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論文

2026

  1. Synthesis of Chiral Gold Nanostructures on Gold-Coral-Coated Transparent Conductive Oxide Substrates via [AuCl4]– and Cysteine Interactions for Enhanced Chiral Sensing

    Kenta Nakagawa, Junhe Wang, Tianji Zhang, Yuta Shiga, Olga Guselnikova, Takuya Nakanishi, Yusuke Yamauchi, Toru Asahi Small, 2026, e75471.

    DOI: 10.1002/smll.75471

  2. Age-Related Behavioral Changes Across the Adult Lifespan of a Cricket: A Longitudinal Analysis Using DeepLabCut

    Shota Hayakawa, Tomohiro Aihara, Kohyoh Murata, Masanobu Yamamoto, Kosuke Kataoka, Takeshi Suzuki, Toru Asahi Journal of Insect Behavior, 2026, 39(2).

    DOI: 10.1007/s10905-026-09918-0

  3. Pore-zoned nanoarchitectonics of hierarchically porous metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and MOF-derived materials for electrochemical energy conversion

    Yingji Zhao, Norman C.-R. Chen, Yongqi Yin, Xiangyang Liu, Minghao Xu, Prashant Dubey, Keisuke Shirasaki, Yunqing Kang, Kevin C.-W. Wu, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2026, 566, 218156.

    DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2026.218156

  4. Light-driven composite films with photomechanical salicylideneaniline crystals aligned in UV-curing resins for soft actuators

    Shodai Hasebe, Takashi Ueno, Yuki Hagiwara, Taiki Goto, Jérémy Odent, Jean-Marie Raquez, Hideko Koshima, Toru Asahi Materials Today Communications, 2026, 50, 114375.

    DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2025.114375

  5. Near-100% site utilization of single atoms for ef cient electrocatalysis

    Xiaoqian Wei, Meng An, Xiannong Tang, Jiamin Wei, Peng Yan, Yiwei Qiu, Dong Jiang, Yusuke Asakura, Xiaokai Song, Toru Asahi, Chengzhou Zhu, Yusuke Yamauchi Nature Communications, 2026, 17(1), 1013.

    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67756-8

  6. Temporal orchestration of transcriptional and epigenomic programming underlying maternal embryonic diapause in a cricket model

    Kosuke Kataoka, Yuta Shimizu, Ryuto Sanno, Yuichi Koshiishi, Ken Naito, Kei Yura, Toru Asahi, Shin G. Goto Communications Biology, 2026, 9(1), 825.

    DOI: 10.1038/s42003-026-10402-w

  7. Chromosome-scale genome assembly and annotation of the two-spotted cricket Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)

    Kosuke Kataoka, Ryuto Sanno, Tomasz Gaczorek, Upendra Raj Bhattarai, Yuki Ito, Shintaro Inoue, Kei Yura, Toru Asahi, Guillem Ylla, Taro Mito, Cassandra G Extavour G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2026, 16(4), jkag036.

    DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkag036

  8. E3 ligase Praja1 mediates ubiquitination and degradation of microtubule-associated protein tau

    Shiho Aoki, Wataru Onodera, Akihiko Takashima, Kotaro Kawasaki, Kazuki Imadegawa, Hikaru Kurahashi, Mizuho Oishi, Toru Asahi, Yoshiyuki Soeda The FEBS Journal, 2026, 293(8), 2212-2224.

    DOI: 10.1111/febs.70303

  9. Identification of paramyosin as a novel allergen in edible cricket protein

    Minami Nakamura, Hiroki Matsuki, Kanon Hagiwara, Saki Okuno, Kosuke Kataoka, Seiya Ashikari, Kensuke Ikeda, Katsuyuki Miyawaki, Takahito Watanabe, Shintaro Inoue, Taro Mito, Toru Asahi, Akira Takahashi, Takayuki Uchida, Takeshi Nikawa Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology, 2026, 72(1), 70-75.

    DOI: 10.3177/jnsv.72.70

  10. Gut Microbiome Differences Across Mixed-Sex and Female-Only Social Rearing Regimes in Female Field Crickets Teleogryllus occipitalis (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)

    Kazuya Hirata, Takeshi Suzuki, Kei Yura, Toru Asahi, Kosuke Kataoka Insects, 2026, 17(1), 91.

    DOI: 10.3390/insects17010091

  11. Development of HAUP-based method for measuring simultaneously linear birefringence and dichroism near diagonal position in anisotropic media

    Kun Zhang, Komei Okano, Toru Asahi, Kenta Nakagawa Sch. Rep., 2026, 16(22052).

