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Takuzo Aida
Born
Takuzo Aida (相田 卓三, Aida Takuzō)

(1956-05-03) 3 May 1956 (age 69)
Oita, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Alma materYokohama National University
The University of Tokyo
AwardsWiley Polymer Chemistry Award (1999)
Humboldt Prize (2011)
Arthur K. Doolittle Award (2012)
Chirality Medal (2017)
Japan Academy Prize (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, Supramolecular chemistry, Materials chemistry, Polymer chemistry
InstitutionsThe University of Tokyo
Doctoral advisorProfessor Shohei Inoue
Websitewww.aidacreativehub.com/takuzo-aida

Takuzo Aida (相田 卓三, Aida Takuzō; born May 3, 1956, in Japan) is a Japanese polymer chemist, Deputy Director of the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), and a Professor at the University of Tokyo.

Education

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Aida received his Bachelor of Engineering in Physical Chemistry at the Yokohama National University in 1979, and continued at the University of Tokyo for his Master of Engineering (1981) and Doctor of Engineering (1984) degrees in Polymer Chemistry.[1]

Career

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After completing his doctoral studies, Aida was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Synthetic Chemistry at the University of Tokyo. In 1986, he was a visiting scholar at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Aida was promoted to the position of Lecturer in 1989, and Associate Professor in 1991, before becoming a full professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Tokyo in 1996. In 2022, he was appointed as a University of Tokyo's Distinguished University Professor.[2]

From 1996 to 1999, Aida served as a researcher in the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) PRESTO Fields and Reactions Project. Aida was appointed as a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki from 1999 to 2001. He served as the director for the JST ERATO AIDA Nanospace Project from 2000 to 2005,[3] and the JST ERATO–SORST Electronic Nanospace Project from 2005 to 2010. Aida served as the director of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute from 2008 to 2012. Since 2013, he has been a Deputy Director of the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS).[4]

Aida has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science since 2009,[5] the Advisory Board for the Journal of the American Chemical Society from 2014–2021, and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Materials Chemistry from 2004–2006. He has served on the executive advisory board for Giant.[6]

Research

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Aida’s research focuses on supramolecular systems and polymerization, such as supramolecular polymerization and non-covalent polymerization.[7] He has also conducted research into nanotubular polymerization non-covalently,[8] living chain-growth (ring-opening) polymerization,[9] block copolymerization,[10][11][12] stereoselective polymerization,[13][14] and thermally bisignate polymerization.[15]

Immortal polymerization

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In 1988, while working on the development of polymerization catalysts, Aida published a prototype of supramolecular polymerization based on his finding of a catalytic version of living polymerization named "immortal polymerization".[7] He also found extrusion polymerization within catalyst-immobilized mesoporous silica, affording extended-chain crystalline polyethylene fibres.[16] He found morphology-dependent energy funnelling in photoexcited dendrimers.[17][18]

Chiral polymerization and nanotube materials

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Aida researched supramolecular polymerization and demonstrated homochiral (chiral self-sorting) supramolecular polymerization using a cyclic peptide motif as the chiral monomer.[19]

He also synthesized an amphiphilic version of hexabenzocoronene, a "molecular graphene”, and succeeded in its supramolecular nanotubular polymerization, obtaining the first electroconductive supramolecular nanotube.[8] He utilized the nanographene platform to obtain radial[10][11] and linear[12] supramolecular block copolymers.

Aida also found that the supramolecular polymerization of chiral amphiphilic hexabenzocoronenes proceeds in a one-handed helical manner via the majority rule.[13] This work was further extended to the development of a redox-active oligo(o-phenylene) helix[20] and, together with Professor Minghua Liu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, mirror-symmetry broken helical fibres consisting of an achiral component that serve as a chiral scaffold for transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric reactions.[14] In 2014, Aida obtained a metal-organic nanotube by the supramolecular polymerization of a redox-active ferrocene-cored double-decker tetrapyridyl monomer and demonstrated that this nanotube, upon oxidation, can be cut into gigantic nanorings, which can then be pasted on a negatively charged mica substrate or assembled coaxially to recover the original nanotube upon reduction.[21]

