Nobuo Kimizuka (0000-0001-8527-151X)

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2010 Director, Center for Molecular Systems (CMS), Kyushu University
2009 Distinguished Professor, Kyushu University
2007-2012 Program Leader, Kyushu University Global COE “Science for Future
Molecular Systems”, The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology, Japan.
2000-2009 Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University
1992-2000 Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University
1985-1992 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University

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1990-1991 Prof. Helmut Ringsdorf’s group, Department of Organic Chemistry,
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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Kyushu University: Fukuoka, JP

2009 to present | Distinguished Professor

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Nobuo Kimizuka

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Kyushu University: Fukuoka, JP

Kyushu University: Fukuoka, JP

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Japan Science and Technology Agency: Tokyo, JP

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST): Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP

Kyushu University: Fukuoka, JP

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS): Tokyo, JP

Kyushu University: Fukuoka, JP

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Tokyo, JP

Society of Polymer Science, Japan: Tokyo, JP

The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ): Tokyo, JP

Society of Polymer Science, Japan: Tokyo, JP

The Kao Foundation of Arts and Sciences: Tokyo, JP

Society of Polymer Science, Japan: Tokyo, JP

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Molecular Systems Chemistry for the Efficient Utilization of Photon Energy

Works (50 of 110)

Electric Field-Driven Long-Range Order and Enhanced Polarization Switching in High-Dipole Ionic Liquids

An aqueous vanadium complex for the superior electrolyte of a thermo-electrochemical cell

Photon upconversion materials collection

Radiative pumping in a strongly coupled microcavity filled with a neat molecular film showing excimer emission

Radical qubits photo-generated in acene-based metal–organic frameworks

Visible-to-UV photon upconversion in metal-free molecular aggregates based on glassy diphenylnaphthalene derivatives

In Vivo Optogenetics Based on Heavy Metal‐Free Photon Upconversion Nanoparticles

Innentitelbild: Living Hybrid Exciton Materials: Enhanced Fluorescence and Chiroptical Properties in Living Supramolecular Polymers with Strong Frenkel/Charge‐Transfer Exciton Coupling (Angew. Chem. 48/2024)

Inside Cover: Living Hybrid Exciton Materials: Enhanced Fluorescence and Chiroptical Properties in Living Supramolecular Polymers with Strong Frenkel/Charge‐Transfer Exciton Coupling (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48/2024)

Living Hybrid Exciton Materials: Enhanced Fluorescence and Chiroptical Properties in Living Supramolecular Polymers with Strong Frenkel/Charge‐Transfer Exciton Coupling

Living Hybrid Exciton Materials: Enhanced Fluorescence and Chiroptical Properties in Living Supramolecular Polymers with Strong Frenkel/Charge‐Transfer Exciton Coupling

Chirality in Singlet Fission: Controlling Singlet Fission in Aqueous Nanoparticles of Tetracenedicarboxylic Acid Ion Pairs

Thiophene-fused aromatic belts

Room-temperature quantum coherence of entangled multiexcitons in a metal-organic framework

Photoliquefaction and phase transition of m-bisazobenzenes give molecular solar thermal fuels with a high energy density

Porous film impregnation method for record-efficiency visible-to-UV photon upconversion and subsolar light harvesting

Spin-Polarized Radicals with Extremely Long Spin–Lattice Relaxation Time at Room Temperature in a Metal–Organic Framework

Frontispiece: Noncovalent Modification of Cycloparaphenylene by Catenane Formation Using an Active Metal Template Strategy

Frontispiz: Noncovalent Modification of Cycloparaphenylene by Catenane Formation Using an Active Metal Template Strategy

Noncovalent Modification of Cycloparaphenylene by Catenane Formation Using an Active Metal Template Strategy**

Noncovalent Modification of Cycloparaphenylene by Catenane Formation Using an Active Metal Template Strategy**

Singlet fission as a polarized spin generator for dynamic nuclear polarization

Dynamic Electron Polarization Lasting More Than 10 μs by Hybridizing Porphyrin and TEMPO with Flexible Linkers

Far-red triplet sensitized Z-to-E photoswitching of azobenzene in bioplastics

Heavy metal-free visible-to-UV photon upconversion with over 20% efficiency sensitized by a ketocoumarin derivative

In optimized rubrene-based nanoparticle blends for photon upconversion, singlet energy collection outcompetes triplet-pair separation, not singlet fission

Near-infrared vapochromism in lipid-packaged mixed-valence coordination polymers

Recyclable optical bioplastics platform for solid state red light harvesting via triplet–triplet annihilation photon upconversion

Proton Hyperpolarization Relay from Nanocrystals to Liquid Water

Exciton Recycling in Triplet Energy Transfer from a Defect-Rich Quantum Dot to an Organic Molecule

Design Guidelines for Rigid Epoxy Resins with High Photon Upconversion Efficiency: Critical Role of Emitter Concentration

Osmium Complex–Chromophore Conjugates with Both Singlet-to-Triplet Absorption and Long Triplet Lifetime through Tuning of the Heavy-Atom Effect

Triplet Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Guest Molecules through Induced Fit in a Flexible Metal–Organic Framework**

Triplet Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Guest Molecules through Induced Fit in a Flexible Metal–Organic Framework**

Green-to-UV photon upconversion enabled by new perovskite nanocrystal-transmitter-emitter combination

Spin Statistics for Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion: Exchange Coupling, Intermolecular Orientation, and Reverse Intersystem Crossing

Liquid‐Based Multijunction Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Collection Device

A Supramolecular Heat-Pump: an Electrochemical Cooling System Utilizing the Enthalpy Change of a Host–Guest Interaction

Design Guidelines to Elongate Spin–Lattice Relaxation Times of Porphyrins with Large Triplet Electron Polarization

High Positive Seebeck Coefficient of Aqueous I–/I3– Thermocells Based on Host–Guest Interactions and LCST Behavior of PEGylated α-Cyclodextrin

Bulk Transparent Photon Upconverting Films by Dispersing High-Concentration Ionic Emitters in Epoxy Resins

Porphyrins as Versatile, Aggregation-Tolerant, and Biocompatible Polarizing Agents for Triplet Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Biomolecules

Light‐Triggered, Non‐Centrosymmetric Self‐Assembly of Aqueous Arylazopyrazoles at the Air–Water Interface and Switching of Second‐Harmonic Generation

Light‐Triggered, Non‐Centrosymmetric Self‐Assembly of Aqueous Arylazopyrazoles at the Air–Water Interface and Switching of Second‐Harmonic Generation

Discovery of Key TIPS‐Naphthalene for Efficient Visible‐to‐UV Photon Upconversion under Sunlight and Room Light**

Discovery of Key TIPS‐Naphthalene for Efficient Visible‐to‐UV Photon Upconversion under Sunlight and Room Light**

Frontispiece: Discovery of Key TIPS‐Naphthalene for Efficient Visible‐to‐UV Photon Upconversion under Sunlight and Room Light

Frontispiz: Discovery of Key TIPS‐Naphthalene for Efficient Visible‐to‐UV Photon Upconversion under Sunlight and Room Light

Enhanced Seebeck coefficients of thermocells by heat-induced deposition of I3−/hydrophobized α-cyclodextrin complexes on electrodes

Leaping across the visible range: near-infrared-to-violet photon upconversion employing a silyl-substituted anthracene

Peer review (29 reviews for 8 publications/grants)