Kazuo Akagi

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
228 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Kazuo Akagi is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kazuo Akagi has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 135 papers in Organic Chemistry, 112 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 90 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Kazuo Akagi's work include Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (102 papers), Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (98 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (79 papers). Kazuo Akagi is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (102 papers), Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (98 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (79 papers). Kazuo Akagi collaborates with scholars based in Japan, South Korea and United States. Kazuo Akagi's co-authors include Hideki Shirakawa, Hiromasa Goto, Benedict A. San Jose, Mutsumasa Kyotani, Satoshi Matsushita, Kazuyoshi Watanabe, Munju Goh, Taizo Mori, Hiroyuki Hayasaka and Shunta Kaneko and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Kazuo Akagi

226 papers receiving 7.0k citations

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Helical Polyacetylene Synthesized with a Chiral Nematic Reaction Field

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Andreas Fechtenkötter Germany

Hiro Matsuda Japan

Benoı̂t Heinrich France

Michiya Fujiki Japan

Masafumi Yoshio Japan

Yves Geerts Belgium

Nobuyuki Tamaoki Japan

Mark D. Watson Germany

Emilio M. Pérez Spain

Shuji Okada Japan

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Fujita, Yuki, et al.. (2025). Thermally Invertible Full-Color Circularly Polarized Luminescence with High Dissymmetry Factors and High Quantum Yields in Fluorene Derivatives with Induced Chirality Generated in Chiral Liquid Crystals. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(10). 15988–15999. 4 indexed citations

Yoshida, Satoru, et al.. (2023). Chiroptical Properties of Helical Aromatic Conjugated Polymers Synthesized by Electrochemical Polymerization in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals. 3(1). 1 indexed citations

Yamamoto, Hiromasa, Jinwoo Park, Satoru Yoshida, et al.. (2021). Helical Network Polymers Embodying High Dissymmetry Factors in Circularly Polarized Luminescence: Photocrosslinking Polymerization of Acrylate Derivatives in Chiral Smectic Liquid Crystals. Macromolecules. 54(19). 8977–8986. 28 indexed citations

Kaneko, Kosuke, et al.. (2020). Chiral Compounds: Photoinvertible Chiral Liquid Crystal that Affords Helicity‐Controlled Aromatic Conjugated Polymers (Advanced Optical Materials 20/2020). Advanced Optical Materials. 8(20). 1 indexed citations

Kim, Kyung Ho, Samuel Lara‐Avila, Sung Ju Hong, et al.. (2018). Probing variable range hopping lengths by magneto conductance in carbonized polymer nanofibers. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 4948–4948. 8 indexed citations

Kim, Kyung Ho, Samuel Lara‐Avila, Sung Ju Hong, et al.. (2016). Apparent Power Law Scaling of Variable Range Hopping Conduction in Carbonized Polymer Nanofibers. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 37783–37783. 10 indexed citations

Watanabe, Kazuyoshi & Kazuo Akagi. (2014). Helically assembledπ-conjugated polymers with circularly polarized luminescence. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 15(4). 44203–44203. 86 indexed citations

Watanabe, Kazuyoshi, et al.. (2014). Photochemically colour-tuneable white fluorescence illuminants consisting of conjugated polymer nanospheres. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3799–3799. 76 indexed citations

Jose, Benedict A. San, et al.. (2014). Dynamic Switching of the Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Disubstituted Polyacetylene by Selective Transmission through a Thermotropic Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(40). 10641–10644. 236 indexed citations

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Matsushita, Satoshi, et al.. (2012). Electrochromism-driven linearly and circularly polarised dichroism of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) derivatives with chirality and liquid crystallinity. Chemical Communications. 49(19). 1883–1883. 32 indexed citations

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Akagi, Kazuo, et al.. (2011). SYNTHESIS AND PROPERITIES OF SHISH-KEBAB-TYPE LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLY(p-PHENYLENE)S. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science. 24(3). 265–271. 1 indexed citations

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Akagi, Kazuo, et al.. (2011). PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SHISH-KEBAB TYPE LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLY(p-PHENYLENEVINYLENE). Chinese Journal of Polymer Science. 24(4). 353–361. 2 indexed citations

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Goh, Munju, Satoshi Matsushita, & Kazuo Akagi. (2010). From helical polyacetylene to helical graphite: synthesis in the chiral nematic liquid crystal field and morphology-retaining carbonisation. Chemical Society Reviews. 39(7). 2466–2466. 91 indexed citations

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Hayasaka, Hiroyuki, et al.. (2010). Helically π‐Stacked Conjugated Polymers Bearing Photoresponsive and Chiral Moieties in Side Chains: Reversible Photoisomerization‐Enforced Switching Between Emission and Quenching of Circularly Polarized Fluorescence. Advanced Functional Materials. 20(8). 1243–1250. 107 indexed citations

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Akagi, Kazuo & Taizo Mori. (2008). Helical polyacetylene—Origins and synthesis. The Chemical Record. 8(6). 395–406. 57 indexed citations

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Алешин, А. Н., et al.. (2005). Coulomb-blockade transport at low temperature in quasi-one dimensional polymer nanofibers. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Алешин, А. Н., H. J. Lee, Y. W. Park, & Kazuo Akagi. (2004). One-Dimensional Transport in Polymer Nanofibers. Physical Review Letters. 93(19). 196601–196601. 130 indexed citations

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Oh‐e, Masahito, et al.. (2004). Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy of a Helically Structured Conjugated Polymer. Physical Review Letters. 93(26). 267402–267402. 32 indexed citations

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Akagi, Kazuo, Hiromasa Goto, & Hideki Shirakawa. (1999). Synthesis and Properties of Liquid Crystslline Conjugated Polymers.. KOBUNSHI RONBUNSHU. 56(4). 217–233.

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Akagi, Kazuo. (1995). What is the Most Electrically Conductive Polymer?. Kobunshi. 44(7). 456–457. 1 indexed citations

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