Yuka Tabe

Professor Yuka Tabe of the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University, is a leading researcher in Biophysics and Soft Matter Physics. Her work focuses on Liquid Crystals, Langmuir Monolayers, and Thermomechanical Coupling in chiral systems.

• Key affiliations: Waseda University (2012–present)
• Professional memberships:
  • The Physical Society of Japan
  • The Japanese Liquid Crystal Society

Her research interests span:

• Cholesteric liquid crystal dynamics under thermal gradients
• Induced smectic phase formation in binary mixtures
• Photo-polymerization in 2D systems
• Defect manipulation in liquid crystal colloids
• Molecular diffusion in ordered soft materials
• Nanoscale patterning via micelle templating

Recent publications (2016–2021) demonstrate:

• Heat-driven rotation of cholesteric droplets (Lehmann effect)
• Stabilization of double-twisted structures via elastic energy competition
• Photochemical control of topological defects in LC emulsions
• Gas permeation studies in smectic films
• Charge-transfer-induced smectic phase ordering
• Molecular dynamics simulations of 2D diffusion