Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University
Recent Publications
107. P. K. Hashim,* Kaveri Prasad, Nusaiba Madappuram Cheruthu, Sen Regi Abraham, Ajmal Koya Pulikkal, Pavel Sidorov, Wataru Setaka, Masaki Horie, “Solvent-Dependent Modulation of Thermal Half-Lives in Azothiadiazole Photoswitches”,
ChemPhotoChem 2026, 10:e70211.
106. Ishii, Haruki, Tada, Kohei, Ichikawa, Ryo, Meng-Che Tsai, Kuei-Cheng Chen, Ryunosuke Sagehashi, Fumi Nishino, Keisuke Fukutani, Rikuya Hirota, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Satoshi Kera, Masaki Horie, Toyo Kazu Yamada,* “Structurally Robust Quaterphenyl-Dicarbonitrile 2D MOF Nanopores on Cu(111) for Cobalt Spin-Coordination Motifs”,
Nanoscale 2026, 18, 10071–10084.
105. Toyo Kazu Yamada,* Tomoya Kashiwagi, Masaki Horie, “Thermally induced evolution of on-surface–synthesized crown ether polymers on Cu(111): transition from semiconductor chains to metallic nanoflakes”,
Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 2026, 65, 05SP24-1–6.
104. Kuan-Hung Huang, Hong-Kai Chang, Meng-Che Tsai, Ting-Wei Liao, You-Ting Chen, Chu-Liang Hsieh, Pei-Lin Chen, Kai-Jen Chen,* Masaki Horie,* “Crystalline Pseudorotaxane Enabling Dual-Wavelength Photothermal Mechanical Actuation”,
J. Mater. Chem. C 2025, 13, 17120-17130.
103. Hong-Kai Chang, Chia-Chi Huang, Pin-Rong Wu, Kun-Han Lin,* Masaki Horie,* “Linear and cyclic multi-dithienylethene molecules: Synthesis, photochromism, photothermal conversion, and computational study”, Mater. Today Chem. 2025, 45, 102663.
102. Khanh Do Gia Huynh, Yu-Ting Huang, Meng-Che Tsai, Islam M. A. Mekhemer, Jayachandran Jayakumar, Yu-Tung Lin, Chun-Hao Li, Swatilekha Pratihar, Tse-Fu Huanga, Dung Chau Kim Hoang, Shang-Da Yang, Ho-Hsiu Chou,* Masaki Horie,* “Boosting Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Binary Mixture of Hydrophilic-Hydrophobic Conjugated Polymer Dots with Variable Saponification Degrees and Molecular Weights”,
Chem. Eng. J. 2025, 509, 161082.
101. Naoki Noda, Maho Umeda, Kentaro Okano, Kuei-Cheng Chen, Masaki Horie, Atsunori Mori,* “The use of Ni(cod)(dq) (COD: 1,5-cyclooctadiene; DQ: duroqui-none) for the dehalogenative coupling polycondensation to π-conjugated polyarylenes”,
Org. Process. Res. Dev. 2025, 29, 932-937.
100. Ukyo Ogi, Shuichi Ikeda, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Atsunori Mori,* “Borylative desymmetrization of multifunctional haloarenes assisted by sodium dispersion”,
Chem. Eur. J. 2025, e202500355.
99. Fumi Nishino, Peter Krüger, Chi-Hsien Wang, Ryohei Nemoto, Yu-Hsin Chang, Takuya Hosokai, Yuri Hasegawa, Keisuke Fukutani, Satoshi Kera, Masaki Horie*, Toyo Kazu Yamada,* “Reversible Sliding Motion by Hole-Injection in Ammonium-Linked Ferrocene, Electronically Decoupled from Noble Metal Substrate by Crown-Ether Template Layer”,
Small 2025, 212408217. (Selected as an Inside Cover)
98. Mizuho Yamagishi, Sonoka Yamamoto, Kentaro Okano, Yasuko Koshiba, Kenji Ishida, Shohei Horike, Masaki Horie, Atsunori Mori,* “Thin-film fabrication of polythiophene block copolymer via friction transfer”,
Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2024, doi.org/10.1093/bulcsj/uoae095.
97. Meng-Che Tsai, Kuo-Lung Wang, Satoshi Wada, Chu-Liang Hsieh, Liang-Chieh Tseng, Masaki Horie,* Takafumi Sassa* “Enhanced Photorefractive Performance by Controlling Ion-Assisted Charge Injection and Accumulation with Random Biphenyl Co-Polymerized Poly(Carbazolyl-Amine)”,
Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 2409659.
