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Overview

Kazuhiro Otsuka is affiliated with the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan. Their research contributions primarily focus on materials science and engineering, with a particular emphasis on the properties, transformations, and applications of advanced alloys and materials.

Their recent scholarly output includes papers published between 2022 and 2024 in reputable venues such as Nature Materials, Acta Materialia, and ECS Meeting Abstracts. Notable publications include:

  • A lightweight strain glass alloy showing nearly temperature-independent low modulus and high strength, 2022, Nature Materials
  • Reentrant strain glass transition in Ti-Ni-Cu shape memory alloy, 2022, Acta Materialia
  • Synthesis, Thermal Stability, and Proton Conductivity of Nam 1-X Li1-X H x (PO3)3·YH2o (M: Ni2+ and Mg2+), 2024, ECS Meeting Abstracts

Their research encompasses several main fields and subfields including:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • General Materials Science
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Kazuhiro Otsuka has explored topics related to:

  • Material Properties and Applications
  • Material Science and Thermodynamics
  • Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties
  • Shape Memory Alloy Transformations
  • Thermal and Kinetic Analysis
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies

Throughout their publications, Otsuka has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, indicating ongoing partnerships in research projects. Frequent collaborators include Yuanchao Ji, Shuai Ren, Dong Wang, Xiaobing Ren, and Chang Liu.

Publication venues where Otsuka's work has appeared include:

  • Nature Materials
  • Acta Materialia
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts

This profile reflects Kazuhiro Otsuka's focus on advancing understanding and development of materials at the intersection of mechanics, chemistry, and engineering, informed by experimental and theoretical analysis of novel alloys and related materials.

Best Publications

  • Physical metallurgy of Ti–Ni-based shape memory alloys

    K. Otsuka;X. Ren

  • Shape Memory Materials

    K. Otsuka

  • RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RESEARCH OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS

    Kazuhiro Otsuka;Xiaobing Ren

  • Effect of Cyclic Deformation on the Pseudoelasticity Characteristics of Ti-Ni Alloys

    S. Miyazaki;T. Imai;Y. Igo;K. Otsuka

  • Development of Shape Memory Alloys

    Shuichi Miyazaki;Kazuhiro Otsuka

  • Transformation pseudoelasticity and deformation behavior in a Ti-50.6at%Ni alloy

    S. Miyazaki;K. Otsuka;Y. Suzuki

  • Effect of thermal cycling on the transformation temperatures of TiNi alloys

    S. Miyazaki;Y. Igo;K. Otsuka

  • Deformation and transition behavior associated with theR-phase in Ti-Ni alloys

    Shuichi Miyazaki;Kazuhiro Otsuka

  • CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE MARTENSITE IN Ti-49.2 at.%Ni ALLOY ANALYZED BY THE SINGLE CRYSTAL X-RAY DIFFRACTION METHOD

    Y Kudoh;M Tokonami;S Miyazaki;K Otsuka

  • Crystal structure and internal defects of equiatomic TiNi martensite

    K. Otsuka;T. Sawamura;K. Shimizu

  • Science and Technology of Shape-Memory Alloys: New Developments

    Kazuhiro Otsuka;Tomoyuki Kakeshita

  • Pseudoelasticity and shape memory effects in alloys

    K. Otsuka;K. Shimizu

  • Superelasticity effects and stress-induced martensitic transformations in CuAlNi alloys

    K Otsuka;C.M Wayman;K Nakai;H Sakamoto

  • CHARACTERISTICS OF DEFORMATION AND TRANSFORMATION PSEUDOELASTICITY IN Ti-Ni ALLOYS

    S. Miyazaki;Y. Ohmi;K. Otsuka;Y. Suzuki

  • Successive stress-induced martensitic transformations and associated transformation pseudoelasticity in Cu-Al-Ni alloys

    K. Otsuka;H. Sakamoto;K. Shimizu

  • Evidence for Strain Glass in the Ferroelastic-Martensitic System Ti 50-x Ni 50+x

    Shampa Sarkar;Xiaobing Ren;Kazuhiro Otsuka

  • Origin of abnormal multi-stage martensitic transformation behavior in aged Ni-rich Ti–Ni shape memory alloys

    Genlian Fan;Wei Chen;Sen Yang;Jinhua Zhu

  • A comparative study of elastic constants of Ti-Ni-based alloys prior to martensitic transformation

    X Ren;N Miura;J Zhang;K Otsuka

  • Mechanism of the As temperature increase by pre-deformation in thermoelastic alloys

    Min Piao;Kazuhiro Otsuka;Shuichi Miyazaki;Hiroshi Horikawa

  • The shape memory mechanism associated with the martensitic transformation in TiNi alloys—I. Self-accommodation

    S. Miyazaki;K. Otsuka;C.M. Wayman

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaobing Ren
Xiaobing Ren National Institute for Materials Science
Shuichi Miyazaki
Shuichi Miyazaki University of Tsukuba
Xiangdong Ding
Xiangdong Ding Xi'an Jiaotong University
Jun Sun
Jun Sun Xi'an Jiaotong University
Genlian Fan
Genlian Fan Shanghai Jiao Tong University
C.M. Wayman
C.M. Wayman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yoshio Bando
Yoshio Bando University of Wollongong
Dmitri Golberg
Dmitri Golberg Queensland University of Technology
Fuxing Yin
Fuxing Yin Guangdong University of Technology

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