2026 Kenji Urayama: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	50	10320	9966	638	608	255	7948

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Overview

Kenji Urayama is affiliated with the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Polymers and Plastics, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Molecular Medicine.

The main topics explored in Urayama's research include:

Elasticity and Material Modeling
Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties
Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
Advanced Materials and Mechanics
Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Urayama cover diverse aspects of polymer science and material design. These include:

"Quasi-Homogeneous Photocatalysis in Ultrastiff Microporous Polymer Aerogels," 2024, Journal of the American Chemical Society
"Hypercrosslinked Polymer Gels as a Synthetic Hybridization Platform for Designing Versatile Molecular Separators," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
"Protein-responsive protein release of supramolecular/polymer hydrogel composite integrating enzyme activation systems," 2020, Nature Communications
"Micromechanical modeling of the multi-axial deformation behavior in double network hydrogels," 2020, International Journal of Plasticity
"Control of seed formation allows two distinct self-sorting patterns of supramolecular nanofibers," 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in Urayama's publications include:

Thanh-Tam Mai
Katsuhiko Tsunoda
Takuma Aoyama
Shuhei Furukawa
Zaoming Wang

Kenji Urayama's research contributions are frequently published in venues such as:

Soft Matter
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Nature Communications
ACS Applied Polymer Materials
Macromolecules

Best Publications

Installing logic-gate responses to a variety of biological substances in supramolecular hydrogel–enzyme hybrids

Masato Ikeda;Tatsuya Tanida;Tatsuyuki Yoshii;Kazuya Kurotani

442
Citations
Shape selection of twist-nematic-elastomer ribbons

Yoshiki Sawa;Fangfu Ye;Kenji Urayama;Toshikazu Takigawa

278
Citations
Self-assembly of metal-organic polyhedra into supramolecular polymers with intrinsic microporosity

Arnau Carné-Sánchez;Arnau Carné-Sánchez;Gavin A. Craig;Patrick Larpent;Takashi Hirose

200
Citations
Selected Issues in Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Gels

Kenji Urayama

192
Citations
An adaptive supramolecular hydrogel comprising self-sorting double nanofibre networks.

Hajime Shigemitsu;Hajime Shigemitsu;Takahiro Fujisaku;Wataru Tanaka;Ryou Kubota

190
Citations
Damping Elastomer Based on Model Irregular Networks of End-Linked Poly(Dimethylsiloxane)

Kenji Urayama;Takashi Miki;Toshikazu Takigawa;Shinzo Kohjiya

152
Citations
Thermally Driven Giant Bending of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Films with Hybrid Alignment

Yoshiki Sawa;Kenji Urayama;Toshikazu Takigawa;Antonio DeSimone

144
Citations
Poisson's ratio of poly(vinyl alcohol) gels

Kenji Urayama;Toshikazu Takigawa;Toshiro Masuda

141
Citations
Poisson's ratio of polyacrylamide (PAAm) gels

Toshikazu Takigawa;Yoshiro Morino;Kenji Urayama;Toshiro Masuda

139
Citations
Polydomain−Monodomain Transition of Randomly Disordered Nematic Elastomers with Different Cross-Linking Histories

Kenji Urayama;Etsuko Kohmon;Masahiro Kojima;Toshikazu Takigawa

133
Citations
Structure–mechanical property correlations of model siloxane elastomers with controlled network topology

Kenji Urayama;Takanobu Kawamura;Shinzo Kohjiya

125
Citations
Multiaxial Deformations of End-Linked Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Networks. 1. Phenomenological Approach to Strain Energy Density Function

Takanobu Kawamura;Kenji Urayama;Shinzo Kohjiya

113
Citations
Dynamic Viscoelasticity of Poly(butyl acrylate) Elastomers Containing Dangling Chains with Controlled Lengths

Haruna Yamazaki;Masanao Takeda;Yoshiyuki Kohno;Hiroshi Ando

107
Citations
Pressure-responsive polymer membranes of slide-ring gels with movable cross-links.

Chikara Katsuno;Akihiro Konda;Kenji Urayama;Toshikazu Takigawa

105
Citations
Biaxial strain testing of extremely soft polymer gels

Bitoh Yohsuke;Kenji Urayama;Toshikazu Takigawa;Kohzo Ito

102
Citations
Stretching-Induced Director Rotation in Thin Films of Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Homeotropic Alignment

Kenji Urayama;Ryo Mashita;Ichiro Kobayashi;Toshikazu Takigawa

96
Citations
Electrooptical Effects with Anisotropic Deformation in Nematic Gels

Kenji Urayama;Seiji Honda;Toshikazu Takigawa

95
Citations
Multiaxial deformations of end-linked poly(dimethylsiloxane) networks. 2. Experimental tests of molecular entanglement models of rubber elasticity

Kenji Urayama;Takanobu Kawamura;Shinzo Kohjiya

90
Citations
An experimentalist's view of the physics of rubber elasticity

Kenji Urayama

90
Citations
Elastic modulus and equilibrium swelling of networks crosslinked by end‐linking oligodimethylsiloxane at solution state

Kenji Urayama;Takanobu Kawamura;Shinzo Kohjiya

84
Citations
Physics of Liquid Crystals

Yuka Tabe;Kenji Urayama;Akihiko Matsuyama;Jun Yamamoto

17
Citations