainable cultured meat production
Shanga Chu, Yuji Haraguchi, Toru Asahi, Yuichi Kato, Akihiko Kondo, Tomohisa Hasunuma and Tatsuya Shimizu Sci. Rep., 2024, 14(1).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-70377-8
本研究は早稲田大学プレスリリースにも掲載されました。

Broad‐Wavelength Light‐Fueled Organic Crystal Oscillators Driven by Multimodal Photothermally Resonated Natural Vibration
Shodai Hasebe, Yuki Hagiwara, Taiki Goto, Tomohiro Ryu, Takumi Ehara, Tomohiro Ogawa, Kiyoshi Miyata, Ken Onda, Ryota Morioka, Junko Morikawa, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024, 34, 2410671.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202410671

Bridged Pt−OH−Mn Mediator in N-coordinated Mn Single Atoms and Pt Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Biomolecule Oxidation and Discrimination
Xiaoqian Wei, Yanjuan Lin, Zhenwei Wu, Yiwei Qiu, Yinjun Tang, Miharu Eguchi, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi, Chengzhou Zhu Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63(31),e202405571 .
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202405571

Mesoporous amorphous non-noble metals as versatile substrates for high loading and uniform dispersion of Pt-group single atoms
Yunqing Kang, Shuangjun Li, Ovidiu Cretu, Koji Kimoto, Yingji Zhao, Liyang Zhu, Xiaoqian Wei, Lei Fu, Dong Jiang, Chao Wan, Bo Jiang, Toru Asahi, Dieqing Zhang, Hexing Li, Yusuke Yamauchi Sci. Adv., 2024, 10, eado2442 .
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado2442

Photo-triggered Phase Transition of Crystals and Photoactuation
Yuki Hagiwara, Akifumi Takanabe, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima Chem. Eur. J., 2024, 30, e202401590.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202401590

Giant piezoresponse in nanoporous (Ba,Ca)(Ti,Zr) O3 thin film
Motasim Billah, Yukana Terasawa, Mostafa Kamal Masud, Toru Asahi, Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy, Takahiro Nagata, Toyohiro Chikyow, Fumihiko Uesugi, Md. Shahriar A. Hossain, Yusuke Yamauchi Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 9147–9154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sc06712b

Insights into electrochemical paradigms for lithium extraction: Electrodialysis versus capacitive deionization
Dong Jiang, Ruibo Xu, Liang Bai Wenjie Wu, Dan Luo, Zhengtong Li, Toru Asahi, Yiyong Mai, Zhong Liu, Yusuke Yamauchi, Xingtao Xu Coord. Chem. Rev., 2024, 516, 215923.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2024.215923

Chiral Inversion of Thalidomide During Crystal Growth by Sublimation
Mizuki Kira‡, Yuta Shiga‡, Kenta Nakagawa‡, Ayaka Matsumoto, Keigo Tokita, Yukana Terasawa, Kun Zhang, Koichi Tsutao, Takuya Nakanishi, Satoshi Yoshida, Sota Sato, Norio Shibata, Toru Asahi, Cryst. Growth Des., 2024, 24(8), 3133–3139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.3c01030 ‡: co-first

Effectiveness and limitation of the performance prediction of perovskite solar cells by process informatics
Ryo Fukasawa, Toru Asahi, Takuya Taniguchi, Energy Adv., 2024, 3, 812–820.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3YA00617D

DeepLabCut-based daily behavioural and posture analysis in a Cricket
Shota Hayakawa, Kosuke Kataoka, Masanobu Yamamoto, Toru Asahi, Takeshi Suzuki, Biol Open, 2024, bio.060237.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.060237

Pt Nanoparticle–Mn Single-Atom Pairs for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction
Xiaoqian Wei, Shaojia Song, Weiwei Cai, Yunqing Kang, Qie Fang, Ling Ling, Yingji Zhao, Zexing Wu, Xiaokai Song, Xingtao Xu, Sameh M. Osman, Weiyu Song, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi, and Chengzhou Zhu ACS Nano, 2024, 18(5),4308–4319.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c09819

Negative to positive axial thermal expansion switching of an organic crystal: contribution to multistep photoactuation
Shodai Hasebe‡, Yuki Hagiwara‡, Takashi Ueno, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima Chem. Sci., 2024, 15(3), 1088–1097.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC04796B　‡ co-first

Prediction of Photochromism of Salicylideneaniline Crystals Using a Data Mining Approach
Shodai Hasebe, Kan Hatakeyama-Sato, Kenich Oyaizu, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima ACS Omega, 2024, 9(1), 1463–1471.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c07859

Enhancing Electrocatalytic Performance via Thickness-Tuned Hollow N-Doped Mesoporous Carbon with Embedded Co Nanoparticles for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Yingji Zhao, Liyang Zhu, Jing Tang, Lei Fu, Dong Jiang, Xiaoqian Wei, Hiroki Nara, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi, ACS Nano, 2024, 18(1), 373–382.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c07375

Proliferation of mammalian cells with Chlorococcum littorale algal compounds without serum support
Jayeesha Ghosh, Yoshikatsu Akiyama, Yuji Haraguchi, Kumiko Yamanaka, Toru Asahi, Yoichi Nakao, Tatsuya Shimizu, Biotech. Prog., 2024, 40(1), e3402.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/btpr.3402

Functional Divergence and Origin of the Vertebrate Praja Family
Wataru Onodera†, Kotaro Kawasaki†, Mizuho Oishi, Shiho Aoki, Toru Asahi, J. Mol. Evol., 2024, 92, 21–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-023-10150-z †: co-first

