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Hiroshi Jinnai

Hiroshi Jinnai

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Materials Science

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62
Citations
12393
World Ranking
6552
National Ranking
337

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For elucidating the threedimensional morphology of complex polymer systems by transmission electron microtomography

Overview

Hiroshi Jinnai is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and specializes in the field of Materials Science, with a focus on polymers and plastics, materials chemistry, surfaces and coatings, biomaterials, as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their research topics include:

  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties
  • Polymer Crystallization and Properties
  • Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Block Copolymer Self-Assembly

Jinnai has published extensively in well-known journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • AIJ Journal of Technology and Design
  • Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering (Transactions of AIJ)
  • Polymer
  • Macromolecules
  • Langmuir

Recent significant publications by Jinnai feature a range of studies on polymer composites, nanostructures, and materials properties:

  • Cellulose nanofiber/elastomer composites with high tensile strength, modulus, toughness, and thermal stability prepared by high-shear kneading (2020, Composites Science and Technology)
  • Networks with controlled chirality via self-assembly of chiral triblock terpolymers (2020, Science Advances)
  • Ultra-low dielectric properties of porous polyimide thin films fabricated by using the two kinds of templates with different particle sizes (2020, Polymer)
  • Nanoscale TEM Imaging of Hydrogel Network Architecture (2022, Advanced Materials)
  • Effect of inorganic material surface chemistry on structures and fracture behaviours of epoxy resin (2024, Nature Communications)

Collaborators with whom Jinnai has frequently worked include:

  • Tomohiro Miyata
  • Akemi Kumagai
  • Katsumi Hagita
  • Hironori Marubayashi
  • Hsiao-Fang Wang

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Hiroshi Jinnai was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010, cited specifically for elucidating the three-dimensional morphology of complex polymer systems by transmission electron microtomography.

Best Publications

  • Wetting Transition from the Cassie–Baxter State to the Wenzel State on Textured Polymer Surfaces

    Daiki Murakami;Hiroshi Jinnai;Atsushi Takahara

  • Small-molecule-directed nanoparticle assembly towards stimuli-responsive nanocomposites

    Yue Zhao;Kari Thorkelsson;Alexander J. Mastroianni;Alexander J. Mastroianni;Thomas Schilling

  • Monolithic silica columns with various skeleton sizes and through-pore sizes for capillary liquid chromatography.

    Masanori Motokawa;Hiroshi Kobayashi;Norio Ishizuka;Hiroyoshi Minakuchi

  • Transmission electron microtomography without the "missing wedge" for quantitative structural analysis.

    Noboru Kawase;Mitsuro Kato;Hideo Nishioka;Hiroshi Jinnai

  • Direct measurement of interfacial curvature distributions in a bicontinuous block copolymer morphology.

    Hiroshi Jinnai;Yukihiro Nishikawa;Richard J. Spontak;Steven D. Smith

  • Transmission Electron Microtomography and Polymer Nanostructures

    Hiroshi Jinnai;Hiroshi Jinnai;Richard J. Spontak;Toshio Nishi

  • Microdomain Morphology in an ABC 3-Miktoarm Star Terpolymer: A Study by Energy-Filtering TEM and 3D Electron Tomography

    Kazuhiro Yamauchi;Keiko Takahashi;Hirokazu Hasegawa;Hermis Iatrou

  • Self‐Assembled ABC Triblock Copolymer Double and Triple Helices

    John Dupont;Guojun Liu;Ken Ichi Niihara;Ryuhei Kimoto

  • Curvature Determination of Spinodal Interface in a Condensed Matter System

    Hiroshi Jinnai;Tsuyoshi Koga;Yukihiro Nishikawa;Takeji Hashimoto

  • Cylindrically Confined Diblock Copolymers

    Priyanka Dobriyal;Hongqi Xiang;Matsunaga Kazuyuki;Jiun Tai Chen

  • Electric Field Alignment of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymer Thin Films

    T. Xu;Andrei Zvelindovsky;G. J. A. Sevink;K. S. Lyakhova

  • Novel neutron reflectometer SOFIA at J-PARC/MLF for in-situ soft-interface characterization

    Koji Mitamura;Norifui L Yamada;Hidenori Sagehashi;Naoya Torikai

  • Solvent-Driven Evolution of Block Copolymer Morphology under 3D Confinement

    Le Li;Kazuyuki Matsunaga;Jintao Zhu;Takeshi Higuchi

  • Extreme‐Performance Rubber Nanocomposites for Probing and Excavating Deep Oil Resources Using Multi‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Morinobu Endo;Toru Noguchi;Masasei Ito;Kenji Takeuchi

  • Multipurpose soft-material SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS beamline at SPring-8

    Hiroyasu Masunaga;Hiroki Ogawa;Takumi Takano;Sono Sasaki

  • Surface curvatures of trabecular bone microarchitecture.

    H Jinnai;H Watashiba;T Kajihara;Y Nishikawa

  • Direct Observation of Three-Dimensional Bicontinuous Structure Developed via Spinodal Decomposition

    Hiroshi Jinnai;Yukihiro Nishikawa;Tsuyoshi Koga;Takeji Hashimoto

  • Transmission electron microtomography in polymer research

    Hiroshi Jinnai;Richard J. Spontak

  • Structural formation of hybrid siloxane-based polymer monolith in confined spaces.

    Kazuyoshi Kanamori;Hideyuki Yonezawa;Kazuki Nakanishi;Kazuyuki Hirao

  • Direct Observation of Internal Structures in Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Chemical Gels

    Yoshitsugu Hirokawa;Hiroshi Jinnai;Yukihiro Nishikawa;Takuya Okamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Atsushi Takahara
Atsushi Takahara Kyushu University
Toshio Nishi
Toshio Nishi Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takeji Hashimoto
Takeji Hashimoto Kyoto University
Hirokazu Hasegawa
Hirokazu Hasegawa Kyoto University
Kazuki Nakanishi
Kazuki Nakanishi Nagoya University
Hiroshi Yabu
Hiroshi Yabu Tohoku University
Kazuyuki Hirao
Kazuyuki Hirao Kyoto University
Richard J. Spontak
Richard J. Spontak North Carolina State University
Kazuyoshi Kanamori
Kazuyoshi Kanamori Kyoto University
Masami Kamigaito
Masami Kamigaito Nagoya University

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