96. Tomohito Ide,* Wei-Ci Huang, Masaki Horie,* “Tris-Azo Triangular Paraphenylenes: Synthesis and Reversible Interconversion into Radial π-Conjugated Macrocycles”,
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 10246–10250.
95. Rikuya Tanaka, Seiha Yamaoka, Shuichi Ikeda, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Hideto Minami, Nozomu Suzuki, Atsunori Mori,* “High-Intensity Circular Dichroism of Head-to-tail Regioregular Poly(1,4-phenylene)s in the Aggregated State”,
Chem. Eur. J. 2024, e202400706.
94. Toyo Kazu Yamada,* Ryohei Nemoto, Haruki Ishii, Fumi Nishino, Yu-Hsin Chang, Chi-Hsien Wang, Peter Krüger, Masaki Horie, “Designing 2D stripe winding network through crown-ether intermediate Ullmann coupling on Cu(111) surface”,
Nanoscale Horiz. 2024, 9, 718-730. (Selected as a Cover Article)
93. Atsunori Mori,* Aruto Maruka, Kohei Tabuchi, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, “Double winding vine-shaped biphenyl with molecular asymmetry. Synthesis, structure, and properties”,
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2024, e202400192.
92. Aika Kuwayama, Sonoka Yamamoto, Yuma Sakagami, Mizuho Yamagishi, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Masahiro Funahashi, Atsunori Mori,* “Synthesis and properties of polythiophenes bearing alkylsulfonic acid esters at the side chain”,
Polym. Chem., 2024, 15, 1635–1641.
91. Naoki Noda, Seiha Yamaoka, Ukyo Ogi, Masaki Horie, Kentaro Okano, and Atsunori Mori,* “Ni0(cod)(dq) (COD: 1,5-cycloctadiene; DQ: duroquinone) complex as a catalyst precursor for oligothiophene and polythiophene”,
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, 22, 2574–2579.
90. Toyo Kazu Yamada,* Ryohei Nemoto, Fumi Nishino, Takuya Hosokai, Chi-Hsien Wang, Masaki Horie, Yuri Hasegawa, Satoshi Kera, Peter Krüger, “On-Surface Growth of Transition-Metal Cobalt Nanoclusters Using 2D Crown-Ether Array”,
J. Mater. Chem. C 2024, 12, 874-883. (Selected as an Inside Cover)
89. Chi-Hsien Wang, Yi-Chia Lin, Surojit Bhunia, Yuanning Feng, Pramita Kundu, Charlotte L. Stern, Pei-Lin Chen, J. Fraser Stoddart, Masaki Horie,* “Photosalience and Thermal Phase Transitions of Azobenzene- and Crown Ether-Based Complexes in Polymorphic Crystals”,
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 21378–21386.
88. Chi-Hsien Wang, Hong-Kai Chang, Kai-Jen Chen, Dao-Hong Huang, Chiung-Ju Chang, Kuan-Hung Huang, Yao-De Chiu, Masaki Horie,* “Facile photoresponsive actuators based on ferrocene-doped poly(butyl methacrylate)”,
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 38846–38856.
87. Kohei Hosokawa, Kohei Tabuchi, Yuki Nakanishi, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Atsunori Mori,* “Studies on the stereochemical behaviors of a winding vine-shaped molecular wire of a bithiophene dimer with molecular asymmetry”,
Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 2023, 8, 1252–1256.
86. Seiha Yamaoka, Hiroyuki Fukuoka, Naoki Noda, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Atsunori Mori,* “Nickel(II) Thiocyanate Complex as a Catalyst for Cross-Coupling Reactions”,
85. Sonoka Yamamoto, Ryutaro Yamashita, Chihiro Kubota, Kentaro Okano, Masatoshi Kitamura, Masahiro Funahashi, Syu-Cheng Ye, Yung-Tin Pan, Masaki Horie, Takuji Shintani, Hironori Murata, Hideto Matsuyama, Atsunori Mori*, “Orthogonal electric and ionic conductivities in the thin film of a thiophene–thiophene block copolymer”,
J. Mater. Chem. C 2023, 11, 2484–2493.
84. Yuta Ihara, Hiroshi Yamagishi, Chen Lin, Cang-He Jhu, Meng-Che Tsai, Masaki Horie,* Yohei Yamamoto*, “Hydrothermal cross-linking of poly(fluorenylamine) with styryl side chains toward insoluble fluorescent micro-particles”,
83. Atsunori Mori*, Tomoki Inoue, Aika Kuwayama, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, “Generation of sodium–thiophene species with metal amide-free approach toward polythiophene synthesis by cross-coupling polymerization”,
Asian J. Org. Chem. 2022, 11, e202200253.
