白石康浩准教授がNew J. Chem.誌のBlog "Meet Our Authors"で紹介されました

白石康浩准教授がNew J. Chem.誌のBlog "Meet Our Authors"で紹介されました。

NJC Blog、Meet Our Authors – September 2013 issue of NJC (2013.9/10)

http://blogs.rsc.org/nj/2013/09/10/meet-our-authors-september-2013-issue-of-njc/

 

Our first author is Yasuhiro Shiraishi who is Associate Professor at the Research Center for Solar Energy Chemistry of Osaka University (Japan). Yasuhiro’s research interests are focused on the design of photocatalysts for selective organic transformations and fluorescent molecular devices driven by light.

The article by Yasuhiro and his co-authors reports the synthesis of a spiropyran-cholesterol that undergoes reversible color and phase transitions upon heat and light stimuli. These properties were successfully applied to the creation of a material for information storage, easily writable and erasable by simple light irradiation.

The interdisciplinary nature of the work, involving polymer chemistry and photochemistry made NJC a logical choice in the authors’ eyes.

Besides being a research scientist, Yasuhiro’s dream job would be professional footballer. And not surprisingly, his primary focus outside of the lab is to raise his two boys to be as good footballers as Leo Messi.

“Spiropyran–cholesterol conjugate as a photoresponsive organogelator” Shigehiro Sumiya, Yasuhiro Shiraishi and Takayuki Hirai New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 2642-2647. DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ00322A