Kazuo Akagi

Helical Polyacetylene Synthesized with a Chiral Nematic Reaction Field

Kazuo Akagi, Guanghai Piao, Shunta Kaneko et al. · Science · 1998 · 411 citations

Materials Science, Polymer Material, Engineering +9

Dynamic Switching of the Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Disubstituted Polyacetylene by Selective Transmission through a Thermotropic Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal

Benedict A. San Jose, Jialin Yan, Kazuo Akagi · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2014 · 262 citations

Lyotropic Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystalline Aliphatic Conjugated Polymers Based on Disubstituted Polyacetylene Derivatives That Exhibit High Dissymmetry Factors in Circularly Polarized Luminescence

Benedict A. San Jose, Satoshi Matsushita, Kazuo Akagi · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2012 · 235 citations

Chiroptical Resolution and Thermal Switching of Chirality in Conjugated Polymer Luminescence via Selective Reflection using a Double‐Layered Cell of Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal

Jialin Yan, Fuyuki Ota, Benedict A. San Jose et al. · Advanced Functional Materials · 2016 · 195 citations

Optical Materials, Thermal Chirality‐switching, Engineering +18

Helically π-Stacked Thiophene-Based Copolymers with Circularly Polarized Fluorescence: High Dissymmetry Factors Enhanced by Self-Ordering in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Phase

Kazuyoshi Watanabe, Itaru Osaka, Shinichi Yorozuya et al. · Chemistry of Materials · 2012 · 182 citations

Engineering, Molecular Self-assembly, Responsive Polymers +19