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Jian Ping Gong

Jian Ping Gong

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Chemistry
Japan
2026
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Materials Science
Japan
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
105
Citations
44294
World Ranking
838
National Ranking
26

Chemistry

D-Index
96
Citations
40199
World Ranking
1518
National Ranking
69

Jian Ping Gong publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jian Ping Gong sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 566 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Jian Ping Gong D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jian Ping Gong sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Jian Ping Gong is a researcher affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan. Their work predominantly spans the fields of Engineering and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on specialized subfields including Molecular Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomaterials, and Polymers and Plastics.

The scientist's research explores key topics related to hydrogels, including their synthesis, properties, and applications. Additional areas of study cover advanced materials and mechanics, sensor and energy harvesting materials, 3D printing in biomedical research, polymer surface interaction studies, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, and elasticity and material modeling.

Some of Jian Ping Gong's recent published papers include:

  • Design principles for strong and tough hydrogels, 2024, Nature Reviews Materials
  • Bioinspired Underwater Adhesives, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Barnacle Cement Proteins-Inspired Tough Hydrogels with Robust, Long-Lasting, and Repeatable Underwater Adhesion, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Toughening hydrogels through force-triggered chemical reactions that lengthen polymer strands, 2021, Science
  • Fabrication of Bioinspired Hydrogels: Challenges and Opportunities, 2020, Macromolecules

Their frequent coauthors include Tasuku Nakajima, Takayuki Kurokawa, Takayuki Nonoyama, Kunpeng Cui, and Shinya Tanaka, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts in their research.

Jian Ping Gong has contributed extensively to a variety of scientific journals and publication venues. The most frequent venues for their work are:

  • Macromolecules
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • UNC Libraries
  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

In addition to journal articles, their publication record includes book contributions, such as the title Cryptoeconomics published by Auerbach Publications eBooks in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Double‐Network Hydrogels with Extremely High Mechanical Strength

    Jian Ping Gong;Yoshinori Katsuyama;Takayuki Kurokawa;Yoshihito Osada

  • Why are double network hydrogels so tough

    Jian Ping Gong

  • Physical hydrogels composed of polyampholytes demonstrate high toughness and viscoelasticity

    Tao Lin Sun;Takayuki Kurokawa;Shinya Kuroda;Abu Bin Ihsan

  • Mechanoresponsive self-growing hydrogels inspired by muscle training

    Takahiro Matsuda;Runa Kawakami;Ryo Namba;Tasuku Nakajima

  • High Mechanical Strength Double‐Network Hydrogel with Bacterial Cellulose

    Atsushi Nakayama;Akira Kakugo;Jian Ping Gong;Yoshihito Osada

  • Super tough double network hydrogels and their application as biomaterials

    Md. Anamul Haque;Takayuki Kurokawa;Jian Ping Gong

  • Large Strain Hysteresis and Mullins Effect of Tough Double-Network Hydrogels

    Rebecca E. Webber;Costantino Creton;Hugh R. Brown;Jian Ping Gong

  • Soft and Wet Materials: Polymer Gels

    Yoshihito Osada;Jian-Ping Gong

  • Oppositely charged polyelectrolytes form tough, self-healing, and rebuildable hydrogels

    Feng Luo;Tao Lin Sun;Tasuku Nakajima;Takayuki Kurokawa

  • Tough Physical Double-Network Hydrogels Based on Amphiphilic Triblock Copolymers.

    Hui Jie Zhang;Tao Lin Sun;Ao Kai Zhang;Yumihiko Ikura

  • Friction and lubrication of hydrogels—its richness and complexity

    Jian Ping Gong

  • Materials both Tough and Soft

    Jian Ping Gong

  • A Facile Method to Fabricate Anisotropic Hydrogels with Perfectly Aligned Hierarchical Fibrous Structures

    Md. Tariful Islam Mredha;Yun Zhou Guo;Takayuki Nonoyama;Tasuku Nakajima

  • Lamellar Bilayers as Reversible Sacrificial Bonds To Toughen Hydrogel: Hysteresis, Self-Recovery, Fatigue Resistance, and Crack Blunting

    M. Anamul Haque;Takayuki Kurokawa;Gen Kamita;J. Ping Gong

  • Biomechanical properties of high-toughness double network hydrogels.

    Kazunori Yasuda;Jian Ping Gong;Yoshinori Katsuyama;Atsushi Nakayama

  • Bioinspired Underwater Adhesives

    Hailong Fan;Jian Ping Gong

  • True Chemical Structure of Double Network Hydrogels

    Tasuku Nakajima;Hidemitsu Furukawa;Yoshimi Tanaka;Takayuki Kurokawa

  • Tough Hydrogels with Fast, Strong, and Reversible Underwater Adhesion Based on a Multiscale Design.

    Ping Rao;Tao Lin Sun;Tao Lin Sun;Liang Chen;Riku Takahashi

  • Determination of fracture energy of high strength double network hydrogels.

    Yoshimi Tanaka;Rikimaru Kuwabara;Yang-Ho Na;Takayuki Kurokawa

  • Adjacent cationic–aromatic sequences yield strong electrostatic adhesion of hydrogels in seawater

    Hailong Fan;Jiahui Wang;Zhen Tao;Junchao Huang

  • Synthesis of hydrogels with extremely low surface friction.

    Jian Ping Gong;Takayuki Kurokawa;Tetsuharu Narita;Go Kagata

  • Necking Phenomenon of Double-Network Gels

    Yang-Ho Na;Yoshimi Tanaka;Yasunori Kawauchi;Hidemitsu Furukawa

  • Stimuli-responsive polymer gels and their application to chemomechanical systems

    Yoshihito Osada;Jianping Gong

Frequent Co-Authors

Takayuki Kurokawa
Takayuki Kurokawa Hokkaido University
Tasuku Nakajima
Tasuku Nakajima Hokkaido University
Hidemitsu Furukawa
Hidemitsu Furukawa Yamagata University
Kazunori Yasuda
Kazunori Yasuda Hokkaido University
Zi Liang Wu
Zi Liang Wu Zhejiang University
Wei Hong
Wei Hong Southern University of Science and Technology
Wen-li Wu
Wen-li Wu National Institute of Standards and Technology
Eric K. Lin
Eric K. Lin National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hideomi Koinuma
Hideomi Koinuma Tokyo Institute of Technology

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