ICHIKAWA Takahiro

Position

Professor

Affiliations

Division of Biotechnology and Life Science, Institute of Engineering
Energy - Tominaga Team, Institute of Global Innovation Research

Researcher ID

F-9245-2013

Email

t-ichi (at) cc.tuat.ac.jp

URL

http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~ichikawa/index.html

Professional Career

2008: JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)
2010: Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2014.10 - 2018.03 : JST PRESTO Researcher
2015.06 - 2020.05 : Associate professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2020.06 -2024.09: Associate Professor(Tenured), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2024.10 -Present : Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Academic Degrees

2013　Ph.D. in Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Research Interests

bicontinuous cubic liquid crystal, gyroid minimal surface, lyotropic liquid crystal, ionic liquid

Publications

T. Ichikawa, S. Obara, S. Yamaguchi, Y. Tang, T. Kato, and X. Zeng, Design of V-shaped ionic liquid crystals: Atropisomerisation ability and formation of double-gyroid molecular assemblies, CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS (Chem. Commun.), 60, 11279 (2024). (Selected as Outside back cover)
T. Kobayashi, Y. Li, Y. Hirota, A. Maekawa, N. Nishiyama, X. Zeng, and T. Ichikawa, Gyroid-Nanostructured All-Solid Polymer Films Combining High H+ Conductivity with Low H2 Permeability, Macromolecular Rapid Communications (Macromol. Rapid Commun.), 42, 2100115 (2021). (Selected as Front Cover)
N. Uemura, T. Kobayashi, S. Yoshida, Y. Li, K. Goossens, X. Zeng, G. Watanabe, T. Ichikawa, Double Gyroid Nanostructure Formation by Aggregation-Induced Atropisomerization and Co-Assembly of Ionic Liquid-Crystalline Amphiphiles, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Angew. Chem. Inter. Ed.) 59 (22), 8445-8450 (doi.org/10.1002/anie.202000424).
K. Goossens, L. Rakers, B. Heinrich, G. Ahumada, T. Ichikawa, B. Donnio, T. J. Shin, C. W. Bielawski, F. Glorius, Anisotropic, Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal Mesophases from Persubstituted Imidazolium Pentacyanocyclopentadienide Salts. Chemistry of Materials (Chem. Mater.) 31, 9593-9603 (2019).
T. Kobayashi, Y. Li, A. Ono, X. Zeng, T. Ichikawa, Gyroid structured aqua-sheet with sub-nanometer thickness enabling 3D fast proton relay conduction. Chemical Science (Chem. Sci.) 10, 6245-6253 (2019)
D. Kuo, B. Soberats, M. Yoshio, K. R. S. Kumar, T. Ichikawa, H. Ohno, X. Zeng, G. Ungar, T. Kato, Switching of ionic conductivities in columnar liquid-crystalline anilinium salts: effects of alkyl chains, ammonium cations and counter anions on thermal properties and switching temperatures . Molecular Systems Design & Engineering (Mol. Syst. Des. Eng.) (DOI: 10.1039/C8ME00099A) 4.2.342-347
Kato, T., Uchida, J., Ichikawa, T., Soberats, B. Functional liquid-crystalline polymers and supramolecular liquid crystals. Polymer Journal (Polym. J.). 50: 149-166, JAN2018