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List of Selected Publications

1. A Planarized Triphenylborane Mesogen: Discotic Liquid Crystals with Ambipolar Charge Carrier Transport Properties
   Tomokatsu Kushida, Ayumi Shuto, Masafumi Yoshio, Takashi Kato, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 6922-6925 (2015).
2. Zwitterionic Liquid Crystals as 1D and 3D Lithium Ion Transport Media
   Bartolome Soberats, Masafumi Yoshio, Takahiro Ichikawa, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato
   J. Mater. Chem. A, 3, 11232-11238 (2015).
3. Liquid-Crystalline Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries: Ordered Assemblies of a Mesogen-Contaning Carbonate and a Lithium Salt
   Junji Sakuda, Eiji Hosono, Masafumi Yoshio, Takahiro Ichikawa, Takuro Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Ohno, Haoshen Zhou, and Takashi Kato, Adv. Funct. Mater., 25, 1206-1212 (2015).
4. Columnar Nanostructured Polymer Films Containing Ionic Liquids in Supramolecular One-Dimensional Nanochannels
   Akihiro Yamashita, Masafumi Yoshio, Siya Shimizu, Takahiro Ichikawa, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato, J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem., 53, 366-371 (2015).
5. Nanostructured Two-Component Liquid-Crystalline Electrolytes for High Temperature Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
   Daniel Hogberg, Bartolome Soberats, Satoshi Uchida, Masafumi Yoshio, Lars Kloo, Hiroshi Segawa, and Takashi Kato, Chem. Mater., 26, 6496-6502 (2014).
6. Macroscopic Photocontrol of Ion-Transporting Pathways of a Nanostructured Imidazolium-Based Photoresponsive Liquid Crystal
   Bartolome Soberats, Emi Uchida, Masafumi Yoshio, Junko Kagimoto, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 9552-9555 (2014).
7. 3D Anhydrous Proton Transporting Nanochannels Formed by Self-Assembly of Liquid Crystals Composed of a Sulfobetaine and a Sulfonic Acid
   Bartolome Soberats, Masafumi Yoshio, Takahiro Ichikawa, Satomi Taguchi, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 15286-15289 (2013).
8. Bisphenylsulfone-Based Molecular Assemblies: Polar Columnar Liquid Crystals Aligned in Electric Fields and Fibrous Aggregates in Organic Solvents
   Masafumi Yoshio, Reiku Konishi, Takeshi Sakamoto, and Takashi Kato, New J. Chem., 37, 143-147 (2013).
9. Induction of Thermotropic Bicontinuous Cubic Phases in Liquid-Crystalline Ammonium and Phosphonium Salts
   Takahiro Ichikawa, Masafumi Yoshio, Atsushi Hamasaki, Satomi Taguchi, Feng Liu, Xiang-bing Zeng, Goran Ungar, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 2634-2643 (2012).
10. Self-Assembled Amphiphilic Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Oligothiophenes for Field-Effect Transistors and Solar Cells
    Jianguo Mei, Kenneth R. Graham, Romain Stalder, Masafumi Yoshio, Colin Nuckolls, Bernard Kippelen, Ronald K. Castellano, and John R. Reynolds, Chem. Mater., 23, 2285-2288 (2011)
11. 3D Interconnected Ionic Nano-Channels Formed in Polymer Films: Self-Organization and Polymerization of Thermotropic Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystals
    Takahiro Ichikawa, Masafumi Yoshio, Atsushi Hamasaki, Junko Kagimoto, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 2163 (2011).
12. Functional Soft Materials: Nanostructured Liquid Crystals and Self-Assembled Fibrous Aggregates
    Takashi Kato, Yoshiko Shoji, Masafumi Yoshio, Shogo Yamane, and Takuma Yasuda, J. Synth. Org. Chem., Jpn., 68, 1169 (2010).
13. Alignment of Photoconductive Self-Assembled Fibers Composed of ƒÎ-Conjugated Molecules under Electric Fields
    Yoshiko Shoji, Masafumi Yoshio, Takuma Yasuda, Masahiro Funahashi, and Takashi Kato, J. Mater. Chem., 20, 173 (2010).
14. Self-Assembly of Functional Columanr Liquid Crystals
    Takashi Kato, Takuma Yasuda, Yuko Kamikawa, and Masafumi Yoshio, Chem. Commun., 729 (2009).
15. Electric-Field-Assisted Alignment of Self-Assembled Fibers Composed of Hydrogen-Bonded Molecules Having Laterally Fluorinated Mesogens
    Masafumi Yoshio, Yoshiko Shoji, Yusuke Tochigi, Yohei Nishikawa, and T. Kato, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 6763 (2009).
16. Electric-Field-Responsive Lithium-Ion Conductors of Propylenecarbonate-Based Columnar Liquid Crystals
    Harutoki Shimura, Masafumi Yoshio, Atsushi Hamasaki, Tomohiro Mukai, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato, Adv. Mater., 21, 1591 (2009).
17. A Columnar Liquid-Crystalline Shape-Persistent Macrocycle Having a Nanosegregated Structure
    Harutoki Shimura, Masafumi Yoshio, and Takashi Kato, Org. Biomol. Chem., 7, 3205 (2009).
18. Induction of Columnar and Smectic Phases for Spiropyran Derivatives: Effects of Acidichromism and Photochromism
    Boon-Hooi Tan, Masafumi Yoshio, and Takashi Kato, Chem. Asian J., 3, 534 (2008).
19. Noncovalent Approach to One-Dimensional Ion Conductors: Enhancement of Ionic Conductivities in Nanostructured Columnar Liquid Crystals
    Harutoki Shimura, Masafumi Yoshio, Koji Hoshino, Tomohiro Mukai, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 1759 (2008).
20. Self-Organization of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids Exhibiting Liquid-Crystalline Bicontinuous Cubic Phases: Formation of the Network of Nano-Ion Channels
    Takahiro Ichikawa, Masafumi Yoshio, Atsushi Hamasaki, Tomohiro Mukai, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 10662 (2007).
21. One-Dimensional Ion-Conductive Polymer Films: Alignment and Fixation of Ionic Channels Formed by Self-Organization of Polymerizable Columnar Liquid Crystals
    Masafumi Yoshio, Takayoshi Kagata, Koji Hoshino, Tomohiro Mukai, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 5570 (2006).
22. One-Dimensional Ion Transport in Self-Organized Columnar Ionic Liquids
    Masafumi Yoshio, Tomohiro Mukai, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 994 (2004).
23. Layered Ionic Liquids: Anisotropic Ion Conduction in New Self-Organized Liquid-Crystalline Materials
    Masafumi Yoshio, Tomohiro Mukai, Kiyoshi Kanie, Masahiro Yoshizawa, Hiroyuki Ohno, and Takashi Kato, Adv. Mater., 14, 351 (2002).