Chain-growth polymerization and stereoselectivity

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In 2015, Aida realized an example of chain-growth supramolecular polymerization, not conforming to the general step-growth mechanism.[9]

Thermally bisignate polymerization

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In 2017, Aida reported a conceptually new, "thermally bisignate", supramolecular polymerization.[15]

Solvent-free autocatalytic polymerization

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In 2021, Aida reported the solvent-free autocatalytic supramolecular polymerization of phthalocyanines.[22]

Poly(ether thiourea) and self-healing glass

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He developed a mechanically robust polymer glass that is self-healable at ambient temperatures, poly(ether thiourea).[23]

Awards

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  • 1992 – Society of Polymer Science Japan Award[24]
  • 1999 – IBM Science Award[25]
  • 2000 – Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry: Silver Medal[26]
  • 2001 – Tokyo Techno Forum Award: Gold Medal[27]
  • 2008 – Coordination Chemistry Award[28]
  • 2008 – Chemical Society of Japan Award[29]
  • 2009 – American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry
  • 2011 – Fujihara Award[30]
  • 2013 – van't Hoff Award Lecture[31]
  • 2017 – Chirality Medal[32]
  • 2018 – Japan Academy Prize[33]
  • 2019 – Ichimura Prize in Science for Excellent Achievement[34]
  • 2021 – Ryoji Noyori ACES Award[35]
  • 2021 – Netherlands Award for Supramolecular Chemistry[36]

He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020,[37] and into the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.[38] He was also elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.[39]

