Toru Ube

1.1k total citations
37 papers, 892 citations indexed

About

Toru Ube is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Toru Ube has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 892 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 18 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 17 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Toru Ube's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (23 papers), Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (18 papers) and Polymer composites and self-healing (12 papers). Toru Ube is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (23 papers), Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (18 papers) and Polymer composites and self-healing (12 papers). Toru Ube collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Toru Ube's co-authors include Tomiki Ikeda, Shinzaburo Ito, Hiroyuki Aoki, Jun‐ichi Horinaka, Toshikazu Takigawa, Toshiro Masuda, Kenji Katayama, Seiji Kurihara, Haruyoshi Takatsu and Hiroshi Hasebe and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Toru Ube

37 papers receiving 883 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Toru Ube Japan 14 542 385 352 291 289 37 892
Yumiko Naka Japan 13 405 0.7× 227 0.6× 404 1.1× 287 1.0× 177 0.6× 37 779
Jinying Bao China 17 310 0.6× 279 0.7× 313 0.9× 374 1.3× 130 0.4× 28 855
Ruoyuan Yin China 6 415 0.8× 310 0.8× 297 0.8× 308 1.1× 110 0.4× 8 680
Sarah J. Aßhoff Netherlands 9 619 1.1× 450 1.2× 443 1.3× 387 1.3× 109 0.4× 11 1.1k
Supitchaya Iamsaard Netherlands 13 657 1.2× 481 1.2× 435 1.2× 495 1.7× 154 0.5× 14 1.3k
M. Brunet France 12 402 0.7× 425 1.1× 523 1.5× 408 1.4× 193 0.7× 29 1.0k
Etsushi Nishikawa Japan 16 983 1.8× 500 1.3× 1.1k 3.1× 499 1.7× 282 1.0× 31 1.6k
Jelle E. Stumpel Netherlands 10 219 0.4× 230 0.6× 223 0.6× 270 0.9× 58 0.2× 11 673
Huanyu Lei China 21 419 0.8× 231 0.6× 254 0.7× 578 2.0× 542 1.9× 50 1.1k
Shudeng Ma China 8 449 0.8× 327 0.8× 225 0.6× 191 0.7× 144 0.5× 10 659

Countries citing papers authored by Toru Ube

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Fields of papers citing papers by Toru Ube

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toru Ube

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Toru Ube. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Toru Ube based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Toru Ube. Toru Ube is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Li, Chengliang, Ying‐Gang Jia, Toru Ube, et al.. (2025). Bioinspired Photo‐Actuator of Liquid Crystal Polymer Based on the Integrated Effect of Alignment Mode and Architecture Design. Advanced Materials Technologies. 11(1). 1 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, et al.. (2025). Sunlight-Driven Photomobile Polymer Materials Containing Push–Pull Azobenzene Moieties. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(10). 16010–16015. 3 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, Shota Sasaki, Kenji Katayama, et al.. (2024). Spatially selective actuation of liquid-crystalline polymer films through two-photon absorption processes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9430–9430. 7 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, et al.. (2024). Sunlight-Driven Smart Windows with a Wide Temperature Range of Optical Switching Based on Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(22). 28638–28644. 12 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, et al.. (2023). Inducing Motions of Polymers in Liquid Nitrogen with Light. Advanced Materials. 35(47). e2306402–e2306402. 9 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, et al.. (2022). Photoinduced Motions of Thermoplastic Polyurethanes Containing Azobenzene Moieties in Main Chains. Macromolecules. 55(2). 413–420. 25 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, et al.. (2022). Sunlight-driven smart windows with polymer/liquid crystal composites for autonomous control of optical properties. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(35). 12789–12794. 20 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, et al.. (2022). Shape programming and photoactuation of interpenetrating polymer networks containing azobenzene moieties. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11(24). 8100–8106. 1 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, et al.. (2021). Photoalignment in Polysiloxane Liquid‐Crystalline Elastomers with Rearrangeable Networks. Advanced Optical Materials. 9(9). 29 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru. (2019). Development of novel network structures in crosslinked liquid-crystalline polymers. Polymer Journal. 51(10). 983–988. 14 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, et al.. (2017). A block copolymer of crosslinkable polythiophene and removable poly(ethylene oxide) for preparing heterostructures of organic semiconductors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(6). 1414–1419. 2 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, et al.. (2016). Photomobile Liquid‐Crystalline Elastomers with Rearrangeable Networks. Advanced Materials. 28(37). 8212–8217. 230 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru & Tomiki Ikeda. (2014). Photomobile Polymer Materials with Crosslinked Liquid‐Crystalline Structures: Molecular Design, Fabrication, and Functions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(39). 10290–10299. 193 indexed citations
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Fujii, Tomomi, et al.. (2014). Molecular dynamics in azobenzene liquid crystal polymer films measured by time-resolved techniques. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(22). 10485–10485. 13 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, et al.. (2014). Photomobile Properties of Interpenetrating Polymer Network Films Composed of Azobenzene Liquid Crystalline Polymer and Polymethacrylates. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. 594(1). 86–91. 7 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, et al.. (2014). Photomobile Polymer Materials with Double Network Structures: Crosslinked Azobenzene Liquid-Crystalline Polymer/Methacrylate Composites. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. 601(1). 43–48. 4 indexed citations
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Ikeda, Tomiki & Toru Ube. (2011). Photomobile polymer materials: from nano to macro. Materials Today. 14(10). 480–487. 69 indexed citations
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Ube, Toru, Hiroyuki Aoki, Shinzaburo Ito, Jun‐ichi Horinaka, & Toshikazu Takigawa. (2007). Conformation of single PMMA chain in uniaxially stretched film studied by scanning near-field optical microscopy. Polymer. 48(21). 6221–6225. 17 indexed citations

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