People
Principle Investigator
Yasuhiro Ishida
Career
1996. 3. Univ. Tokyo B.D.
1998. 3. Univ. Tokyo M.D.
2001. 3. Univ. Tokyo Ph.D.
2001. 4. Univ. Tokyo Assistant Prof.
2007. 6. Univ. Tokyo Lecturer
2009. 9. RIKEN Team Leader
Publications / Honors
• Society of Polymer Science Japan Science Award (’18)
Message
May the members be blessed with health, happiness, and good results…!
Postdoctoral Researchers
Krishnachary Salikolimi
Career
2007. 5. Osmania Univ. B.D.
2010. 6. Pondicherry Univ. M.D.
2011. 11. JNCASR Research Assistant
2017. 3. Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. Ph.D.
2017. 5. RIKEN Postdoc Researcher
Research
Functional supramolecular polymers
Magnetic nanoparticles
Publications / Honors
• Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 2311.
• J. Control. Release 2015, 217, 151.
• 64th SPSJ annual meeting Best Poster Award (’15)
Xiang Wang
Career
2012. 6. Tianjin Univ. B.D.
2014.12. Tianjin Univ. M.D.
2018. 9. Univ. Tokyo. Ph.D.
2018.11. RIKEN Postdoc Researcher
Research
2D colloidal liquid crystals
Hydrogels
Structural coloration
Publications / Honors
• J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 16396.
• The SMJS Rising Star Award (’19)
• The 7th RIKEN-NCTU Symposium Best Poster Award (’19)
Message
Nothing is more exciting than discovering something new.
Zhifang Sun
Career
2010.6. Hubei Engin. Univ. B.D.
2013.6. Central South Univ. M.D.
2013.7. HEC Pharm R&D Center Researcher
2017.4. JSPS Fellow(DC2)
2018.9. Univ. Tokyo Ph.D
2019.4. JSPS Foreign Researcher
2021.9. RIKEN Postdoc Researcher
Research
Gels
Biomaterials
Publications / Honors
• J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 36, 13379
• Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 7944.
• Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 15772
Message
Be calm.
Yiyang Zhan
Career
2014. 7. Beijing Univ. Chem. Tech. B.D.
2016. 9. Univ. Tokyo. M.D.
2019. 9. Univ. Tokyo. Ph.D.
2019.10. JSPS Foreign Researcher
2021.10. RIKEN Postdoc Researcher
Research
Photonic crystals composed of inorganic nanosheets
Publications / Honors
• Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 1440.
• Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists (2020)
Message
Try hard, everything will be alright.
Technical Staffs
Kuniyo Yamada
Career
Kanagawa Inst. of Tech. M.D.
Technical Staff
Research
Organic synthesis
Noriko Horimoto
Career
1994. 3. Univ. Tokyo. B.D.
1996. 3. Univ. Tokyo. M.D.
1999. 3. Univ. Tokyo. Ph.D.
1999. 4. RIKEN SPDR
2002. 4. JSPS Postdoc Researcher
2005. 4. IMS Fellow
2007. 4. Tohoku Univ. Assistant Prof.
2014. 4. RIKEN Technical Staff
Research
Material structural analysis
Publications / Honors
• Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 1528.
Hayato Kanai
Career
2016. 3. Saitama Univ. B.D.
2018. 3. Saitama Univ. M.D.
2022. 3. Saitama Univ. Ph.D.
2018. 4. RIKEN JRA
2021.10. RIKEN Technical Staff
Research
Chiral supramolecular liquid crystals
Trainees
Jungho Lee
Career
2016. 2. Konkuk Univ. B.D.
2017. 7. POSTECH M.D.
2018. 4. RIKEN IPA
2018. 9. POSTECH Ph.D. course
Research
Photonic crystals composed of inorganic nanosheets
Publications / Honors
• Biomaterials 2019, 222, 119439.
• Kwanjeong Educational Foundation Scholarship (’20)
Message
Stay hungry, Stay foolish.
Shuxu Wang
RIKEN Junior Research Associate
Career
2018. 6. Zhejiang Univ. B.D.
2020. 9. Univ. Tokyo M.D.
2020. 10. Univ. Tokyo. Ph.D. course
2020. 10. RIKEN JRA
Research
Rod-shaped bacteriophages
Publications / Honors
• Adv. Energy Mater. 2019, 9, 1900887.
• National Scholarship, Zhejiang Univ. (’16)
Zhihao Li
Career
2019. 6. Nankai Univ. B.D.
2019. 10. Univ. Tokyo MS course
Research
Liquid crystals composed of inorganic nanosheets
Publications / Honors
• Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 2377.
• Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 5762.
• Second Prize in the University Student Chemistry Experiment Competition (’16)
• LG-Bohai Scholarship (’18)
Message
Never stop.
Office Administrator
Yoko Ono
Message
Hometown: Saitama
Ex Members（Ex members in academia are here）
FY 2022
- Koki Sano
- Colloid-based soft materials
- (Shinshu Univeersity)
- Annamalai Prathap
- Inorganic nanosheets
- (Isha Vidhya Metric Higher Secondary School)
FY 2020
- Noriyuki Uchida
- Biorelated nanomaterials
- (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
FY 2019
- Naoto Iwata
- Bottlebrush polymers
- (Tokyo University of Science)
- Masayoshi Yanagi
- Phospholipid nanosheets
- Suzhi Cai
- Luminescent aerogels
- (Fujian Normal University)
- Liming Liu
- Semiconductor colloidal quantum dots
- Hiroko Kawano
- Graphene oxides
FY 2018
- Naoki Igarashi
- Colloid-based gels
- Zhifang Sun
- Anisotropic gel actuators
- (The University of Tokyo)
- Kenny Zhi Wei Low
- Phospholipid nanosheets
- Hideko Kono
- Office administration
FY 2017
- Kento Ueno
- Filamentous phages
- Yoshihiro Yamauchi
- Bottlebrush polymers
- (National Institute of Materials Science)
- Xiaoyu Li
- Photoresponsive nanosheets
- (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- Christian Neumann
- Au nanoparticles
- Rumi Iino
- Office administration
FY 2016
- Takenori Tose
- Supramolecular liquid crystals
- Joonil Cho
- Helical supramolecular nanomaterials
FY 2015
- Chunji Li
- Supramolecular liquid crystals
- Wei Zhang
- Supramolecular gels
- (South China University of Technology)
- Qiaochu Li
- NMR alignment media
FY 2014
- Yuka Onuma
- Mechanically anisotropic gels
- Youn Soo Kim
- Anisotropic gel actuators
- (Pohang Institute of Science and Technology)
- Changhua Li
- Anisotropically swelling gels
- (Nankai University)
- Mingjie Liu
- Mechanically anisotropic gels
- (Beihang University)
FY 2013
- Linlin Wu
- Anisotropically conducting gels
- (Nanjing Tech. University)
- Masataka Ohtani
- Carbon nanomaterials
- (Kochi University of Technology)
- Reika Luo
- Office administration
FY 2012
- Jeongho Lee
- Carbon nanotubes
- Ryoich Matsui
- Phospholipid nanosheets
- Shingo Tamesue
- Nanocomposite hydrogels
- (Utsunomiya University)
- Laura Maggini
- Carbon nanotubes
- (University of Vienna)
- Mika Hikawa
- Office administration
FY 2011
- Achalkumar A. Sudhakar
- Supramolecular polymers
- (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
- Vakayil K. Praveen
- Supramolecular polymers
- (CSIR-NIIST)
- Qigang Wang
- Nanocomposite hydrogels
- (Tongji University)
- Mayumi Nagata
- Office administration
Ex Members in Academia
