Shodai Hasebe

About

Shodai HASEBE is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University, New York. He earned his B.Sc. (2020) and a Ph.D. in Engineering (2025) from Waseda University in Tokyo. His research interests include developing novel materials with unprecedented physicochemical properties from the perspectives of organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and materials science.

Employment

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  2026 - Present
• Columbia University Postdoctoral researcher
  2026 - Present
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1)
  2022 - 2025

Education

• Waseda University Doctor of Engineering
  2020 - 2025
• Waseda University Bachelor of Science
  2016 - 2020

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (19)

• Light-driven composite films with photomechanical salicylideneaniline crystals aligned in UV-curing resins for soft actuators
  Materials Today Communications 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2025.114375
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• Polarization Dependence of Photothermally Resonated Natural Vibration in an Aminoanthraquinone Crystal
  ChemPhotoChem 2025 DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202500221
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• Organic Crystals Actuated by Photothermally Resonated Natural Vibration
  Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi 2025 DOI: 10.5940/jcrsj.67.155
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• Photomechanical motion of three polymorphic salicylideneaniline crystals with distinct bending directions, speeds, and repeatability
  Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 2025 DOI: 10.1093/bulcsj/uoaf032
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• Control of Polymorphism and Alignment in Photochromic Salicylideneaniline Crystals Grown by Directional Crystallization
  Crystal Growth & Design 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.4c01729
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• Actuation Performance and Versatility of Photothermally Driven Organic Crystals
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202418570
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• Actuation Performance and Versatility of Photothermally Driven Organic Crystals
  Angewandte Chemie 2025 DOI: 10.1002/ange.202418570
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• Broad‐Wavelength Light‐Fueled Organic Crystal Oscillators Driven by Multimodal Photothermally Resonated Natural Vibration
  Advanced Functional Materials 2024 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202410671
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• Prediction of Photochromism of Salicylideneaniline Crystals Using a Data Mining Approach
  ACS Omega 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c07859
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• Negative to positive axial thermal expansion switching of an organic crystal: contribution to multistep photoactuation
  Chemical Science 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D3SC04796B
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• Broad‐Wavelength Light‐Driven High‐Speed Hybrid Crystal Actuators Actuated Inside Tissue‐Like Phantoms
  Advanced Functional Materials 2023 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202305916
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• Photothermally induced natural vibration for versatile and high-speed actuation of crystals
  Nature Communications 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37086-8
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• Mechanical properties and peculiarities of molecular crystals
  Chemical Society Reviews 2023 DOI: 10.1039/d2cs00481j
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• Polymorph-Derived Diversification of Crystal Actuation by Photoisomerization and the Photothermal Effect
  Chemistry of Materials 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c04007
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• Crystal actuation switching by crystal thickness and light wavelength
  Materials Advances 2022 DOI: 10.1039/D2MA00825D
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• Flexible organic crystals. Understanding the tractable co-existence of elastic and plastic bending
  Indira S. Divya, Saravanan Kandasamy, Shodai Hasebe +4 more
  Chemical Science 2022 DOI: 10.1039/d2sc02969c
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• Mechanically Responsive Organic Crystals by Light
  Israel Journal of Chemistry 2021 DOI: 10.1002/ijch.202100093
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• Photothermally Driven High-Speed Crystal Actuation and Its Simulation
  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03588
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• Light-Driven Crystal–Polymer Hybrid Actuators
  Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2021 DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2021.684287
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