Publications



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author : Ken Hirano

First name Ken
Family name Hirano

2023

"Micro-DC rotary-motor working smoothly with neither contact brush nor fixed-axis"

Shusuke Ishida, Satoshi Takatori, Ken Hirano, Daigo Yamamoto, Yohei Oe and Kenichi Yoshikawa, AIP Advances, 13, 1-6 (2023)

2018

"Stretching of single DNA molecules caused by accelerating flow on a microchip"

Ken Hirano, Takafumi Iwaki, Tomomi Ishido, Yuko Yoshikawa, keiji Naruse and Kenichi Yoshikawa, THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 149, 165101-165107, (2018)

2015

"Marked difference in conformational fluctuation between giant DNA molecules in circular and linear forms"

Takafumi Iwaki, Tomomi Ishido, Ken Hirano, Alexei Lazutin, Valentina V. Vasilevskaya, Takahiro Kenmotsu and Kenichi Yoshikawa, Journal of Chemical Physics, 142, (2015)

2013

"Plasmonic Imaging of Brownian Motion of Single DNA Molecules Spontaneously Binding to Ag Nanoparticles"

Ken Hirano, Tomomi Ishido, Yuko S. Yamamoto, Norio Murase, Masatoshi Ichikawa, Kenichi Yoshikawa, Yoshinobu Baba and Tamitake Itoh, NANO LETTERS, 1877-1882 (2013)

2012

"How Environmental Solution Conditions Determine the Compaction Velocity of Single DNA Molecules"

Ken Hirano, Masatoshi Ichikawa, Tomomi Ishido, Mitsuru Ishikawa, Yoshinobu Baba and Kenichi Yoshikawa, Nucleic Acids Research, 40, 284-289 (2012)

2002

"Geometric Manipulation of DNA Molecules with a Laser"

Yukiko Matsuzawa, Ken Hirano, Akira Mizuno, Masatoshi Ichikawa and Kenichi Yoshikawa, Applied Physics Letters, 81, 3494-3496 (2002)

2000

"Visualization and Optical Trapping of an Individual Submicrometer-Sized Assembly in Aqueous Solution: Aminated Polyethylene Glycol (PEG-A) Complexed with Palmitic Acid and DNA in Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) Solution"

Yukiko Matsuzawa, Yoshiyuki Koyama, Ken Hirano, Toshio Kanbe, Shinji Katsura, Akira Mizuno and Kenichi Yoshikawa, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 122, 2200-2205 (2000)

1999

"Higher Order Structure of Single DNA Macromolecules Controlled by Redox States of Fe2+/Fe3+"

Yuichi Yamasaki, Ken Hirano, Akira Mizuno and Kenichi Yoshikawa, 183-186 (1999)

"Laser Trapping of an Individual DNA Molecule Folded Using Various Condensing Agents"

Yukiko Matsuzawa, Ken Hirano, Kohei Mori, Shinji Katsura, Kenichi Yoshikawa and Akira Mizuno, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 121, 11581-11582 (1999)

1998

"Optical Trapping of Single DNA Molecule Complexed with Cationic Surfactant"

Yuichi Yamasaki, Ken Hirano, Keisuke Morishima, Akira Mizuno, Fumito Arai and Kenichi Yoshikawa, Forma, 13, 397-403 (1998)

"Direct Laser Trapping of Single DNA Molecules in the Globular State"

Shinji Katsura, Ken Hirano, Yukiko Matsuzawa, Kenichi Yoshikawa and Akira Mizuno, Nucleic Acids Research, 26, 4943-4945 (1998)