2023
Synthesis of millimeter-scale ZIF-8 single crystals and their reversible crystal structure changes
Azhar Alowasheeir, Nagy L. Torad, Toru Asahi, Saad M. Alshehri, Tansir Ahamad, Yoshio Bando, Miharu Eguchi, Yusuke Yamauchi, Yukana Terasawa, and Minsu Han, Sci. Tech. Adv. Mater., 2024, 25(1), 2292485 .
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14686996.2023.2292485

Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two ground crickets, Dianemobius fascipes nigrofasciatus and Polionemobius taprobanensis (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: trigonidiidae)
Kohyoh Murata, Kosuke Kataoka, Ryuto Sanno, Kazuhiro Satomura, Atsushi Ogura, Toru Asahi, Kei Yura & Takeshi Suzuki Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 2023, 8(12),1311–1315.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2023.2285400

Integrative single-cell RNA-seq analysis of vascularized cerebral organoids
Yuya Sato, Toru Asahi, Kosuke Kataoka BMC Biology, 2023, 21, 245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-023-01711-1

Graph Comparison of Molecular Crystals in Band Gap Prediction Using Neural Networks
Takuya Taniguchi, Mayuko Hosokawa, and Toru Asahi ACS Omega, 2023, 8(42), 39481–39489.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c05224

Mesoporous multimetallic nanospheres with exposed highly entropic alloy sites
Yunqing Kang, Ovidiu Cretu, Jun Kikkawa, Koji Kimoto, Hiroki Nara, Asep Sugih Nugraha, Hiroki Kawamoto, Miharu Eguchi, Ting Liao, Ziqi Sun, Toru Asahi & Yusuke Yamauchi Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 4182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39157-2

Muscle cell proliferation using water-soluble extract from nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 for sustainable cultured meat production
Jayeesha Ghosh, Yuji Haraguchi, Toru Asahi, Yoichi Nakao, Tatsuya Shimizu Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2023, 682, 316–324.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.10.018

Covalent Immobilization of Collagen Type I to a Polydimethylsiloxane Surface for Preventing Cell Detachment by Retaining Collagen Molecules under Uniaxial Cyclic Mechanical Stretching Stress
Kazuaki Mori , Kosuke Kataoka, Yoshikatsu Akiyama, and Toru Asahi Biomacromolecules 2023, 24(11), 5035–5045.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00669

Heat-flux-driven Rotation of Cholesteric Droplets Dispersed in Glycerol
Shunsuke Takano, Shinji Bono and Yuka Tabe J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 2023, 92, 024601.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.92.024601

Open-Mouthed Hollow Carbons: Systematic Studies as Cobalt- and Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Yingji Zhao, Hiroki Nara, Dong Jiang, Toru Asahi, Sameh M. Osman, Jeonghun Kim, Jing Tang, Yusuke Yamauchi small 2023, 2304450.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202304450

Spatial and Sexual Divergence of Gut Bacterial Communities in Field Cricket Teleogryllus occipitalis (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
Kazuya Hirata, Toru Asahi, Kosuke Kataoka Microbial Ecology 2023.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-023-02265-z

Broad-Wavelength Light-Driven High-Speed Hybrid Crystal Actuators Actuated Inside Tissue-Like Phantoms
Dong Wook Kim‡, Yuki Hagiwara‡, Shodai Hasebe, Nihal Olcay Dogan, Mingchao Zhang, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima and Metin Sitti Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 2305916.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm. ‡: These authors contributed equally to this work.

Molecular screening for solid–solid phase transitions by machine learning
Daisuke Takagi, Kazuki Ishizaki, Toru Asahi and Takuya Taniguchi, Digital Discovery 2023, 2, 1126-1133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3DD00034F
本研究は早稲田大学プレスリリースにも掲載されました。

Unraveling the Structural and Property Differences between Highly Similar Chiral and Racemic Crystals Composed of Analogous Molecules
Kazuki Ishizaki, Daisuke Takagi, Toru Asahi, Masahiro Kuramochi, and Takuya Taniguchi, Cryst. Growth Des. 2023, 23, 5330–5337.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.3c00524

Ferroelectric properties of triglycine sulfate crystals doped with glycine analogs
Yukana Terasawa, Masaaki Ichiki, Toshio Kikuta, Toru Asahi, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 2023, 62, SG1050.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35848/1347-4065/acceaf

Mechanical properties and peculiarities of molecular crystals
Wegood M. Awad, Daniel W. Davies, Daichi Kitagawa, Jad Mahmoud Halabi, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, Ibrahim Tahir, Fei Tong, Gonzalo Campillo-Alvarado, Alexander G. Shtukenberg, Tamador Alkhidir, Yuki Hagiwara, Mubarak Almehairbi, Linfeng Lan, Shodai Hasebe, Durga Prasad Karothu, Sharmarke Mohamed, Hideko Koshima, Seiya Kobatake, Ying Diao, Rajadurai Chandrasekar, Hongyu Zhang, Changquan Calvin Sun, Christopher Bardeen, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi, Bart Kahr, Panče Naumov, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2023, 52, 3098–3169.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CS00481J

Genome and Genetic Engineering of the House Cricket (Acheta domesticus): A Resource for Sustainable Agriculture
Aaron T. Dossey, Brenda Oppert, Fu-Chyun Chu, Marcé D. Lorenzen, Brian Scheffler, Sheron Simpson, Sergey Koren, J. Spencer Johnston, Kosuke Kataoka, and Keigo Ide, Biomolecules 2023, 13, 589.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13040589

An octopamine receptor involved in feeding behavior of the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch: a possible candidate for RNAi-based pest control
Faten Abdelsalam Hamdi, Kosuke Kataoka, Yuka Arai, Naoki Takeda, Masanobu Yamamoto, Yasser F. O. Mohammad, Noureldin Abuelfadl Ghazy, and Takeshi Suzuki, Entomologia Generalis 2023, 43, 89–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2023/1808