82. Chihiro Kubota, Masaki Kashimoto, Ryutaro Yamashita, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Masahiro Funahashi, Takuya Matsumoto, Takashi Nishino, Atsunori Mori*, “Studies on the properties of poly(3-alkylthiophene) copolymerized by a small amount of thiophene derivative bearing a cyclic siloxane moiety at the side chain”,
Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2022, 95, 882–888.
81. Pin-Rong Wu, Chi-Hsien Wang, Yi-Wen Chen, Yen-Jen Lin, Tomohito Ide, Yoshitaka Tsuchido, Yoshihisa Sei, Masaki Horie*, “Cyclic and Linear Dithienyl-Anthryl Vinylenes: Synthesis, X-ray Crystallography, Spectroscopic Properties, and Photoinduced Mechanical Motions”,
J. Mater. Chem. C 2022, 10, 4306–4316.
80. Chi-Hsien Wang, Masaki Horie*, “Photo and thermal responsive pseudorotaxane crystals comprising ferrocene-containing ammonium salts and crown ethers”, A special issue dedicated to Sir Fraser Stoddart on the occasion of his 80th birthday,
Mater. Today Chem. 2022, 24, 100852.
79. Yuji Suzaki, Tomoko Abe, Asami Takei, Yugo Fukuchi, Take-aki Koizumi, Kohtaro Osakada*, Masaki Horie, “Ferrocene-containing Pseudorotaxanes in Crystals: Aromatic Interactions with Hammett Correlation”,
78. Mohamed Elsayed, Mohamed Abdellah, Jayachandran Jayakumar, Yi-Hao Hung, Li-Yu Ting, Ahmed M. Elewa, Chih-Li Chang, Wei-Cheng Lin, Kuo-Lung Wang, Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiez, Hsiao-Wen Hung, Masaki Horie, Ho-Hsiu Chou*, “Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Conjugated Polymer Dots as Binary Photocatalysts for Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Through Förster Resonance Energy Transfer”,
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 56554–56565.
77. Tomoki Inoue, Sonoka Yamamoto, Yuma Sakagami, Masaki Horie, Kentaro Okano, Atsunori Mori*, “Cross-coupling polymerization of organosodium for polythiophene synthesis”,
Organometallics 2021, 40, 3506–3510.
76. Yen-Jen Lin, Masaki Horie*, “Dithienylethene-containing cyclic and linear conjugated molecules: synthesis, photochromism, and photoluminescence”,
Dyes Pigment. 2021, 195, 109700.
75. Chi-Hsien Wang, Kai-Jen Chen, Tsung-Huan Wu, Hung-Kai Chang, Yoshitaka Tsuchido, Yoshihisa Sei, Pei-Lin Chen, Masaki Horie*, “Ring rotation of ferrocene in interlocked molecules in single crystals”,
Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 3871–3875 (Selected as a front cover article).
74. Yuji Suzaki, Yugo Fukuchi, Hiroko Tadami, Take-aki Koizumi, Kohtaro Osakada,* Tomohito Ide, Masaki Horie, Norihisa Hoshino, Tomoyuki Akutagawa, “Further Investigations of Crystal-to-Crystal Phase Transition of a [2]Pseudorotaxane Composed of Ferrocene-terminated Dialkylammonium and Dibenzo[24]crown-8-ether”,
CrystEngComm 2021, 23, 5944-5952.
73. Masayasu Hayashi, Jiaqiang Cheng, Kohei Hosokawa, Takumi Hatta, Chi-Hsien Wang, Masaki Horie, Kentaro Okano, Atsunori Mori*, “Synthesis and racemization studies of winding vine-shaped biphenyl derivatives”,
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2021, 3465–3471.
72. Sonoka Yamamoto, Yushin Shibuya, Toyoko Suzuki, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Atsunori Mori*, “One-shot Deprotonative Metalation/Transmetalation/Polymerization of Halothiophenes Catalyzed by Nickel Complex for Polythiophene Synthesis”,
Synthesis 2021, 53, 3081–3084.
71. Chihiro Kubota, Daisuke Morita, Keisuke Fujita, Sonoka Yamamoto, Toyoko Suzuki, Kentaro Okano, Masahiro Funahashi, Masaki Horie, Atsunori Mori*, “Thermally-Induced Doping of The Regioregular Polythiophene Bearing Alkylene Spacered Benzene Sulfonate Group at The Side Chain”,
Heterocycles 2021, 103, 249–257.
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