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D-Index
50
Citations
7948
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10318
National Ranking
638

Kenji Urayama 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 Kenji Urayama sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 255 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kenji Urayama 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 Kenji Urayama sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Shape selection of twist-nematic-elastomer ribbons

    Yoshiki Sawa;Fangfu Ye;Kenji Urayama;Toshikazu Takigawa

  • 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

  • Selected Issues in Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Gels

    Kenji Urayama

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

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

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

    Kenji Urayama;Takashi Miki;Toshikazu Takigawa;Shinzo Kohjiya

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

    Yoshiki Sawa;Kenji Urayama;Toshikazu Takigawa;Antonio DeSimone

  • Poisson's ratio of poly(vinyl alcohol) gels

    Kenji Urayama;Toshikazu Takigawa;Toshiro Masuda

  • Poisson's ratio of polyacrylamide (PAAm) gels

    Toshikazu Takigawa;Yoshiro Morino;Kenji Urayama;Toshiro Masuda

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

    Kenji Urayama;Etsuko Kohmon;Masahiro Kojima;Toshikazu Takigawa

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

    Kenji Urayama;Takanobu Kawamura;Shinzo Kohjiya

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

    Takanobu Kawamura;Kenji Urayama;Shinzo Kohjiya

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

    Haruna Yamazaki;Masanao Takeda;Yoshiyuki Kohno;Hiroshi Ando

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

    Chikara Katsuno;Akihiro Konda;Kenji Urayama;Toshikazu Takigawa

  • Biaxial strain testing of extremely soft polymer gels

    Bitoh Yohsuke;Kenji Urayama;Toshikazu Takigawa;Kohzo Ito

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

    Kenji Urayama;Ryo Mashita;Ichiro Kobayashi;Toshikazu Takigawa

  • Electrooptical Effects with Anisotropic Deformation in Nematic Gels

    Kenji Urayama;Seiji Honda;Toshikazu Takigawa

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

    Kenji Urayama;Takanobu Kawamura;Shinzo Kohjiya

  • An experimentalist's view of the physics of rubber elasticity

    Kenji Urayama

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

    Kenji Urayama;Takanobu Kawamura;Shinzo Kohjiya

  • Physics of Liquid Crystals

    Yuka Tabe;Kenji Urayama;Akihiko Matsuyama;Jun Yamamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinzo Kohjiya
Shinzo Kohjiya Kyoto University
Shuhei Furukawa
Shuhei Furukawa Kyoto University
Kohzo Ito
Kohzo Ito University of Tokyo
Itaru Hamachi
Itaru Hamachi Kyoto University
Jian Ping Gong
Jian Ping Gong Hokkaido University
Takamasa Sakai
Takamasa Sakai University of Tokyo
Ung-il Chung
Ung-il Chung University of Tokyo
Yuko Ikeda
Yuko Ikeda Kyoto Institute of Technology
Dieter Neher
Dieter Neher University of Potsdam
Takahiro Seki
Takahiro Seki Nagoya University

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