Satoshi Aya

Satoshi Aya

RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)

Affiliated withRIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)

Research Area

Biography

Satoshi Aya is a Professor in the South China University of Technology, South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), South China University of Technology, China. He received his bachaler, master and doctoral degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

His principal interests are the physicochemical properties of soft matter, particularly surface properties, electrooptic effects and topological properties of liquid crystals, colloids, polymers and supramolecular systems. He has also conducting application-orientated researches by using materials with liquid crystalline nature.

JoVE Journal Publications

ArticleTotal : 2
Year
Orientational Transition in a Liquid Crystal Triggered by the Thermodynamic Growth of Interfacial Wetting Sheets
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2017
High-Contrast and Fast Photorheological Switching of a Twist-Bend Nematic Liquid Crystal
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Cited by 3

2019

Other Publications

Article
Year
Observation of two isotropic-nematic phase transitions near a surface.

Physical review letters| PubMed ID: 21469896

2011
Isotropic-nematic transition at the surface of a liquid crystal embedded in an aerosil network.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics| PubMed ID: 21797394

2011
Two transitions between isotropic and nematic phases in confined liquid crystals.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics| PubMed ID: 22181151

2011
Critical behavior in an electric-field-induced anchoring transition in a liquid crystal.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics| PubMed ID: 23005358

2012
Evolution of the discontinuous anchoring transition under an electric field.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics| PubMed ID: 23410349

2013
2014
Discontinuous thermal diffusivity change due to the anchoring transition of a liquid crystal on a perfluoropolymer surface.

Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry| PubMed ID: 24677707

2014
Photoresponsive stripe pattern in achiral azobenzene liquid crystals.

Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry| PubMed ID: 25278272

2015
Stepwise heat-capacity change at an orientation transition in liquid crystals.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics| PubMed ID: 25353494

2014
Structure-sensitive bend elastic constants between piconewton and subnanonewton in diphenylacetylene-core-based liquid crystals.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics| PubMed ID: 25375514

2014
Thermodynamically Anchoring-Frustrated Surface to Trigger Bulk Discontinuous Orientational Transition.

Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids| PubMed ID: 27673490

2016