Publications
# equal contribution, * corresponding author
19. Sara Kozub#, Ariel F. Perez Mellor#, Johanna Brazard, Simone G. Giuffrida, Wojciech Dudziak, Céline Besnard, Thomas Bürgi, Takuji B. M. Adachi*, Roza Szweda, Stereocontrol as a tool for shaping abiotic, sequence-defined polymers. Submitted
18. Paul Subhankar, Zihan Li, Sagar Biswas, Debjit Biswas, Arka Dey, Celine Besnard, Takuji ; Adachi, Reddy G N Manjunatha*, Debangshu Chaudhuri*, Two-dimensional Supramolecular Polymorphism by Manipulating Weak Interactions. Submitted
17. Selmihan Şahİn, Johanna Brazard; Takuji B. M. Adachi; Ross D. Milton*; Sven T. Stripp*, Probing the Ferredoxin:Hydrogenase Electron Transfer Complex by Infrared Difference Spectroscopy. Chemical Science, 2025, Advanced Articles (Link), Preprint (Link)
16. Gabriel Cotting; Oscar Urquidi; Céline Besnard; Johanna Brazard*; Takuji B. M. Adachi*, The effect of salt additive on glycine crystallization pathway revealed by studying one crystal nucleation at a time. PNAS, 2025, 122 (10) e2419638122 (Link). Press release by Section of Chemistry and Biochemistry, "Understanding crystallisation: a key to more reliable medicines" by Dr. Pierrick Berruyer. Commentary article by Dr. Ruiyu Wang and Prof. Pratyush Tiwary in PNAS "Enhanced polymorph metastability drives glycine nucleation in aqueous salt solutions"
15. Johanna Brazard; Takuji B. M. Adachi; Andrew Turner; Montserrat Filella*, Determination of titanium speciation in consumer plastics by Raman microspectroscopy, Microchemical Journal, 2025, 208, 112391 (Link)
14. Natercia Barbosa*; Tetiana Khakhula; Johanna Brazard; Takuji B. M. Adachi*, Beauty and Complexity of Calcium Carbonate Precipitation: Optical Microscopy and in situ Raman Microspectroscopy Observation, Crystal Growth and Design, 2025, 25 (2), 210-224 (Link). Featured by American Chemical Society Headline Science (Link): Youtube video
13. Thao Tran; Viktoriia Galdina; Oscar Urquidi; Robert Rieben; Takuji B. M. Adachi; Gisella Puga Yung; Jörg D. Seebach, Assessment of NK cytotoxicity and interactions with porcine endothelial cells by live-cell imaging in 2D static and 3D microfluidic systems. Scientific Reports, 2024, 14, 24199 (Link)
12. Oscar Urquidi; Johanna Brazard; Takuji B. M. Adachi*, Binning method for artifact-free time-tag based correlation function calculations, Optics Letters, 2024, 49, 16, 4569-4572 (Link)
11. Natercia Barbosa; Oscar Urquidi; Johanna Brazard; Takuji B. M. Adachi*, in situ/in vivo optical microspectroscopy to probe the emergence of morphology, CHIMIA, 2024, 78, 1/2, 50-58. (invited contribution) (Link)
10. Oscar Urquidi*; Johanna Brazard; Takuji B. M. Adachi*, Exploring dynamic light scattering microscopy (MicroDLS): a study of key parameters, Proc. SPIE 12672, Applied Optical Metrology V, 1267209 (Link)
9. Ariel F. Perez Mellor#*, Johanna Brazard#*, Sara Kozub, Thomas Bürgi, Roza Szweda, Takuji B. M. Adachi*, Unveiling the Configurational Landscape of Carbamate: Paving the Way for Designing Functional Sequence-Defined Polymers, Journal of physical chemistry A, 2023, 127, 35, 7309-7322 (Link) Preprint: ChemRxiv
8. Oscar Urquidi*; Natercia Barbosa; Johanna Brazard; Takuji B. M. Adachi*, Towards time resolved dynamic light scatterng microscopy: Retrieving particle size distributions at high temporal resolutions, Review of Scientific instruments, 2023, 94, 083101 (Link)
7. Stefan Farsang*; Razvan Caracas; Takuji B. M. Adachi; Cédric Scnyder; Zoltan Zajacz, S2- and S3- radicals and the S42- polysulfide ion in lazurite, haüyne and synthetic ultramarine blue revealed by resonance Raman spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, Early View (Link)
6. Sehee Jeong, Natercia Barbosa, Akash Tiwari, Emma K. Holland, Ling-Yi Huang, Vinayak Bhat, Yongfan Yang, Yuze Zhang, St. John Whittaker, Min-Woo Kim, Aida Alaei, Pallavi Sundaram, Rochelle Spencer, Johanna Brazard, Dilhan Kalyon, Chad Risko, John E. Anthony, Takuji B. M. Adachi, Alexander G. Shtukenberg, Bart Kahr and Stephanie S. Lee*, Twisted Crystalline Organic Semiconductor Photodetectors, Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 33, 2212531 (Link)
5. Chunfeng Chen, Jorge S. Valera, Takuji B. M. Adachi, Thomas M. Hermans*, Efficient photoredox cycles to control perylenediimide selfassembly, Chemistry - A European Journal, 2023, 29 (1), e202202849 (Link), Preprint: ChemRxiv.
4. Montserrat Filella*; Johanna Brazard; Takuji B. M. Adachi; Andrew Turner, Hazardous Chemical Elements in Cleaning Cloths, a Potential Source of Microfibres, Science of The Total Environment (STOTEN), 2022, 846, 157419 (Link), Preprint: SSRN
3. Takuji B. M. Adachi*; Johanna Brazard; Oscar Urquidi, Reply to Liao and Wynne: The size of crystal nucleus remains as an open question, PNAS, 2022, 119 (33) e2207713119 (Link)
2. Natercia Barbosa; Jean-Michel Jaquet; Oscar Urquidi; Takuji B. M. Adachi*; Montserrat Filella*, Combined in vitro and in vivo investigation of barite microcrystals in Spirogyra (Zygnematophyceae, Charophyta), Journal of Plant Physiology, 2022, 276, 153769 (Link)
1. Oscar Urquidi#; Johanna Brazard#; Natalie LeMessurier; Lena Simine; Takuji B. M. Adachi*, In situ optical Spectroscopy of Crystallization: One crystal nucleation at a time, PNAS, 2022, 119 (16) e2122990119 (Link), Preprint: ChemRxiv.
Highlighted in the "This week in PNAS" section of the issue. Press release by University of Geneva: "Revolutionalry images of the birth of crystals" by M. Antoine Guenot. Commentary article "Crystal nucleation: Rare made common and captured by Raman" by Prof. Baron Peters. Highlighted in Science-Switzerland news (April-May).
Google Scholar profile of Takuji Adachi: link
Google Scholar profile of Johanna Brazard: link