References

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  7. ^ a b Aida, Takuzo; Takemura, Akihiko; Fuse, Masahiro; Inoue, Shohei (1988-01-01). "Synthesis of a novel amphiphilic porphyrin carrying water-soluble polyether side chains of controlled chain length. Formation of a cofacial molecular assembly in aqueous media". Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications (5): 391–393. doi:10.1039/C39880000391. ISSN 0022-4936.
  8. ^ a b Hill, Jonathan P.; Jin, Wusong; Kosaka, Atsuko; Fukushima, Takanori; Ichihara, Hideki; Shimomura, Takeshi; Ito, Kohzo; Hashizume, Tomihiro; Ishii, Noriyuki; Aida, Takuzo (2004-06-04). "Self-Assembled Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene Graphitic Nanotube". Science. 304 (5676): 1481–1483. Bibcode:2004Sci...304.1481H. doi:10.1126/science.1097789. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 15178796. S2CID 39674411.
  9. ^ a b Kang, Jiheong; Miyajima, Daigo; Mori, Tadashi; Inoue, Yoshihisa; Itoh, Yoshimitsu; Aida, Takuzo (2015-02-06). "A rational strategy for the realization of chain-growth supramolecular polymerization". Science. 347 (6222): 646–651. Bibcode:2015Sci...347..646K. doi:10.1126/science.aaa4249. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 25657246. S2CID 8487579.
  10. ^ a b Yamamoto, Yohei; Fukushima, Takanori; Suna, Yuki; Ishii, Noriyuki; Saeki, Akinori; Seki, Shu; Tagawa, Seiichi; Taniguchi, Masateru; Kawai, Tomoji; Aida, Takuzo (2006-12-15). "Photoconductive Coaxial Nanotubes of Molecularly Connected Electron Donor and Acceptor Layers". Science. 314 (5806): 1761–1764. Bibcode:2006Sci...314.1761Y. doi:10.1126/science.1134441. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17170300. S2CID 10615728.
  11. ^ a b Yamamoto, Yohei; Zhang, Guanxin; Jin, Wusong; Fukushima, Takanori; Ishii, Noriyuki; Saeki, Akinori; Seki, Shu; Tagawa, Seiichi; Minari, Takeo; Tsukagoshi, Kazuhito; Aida, Takuzo (2009-12-15). "Ambipolar-transporting coaxial nanotubes with a tailored molecular graphene–fullerene heterojunction". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (50): 21051–21056. Bibcode:2009PNAS..10621051Y. doi:10.1073/pnas.0905655106. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2795534. PMID 19940243.
  12. ^ a b Zhang, Wei; Jin, Wusong; Fukushima, Takanori; Saeki, Akinori; Seki, Shu; Aida, Takuzo (2011-10-21). "Supramolecular Linear Heterojunction Composed of Graphite-Like Semiconducting Nanotubular Segments". Science. 334 (6054): 340–343. Bibcode:2011Sci...334..340Z. doi:10.1126/science.1210369. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 22021852. S2CID 5458366.
  13. ^ a b Jin, Wusong; Fukushima, Takanori; Niki, Makiko; Kosaka, Atsuko; Ishii, Noriyuki; Aida, Takuzo (2005-08-02). "Self-assembled graphitic nanotubes with one-handed helical arrays of a chiral amphiphilic molecular graphene". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (31): 10801–10806. Bibcode:2005PNAS..10210801J. doi:10.1073/pnas.0500852102. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1182409. PMID 16043721.
  14. ^ a b Shen, Zhaocun; Sang, Yutao; Wang, Tianyu; Jiang, Jian; Meng, Yan; Jiang, Yuqian; Okuro, Kou; Aida, Takuzo; Liu, Minghua (2019-09-04). "Asymmetric catalysis mediated by a mirror symmetry-broken helical nanoribbon". Nature Communications. 10 (1): 3976. Bibcode:2019NatCo..10.3976S. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11840-3. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 6726595. PMID 31484928.
  15. ^ a b Venkata Rao, Kotagiri; Miyajima, Daigo; Nihonyanagi, Atsuko; Aida, Takuzo (November 2017). "Thermally bisignate supramolecular polymerization". Nature Chemistry. 9 (11): 1133–1139. Bibcode:2017NatCh...9.1133V. doi:10.1038/nchem.2812. ISSN 1755-4349. PMID 29064499.
  16. ^ Kageyama, Keisuke; Tamazawa, Jun-ichi; Aida, Takuzo (1999-09-24). "Extrusion Polymerization: Catalyzed Synthesis of Crystalline Linear Polyethylene Nanofibers Within a Mesoporous Silica". Science. 285 (5436): 2113–2115. doi:10.1126/science.285.5436.2113. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 10497126.
  17. ^ Jiang, Dong-Lin; Aida, Takuzo (July 1997). "Photoisomerization in dendrimers by harvesting of low-energy photons". Nature. 388 (6641): 454–456. Bibcode:1997Natur.388..454J. doi:10.1038/41290. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 205028355.
  18. ^ Jiang, Dong-Lin; Aida, Takuzo (1998-10-01). "Morphology-Dependent Photochemical Events in Aryl Ether Dendrimer Porphyrins: Cooperation of Dendron Subunits for Singlet Energy Transduction". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 120 (42): 10895–10901. Bibcode:1998JAChS.12010895J. doi:10.1021/ja9823520. ISSN 0002-7863.
  19. ^ Ishida, Yasuhiro; Aida, Takuzo (2002-11-01). "Homochiral Supramolecular Polymerization of an "S"-Shaped Chiral Monomer: Translation of Optical Purity into Molecular Weight Distribution". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124 (47): 14017–14019. Bibcode:2002JAChS.12414017I. doi:10.1021/ja028403h. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 12440899.
  20. ^ Ohta, Eisuke; Sato, Hiroyasu; Ando, Shinji; Kosaka, Atsuko; Fukushima, Takanori; Hashizume, Daisuke; Yamasaki, Mikio; Hasegawa, Kimiko; Muraoka, Azusa; Ushiyama, Hiroshi; Yamashita, Koichi (January 2011). "Redox-responsive molecular helices with highly condensed π -clouds". Nature Chemistry. 3 (1): 68–73. Bibcode:2011NatCh...3...68O. doi:10.1038/nchem.900. ISSN 1755-4349. PMID 21160520.
  21. ^ Fukino, Takahiro; Joo, Hyunho; Hisada, Yuki; Obana, Maiko; Yamagishi, Hiroshi; Hikima, Takaaki; Takata, Masaki; Fujita, Norifumi; Aida, Takuzo (2014-05-02). "Manipulation of Discrete Nanostructures by Selective Modulation of Noncovalent Forces". Science. 344 (6183): 499–504. Bibcode:2014Sci...344..499F. doi:10.1126/science.1252120. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 24786075. S2CID 6360178.
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