Research

ArticlesList

• Dec 23, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Why a chiral magnet is a direction-dependent street for electrons

  

  Two different mechanisms are found to be responsible for the direction-dependent flow of electrons in chiral magnets

• Aug 27, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Marrying topological insulators with ferroelectricity

  

  Two very different properties have been realized in the same material, which could be useful in new devices

• Jul 25, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Antiferromagnet shows promise for harvesting energy

  

  A new magnetic material is very effective at changing heat into electricity

• May 28, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Spontaneous symmetry breaking in electron systems proves elusive

  

  What looked like a genuine case of spontaneous symmetry breaking was actually caused by tiny strains in samples

• Mar 31, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH A simple way to control superconductivity

  

• Mar 31, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Controlling self-assembly better than nature does

  

  Applying a magnetic field to rod-like viruses induces them to form disks of tunable shape and size

PublicationsList

1. Y.-H. Kim, F. S. Yasin, N. Y. Kim, M. Birch, X. Yu, A. Kikkawa, Y. Taguchi, J. Yan, and M. Chi

   Ultralow-temperature cryogenic transmission electron microscopy using a new helium flow cryostat stage

   Ultramicroscopy 280, 114263 (2026)
2. S. Okamoto, J. Llandro, A. Gibbons, M. Arfaoui, D. Hashizume, and J. Watanabe

   Orthogonal Staggered Alignment of Molecular Chains in Aramid Whiskers: A Game-Changer for Sustainable High-Performance Composites

   Macromol. Rapid Commun. 47, e00919 (2026)
3. K. Shibata, T. Takiguchi, A. Sato, Y. Sasaki, and T. Otsuka

   Magnetotransport and Coulomb Blockade in Single InAs Colloidal Quantum Dot Transistors

   ACS Nano 20, 2082-2091 (2026)
4. K. Yatsuzuka, S. Kong, K. Adachi, A. Li, D. Hashizume, R. Nakamura, and H. Ooka

   Influence of Electrolyte Cations on the Oxygen Evolution Reaction of Nanochanneled Manganese Oxide

   ACS Catal. (2026)
5. Y. Kato, K. Yamagishi, K. Fukuda, T. Someya, and T. Yokota

   Highly Sensitive and Temperature-Insensitive Stretchable Strain Sensor with Microcrack-Engineered Architecture

   Adv. Sci. e21634 (2026)
6. H. Sanematsu, R. Matsidik, B. Dhara, and K. Takimiya

   Construction of a Two-Dimensional Molecular Slab with a π-Extended Hexaarylbenzene Molecule

   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. e24473 (2026)
7. R. Yamada, D. Kurebayashi, Y. Fujishiro, S. Okumura, D. Nakamura, F. S. Yasin, T. Nakajima, T. Yokouchi, A. Kikkawa, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, O. A. Tretiakov, and M. Hirschberger

   Emergent electric field induced by dissipative sliding dynamics of domain walls in a Weyl magnet

   Nat. Phys. (2026)
8. J. Yi, W. Yan, J. Luo, Y. Wang, Z. Wang, Q. Sun, M. Wang, L. Li, X. Ye, J. Yang, Y. Liu, P. Zhou, S. Lee, T. Someya, and Y. Wang

   All-day skin wiring for high-fidelity epidermal sensing with liquid metal tattoos

   Chem. Eng. J. 528, 172444 (2026)
9. J.-J. Lee, T.-W. Moon, F. Araoka, and S.-W. Choi

   Helically ordered chiral super spaces enable optical chirality in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite crystals

   J. Colloid Interface Sci. 702, 138899 (2026)
10. H.-B. Zhang, Z.-Y. Ding, Y.-N. Xie, Z.-H. Li, E. Moynihan, A. M. Sanchez, W. Zhu, Y. Gao, Y. Iwasa, M. Alexe, and M.-M. Yang

    Magnetization generation and giant nonlinear transport at symmetry-engineered interfaces

    Nat. Commun. 17, 361 (2026)