Faculty
Daisuke Tanaka
Major research activity
Coordination Compound, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Synthetic Chemistry
Nanotechnology is the manipulation technique of a molecular scale materials. Our group has focused on coordination complexes as a key materials for bottom-up approaches and developed new materials for innovative green nanodevices. Main research themes are summarized as follows.
- Self-Assembled Supramolecular Coordination Complexes
Coordination polymers are coordination compounds with infinite structures with backbones constructed from metal ions as connectors and ligands as linker. Coordination polymers can be obtained by just mixing metal ions and bridging ligands. The obtained structures are well defined and perfectly ordered. The obtained nanostructures are unique candidate for innovative green materials and nanoelectronics devices. We have synthesized porous coordination materials and nanomagnet. - Estimation of molecular nanostructures by advanced equipment.
In our group, the nanostructures obtained by self-assembled process are observed by scanning probe microscopy, electron microscopy, and synchrotron radiation experiments. The new nanomaterials are manipulated and precisely estimated by the advanced equipment. For example, we have showed the molecular patterning of single-molecule magnets by using scanning tunneling microscopy. Our molecular system will provide us with a new design strategy for molecule-based spintronics devices.
Major relevant publications
- “Switching of single-molecule magnetic properties and observation of carbon-surface supramolecular structures of Tb(III) porphyrin double-decker complexes”, T. Inose, D. Tanaka*, H. Tanaka, O. Ivasenko, T. Nagata, Y. Ohta, S. De Feyter, N. Ishikawa, T. Ogawa*, Chem. Eur. J., 2014, 20, 11362-11369. (Front Cover 掲載)
- “Thin films of spin-crossover coordination polymers with large thermal hysteresis loops prepared by nanoparticle spin coating”, D. Tanaka*, N. Aketa, H. Tanaka, T. Tamaki, T. Inose, T. Akai, H. Toyama, O. Sakata, H. Tajiri, T. Ogawa*, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 710074-10077.
- “Unidirectional Control of Anisotropic Wetting through Surface Modification of PDMS Microstructures”, D. Tanaka, D. Buenger, H. Hildebrandt, M. Möeller, J. Groll*, Langmuir, 2013, 29, 12331-12336.
- “Proton-induced Switching of the Single Molecule Magnetic Properties of a Porphyrin Based TbIII Double-decker Complex”, D. Tanaka, T. Inose, H. Tanaka, S. Lee, N. Ishikawa*, T. Ogawa*, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 7796-7798.（Back Cover 掲載）
- “Rapid Preparation of Flexible Porous Coordination Polymer Nanocrystals with Accelerated Guest Adsorption Kinetics”, D. Tanaka, A. Henke, K. Albrecht, M. Möller, K. Nakagawa, S. Kitagawa*, J. Groll*, Nature Chem., 2010, 2, 410-416.