Photothermally induced natural vibration for versatile and high-speed actuation of crystals
Yuki Hagiwara, Shodai Hasebe, Hiroki Fujisawa, Junko Morikawa, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima, Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 1354.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37086-8
本研究は早稲田大学プレスリリースにも掲載されました。

Data on the solution and processing time reached when constructing a phylogenetic tree using a quantum-inspired computer
Wataru Onodera, Nobuyuki Hara, Shiho Aoki, Toru Asahi, Naoya Sawamura, Data in Brief 2023, 47, 108970.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.108970

Au-Loaded Superparamagnetic Mesoporous Bimetallic CoFeB Nanovehicles for Sensitive Autoantibody Detection
Yunqing Kang, Mostafa Kamal Masud, Yanna Guo, Yingji Zhao, Zakia Sultana Nishat, Jingjing Zhao, Bo Jiang, Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Tanja Pejovic, Terry Morgan, Md Shahriar A. Hossain, Hexing Li, Carlos Salomon, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi, ACS Nano 2023, 17, 3346–3357.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c07694

Debonding-on-demand adhesives based on photo-reversible cycloaddition reactions
Moeka Inada, Tatsuhiro Horii, Toshinori Fujie, Takuya Nakanishi, Toru Asahi, Kei Saito, Mater. Adv. 2023, 4, 1289-1296.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA01048H

Cobalt phthalocyanine-based conjugated polymer as efficient and exclusive electrocatalyst for CO2 reduction to ethanol
Dong Jiang, Ran Bu, Wei Xia, Yichen Hu, Mengchen Zhou, Enqing Gao, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi, Jing Tang Materials Reports: Energy, 2023, 3, 100176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matre.2023.100176

Phylogenetic tree reconstruction via graph cut presented using a quantum-inspired computer
Wataru Onodera, Nobuyuki Hara, Shiho Aoki, Toru Asahi, Naoya Sawamura, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 2023, 178, 107636.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107636

2022
Chiroptical Studies on Anisotropic Condensed Matter: Principle and Recent Applications of the Generalized-High Accuracy Universal Polarimeter
Toru Asahi, Masahito Tanaka, Kenta Nakagawa, Yukana Terasawa, Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Akifumi Takanabe, Hideko Koshima, Bart Kahr
Crystal Growth-Technologies and Applications 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108721

Porous Nanoarchitectures of Nonprecious Metal Borides: From Controlled Synthesis to Heterogeneous Catalyst Applications
Yunqing Kang, Yi Tang, Liyang Zhu, Bo Jiang, Xingtao Xu, Olga Guselnikova, Hexing Li, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 14773–14793.

Tuning iron spin states in single-atom nanozymes enables efficient peroxidase mimicking
Xiaoqian Wei‡, Shaojia Song‡, Weiyu Song, Yating Wen, Weiqing Xu, Yifeng Chen, Zhichao Wu, Ying Qin, Lei Jiao, Yu Wu, Meng Sha, Jiajia Huang, Xiaoli Cai, Lirong Zheng, Liuyong Hu, Wenling Gu, Miharu Eguchi, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi, Chengzhou Zhu, Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 13574.　‡: These authors contributed equally to this work.

Photo-conversion of self-assembled structures into continuous covalent structures via [2 + 2]-cycloaddition reactions.
Moeka Inada, Akihiro Udagawa, Sota Sato, Toru Asahi, Kei Saito, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 2022. 21, 2169–2177.

Crystal Actuation Switching by Crystal Thickness and Light Wavelength
Shodai Hasebe, Yuki Hagiwara, Kazuya Hirata, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima, Mater. Adv. 2022, 3, 7098–7106.

Soft Template-Based Synthesis of Mesoporous Phosphorus- and Boron-Codoped NiFe-Based Alloys for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Yunqing Kang, Yanna Guo, Jingjing Zhao, Bo Jiang, Jingru Guo, Yi Tang, Hexing Li, Victor Malgras, Mohammed A. Amin, Hiroki Nara, Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Yusuke Yamauchi, Toru Asahi, small 2022, 18, 2203411.

Flexible organic crystals. Understanding the tractable co-existence of elastic and plastic bending
Indira S. Divya, Saravanan Kandasamy, Shodai Hasebe, Toshiyuki Sasaki, Hideko Koshima, Krzysztof Woźniak, Sunil Varughese, Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 8989-9003.

New Trends in Nanoarchitectured SERS Substrates: Nanospaces, 2D Materials, and Organic Heterostructures
Olga Guselnikova, Hyunsoo Lim, Hyun-Jong Kim, Sung Hyun Kim, Alina Gorbunova, Miharu Eguchi, Pavel Postnikov, Takuya Nakanishi, Toru Asahi, Jongbeom Na, Yusuke Yamauchi, small 2022, 18, 2107182.

Metal–Organic Framework-Derived Graphene Mesh: a Robust Scaffold for Highly Exposed Fe–N₄ Active Sites toward an Excellent Oxygen Reduction Catalyst in Acid Media
Jingjing Li, Wei Xia, Jing Tang, Yong Gao, Cheng Jiang, Yining Jia, Tao Chen, Zhufeng Hou, Ruijuan Qi, Dong Jiang, Toru Asahi, Xingtao Xu, Tao Wang, Jianping He, and Yusuke Yamauchi, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 9280–9291.

