Koso Aoki

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 900 citations indexed

About

Koso Aoki is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Koso Aoki has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 900 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 3 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Koso Aoki's work include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (11 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (4 papers) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (3 papers). Koso Aoki is often cited by papers focused on Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (11 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (4 papers) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (3 papers). Koso Aoki collaborates with scholars based in Japan and Bulgaria. Koso Aoki's co-authors include Takahiro Seki, Kunihiro Ichimura, Yasuzo Suzuki, Takashi Tamaki, Yuji Kawanishi, Masako Sakuragi and Kunihiro Ichimura and has published in prestigious journals such as Macromolecules, Langmuir and Thin Solid Films.

In The Last Decade

Koso Aoki

12 papers receiving 853 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Reversible change in alignment mode of nematic liquid crystals regulated photochemically by command surfaces modified with an azobenzene monolayer

1988 587 citations Kunihiro Ichimura, Yasuzo Suzuki et al. Langmuir profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Koso Aoki Japan	11	724	464	318	183	146	12	900
Shin’ya Morino Japan	17	623 0.9×	480 1.0×	231 0.7×	129 0.7×	161 1.1×	36	863
F. Lagugné Labarthet France	17	718 1.0×	483 1.0×	304 1.0×	206 1.1×	73 0.5×	18	1.1k
Shunsuke Kobayashi Japan	20	738 1.0×	338 0.7×	442 1.4×	330 1.8×	115 0.8×	68	1.2k
Yasufumi Iimura Japan	21	949 1.3×	245 0.5×	512 1.6×	316 1.7×	155 1.1×	54	1.1k
Takeo Sasaki Japan	21	851 1.2×	595 1.3×	380 1.2×	283 1.5×	175 1.2×	91	1.4k
G. Baur Germany	15	518 0.7×	228 0.5×	227 0.7×	385 2.1×	56 0.4×	28	950
Michinori Nishikawa Japan	16	566 0.8×	223 0.5×	277 0.9×	175 1.0×	122 0.8×	31	720
Wayne M. Gibbons United States	9	1.3k 1.8×	513 1.1×	706 2.2×	388 2.1×	221 1.5×	20	1.5k
Kung‐Lung Cheng Taiwan	17	586 0.8×	290 0.6×	273 0.9×	135 0.7×	64 0.4×	38	859
N. C. R. Holme Denmark	12	867 1.2×	440 0.9×	460 1.4×	269 1.5×	105 0.7×	17	1.0k

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Aoki, Koso, Yuji Kawanishi, Takahiro Seki, et al.. (1995). Reversible alignment change of liquid crystals induced by photochromic molecular films: Properties of azobenzene chromophores covalently attached to silica surfaces. Liquid Crystals. 19(1). 119–125. 22 indexed citations

Aoki, Koso, Takahiro Seki, Masako Sakuragi, & Kunihiro Ichimura. (1992). Reversible alignment change of liquid crystals induced by photochromic molecular films, 15. Convenient methods to prepare “command surfaces” by surface‐selective modification of thin films of poly(vinyl alcohol) with azobenzene units. Die Makromolekulare Chemie. 193(8). 2163–2174. 16 indexed citations

Aoki, Koso, Takashi Tamaki, Takahiro Seki, Yuji Kawanishi, & Kunihiro Ichimura. (1992). Regulation of alignment of cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals by azobenzene molecular films. Langmuir. 8(3). 1014–1017. 27 indexed citations

Aoki, Koso, et al.. (1992). Factors affecting photoinduced alignment regulation of cyclohexanecarboxylate-type nematic liquid crystals by azobenzene molecular films. Langmuir. 8(3). 1007–1013. 80 indexed citations

Aoki, Koso, Yuji Kawanishi, Takahiro Seki, et al.. (1992). Photo-induced regulation of nematic liquid crystal alignment by mixed monolayers of an azobenzene with long chain alkyl residues. Thin Solid Films. 219(1-2). 226–230. 8 indexed citations

Kawanishi, Yuji, Takashi Tamaki, Takahiro Seki, et al.. (1991). Multifarious liquid crystalline textures formed on a photochromic azobenzene polymer film. Langmuir. 7(7). 1314–1315. 19 indexed citations

Kawanishi, Yuji, et al.. (1990). Reversible alignment change of nematic liquid crystals by photochromic polymer films. Polymers for Advanced Technologies. 1(5-6). 311–318. 19 indexed citations

Aoki, Koso, Kunihiro Ichimura, Takashi Tamaki, Takahiro Seki, & Yuji Kawanishi. (1990). Reversible alignment change of nematic liquid crystals induced by photochromic molecular films. V. Some attempts to regulate alignment of nematic liquid crystals by various photochromic monolayers.. KOBUNSHI RONBUNSHU. 47(10). 771–777. 22 indexed citations

Tamaki, Takashi, et al.. (1990). The photochromism of nitrospiropyran included in ?-cyclodextrin. Polymer Bulletin. 24(5). 559–564. 16 indexed citations

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Seki, Takahiro, Takashi Tamaki, Yasuzo Suzuki, et al.. (1989). Photochemical alignment regulation of a nematic liquid crystal by Langmuir-Blodgett layers of azobenzene polymers as "command surfaces". Macromolecules. 22(8). 3505–3506. 67 indexed citations

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Ichimura, Kunihiro, et al.. (1989). Reversible Alignment Change of Liquid Crystals Induced by Photochromic Molecular Films. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 28(S3). 289–289. 17 indexed citations

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Ichimura, Kunihiro, et al.. (1988). Reversible change in alignment mode of nematic liquid crystals regulated photochemically by command surfaces modified with an azobenzene monolayer. Langmuir. 4(5). 1214–1216. 587 indexed citations breakdown →

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