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Hiroshi Watanabe

Hiroshi Watanabe

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Materials Science

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63
Citations
13398
World Ranking
6226
National Ranking
313

Chemistry

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63
Citations
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World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Overview

Hiroshi Watanabe is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and specializes in materials science with a focus on polymers and related fields. Their research portfolio includes 47 publications primarily in materials science, with significant contributions in the subfields of polymers and plastics, fluid flow and transfer processes, materials chemistry, organic chemistry, and biomedical engineering.

Their work encompasses a range of topics centered on polymer science and material dynamics. Key research themes include:

  • Polymer crystallization and properties
  • Rheology and fluid dynamics studies
  • Polymer nanocomposites and properties
  • Material dynamics and properties
  • Polymer composites and self-healing
  • Liquid crystal research advancements
  • Polymer foaming and composites

Frequent publication venues for Watanabe's work consist of:

  • Macromolecules
  • Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi
  • Rubber Chemistry and Technology
  • Soft Matter
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Collaboration has been a consistent aspect of Watanabe's research. The scientist has worked extensively with these co-authors:

  • Yumi Matsumiya
  • Quan Chen
  • Takeshi Sato
  • Youngdon Kwon
  • Osamu Urakawa

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Hiroshi Watanabe include:

  • "Nanosecond solvation dynamics in a polymer electrolyte for lithium batteries," 2024, Nature Materials
  • "Revisiting Nonlinear Flow Behavior of Rouse Chain: Roles of FENE, Friction-Reduction, and Brownian Force Intensity Variation," 2021, Macromolecules
  • "Nonlinear Rheology of Telechelic Ionomers Based on Sodium Sulfonate and Carboxylate," 2021, Macromolecules
  • "A constitutive equation for Rouse model modified for variations of spring stiffness, bead friction, and Brownian force intensity under flow," 2021, Physics of Fluids
  • "Non-Universal Features in Uniaxially Extensional Rheology of Linear Polymer Melts and Concentrated Solutions: A Review," 2020, Progress in Polymer Science

Hiroshi Watanabe's research addresses fundamental and applied aspects of polymer materials, with a focus on understanding flow behavior, rheological properties, and solvation dynamics, often emphasizing the modulation of molecular and macroscopic properties under various physical conditions.

Best Publications

  • An SV40-immortalized human corneal epithelial cell line and its characterization.

    K Araki-Sasaki;Y Ohashi;T Sasabe;K Hayashi

  • Viscoelasticity and dynamics of entangled polymers

    H. Watanabe

  • Effect of Polylactide Stereocomplex on the Crystallization Behavior of Poly(l-lactic acid)

    Nelly Rahman;Takahiko Kawai;Go Matsuba;Koji Nishida

  • Effect of Molecular Weight and Salt Concentration on Ion Transport and the Transference Number in Polymer Electrolytes

    Ksenia Timachova;Hiroshi Watanabe;Nitash P. Balsara

  • Interdependence of shear deformations and block copolymer morphology

    Karen I. Winey;Sanjay S. Patel;Ronald G. Larson;Hiroshi Watanabe

  • Adsorption of Poly(2-vinylpyridine)-Poly(styrene) Block Copolymers from Toluene Solutions

    Edward Parsonage;Matthew Tirrell;Hiroshi Watanabe;Ralph G. Nuzzo

  • Dielectric relaxation of type-A polymers in melts and solutions

    Hiroshi Watanabe

  • The rheology of layered liquids : lamellar block copolymers and smectic liquid crystals

    R. G. Larson;K. I. Winey;S. S. Patel;H. Watanabe

  • Injectable, self-gelling, biodegradable, and immunomodulatory DNA hydrogel for antigen delivery.

    Makiya Nishikawa;Kohei Ogawa;Yuka Umeki;Kohta Mohri

  • Slow Dielectric Relaxation of a Styrene-Isoprene-Styrene Triblock Copolymer with Dipole Inversion in the Middle Block: A Challenge to a Loop/Bridge Problem

    Hiroshi Watanabe

  • Primitive Chain Network Simulation of Elongational Flows of Entangled Linear Chains: Stretch/Orientation-induced Reduction of Monomeric Friction

    Takatoshi Yaoita;Takatoshi Yaoita;Takeharu Isaki;Yuichi Masubuchi;Hiroshi Watanabe

  • Anomaly of excess pressure drops of the flow through very small orifices

    Tomiichi Hasegawa;Masaki Suganuma;Hiroshi Watanabe

  • Measurement of forces in symmetric and asymmetric interactions between diblock copolymer layers adsorbed on mica

    Hiroshi Watanabe;Matthew Tirrell

  • Dielectric and Viscoelastic Relaxation of Highly Entangled Star Polyisoprene: Quantitative Test of Tube Dilation Model

    Hiroshi Watanabe;Yumi Matsumiya;Tadashi Inoue

  • Nonlinear Rheology of Telechelic Associative Polymer Networks: Shear Thickening and Thinning Behavior of Hydrophobically Modified Ethoxylated Urethane (HEUR) in Aqueous Solution

    Shinya Suzuki;Takashi Uneyama;Tadashi Inoue;Hiroshi Watanabe

  • Amphiphilic telechelic poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in water: From micelles to gels⋆

    P. Kujawa;H. Watanabe;F. Tanaka;F. M. Winnik

  • Test of Full and Partial Tube Dilation Pictures in Entangled Blends of Linear Polyisoprenes

    Hiroshi Watanabe;Satoshi Ishida;Yumi Matsumiya;Tadashi Inoue

  • Annealing effects on thickness of polystyrene thin films as studied by neutron reflectivity

    T. Kanaya;T. Miyazaki;T. Miyazaki;H. Watanabe;K. Nishida

  • Ordered structure in block polymer solutions. 2. Its effect on rheological behavior

    Takeji Hashimoto;Mitsuhiro Shibayama;Hiromichi Kawai;Hiroshi Watanabe

  • Relationship between Segmental Dynamics Measured by Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering and Conductivity in Polymer Electrolytes

    Katrina Irene S. Mongcopa;Madhusudan Tyagi;Madhusudan Tyagi;Jonathan P. Mailoa;Georgy Samsonidze

  • Morphology of a Lamellar Diblock Copolymer Aligned Perpendicular to the Sample Plane: Transmission Electron Microscopy and Small-Angle X-ray Scattering

    Karen I. Winey;Sanjay S. Patel;Ronald G. Larson;Hiroshi Watanabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshiji Kanaya
Toshiji Kanaya High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
Nitash P. Balsara
Nitash P. Balsara University of California, Berkeley
Matthew Tirrell
Matthew Tirrell University of Chicago
Yasuo Tano
Yasuo Tano Osaka University
Yushu Matsushita
Yushu Matsushita Nagoya University
Koichiro Tanaka
Koichiro Tanaka Kyoto University
Ole Hassager
Ole Hassager Technical University of Denmark
Kyung Hyun Ahn
Kyung Hyun Ahn Seoul National University
Gábor Molnár
Gábor Molnár Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Akihiko Kikuchi
Akihiko Kikuchi Tokyo University of Science

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