Research

Publication

Hybrid Hydrogels

  1. Thermally-responsive hybrid hydrogels.

  2. Magnetically-responsive hybrid hydrogels.

  3.  Shape-tunable hybrid hydrogels.

Supramolecular Assemblies

  1. Control of optical activity with host-guest complex system.
  2. Novel glutamide-derived lipids for DNA transfection.
  3. Multi-functional self-assembled nonofibers.

Optical Active Polymer Composite Films

  1.  Optical active polymer composite film with self-assembled nanofibers.
  2. Polymer-dye / self-assembled nanofiber complex system.

Molecular Recognition with Lipid-Grafted Porous Silica (HPLC)

  1.  Molecular shape recognition with lipid-grafted silica particles in HPLC use.
  2.  Novel aminoacid-derivatives-grafted stationary phase for HPLC packing materials.

Magnetic Nanoparticles

  1.  Biocompatible magnetic nanoparticles for medical applications.
  2.  Cellulose-magnetic nanoparticle composites.
  3.  Cationic polymer-grafted magnetic nanoparticles for “Magnetopfection”.
  4. Magneto-responsive gel materials.

Organic-Inorganic Molecular Hybrids

  1.  Photo-sensitive cyclopphospphazene derivatives.

 

Selected Works

Core-shell microspheres

Recently, core-shell microspheres (CSMs) have attracted attention as materials combining properties and functionalities of two or more substances. Among CSMs consisted of various combinations of substances, CSMs with inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) as a shell layer have attractive characters such as unique morphologies, designed surface properties, large surface area and high light scattering property, and therefore could be applied in many fields such as electronics, optics, catalysis, cosmetics, etc. We demonstrate a facile preparation method of CSMs with a silica NPs shell layer.1),2) This method is based on modified suspension polymerization with polymerizable group-immobilized silica nanoparticles. The CSMs obtained by this method are characterized by a shell particles layer which were covalently embedded on the polymer microsphere surface.