    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-54745-0

  12. Circular dichroism and optical activity of thalidomide in polar aprotic acetonitrile

    Komei OKANO, Moeri IWATA, Mizuki KIRA, Ayaka MATSUMOTO, Takuya NAKANISHI, Norio Shibata, Toru ASAHI, Kenta NAKAGAWA Chem. Lett., 2026, 55(8).

    DOI: 10.1093/chemle/upag158

2025

  1. Ultrathin Mesoporous Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets

    Yingji Zhao, Zhi Gao, Norman C.-R. Chen, Yusuke Asakura, Ho Ngoc Nam, Quan Manh Phung, Yunqing Kang, Mandy Hei Man Leung, Dong Jiang, Lei Fu, Lijin Huang, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi Advanced Materials, 2025, 37(36), 2508105.

    DOI: 10.1002/adma.202508105

  2. Actuation Performance and Versatility of Photothermally Driven Organic Crystals

    Shodai Hasebe, Yuki Hagiwara, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, 64(1), e202418570.

    DOI: 10.1002/anie.202418570

  3. Polarization Dependence of Photothermally Resonated Natural Vibration in an Aminoanthraquinone Crystal

    Shodai Hasebe, Komei Okano, Kenta Nakagawa, Yuki Hagiwara, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima ChemPhotoChem, 2025, 9(11), e202500221.

    DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202500221

  4. Full-Multiscale Spontaneous Organization for Optically Anisotropic Titania Films

    Hirokatsu Miyata, Haruaki Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Kun Zhang, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauch Small, 2025, 21(14), 2501782.

    DOI: 10.1002/smll.202501782

  5. 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: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2025.110440

  6. 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 Crystal Growth & Design, 2025, 25(7), 2090-2098.

    DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.4c01729

  7. 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 Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147(15), 12460-12468.

    DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c16346

  8. 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 Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147(14), 11988-11997.

    DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c18394

  9. Chirality-assembled on-chip lasers

    Shunsuke Takano, Toru Asahi, Ivan I. Smalyukh Nature Photonics, 2025, 19(7), 659-661.

    DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01711-3

  10. 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(1), 826.

    DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-05197-0

  11. Machine learning-driven optimization of the output force in photo-actuated organic crystals

    Kazuki Ishizaki, Toru Asahi, Takuya Taniguchi Digital Discovery, 2025, 4(5), 1199-1208.

    DOI: 10.1039/D4DD00380B

  12. 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 Chemical Science, 2025, 16(19), 8309-8318.

    DOI: 10.1039/D4SC07345B

  13. Photomechanical motion of three polymorphic salicylideneaniline crystals with distinct bending directions, speeds, and repeatability

    Shodai Hasebe, Yuki Hagiwara, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2025, 98(4), uoaf032.

    DOI: 10.1093/bulcsj/uoaf032

  14. Symmetry and thermodynamic bounds on cross-coupling transport in chiral liquid crystals

    Shunsuke Takano, Takuya Nakanishi, Kenta Nakagawa, Toru Asahi Physical Review E, 2025, 112(5), 055429.

    DOI: 10.1103/xd4c-2c5w

  15. CB1 Receptor Agonist ACEA Resists ER Stress-Mediated Apoptosis via CB1R-Independent Mechanism

    Kazuaki Mori, Akinobu Togo, Keisuke Ohta, Toru Asahi, Chihiro Nozaki, Kosuke Kataoka Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 2025, 48(6), 769-781.

    DOI: 10.1248/bpb.b25-00023

  16. 有機結晶の光熱共振固有振動

    長谷部 翔大, 朝日 透, 小島 秀子 Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi, 2025, 67(3), 155-156.

    DOI: 10.5940/jcrsj.67.155

  17. Crystal structure prediction of organic molecules by machine learning-based lattice sampling and structure relaxation

    Takuya Taniguchi , 2025.

    DOI: 10.1039/D5DD00304K

  18. In vitro mechanical stretch inhibits differentiation of mouse myoblast C2C12 cells without sustained eIF2α phosphorylation

    Kazuaki Mori, Toru Asahi, Kosuke Kataoka, and Yoshikatsu Akiyama Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2025, 778, 152350.

    DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2025.152350

  19. Celline: a flexible tool for one-step retrieval and integrative analysis of public single-cell RNA sequencing data

    Yuya Sato, Toru Asahi, Kosuke Kataoka Front. Bioinform., 2025, 5(1684227).

