| Mechanically induced luminescence changes in molecular assemblies Y Sagara, T Kato Nature chemistry 1 (8), 605-610, 2009 | 1236 | 2009 |
| Mechanoresponsive luminescent molecular assemblies: an emerging class of materials Y Sagara, S Yamane, M Mitani, C Weder, T Kato Advanced Materials 28 (6), 1073-1095, 2016 | 838 | 2016 |
| Material design for piezochromic luminescence: hydrogen-bond-directed assemblies of a pyrene derivative Y Sagara, T Mutai, I Yoshikawa, K Araki Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (6), 1520-1521, 2007 | 637 | 2007 |
| Stimuli‐responsive luminescent liquid crystals: change of photoluminescent colors triggered by a shear‐induced phase transition Y Sagara, T Kato Angewandte Chemie 120 (28), 5253-5256, 2008 | 454 | 2008 |
| Brightly tricolored mechanochromic luminescence from a single‐luminophore liquid crystal: reversible writing and erasing of images Y Sagara, T Kato Angewandte Chemie 123 (39), 9294-9298, 2011 | 389 | 2011 |
| Rotaxanes as mechanochromic fluorescent force transducers in polymers Y Sagara, M Karman, E Verde-Sesto, K Matsuo, Y Kim, N Tamaoki, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 (5), 1584-1587, 2018 | 363 | 2018 |
| A stimuli‐responsive, photoluminescent, anthracene‐based liquid crystal: emission color determined by thermal and mechanical processes Y Sagara, S Yamane, T Mutai, K Araki, T Kato Advanced Functional Materials 19 (12), 1869-1875, 2009 | 266 | 2009 |
| Mechano-and thermoresponsive photoluminescent supramolecular polymer A Lavrenova, DWR Balkenende, Y Sagara, S Schrettl, YC Simon, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 139 (12), 4302-4305, 2017 | 216 | 2017 |
| Rotaxane-based mechanophores enable polymers with mechanically switchable white photoluminescence Y Sagara, M Karman, A Seki, M Pannipara, N Tamaoki, C Weder ACS central science 5 (5), 874-881, 2019 | 136 | 2019 |
| Piezochromic luminescence of amide and ester derivatives of tetraphenylpyrene—role of amide hydrogen bonds in sensitive piezochromic response M Sase, S Yamaguchi, Y Sagara, I Yoshikawa, T Mutai, K Araki Journal of Materials Chemistry 21 (23), 8347-8354, 2011 | 128 | 2011 |
| Temperature-dependent mechanochromic behavior of mechanoresponsive luminescent compounds Y Sagara, K Kubo, T Nakamura, N Tamaoki, C Weder Chemistry of Materials 29 (3), 1273-1278, 2017 | 113 | 2017 |
| Mechanically responsive luminescent polymers based on supramolecular cyclophane mechanophores Y Sagara, H Traeger, J Li, Y Okado, S Schrettl, N Tamaoki, C Weder Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (14), 5519-5525, 2021 | 100 | 2021 |
| Mechanochromic luminescent liquid crystals based on a bianthryl moiety S Yamane, Y Sagara, T Mutai, K Araki, T Kato Journal of Materials Chemistry C 1 (15), 2648-2656, 2013 | 94 | 2013 |
| Rotaxane-based dual function mechanophores exhibiting reversible and irreversible responses T Muramatsu, Y Okado, H Traeger, S Schrettl, N Tamaoki, C Weder, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (26), 9884-9892, 2021 | 84 | 2021 |
| Covalent attachment of mechanoresponsive luminescent micelles to glasses and polymers in aqueous conditions Y Sagara, T Komatsu, T Ueno, K Hanaoka, T Kato, T Nagano Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (11), 4273-4280, 2014 | 84 | 2014 |
| A Water‐Soluble Mechanochromic Luminescent Pyrene Derivative Exhibiting Recovery of the Initial Photoluminescence Color in a High‐Humidity Environment Y Sagara, T Komatsu, T Ueno, K Hanaoka, T Kato, T Nagano Advanced Functional Materials 23 (42), 5277-5284, 2013 | 82 | 2013 |
| Folded perylene diimide loops as mechanoresponsive motifs H Traeger, Y Sagara, DJ Kiebala, S Schrettl, C Weder Angewandte Chemie 133 (29), 16327-16335, 2021 | 80 | 2021 |
| A Thermo‐ and Mechanoresponsive Cyano‐Substituted Oligo(p‐phenylene vinylene) Derivative with Five Emissive States Y Sagara, A Lavrenova, A Crochet, YC Simon, KM Fromm, C Weder Chemistry–A European Journal 22 (13), 4374-4378, 2016 | 78 | 2016 |
| Mechanoresponsive behavior of a polymer-embedded red-light emitting rotaxane mechanophore T Muramatsu, Y Sagara, H Traeger, N Tamaoki, C Weder ACS applied materials & interfaces 11 (27), 24571-24576, 2019 | 57 | 2019 |
| Uniaxially Parallel Alignment of a Smectic A Liquid-Crystalline Rod− Coil Molecule and Its Lithium Salt Complexes Using Rubbed Polyimides Y Iinuma, K Kishimoto, Y Sagara, M Yoshio, T Mukai, I Kobayashi, H Ohno, ... Macromolecules 40 (14), 4874-4878, 2007 | 53 | 2007 |