Single-crystal structure analysis of non-deuterated triglycine sulfate by neutron diffraction at 20 and 298 K: a new disorder model for the 298 K structure
Yukana Terasawa, Takashi Ohhara, Sota Sato, Satoshi Yoshida, Toru Asahi, Acta. Cryst 2022, E78, 306-312

Microwave One-pot Synthesis of CNTs-Supported Amorphous Ni-P Alloy Nanoparticles with Enhanced Hydrogenation Performance
Yunqing Kang, Haoran Du, Bo Jiang, Hui Li, Yanna Guo, Mohammed A. Amin, Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Toru Asahi, Hexing Li, Yusuke Yamauchi, J. Mater. Chem. A 2022, 10, 6560-6568

Direct feature extraction from two-dimensional X-ray diffraction images of semiconductor thin films for fabrication analysis
Akihiro Yamashita, Takahiro Nagata, Shinjiro Yagyu, Toru Asahi, Toyohiro Chikyow, Sci. Tech. Adv. Mater. 2022, 2, 25

Proliferation and differentiation of primary bovine myoblasts using Chlorella vulgaris extract for sustainable production of cultured meat
Yuta Okamoto, Yuji Haraguchi, Azumi Yoshida, Hironobu Takahashi, Kumiko Yamanaka, Naoya Sawamura, Toru Asahi, Tatsuya Shimizu, Biotechnol. Prog. 2022, e3239.

Dissecting cricket genomes for the advancement of entomology and entomophagy
Kosuke Kataoka, Yuki Togawa, Ryuto Sanno, Toru Asahi, Kei Yura, Biophys. Rev. 2022, 14, 75–97.

Polymorph-Derived Diversification of Crystal Actuation by Photoisomerization and the Photothermal Effect
Shodai Hasebe, Yuki Hagiwara, Kyoko Takechi, Tetsuro Katayama, Akihiro Furube, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima, Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 1315–1324.

Superelasticity of a photo-actuating chiral salicylideneamine crystal
Takuya Taniguchi, Kazuki Ishizaki, Daisuke Takagi, Kazuki Nishimura, Hiroki Shigemune, Masahiro Kuramochi, Yuji C. Sasaki, Hideko Koshima, Toru Asahi, Commun. Chem. 5, 4 (2022).
本研究は早稲田大学プレスリリースにも掲載されました。

2021
Giant Optical Anisotropy in High Temperature Superconducting Cuprate Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+δ
Kun Zhang, Masataka Matsumoto, Kenta Nakagawa, Azusa Matsuda, Genki Shino, Sota Sato, Takuji Ikeda, Toru Asahi, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 90, 113702 (2021).

Comparative Analysis of Mitochondrial Genomes in Gryllidea (Insecta: Orthoptera): Implications for Adaptive Evolution in Ant-loving Crickets
Ryuto Sanno‡, Kosuke Kataoka‡, Shota Hayakawa, Keigo Ide, Chuong N. Nguyen, Thao P. Nguyen, Binh T. N. Le, Oanh T. P. Kim, Katsuhiko Mineta, Haruko Takeyama, Makio Takeda, Toshiyuki Sato, Takeshi Suzuki, Kei Yura, Toru Asahi, Genome Biol. Evol. 2021, 13, evab222
‡: These authors contributed equally to this work.

Mechanically Responsive Organic Crystals by Light
Hideko Koshima, Shodai Hasebe, Yuki Hagiwara, Toru Asahi, Isr. J. Chem. 2021, 61, 683-696.

Heterostructuring Mesoporous 2D Iridium Nanosheets with Amorphous Nickel Boron Oxide Layers to Improve Electrolytic Water Splitting
Yunqing Kang, Bo Jiang, Victor Malgras, Yanna Guo, Ovidiu Cretu, Koji Kimoto, Aditya Ashok, Zhe Wan, Hexing Li, Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Yusuke Yamauchi, Toru Asahi, Small Methods 2021, 11, 2100679.

Photothermally Driven High-Speed Crystal Actuation and Its Simulation
Shodai Hasebe, Yuki Hagiwara, Jun Komiya, Meguya Ryu, Hiroki Fujisawa, Junko Morikawa, Tetsuro Katayama, Daiki Yamanaka, Akihiro Furube, Hiroyasu Sato, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 8866–8877.
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Rapid evolution of mammalian APLP1 as a synaptic adhesion molecule
Wataru Onodera, Toru Asahi, Naoya Sawamura, Sci. Rep. 2021, 11, 11305.

Asymmetric autocatalysis triggered by triglycine sulfate with switchable chirality by altering the direction of the applied electric field
Tsuneomi Kawasaki, Yoshiyasu Kaimori, Seiya Shimada, Natsuki Hara, Susumu Sato, Kenta Suzuki, Toru Asahi, Arimasa Matsumoto, Kenso Soai, Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 5999–6002.

Light-driven Crystal–polymer Hybrid Actuators
Shodai Hasebe, Daisuke Matsuura, Takaaki Mizukawa, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima, Front. Robot. AI 2021, 8, 684287.

Reformation of Thalidomide from its Hydrolysis Compound via Intramolecular Dehydration
Takuya Taniguchi, Miri Nakamura, Koichi Tsutao, Kohei Otogawa, Yoshiyuki Ogino, Toru Asahi, Chem Lett. 2021, 50, 1388–1391.

Accelerating two-dimensional X-ray diffraction measurement and analysis with density-based clustering for thin films
Akihiro Yamashita, Takahiro Nagata, Shinjiro Yagyu, Toru Asahi, Toyohiro Chikyow, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 2021, 60, SCCG04.

Actuation Performance of a Photo-bending Crystal Modeled by Machine Learning-based Regression
Kazuki Ishizaki, Ryota Sugimoto, Yuki Hagiwara, Hideko Koshima, Takuya Taniguchi, Toru Asahi, CrystEngComm 2021, 23, 5839–5847.

