Takeo SASAKI
Professor        
Nationality: Japanese
Date of birth: Dec. 16, 1965
E-mail: sasaki<*>rs.kagu.tus.ac.jp (replace <*> with @)
Phone: +81-3-5228-8277
Fax: +81-3-3235-2214

Takeo Sasaki is a professor at the Department of Chemistry, Tokyo University of Science since 2000. He received his doctorate from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1994. He conducts research on photorefractive liquid crystals and photopolymers. He received the SPSJ Wiley Award (2004) from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan and Senior Membership of SPIE (2016).
Takeo Sasaki is currently a director of the Research Committee on Organic Materials for Information Technology of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS).
His current research interests include the photorefractive effects of organic materials and the synthesis of novel liquid crystalline materials.

Membership of Academic Societies

• The Chemical Society of Japan
• The Society of Polymer Science, Japan
• Japanese Liquid Crystal Society
• The American Chemical Society
• SPIE
• International Liquid Crystal Society

Awards

• SPSJ Wiley Award 2004 (The Society of Polymer Science, Japan)
       "Photorefractive Effect of Liquid Crystalline Materials"
  
• JLCS Best Paper Award 2004 (The Japanese Liquid Crystal Society)
       "Influence of the Properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals on the Spontaneous Polarization Reorientation Photorefractive Effect"
       J. Phys. Chem. B, 107, 7659-7665 (2003)
  
• SPIE Senior Member 2016 "for achievements in organic optical materials "
• The JLCS Award for Outstanding Achievement (2023)

Representative Publications

• Laser irradiation durability of photorefractive ferroelectric liquid crystal blends containing terthiophene photoconductive chiral dopants
  T. Sasaki, M. Yoshino, Y. Naka, K. V. Le and T. Sassa
  RSC Adv., 6, 70573-70580 (2016).
  
  
• Dismantlable Thermosetting Adhesives Composed of a Cross-Linkable Poly(olefin sulfone) with a Photobase Generator
  T. Sasaki, S. Hashimoto, N. Nogami, Y. Sugiyama, M. Mori, Y. Naka, and K. V. Le
  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 8, 5580-5585 (2016).
  
  
• Dynamic Amplification of Light Signals in Photorefractive Ferroelectric Liquid Crystalline Mixtures
  T. Sasaki, S. Kajikawa and Y. Naka
  Faraday Discussions, 174, 203-218 (2014).
  
  
• Real-time dynamic hologram in photorefractive ferroelectric liquid crystal with two-beam coupling gain coefficient of over 800 cm-1 and response time of 8 ms
  T. Sasaki, M. Ikegami, T. Abe, D. Miyazaki, S. Kajikawa and Y. Naka
  Appl. Phys. Lett., 102, 063306-063309 (2013).
  
  
• Photorefractive Effect of Photoconductive Liquid Crystalline Mixtures Composed of Photoconductive Chiral Compounds and Liquid Crystal
  T. Sasaki, D. Miyazaki, K. Akaike, M. Ikegami and Y. Naka
  J. Mater. Chem., 21, 8678-8686 (2011).
  
  
• Photoinduced Depolymerization of Poly(olefin sulfone)s Possessing Photo-base Generating Gro
  ups in the Side-chain
  H. Yaguchi, and T. Sasaki
  Macromolecules, 40, 9332-9338 (2007).　
  
  
• Influence of the Properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals on the Spontaneous Polarization Reorientation Photorefractive Effect
  T. Sasaki, A. Katsuragi, O. Mochizuki, Y. Nakazawa
  J. Phys. Chem. B, 107, 7659-7665 (2003).　
  
  
• Spontaneous Polarization Reorientation Type Photorefractivity in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
  T. Sasaki, Y. Kino, M. Shibata, N. Mizusaki, A. Katsuragi, Y. Ishikawa and T. Yoshimi
  Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 4112-4114 (2001).　
  
  
• Enhancement of Photorefractivity in the Isotropic Phase of Polymer Liquid Crystals
  T. Sasaki, M. Goto, Y. Ishikawa and T. Yoshimi
  J. Phys. Chem. B, 103, 1925-1929 (1999).
  

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