Overcoming the entropy of polymer chains by making a plane with terminal groups: a thermoplastic PDMS with a long-range 1D structural order

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Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 2431
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Corner-opened cage-silsesquioxane as a directional template for tripodal poly(methyl methacrylate)

Ryota Tanaka, Amato Igarashi, Taihei Hayashi, Hiroyasu Masunaga, Hideaki Takagi, Nobutaka Shimizu, Noriyuki Igarashi, Shinichi Sakurai, Hiroaki Imoto and Kensuke Naka

Polym. Chem., 2023, 14, 4704
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Efficient Synthesis and Cyclic Molecular Topology of Ultralarge-Sized Bicyclic and Tetracyclic Polymers

Cuihong Ma, Ying Quan, Jinhuan Zhang, Ruyi Sun, Qiuhua Zhao, Xiao He, Xiaojuan Liao and Meiran Xie

Macromolecules, 2022, 55, 4341
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Recent advances in structurally elaborate triptycenes, triptycene-containing polymers and assemblies: structures, functions and applications

Fumitaka Ishiwari, Yoshiaki Shoji, Colin J. Martin and Takanori Fukushima

Polym J, 2024, 56, 791
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Polyacetylene‐Based Asymmetric Bicyclic Polymer by Blocking‐Cyclization Technique

Cuihong Ma, Hao Wang, Ruyi Sun, Xiaojuan Liao, Huijing Han and Meiran Xie

Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2024, 45
DOI: 10.1002/marc.202300628

Supramolecular scaffold–directed two-dimensional assembly of pentacene into a configuration to facilitate singlet fission

Masato Fukumitsu, Tomoya Fukui, Yoshiaki Shoji, Takashi Kajitani, Ramsha Khan, Nikolai V. Tkachenko, Hayato Sakai, Taku Hasobe and Takanori Fukushima

Sci. Adv., 2024, 10
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Palladium‐Catalyzed α‐Selective Halogenation of Triptycene Using Sulfur Directing Group

Keisuke Ueno, Yuji Nishii, Koji Hirano and Masahiro Miura

Asian J Org Chem, 2023, 12
DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.202300588

Effective Design for Long-Range Polymer Ordering Using Triptycene-Containing Side Chains

Jiatong Yu, Ayami Itagaki, Yugen Chen, Tomoya Fukui, Fumitaka Ishiwari, Takashi Kajitani and Takanori Fukushima

Macromolecules, 2023, 56, 4556
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.3c00795

Tripodal Triptycenes as a Versatile Building Block for Highly Ordered Molecular Films and Self-Assembled Monolayers

Michael Zharnikov, Yoshiaki Shoji and Takanori Fukushima

Acc. Chem. Res., 2025, 58, 312
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.4c00743

Introduction of Triptycene with a Particular Substitution Pattern into Polymer Chains Can Dramatically Improve the Structural and Rheological Properties

Fumitaka Ishiwari, Gen Okabe, Takashi Kajitani and Takanori Fukushima

ACS Macro Lett., 2021, 10, 1529
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.1c00660