Preferences of Polarity and Chirality in Triglycine Sulfate Crystals by Alanine Ghost
Yukana Terasawa, Toshio Kikuta, Masaaki Ichiki, Sota Sato, Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Toru Asahi, J. Phys. Chem. Solids 2021, 151, 109890.

2020
Amorphous Alloy Architectures in Pore Walls: Mesoporous Amorphous NiCoB Alloy Spheres with Controlled Compositions via a Chemical Reduction
Yunqing Kang, Bo Jiang, Juanjuan Yang, Zhe Wan, Jongbeom Na, Qian Li, Hexing Li, Joel Henzie, Yoshio Sakka, Yusuke Yamauchi, Toru Asahi, ACS Nano 2020, 14, 17224–27232.

Magnetically induced synthesis of mesoporous amorphous CoB nanochains for efficient selective hydrogenation of cinnamaldehyde to cinnamyl alcohol
Jingjing Zhao, Victor Malgras, Jongbeom Na, Rui Liang, Yong Cai, Yunqing Kang, Abdulmohsen Ali Alshehri, Khalid Ahmed Alzahrani, Yousef Gamaan Alghamdi, Toru Asahi Dieqing Zhang, Bo Jiang, Hexing Li, Yusuke Yamauchi, Chem. Eng. J. 2020, 398, 125564.

Valence Band Modification of a (Ga_xIn_1–x)₂O₃ Solid Solution System Fabricated by Combinatorial Synthesis
Takahiro Nagata, Takeshi Hoga, Akihiro Yamashita, Toru Asahi, Shinjiro Yagyu, Toyohiro Chikyow, ACS Comb. Sci. 2020, 22, 433–439

Age-dependent Alteration in Mitochondrial Dynamics and Autophagy in Hippocampal Neuron of Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor-deficient Mice
Kosuke Kataoka, Andras Bilkei-Gorzo, Chihiro Nozaki, Akinobu Togo, Keiichiro Nakamura, Keisuke Ohta, Andreas Zimmer, Toru Asahi, Brain Research Bulletin, 2020, 160, 40–49.

The Draft Genome Dataset of the Asian Cricket Teleogryllus occipitalis for Molecular Research Toward Entomophagye
Kosuke Kataoka, Ryuhei Minei, Keigo Ide, Atsushi Ogura, Haruko Takeyama, Makio Takeda, Takeshi Suzuki, Kei Yura, Toru Asahi, Front. Genet. 2020, 11, 470.

Theoretical study on stabilization and destabilization of magnetic skyrmions by uniaxial-strain-induced anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions
Kohei Tanaka, Ryosuke Sugawara, and Masahito Mochizuki, Phys. Rev. Materials, 2020, 4, 034404.

Crystal actuator based on a thermal phase transition and photothermal effect
Yuki Hagiwara, Takuya Taniguchi, Toru Asahi, and Hideko Koshima, J. Mater. Chem. C 2020, 8, 4876–4884.

Cereblon-mediated degradation of the amyloid precursor protein via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway
Tomotaka Kurihara, Toru Asahi, and Naoya Sawamura, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2020, 524, 236–241.

Block copolymer-templated electrodeposition of mesoporous Au-Ni alloy films with tunable composition
Asep Sugih Nugraha, Jongbeom Na, Md. Shahriar A. Hossain, Jianjian Lin, Yusuf Valentino Kaneti, Muhammad Iqbal, Bo Jiang, Yoshio Bando, Toru Asahi, and Yusuke Yamauchi, appl. mater. today 2020, 18, 100526.

Mesoporous Metal–Metalloid Amorphous Alloys: The First Synthesis of Open 3D Mesoporous Ni‐B Amorphous Alloy Spheres via a Dual Chemical Reduction Method
Yunqing Kang, Joel Henzie, Huajun Gu, Jongbeom Na, Amanullah Fatehmulla, Belqes Saeed A. Shamsan, Abdullah M. Aldhafiri, W. Aslam Farooq, Yoshio Bando, Toru Asahi, Bo Jiang, Hexing Li, and Yusuke Yamauchi, Small, 2020, 16, 1906707.

Immunohistochemical characterization of phosphorylated ubiquitin in the mouse hippocampus
Kosuke Kataoka, Andras Bilkei-Gorzo, Andreas Zimmer, Toru Asahi, bioRχiv, 2020.

2019
Determination of the Faraday rotation perpendicular to the optical axis in uniaxial CeF₃ crystal by using the Generalized-High Accuracy Universal Polarimeter
Kenta Nakagawa and Toru Asahi, Sci. Rep. 2019, 9, 18453.

Mammalian cell cultivation using nutrients extracted from microalgae
Yuta Okamoto, Yuji Haraguchi, Naoya Sawamura, Toru Asahi and Tatsuya Shimizu, Biotechnol. Prog. 2019, e2941.

Statistical Modeling of Photo-Bending Actuation of Hybrid Silicones Mixed with Azobenzene Powder
Takuya Taniguchi, Loïc Blanc, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima and Pierre Lambert, Actuators 2019, 8, 68.

Data for positive selection test and co-evolutionary analysis on mammalian cereblon
Wataru Onodera, Toru Asahi, and Naoya Sawamura, Data in Brief 2019, 26, 104499.

Photomechanical Azobenzene Crystals
Takuya Taniguchi, Toru Asahi, and Hideko Koshima, Crystals 2019, 9, 437.

Effect of Heating and Cooling Rates in Annealing for Preparation of L10-FePt Nanoparticles on Si Substrate
Yoshiki Fujihira, Toru Asahi, Toshiyuki Momma and Tetsuya Osaka, ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol. 2019, 8, 217–222.

