| Light-induced crawling of crystals on a glass surface E Uchida, R Azumi, Y Norikane Nature communications 6 (1), 7310, 2015 | 250 | 2015 |
| Light-driven molecular hinge: a new molecular machine showing a light-intensity-dependent photoresponse that utilizes the trans− cis isomerization of azobenzene Y Norikane, N Tamaoki Organic letters 6 (15), 2595-2598, 2004 | 171 | 2004 |
| Photoinduced isothermal phase transitions of liquid-crystalline macrocyclic azobenzenes Y Norikane, Y Hirai, M Yoshida Chemical Communications 47 (6), 1770-1772, 2011 | 161 | 2011 |
| Photoinduced crystal-to-liquid phase transitions of azobenzene derivatives and their application in photolithography processes through a solid–liquid patterning Y Norikane, E Uchida, S Tanaka, K Fujiwara, E Koyama, R Azumi, ... Organic letters 16 (19), 5012-5015, 2014 | 152 | 2014 |
| Photochemically reversible liquefaction and solidification of multiazobenzene sugar-alcohol derivatives and application to reworkable adhesives H Akiyama, S Kanazawa, Y Okuyama, M Yoshida, H Kihara, H Nagai, ... ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6 (10), 7933-7941, 2014 | 151 | 2014 |
| Light-induced mechanical response in crosslinked liquid-crystalline polymers with photoswitchable glass transition temperatures Y Yue, Y Norikane, R Azumi, E Koyama Nature communications 9 (1), 3234, 2018 | 135 | 2018 |
| Crystal melting by light: X-ray crystal structure analysis of an azo crystal showing photoinduced crystal-melt transition M Hoshino, E Uchida, Y Norikane, R Azumi, S Nozawa, A Tomita, T Sato, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (25), 9158-9164, 2014 | 128 | 2014 |
| Novel crystal structure, cis− trans isomerization, and host property of meta-substituted macrocyclic azobenzenes with the shortest linkers Y Norikane, K Kitamoto, N Tamaoki The Journal of Organic Chemistry 68 (22), 8291-8304, 2003 | 121 | 2003 |
| Photoinduced hinge-like molecular motion: studies on xanthene-based cyclic azobenzene dimers SA Nagamani, Y Norikane, N Tamaoki The Journal of organic chemistry 70 (23), 9304-9313, 2005 | 107 | 2005 |
| Control of the orientation and photoinduced phase transitions of macrocyclic azobenzene E Uchida, K Sakaki, Y Nakamura, R Azumi, Y Hirai, H Akiyama, ... Chemistry–A European Journal 19 (51), 17391-17397, 2013 | 78 | 2013 |
| Microwave Flow: A Perspective on Reactor and Microwave Configurations and the Emergence of Tunable Single‐Mode Heating Toward Large‐Scale Applications JP Barham, E Koyama, Y Norikane, N Ohneda, T Yoshimura The Chemical Record 19 (1), 188-203, 2019 | 68 | 2019 |
| Realization of highly photoresponsive azobenzene-functionalized monolayers M Han, T Honda, D Ishikawa, E Ito, M Hara, Y Norikane Journal of Materials Chemistry 21 (12), 4696-4702, 2011 | 58 | 2011 |
| Photochemistry of 2 ‘-hydroxychalcone. one-way cis− trans photoisomerization induced by adiabatic intramolecular hydrogen atom transfer Y Norikane, H Itoh, T Arai The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 106 (11), 2766-2776, 2002 | 58 | 2002 |
| Visible‐light‐switchable azobenzenes: Molecular design, supramolecular systems, and applications M Gao, D Kwaria, Y Norikane, Y Yue Natural Sciences 3 (1), e220020, 2023 | 53 | 2023 |
| Photoinduced phase transitions in rod-shaped azobenzene with different alkyl chain length Y Norikane, E Uchida, S Tanaka, K Fujiwara, H Nagai, H Akiyama Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology 29 (1), 149-157, 2016 | 52 | 2016 |
| Multistimuli-responsive azobenzene nanofibers with aggregation-induced emission enhancement characteristics S JuneáCho Chemical Communications 50 (99), 15815-15818, 2014 | 52 | 2014 |
| [1.1](3, 3 ‘)-Azobenzenophane: Novel Crystal Structure and Cis− Trans Isomerization of Distorted Azobenzene Y Norikane, K Kitamoto, N Tamaoki Organic Letters 4 (22), 3907-3910, 2002 | 52 | 2002 |
| Azobenzene crystals swim on water surface triggered by light Y Norikane, S Tanaka, E Uchida CrystEngComm 18 (38), 7225-7228, 2016 | 48 | 2016 |
| Photochemical and Thermal cis/trans Isomerization of Cyclic and Noncyclic Azobenzene Dimers: Effect of a Cyclic Structure on Isomerization Y Norikane, N Tamaoki European journal of organic chemistry 2006 (5), 1296-1302, 2006 | 42 | 2006 |
| Synchronous assembly of chiral skeletal single-crystalline microvessels O Oki, H Yamagishi, Y Morisaki, R Inoue, K Ogawa, N Miki, Y Norikane, ... Science 377 (6606), 673-678, 2022 | 41 | 2022 |