    DOI: 10.3389/fbinf.2025.1684227

2024

  1. 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, Yusuke Yamauch Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 34(45), 2407479.

    DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202407479

  2. 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 Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 34(52), 2410671.

    DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202410671

  3. 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 Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024, 63(31), e202405571.

    DOI: 10.1002/anie.202405571

  4. 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 Biotechnology Progress, 2024, 40(1), e3402.

    DOI: 10.1002/btpr.3402

  5. Photo-triggered Phase Transition of Crystals and Photoactuation

    Yuki Hagiwara, Akifumi Takanabe, Toru Asahi, Hideko Koshima Chemistry – A European Journal, 2024, 30(40), e202401590.

    DOI: 10.1002/chem.202401590

  6. Functional Divergence and Origin of the Vertebrate Praja Family

    Wataru Onodera, Kotaro Kawasaki, Mizuho Oishi, Shiho Aoki, Toru Asahi Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2024, 92(1), 21-29.

    DOI: 10.1007/s00239-023-10150-z

  7. 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 Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024, 516, 215923.

    DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2024.215923

  8. Cannabinoid CB2 receptors enhance high-fat diet evoked peripheral neuroinflammation

    Haruka Hosoki, Toru Asahi, Chihiro Nozaki Life Sciences, 2024, 355, 123002.

    DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2024.123002

  9. 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 Crystal Growth & Design, 2024, 24(8), 3133-3139.

    DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.3c01030

  10. 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: 10.1021/acsnano.3c07375

  11. 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, Chengzhou Zhu ACS Nano, 2024, 18(5), 4308-4319.

    DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c09819

  12. 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: 10.1021/acsomega.3c07859

  13. 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, Tatsuya Shimizu Scientific Reports, 2024, 14(1), 19578.

    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-70377-8

  14. 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 Scientific Reports, 2024, 14(1), 27102.

    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-78208-6

  15. 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 Chemical Science, 2024, 15(3), 1088-1097.

    DOI: 10.1039/D3SC04796B

  16. Effectiveness and limitation of the performance prediction of perovskite solar cells by process informatics

    Ryo Fukasawa, Toru Asahi, Takuya Taniguchi Energy Advances, 2024, 3(4), 812-820.

    DOI: 10.1039/D3YA00617D

  17. Direct capture of the alanine ghost in alanine-doped triglycine sulfate crystals

    Yukana Terasawa, Toshimichi Shibue, Toru Asahi Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024, 26(45), 28332-28336.

    DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03839H

  18. 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 Chemical Science, 2024, 15(24), 9147-9154.

    DOI: 10.1039/d3sc06712b

  19. Knotty topology, chirality, and sustainability: interdisciplinary learning at WPI-SKCM² schools in Japan

    Y. Yuan, J. Lee, A. Kumari, S. Takano, J. Tay Liquid Crystals Today, 2024, 33(2), 24-27.

    DOI: 10.1080/1358314X.2024.2437866

  20. 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, Minsu Han Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 2024, 25(1), 2292485.

    DOI: 10.1080/14686996.2023.2292485

  21. Sulfonate-functionalized covalent organic frameworks for capacitive deionization

    Dong Jiang, Xingtao Xu, Yoshio Bando, Saad M. Alshehri, Miharu Eguchi, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2024, 97(9), uoae074.

    DOI: 10.1093/bulcsj/uoae074

  22. Interaction between intrinsically disordered proteins Praja1 and α-synuclein on gold electrodes

    Wataru Mori, Wataru Onodera, Terutoshi Kojima, Toru Asahi, Takuya Nakanishi Chemistry Letters, 2024, 53(11), upae205.

    DOI: 10.1093/chemle/upae205

  23. 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 Science Advances, 2024, 10(25), eado2442.

    DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado2442

  24. DeepLabCut-based daily behavioural and posture analysis in a Cricket

    Shota Hayakawa, Kosuke Kataoka, Masanobu Yamamoto, Toru Asahi, Takeshi Suzuki Biology Open, 2024, 13(4), bio060237.

    DOI: 10.1242/bio.060237

  25. A Cellulose-Rich Diet Disrupts Gut Homeostasis and Leads to Anxiety through the Gut-Brain Axis

    Kaede Ito, Haruka Hosoki, Yuya Kasai, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Atsushi Haraguchi, Shigenobu Shibata, Chihiro Nozaki ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science, 2024, 7(10), 3071-3085.

    DOI: 10.1021/acsptsci.4c00270