Achiral amino acid glycine acts as an origin of homochirality in asymmetric autocatalysis
Arimasa Matsumoto, Hanae Ozaki, Sumeru Tsuchiya, Toru Asahi, Meir Lahav, Tsuneomi Kawasaki and Kenso Soai, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2019, 17, 4200–4203.

Positive Selection of Cereblon Modified Function Including its E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Activity and Binding Efficiency with AMPK
Wataru Onodera, Toru Asahi, and Naoya Sawamura, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 2019, 135, 78–85.

Photo-triggered phase transition of a crystal
Takuya Taniguchi, Hiroyasu Sato, Yuki Hagiwara, Toru Asahi, and Hideko Koshima, Commun. Chem. 2019, 2, 19.
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Microscopic magnetization distribution of Bloch lines in a uniaxial magnet
Kosuke Kurushima, Kohei Tanaka, Hiroshi Nakajima, Masahito Mochizuki and Shigeo Mori, J. Appl. Phys. 2019, 125, 053902.

2018
Electrochemical Synthesis of Mesoporous Au–Cu Alloy Films with Vertically Oriented Mesochannels Using Block Copolymer Micelles
Asep Sugih Nugraha, Victor Malgras, Muhammad Iqbal, Bo Jiang, Cuiling Li , Yoshio Bando, Abdulmohsen Alshehri, Jeonghun Kim, Yusuke Yamauchi, and Toru Asahi, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 23783–23791.

Trimetallic Mesoporous AuCuNi Electrocatalysts with Controlled Compositions Using Block Copolymer Micelles as Templates
Asep Sugih Nugraha, Victor Malgras, Jeonghun Kim, Jiang Bo, Cuiling Li, Muhammad Iqbal, Yusuke Yamauchi, and Toru Asahi, Small Methods 2018, 2, 1800283.

Homoeolog expression bias in allopolyploid oleaginous marine diatom Fistulifera solaris
Tatsuhiro Nomaguchi, Yoshiaki Maeda, Tomoko Yoshino, Toru Asahi, Leila Tirichine, Chris Bowler, and Tsuyoshi Tanaka, BMC Genomics 2018, 19, 330.

Simulation-aided development of magnetic-aligned compaction process with pulsed magnetic field
Rikio Soda, Kohei Tanaka, Kenta Takagi and Kimihiro Ozaki, Powder Technol. 2018, 329, 364–370.

Electrochemical deposition of large-sized mesoporous nickel films using polymeric micelles
Daisuke Baba, Jeonghun Kim, Joel Henzie, Cuiling Li, Bo Jiang, Ömer Dag, Yusuke Yamauchi, and Toru Asahi, Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 10347–10350.

Nafion®-coated mesoporous Pd film toward remarkably enhanced detection of lactic acid
Daisuke Baba, Asep Sugih Nugraha, Muhammad Iqbal, Jiang Bo, Cuiling Li, Abdulmohsen Ali Alshehri, Jungmok You, Victor Malgras, Yusuke Yamachi, and Toru Asahi, RSC Adv. 2018, 8, 10446–10449.

Comprehensive analysis of triacylglycerol lipases in the oleaginous diatom Fistulifera solaris JPCC DA0580 with transcriptomics under lipid degradation
Tatsuhiro Nomaguchi, Yoshiaki Maeda, Yue Liang, Tomoko Yoshino, Toru Asahi, and Tsuyoshi Tanaka, J. Biosci. Bioeng. 2018, 126, 258–265.

Coercivity Recovery Effect of Sm-Fe-Cu-Al Alloy on Sm₂Fe₁₇N₃Magnet
Kohei Otogawa, Toru Asahi, Miho Jinno, Wataru Yamaguchi, Kenta Takagi, Hansang Kwon, J. Korean Phys. Soc. 2018, 72, 716–725.

Two-step photomechanical motion of a dibenzobarrelene crystal
Takuya Taniguchi, Ayumi Kubota, Tatsuya Moritoki, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima, RSC Adv. 2018, 8, 34314–34320.

Cholinergic receptor, nicotinic, alpha 7 as a target molecule of Arctic mutant amyloid β
Naoya Sawamura, Ye Ju, Toru Asahi, Neural Regen. Res. 2018, 13, 1360–1361.

Antioxidant activity of Ge-132, a synthetic organic germanium, on cultured mammalian cells
Takeyoshi Wada, Takashi Hanyu, Kota Nozaki, Kosuke Kataoka, Tomoro Kawatani, Toru Asahi Naoya Sawamura, Biol. Pharm. Bull. 2018, 41, 749–753.

Consolidation of Sm2Fe17N3magnets with Sm-based eutectic alloy binder
Kohei Otogawa, Kenta Takagi, Toru Asahi, J. Alloy. Compd. 2018, 746, 19–26.

Walking and rolling of crystals induced thermally by phase transition
Takuya Taniguchi, Haruki Sugiyama, Hidehiro Uekusa, Motoo Shiro, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima, Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 538.
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The Neuroprotective Effect of Thalidomide against Ischemia through the Cereblon-mediated Repression of AMPK Activity
Naoya Sawamura, Mariko Yamada, Miku Fujiwara, Haruka Yamada, Hideki Hayashi, Norio Takagi, Toru Asahi, Sci. Rep. 2018, 8, 2459.
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A dual-ligand-modulable fluorescent protein based on UnaG and calmodulin
Yoh Shitashima, Togo Shimozawa, Toru Asahi, Atsushi Miyawaki, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2018, 496, 872–879.

