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  • 2016 - Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering

Overview

Akihiko Kikuchi is affiliated with Tokyo University of Science in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Materials Science. Their research primarily focuses on areas such as Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Biomaterials, Molecular Medicine, and Organic Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization

Kikuchi has published in several frequent venues, reflecting the scope and focus of their work:

  • Biomaterials Science
  • Journal of Controlled Release
  • Polymer Journal
  • Analytical Sciences
  • Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "Facile preparation of multi-stimuli-responsive degradable hydrogels for protein loading and release," 2021, Journal of Controlled Release
  • "A 3D tissue model-on-a-chip for studying the effects of human senescent fibroblasts on blood vessels," 2020, Biomaterials Science
  • "Terminal cationization of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brush surfaces facilitates efficient thermoresponsive control of cell adhesion and detachment," 2021, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
  • "Nailfold capillary patterns correlate with age, gender, lifestyle habits, and fingertip temperature," 2022, PLoS ONE
  • "Water stable nanocoatings of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-based block copolymers on culture insert membranes for temperature-controlled cell adhesion," 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Kikuchi frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Syuuhei Komatsu
  • Teruo Okano
  • Mizuo Maeda
  • Yasushi Takai
  • Masamichi Nakayama

Throughout their career, Akihiko Kikuchi has been recognized as a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering, an award received in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Comb-type grafted hydrogels with rapid deswelling response to temperature changes

    Ryo Yoshida;Katsumi Uchida;Yuzo Kaneko;Kiyotaka Sakai

  • Fabrication of Pulsatile Cardiac Tissue Grafts Using a Novel 3-Dimensional Cell Sheet Manipulation Technique and Temperature-Responsive Cell Culture Surfaces

    Tatsuya Shimizu;Masayuki Yamato;Yuki Isoi;Takumitsu Akutsu

  • Cell sheet engineering for myocardial tissue reconstruction

    Tatsuya Shimizu;Masayuki Yamato;Akihiko Kikuchi;Teruo Okano

  • Temperature-Responsive Chromatography Using Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Modified Silica.

    Hideko Kanazawa;Kazuo Yamamoto;Yoshikazu Matsushima;Nobuharu Takai

  • InGaN/GaN Multiple Quantum Disk Nanocolumn Light-Emitting Diodes Grown on (111) Si Substrate

    Akihiko Kikuchi;Mizue Kawai;Makoto Tada;Katsumi Kishino

  • Intelligent thermoresponsive polymeric stationary phases for aqueous chromatography of biological compounds

    Akihiko Kikuchi;Teruo Okano

  • Polysurgery of cell sheet grafts overcomes diffusion limits to produce thick, vascularized myocardial tissues.

    Tatsuya Shimizu;Hidekazu Sekine;Joseph Yang;Yuki Isoi

  • Emission color control from blue to red with nanocolumn diameter of InGaN/GaN nanocolumn arrays grown on same substrate

    Hiroto Sekiguchi;Katsumi Kishino;Akihiko Kikuchi

  • Growth of Self-Organized GaN Nanostructures on Al2O3(0001) by RF-Radical Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy

    Masaki Yoshizawa;Akihiko Kikuchi;Masashi Mori;Nobuhiko Fujita

  • Nanostructured designs of biomedical materials: applications of cell sheet engineering to functional regenerative tissues and organs

    Akihiko Kikuchi;Teruo Okano

  • Improved Ti-mask selective-area growth (SAG) by rf-plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy demonstrating extremely uniform GaN nanocolumn arrays

    Katsumi Kishino;Hiroto Sekiguchi;Akihiko Kikuchi

  • Influence of Freely Mobile Grafted Chain Length on Dynamic Properties of Comb-Type Grafted Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Hydrogels

    Yuzo Kaneko;Kiyotaka Sakai;Akihiko Kikuchi;Ryo Yoshida

  • Temperature-responsive liquid chromatography. 2. Effects of hydrophobic groups in N-isopropylacrylamide copolymer-modified silica.

    Hideko Kanazawa;Yuki Kashiwase;Kazuo Yamamoto;Yoshikazu Matsushima

  • Two-Dimensional Manipulation of Cardiac Myocyte Sheets Utilizing Temperature-Responsive Culture Dishes Augments the Pulsatile Amplitude

    Tatsuya Shimizu;Masayuki Yamato;Akihiko Kikuchi;Teruo Okano

  • Thermally responsive polymer-grafted surfaces facilitate patterned cell seeding and co-culture.

    Masayuki Yamato;Chie Konno;Mika Utsumi;Akihiko Kikuchi

  • Novel approach for achieving double-layered cell sheets co-culture: overlaying endothelial cell sheets onto monolayer hepatocytes utilizing temperature-responsive culture dishes.

    Masami Harimoto;Masayuki Yamato;Motohiro Hirose;Chie Takahashi

  • Temperature-responsive cell culture surfaces for regenerative medicine with cell sheet engineering

    Masayuki Yamato;Yoshikatsu Akiyama;Jun Kobayashi;Joseph Yang

  • Electrically communicating three‐dimensional cardiac tissue mimic fabricated by layered cultured cardiomyocyte sheets

    Tatsuya Shimizu;Masayuki Yamato;Takumitsu Akutsu;Takahiko Shibata

  • Application of periodontal ligament cell sheet for periodontal regeneration: a pilot study in beagle dogs.

    Tatsuya Akizuki;Shigeru Oda;Motohiro Komaki;Hiroaki Tsuchioka

  • Human periodontal ligament cell sheets can regenerate periodontal ligament tissue in an athymic rat model.

    Masateru Hasegawa;Masayuki Yamato;Akihiko Kikuchi;Teruo Okano

  • The use of patterned dual thermoresponsive surfaces for the collective recovery as co-cultured cell sheets

    Yukiko Tsuda;Akihiko Kikuchi;Masayuki Yamato;Aiko Nakao

Frequent Co-Authors

Katsumi Kishino
Katsumi Kishino Sophia University
Masayuki Yamato
Masayuki Yamato Tokyo Women's Medical University
Teruo Okano
Teruo Okano Tokyo Women's Medical University
Yasuhisa Sakurai
Yasuhisa Sakurai Sophia University
Kiyotaka Sakai
Kiyotaka Sakai Waseda University
Hideko Kanazawa
Hideko Kanazawa Keio University
Yasuo Tano
Yasuo Tano Osaka University
Takao Aoyagi
Takao Aoyagi Nihon University
Yoichi Kawakami
Yoichi Kawakami Kyoto University
Naoya Ogata
Naoya Ogata Sophia University

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