スズキ ケンタロウ   Suzuki Kentaro
  鈴木 健太郎
   所属   神奈川大学  理学部 理学科
    神奈川大学大学院  理学研究科 理学専攻(化学領域)
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2016/05
形態種別 学術雑誌
査読 査読あり
標題 Phototaxis of Oil-droplet Comprising Caged Fatty Acid Tightly Linked with Internal Convection
執筆形態 共著
掲載誌名 ChemPhysChem
掲載区分国内
巻・号・頁 17(15),pp.2300-2303
著者・共著者 Kentaro Suzuki, Tadashi Sugawara
概要 We found that novel sub-millimeter-sized photoactive oil droplets of oleic acid bearing a photolabile protecting group, 2-nitrobenzyl oleate (NBO), in basic water exhibited unidirectional motion toward a UV light source. This unidirectional motion can be explained by anisotropic photolysis on a surface of the NBO droplet with low permeability for UV light. Time-dependent changes of the movement under UV irradiation occurred in a cascade manner (still-standing, induction, and active stages). The velocity of the UV-airradiated droplet in the induction stage was small, but it was accelerated sixteen times by the presence of an inner convection structure, which was created by continued photolysis. This characteristic dynamics, which is derived from a supramolecular machinery system towards the external stimulus, may be similar to the phototaxis of a living cell.
DOI 10.1002/cphc.201600273
PermalinkURL http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cphc.201600273/abstract