Takashi Nakanishi

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Employment:

2016-Current     Group Leader, Frontier Molecules Group, NIMS

2014-2016         Independent Scientist, NIMS

2010-2014         Principal Researcher, NIMS

2007-2010         Senior Researcher, NIMS

2004-2007         Researcher, NIMS

2001-2004         Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD)

1998-2001         Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1)

Research and Visiting Career:

2019-2020         Visiting Professor, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan

2018-Current     Visiting Professor, Division of Soft Matter, Hokkaido University, Japan

2017-2020         Visiting Professor, Shenzhen University, China

2014-2016         Visiting Associate Professor, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan

2011-2015         Visiting Professor, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

2007-2011         PRESTO Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan

2007-2010         Visiting Group Leader, Max Planck Institute Colloids and Interfaces, Germany

2002-2003         JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford University, UK

2001-2002         JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher, Houston University, USA

Education:

Doctor of Engineering (Chemistry), 2000　Nagasaki University (Supervisor: Prof. Naotoshi Nakashima)

Master of Engineering, Applied Chemistry, 1998　 Nagasaki University

Bachelor of Engineering, Applied Chemistry, 1996　 Nagasaki University

Awards: Outstanding Associate Editor for Responsive Materials (2023); Young Scientist Award in the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (2012); The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists (2009)

Research Interests: materials chemistry, liquid chemistry, self-assembly, soft materials, polymer materials

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8744-782X; H-index: 52; Peer-reviewed Papers: 139; Researcher ID: B-7276-2011

Relevant Publications:

• A. Tateyama, K. Nagura, M. Yamanaka, T. Nakanishi, “Alkyl–π Functional Molecular Gels: Control of Elastic Modulus and Improvement of Electret Performance”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202402874.
• R. K. Gupta, M. Yoshida, A. Saeki, Z. Guo, T. Nakanishi, “Alkyl-C₆₀ liquid electrets as deformable mechanoelectric generators”, Mater. Horiz., 2023, 10, 3458–3466.
• A. Tateyama, T. Nakanishi, “Responsive molecular liquid materials”, Responsive Mater., 2023, 1, e20230001.
• T. Machida, T. Nakanishi, et al., “Alkyl-π functional molecular liquids towards soft electronics”, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 10661-10667.
• Z. Guo, T. Nakanishi, “Consistent red luminescence in π-conjugated polymers with tunable elastic moduli over five orders of magnitude”, Mater. Horiz., 2020, 7, 1421-1426.
• A. Ghosh, T. Nakanishi, et al., “Soft chromophore featured liquid porphyrins and their utilization toward liquid electret applications”, Nature Commun., 2019, 10, 4210.
• A. Shinohara, T. Nakanishi, et al., “Viscoelastic Conjugated Polymer Fluids”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 9581-9585.
• F. Lu, E. A. Neal, T. Nakanishi, “Self-Assembled and Nonassembled Alkylated-Fullerene Materials”, Acc. Chem. Res., 2019, 52, 1834-1843.
• M. J. Hollamby, T. Nakanishi, et al., “Directed assembly of optoelectronically active alkyl-π-conjugated molecules by adding n-alkanes or π-conjugated species”, Nature Chem., 2014, 6, 690-696.
• S. S. Babu, T. Nakanishi, et al., “Nonvolatile liquid anthracenes for facile full-colour luminescence tuning at single blue-light excitation”, Nature Commun., 2013, 4, 1969.

Editorial Board for Scientific Journals: Responsive Mater. (Wiley-VCH); Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. (RSC)