Takaaki Hikima

Thermoresponsive actuation enabled by permittivity switching in an electrostatically anisotropic hydrogel

Youn Soo Kim, Mingjie Liu, Yasuhiro Ishida et al. · Nature Materials · 2015 · 638 citations

Materials Science, Hydrogels, Electroactive Material +8

An anisotropic hydrogel with electrostatic repulsion between cofacially aligned nanosheets

Mingjie Liu, Yasuhiro Ishida, Yasuo Ebina et al. · Nature · 2014 · 501 citations

Materials Science, Hydrogels, Biopolymer Gel +6

An autonomous actuator driven by fluctuations in ambient humidity

Hiroki Arazoe, Daigo Miyajima, Kouki Akaike et al. · Nature Materials · 2016 · 432 citations

Engineering, Soft Robotics, Mechatronics +8

Determination of damage-free crystal structure of an X-ray–sensitive protein using an XFEL

Kunio Hirata, Kyoko Shinzawa‐Itoh, Naomine Yano et al. · Nature Methods · 2014 · 249 citations

Nucleosomal arrays self‐assemble into supramolecular globular structures lacking 30‐nm fibers

Kazuhiro Maeshima, Ryan Rogge, Sachiko Tamura et al. · The EMBO Journal · 2016 · 217 citations · Full text