2017
Chiroptical Study on Organic Crystals Using the G-HAUP
Toru Asahi, Kenta Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Akifumi Takanabe and Hideko Koshima, J. Syn. Org. Chem., Jpn., 75, 530 (2017).

Two Distinct Fluorescence States of the Ligand-Induced Green Fluorescent Protein UnaG
Yoh Shitashima, Togo Shimozawa, Akiko Kumagai, Atsushi Miyawaki, Toru Asahi, Biophys. J., 113(12), 2805-2814 (2017).

Optical Activity Anisotropy of Benzil
Kenta Nakagawa, Alexander T. Martin, Shane M. Nichols, Veronica L. Murphy, Bart Kahr, Toru Asahi, J. Phys. Chem. C, 121(45), 25494-25502 (2017).

Arctic Aβ40 blocks the nicotine-induced neuroprotective effect of CHRNA7 by inhibiting the ERK1/2 pathway in human neuroblastoma cells
Ye Ju, Toru Asahi, Naoya Sawamura, Neurochem. Int., 110, 49-56 (2017).

Fabrication of Mesoporous Cu Films on Cu Foils and Their Applications to Dopamine Sensing
Daisuke Baba, Cuiling Li, Vector Malgras, Bo Jiang, Hatem R. Alamri, Zeid A. Alothman, Shahriar A. Hossain, Yusuke Yamauchi, Toru Asahi, Chem. Asian J., 12, 2467–2470 (2017).

Continuous Mesoporous Pd Films by Electrochemical Deposition in Nonionic Micellar Solution
Muhammad Iqbal, Cuiling Li, Kathleen Wood, Bo Jiang, Toshiaki Takei, Ömer Dag, Daisuke Baba, Asep Sugih Nugraha, Toru Asahi, Andrew E Whitten, Shahriar A Hossain, Victor Malgras, Yusuke Yamauchi, Chem. Mater., 29(15), 6405-6413 (2017).

Block-Copolymer-Assisted Electrochemical Synthesis of Mesoporous Gold Electrodes: Towards a Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensor
Asep Sugih Nugraha, Cuiling Li, Jiang Bo, Muhammad Iqbal, Saad M. Alshehri, Tansir Ahamad, Victor Malgras, Yusuke Yamauchi, Toru Asahi ChemElectroChem, 4(10), 2571-2576 (2017).

Chiral Sensing with Mesoporous Pd@Pt Nanoparticles
Yuxi Fang, Cuiling Li, Jiang Bo, Joel Henzie, Yusuke Yamauchi, Toru Asahi ChemElectroChem, 4, 1832-1835 (2017).

LC-MS/MS and chiroptical spectroscopic analyses of multi-dimensional metabolic systems of chiral thalidomide and its derivatives
Yoshiyuki Ogino, Masahito Tanaka, Togo Shimozawa, Toru Asahi, Chirality, 29, 282-293 (2017).

Accurate measurement of the optical activity of alanine crystals and the determination of their absolute chirality
Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Yukana Terasawa, Masahito Tanaka, Toru Asahi, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 104, 257-266 (2017).

Fast-type high-accuracy universal polarimeter using charge-coupled device spectrometer
Akifumi Takanabe, Hideko Koshima, Toru Asahi, AIP Adv., 7, 025209 (2017).

Reversible Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Phase Transition of Chiral Salicylidenephenylethylamine
Akifumi Takanabe, Takuro Katsufuji, Kohei Johmoto, Hidehiro Uekusa, Motoo Shiro, Hideko Koshima, Toru Asahi, Crystals, 7(1), 7 (2017).

2016
Crystal-to-crystal photo-reversible polymerization mechanism of bis-thymine derivative
Akihiro Udagawa, Priscilla Johnston, Aya Sakon, Ryosuke Toyoshima, Hidehiro Uekusa, Hideko Koshima, Kei Saito, Toru Asahi, RSC Advances, 6, 107317-107322 (2016).

Optical Activity and Optical Anisotropy in Photomechanical Crystals of Chiral Salicylidenephenylethylamines
Akifumi Takanabe, Masahito Tanaka, Kohei Johmoto, Hidehiro Uekusa, Tadashi Mori, Hideko Koshima, Toru Asahi, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 138(45), 15066-15077 (2016).

Ohgata, the Single Drosophila Ortholog of Human Cereblon, Regulates Insulin Signaling-Dependent Organismic Growth
Satoru Wakabayashi, Naoya Sawamura, Andre Voelzmann, Meike Broemer, Toru Asahi, Michael Hoch, J. Biol. Chem., 291, 48, 25120-25132

Solid-State Photochemical Reaction of Multisubstituted Thymine Derivatives
Akihiro Udagawa, Priscilla Johnston, Hidehiro Uekusa, Hideko Koshima, Kei Saito, Toru Asahi, ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 4(11), 6107-6114 (2016).

Mitochondrial cereblon functions as a Lon-type protease
Kosuke Kataoka, China Nakamura, Toru Asahi, Naoya Sawamura, Sci. Rep., 6, 29986 (2016).
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Nuclear cereblon modulates transcriptional activity of Ikaros and regulates its downstream target, enkephalin, in human neuroblastoma cells
Takeyoshi Wada, Toru Asahi, Naoya Sawamura, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 477, 388-394 (2016).

Mechanical motion of molecular crystals induced by [4 + 4] photodimerisation
Hideko Koshima, Hidetaka Uchimoto, Takuya Taniguchi, Jun Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Asahi, Toru Asahi, CrystEngComm, 18, 7305-7310 (2016).

Mechanical Motion of Chiral Azobenzene Crystals with Twisting upon Photoirradiation
Takuya Taniguchi, Juri Fujisawa, Motoo Shiro, Hideko Koshima, Toru Asahi, Chem. Eur. J., 22, 7950-7958 (2016).

