Hiroki HIGUCHI,
Assistant Professor
Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University Division of Integrated Materials
Contact Information
Address: 6-1 Kasuga-Koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580
E-mail: higuchi “at” cm.kyushu-u.ac.jp (but replace "at" with "@")
Personal Homepage： http://kikuchi-lab.cm.kyushu-u.ac.jp/eng/
E-mail: higuchi “at” cm.kyushu-u.ac.jp (but replace "at" with "@")
Personal Homepage： http://kikuchi-lab.cm.kyushu-u.ac.jp/eng/
Fields of Interest
Polymer, Liquid Crystal, Organic Chemistry
Professional Experience
| 2002-2005 | Graduate Reserch, Hokkaido University (T. Suzuki) |
| 2005-2005 | JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Hokkaido University |
| 2005-2007 | Research Associate, Kyushu University |
| 2007-present | Assistant Professor, Kyushu University |
Education
Dr. 2005, Hokkaido University
Membership of Academic Societies
The Society of Polymer Science, Japan, Japanese Liquid Crystal Society, The Chemical Society of Japan
Awards & Honors
Research Project
Creative Development of Fusion Materials based on Highly Ordered Soft Matter
Selected Publications
- Shibayama, S., Higuchi, H., Okumura, Y., Kikuchi, H.
“Dendron-Stabilized Liquid Crystalline Blue Phases with Enlarged Controllable Range of Photonic Band for Tunable Photonic Device”
Adv. Funct. Mater., 23, 2387-2396, (2013).
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Choi, H., Higuchi, H., Ogawa, Y., Kikuchi, H.
“Polymer-Stabilized Supercooled Blue Phase”,
Appl. Phys. Lett., 101, 131904/1-131904/5 (2012).
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Choi, H., Higuchi, H., Kikuchi, H.
“Electrooptic Response of Liquid Crystalline Blue Phases with Different Chiral Pitches”,
Soft Matter, 7, 4252-4256 (2011).
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Choi, H., Higuchi, H., Kikuchi, H.
“Fast Electro-Optic Switching in Liquid Crystal Blue Phase II”,
Appl. Phys. Lett., 98, 131905/1-131905/3 (2011).
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Lee, M., Hur, S., Higuchi, H., Song, K., Choi, S., Kikuchi, H.
“Liquid Crystalline Blue Phase I Observed for a Bent-Core Molecule and Its Electro-Optical Performance”,
J. Mater. Chem., 20, 5813-5816 (2010).