| Low-birefringent, chiral banana phase below calamitic nematic and/or smectic C phases in oxadiazole derivatives S Kang, Y Saito, N Watanabe, M Tokita, Y Takanishi, H Takezoe, ... The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110 (11), 5205-5214, 2006 | 106 | 2006 |
| Solid-State 13C NMR Study of Chiral Twisted Conformation Attributable to Chirality in Smectic Phases of Achiral Banana-Shaped Molecules H Kurosu, M Kawasaki, M Hirose, M Yamada, S Kang, J Thisayukta, ... The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 108 (21), 4674-4678, 2004 | 85 | 2004 |
| Synthesis of diphenyl-diacetylene-based nematic liquid crystals and their high birefringence properties Y Arakawa, S Nakajima, R Ishige, M Uchimura, S Kang, G Konishi, ... Journal of Materials Chemistry 22 (17), 8394-8398, 2012 | 75 | 2012 |
| Facile fabrication of transparent and conductive nanowire networks by wet chemical etching with an electrospun nanofiber mask template K Azuma, K Sakajiri, H Matsumoto, S Kang, J Watanabe, M Tokita Materials Letters 115, 187-189, 2014 | 69 | 2014 |
| The design of liquid crystalline bistolane-based materials with extremely high birefringence Y Arakawa, S Kang, H Tsuji, J Watanabe, G Konishi RSC advances 6 (95), 92845-92851, 2016 | 67 | 2016 |
| Development of novel bistolane-based liquid crystalline molecules with an alkylsulfanyl group for highly birefringent materials Y Arakawa, S Kang, H Tsuji, J Watanabe, G Konishi RSC advances 6 (20), 16568-16574, 2016 | 56 | 2016 |
| Intrinsic chirality in a bent-core mesogen induced by extrinsic chiral structures SW Choi, S Kang, Y Takanishi, K Ishikawa, J Watanabe, H Takezoe Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 45 (39), 6503-6506, 2006 | 55 | 2006 |
| Assembly of thioether-containing rod-like liquid crystalline materials assisted by hydrogen-bonding terminal carboxyl groups Y Arakawa, S Kang, J Watanabe, G Konishi Rsc Advances 5 (11), 8056-8062, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| Formation of banana phases in bent-shaped molecules with unusual bent angles as low as 60 SK Lee, X Li, S Kang, M Tokita, J Watanabe Journal of Materials Chemistry 19 (26), 4517-4522, 2009 | 45 | 2009 |
| Notable formation of a cubic phase from small bent-angle molecules based on the 1, 7-naphthalene central core and alkylthio tails S Kang, M Harada, X Li, M Tokita, J Watanabe Soft Matter 8 (6), 1916-1922, 2012 | 44 | 2012 |
| Diphenyltriacetylenes: Novel nematic liquid crystal materials and analysis of their nematic phase-transition and birefringence behaviours Y Arakawa, S Kang, S Nakajima, K Sakajiri, Y Cho, S Kawauchi, ... Journal of Materials Chemistry C 1 (48), 8094-8102, 2013 | 38 | 2013 |
| Synthesis of new wide nematic diaryl-diacetylenes containing thiophene-based heteromonocyclic and heterobicyclic structures, and their birefringence properties Y Arakawa, S Kang, S Nakajima, K Sakajiri, S Kawauchi, J Watanabe, ... Liquid Crystals 41 (5), 642-651, 2014 | 36 | 2014 |
| Well-ordered lamellar microphase-separated morphology of an ABA triblock copolymer containing a main-chain liquid crystalline polyester as the middle segment R Ishige, T Ishii, M Tokita, M Koga, S Kang, J Watanabe Macromolecules 44 (12), 4586-4588, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| Smectic mesophase behavior of dimeric compounds showing antiferroelectricity, frustration and chirality T Izumi, S Kang, T Niori, Y Takanishi, H Takezoe, J Watanabe Japanese journal of applied physics 45 (3R), 1506, 2006 | 35 | 2006 |
| Unusual formation of switchable hexagonal columnar phase by bent-shaped molecules with low bent-angle naphthalene central core and alkylthio tail X Li, S Kang, SK Lee, M Tokita, J Watanabe Japanese journal of applied physics 49 (12R), 121701, 2010 | 34 | 2010 |
| Liquid crystal display panel having first and second sets of pixel and common electrodes on respectively opposed facing substrates with blue phase liquid crystals in which an … H You, SH Joo, SM Kang, HW Do, H Kim, H Moon US Patent 7,830,485, 2010 | 34 | 2010 |
| Design of an extremely high birefringence nematic liquid crystal based on a dinaphthyl-diacetylene mesogen Y Arakawa, S Nakajima, S Kang, M Shigeta, G Konishi, J Watanabe Journal of Materials Chemistry 22 (28), 13908-13910, 2012 | 33 | 2012 |
| Thermotropic Behavior of Syndiotactic Polymethylenes with ω-[4-(trans-4-Pentylcyclohexyl)phenoxy]alkyloxycarbonyl Side Chains N Koshimizu, Y Aizawa, K Sakajiri, K Shikinaka, K Shigehara, S Kang, ... Macromolecules 48 (11), 3653-3661, 2015 | 32 | 2015 |
| Intrinsic chiral domains enantioselectively segregated from twisted nematic cells of bent‐core mesogens SW Choi, S Kang, Y Takanishi, K Ishikawa, J Watanabe, H Takezoe Chirality: The Pharmacological, Biological, and Chemical Consequences of …, 2007 | 32 | 2007 |
| Hybrid hydrogels composed of regularly assembled filamentous viruses and gold nanoparticles T Sawada, S Kang, J Watanabe, H Mihara, T Serizawa ACS Macro Letters 3 (4), 341-345, 2014 | 31 | 2014 |