Absolute Structure Determination of Chiral Crystals Consisting of Achiral Benzophenone with Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction and Its Correlation with Solid-State Circular Dichroism
Arimasa Matsumoto, Sumeru Tsuchiya, Yuki Hagiwara, Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Hideko Koshima, Toru Asahi, Kenso Soai, Chem. Lett., 45, 526-528 (2016).

Microwave Effect on Fischer Esterification
Hideko Koshima, Kiminori Miyazaki, Saori Ishii, and Toru Asahi, Chem. Lett., 45, 505-507 (2016).

2015
Interfacial effects on the crystallization and surface properties of poly(l-lactic acid) ultrathin films
Akihiro Udagawa, Toshinori Fujie, Yuko Kawamoto, Akihiro Saito, Shinji Takeoka, Toru Asahi, Polymer J., 48, 157-161 (2016).

Cereblon is recruited to aggresome and shows cytoprotective effect against ubiquitin-proteasome system dysfunction
Naoya Sawamura, Satoru Wakabayashi, Kodai Matsumoto, Haruka Yamada, Toru Asahi, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 464, 1054-1059 (2015).

Model of complex chiral drug metabolic systems and numerical simulation of the remaining chirality toward analysis of dynamical pharmacological activity
Yoshiyuki Ogino, Toru Asahi, J. Theor. Biol., 373, 117-131 (2015).

Crystal structure of (S)-4-carbamoyl-4-(1,3-dioxo­isoindolin-2-yl)butanoic acid
Kohei Otogawa, Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Motoo Shiro, Toru Asahi, Acta. Cryst. E, 71 (1), 107-109 (2015).

2014
Self-disproportionation of Enantiomers of Thalidomide and its Fluorinated Analogue via Gravity-driven Achiral Chromatography: Mechanistic Rationale and Implications
Mayaka Maeno, Etsuko Tokunaga, Takeshi Yamamoto, Toshiya Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Ogino, Emi Ito, Motoo Shiro, Toru Asahi, Norio Shibata, Chem. Sci., 6(2), 1043-1048 (2014).

A high-accuracy universal polarimeter study of optical anisotropy and optical activity in laminated collagen membranes
Kenta Nakagawa, Heather Harper-Lovelady, Yuji Tanaka, Masahito Tanaka, Masayuki Yamato, Toru Asahi, Chem. Commun., 50(95), 15086-15089 (2014).

Arctic mutatn Aβ40 aggregates on α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and inhibits their functions
Ye Ju, Toru Asahi, Naoya Sawamura, J. Neurochem., 131(5), 667-674 (2014).

Quantitative analysis with advanced compensated polarized light microscopy on wavelength dependence of linear birefringence of single crystals causing arthritis
Akifumi Takanabe, Masahito Tanaka, Atsuo Taniguchi, Hisashi Yamanaka, Toru Asahi, J. Phys. Appl. Phys., 47(28), 285402 (2014).

A label-free electrical assay of fibrous amyloid β based on semiconductor biosensing
Sho Hideshima, Masumi Kobayashi, Takeyoshi Wada, Shigeki Kuroiwa, Takuya Nakanishi, Naoya Sawamura, Toru Asahi, Tetsuya Osaka, Chem. Commun., 50, 3476-3478 (2014).

2013
Metastable Liquid Crystal as Time-Responsive Reaction Medium: Aging-Induced Dual Enantioselective Control
Yasuhiro Ishida, Yuki Matsunaka, Yukiko Kai, Kuniyo Yamada. Kenta Nakagawa, Toru Asahi, Kazuhiko Saigo, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 6407-6410.

Construction of photoenergetic mitochondoria in cultured mammalian cells
Kiyotaka Y. Hara, Takeyoshi Wada, Kuniki Kino, Toru Asahi, Naoya Sawamura, Sci. Rep., 2013, 3, 1635.
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Selective Molecular Permeability Induced by Glass Transition Dynamics of Semicrystalline Polymer Ultrathin Films
Toshinori Fujie, Yuko Kawamoto, Hiroki Haniuda, Akihiro Saito, Koki Kabata, Yukio Honda, Eriko Ohmori, Toru Asahi, Shinji Takeoka, Macromolecules, 2013, 46, 395-402.

2012
Absolute chirality of the γ-polymorph of glycine: correlation of the absolute structure with the optical rotation
Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Masahito Tanaka, Toshiya Suzuki, Akiko Sekine, Tsuneomi Kawasaki, Kenso Soai, Motoo Shiro, Meir Lahav, Toru Asahi, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 6031-6033.

An application of the advanced high-accuracy universal polarimeter to the chiroptical measurement of an intercalated compound K4Nb6O17 with high anisotropy
Masahito Tanaka, Naomichi Nakamura, Hideko Koshima, Toru Asahi, J. Phys. Appl. Phys., 2012, 45, 175303-175311.

2011
Transparent, tough collagen laminates prepared by oriented flow casting, multi-cyclic vitrification and chemical cross-linking
Yuji Tanaka, Koichi Baba, Thomas J. Duncan, Akira Kubota, Toru Asahi, Andrew J. Quantock, Masayuki Yamato, Teruo Okano, Kohji Nishida, Biomaterials, 2011, 32, 3358-3366.

Buffers to suppress sodium dodecyl sulfate adsorption to polyethylene oxide for protein separation on capillary polymer electrophoresis
Keiko Sumitomo, Koichi Mayumi, Hiroyuki Minamikawa, Mitsutoshi Masuda, Toru Asahi, Toshimi Shimizu, Kohzo Ito, Yoshinori Yamaguchi, Electrophoresis, 2011, 32, 448-454.