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Overview

Masami Okamoto is affiliated with the Toyota Technological Institute in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of materials science and medicine, with a focus on biomaterials, organic chemistry, oncology, biomedical engineering, and cell biology.

The scientist's work covers various specialized topics including plant-derived bioactive compounds, cancer cells and metastasis, cellular mechanics and interactions, 3D printing in biomedical research, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, electrospun nanofibers in biomedical applications, and biotechnology and related fields.

Recent notable publications by Masami Okamoto include:

  • Polymer Nanocomposites, 2023, Eng-Advances in Engineering
  • Effect of Substrate Stiffness on Physicochemical Properties of Normal and Fibrotic Lung Fibroblasts, 2020, Materials
  • Stemness and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition of Breast Cancer Cells Incubated on Viscoelastic Gel Substrates, 2021, Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi
  • Fabrication of cartilage/natural rubber latex biocomposites derived from human mesenchymal stem cells in hypoxia, 2020, Nanocomposites
  • Structure and properties of 3D resorbable scaffolds based on poly(L-lactide) via salt-leaching combined with phase separation, 2023, International Journal of Hydrology

Frequent collaborators associated with their work include Masaya Kinoshita, Yuki Okamoto, Joanna Raczkowska, B. Orzechowska, and Sabina Patryas.

Throughout their career, publications by Masami Okamoto have appeared in several journals, with multiple contributions to the International Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Journal and Medical Research Archives, alongside appearances in Eng-Advances in Engineering, Materials, and Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi.

Best Publications

  • POLYMER/LAYERED SILICATE NANOCOMPOSITES: A REVIEW FROM PREPARATION TO PROCESSING

    Suprakas Sinha Ray;Masami Okamoto

  • Review article: Polymer-matrix Nanocomposites, Processing, Manufacturing, and Application: An Overview

    Farzana Hussain;Mehdi Hojjati;Masami Okamoto;Russell E. Gorga

  • New Polylactide/Layered Silicate Nanocomposites. 1. Preparation, Characterization, and Properties

    Suprakas Sinha Ray;Pralay Maiti;Masami Okamoto;Kazunobu Yamada

  • Structure-Property Relationship in Biodegradable Poly(butylene succinate)/Layered Silicate Nanocomposites

    Suprakas Sinha Ray;Kazuaki Okamoto;Masami Okamoto

  • New polylactide-layered silicate nanocomposites. 2. Concurrent improvements of material properties, biodegradability and melt rheology

    Suprakas Sinha Ray;Kazunobu Yamada;Masami Okamoto;Kazue Ueda

  • A hierarchical structure and properties of intercalated polypropylene/clay nanocomposites

    Pham Hoai Nam;Pralay Maiti;Masami Okamoto;Tadao Kotaka

  • Polylactide-Layered Silicate Nanocomposite: A Novel Biodegradable Material

    Suprakas Sinha Ray;Kazunobu Yamada;Masami Okamoto;Kazue Ueda

  • Synthetic biopolymer nanocomposites for tissue engineering scaffolds

    Masami Okamoto;Baiju John

  • Influence of Crystallization on Intercalation, Morphology, and Mechanical Properties of Polypropylene/Clay Nanocomposites

    Pralay Maiti;Pham Hoai Nam;Masami Okamoto;Naoki Hasegawa

  • Biodegradable Polylactide and Its Nanocomposites: Opening a New Dimension for Plastics and Composites

    Suprakas Sinha Ray;Masami Okamoto

  • New polylactide/layered silicate nanocomposites. 3. High-performance biodegradable materials

    Suprakas Sinha Ray;Kazunobu Yamada;Masami Okamoto;and Akinobu Ogami

  • Crystallization Behavior and Morphology of Biodegradable Polylactide/ Layered Silicate Nanocomposite

    Joo Young Nam;Suprakas Sinha Ray;Masami Okamoto

  • Synthesis and structure of smectic clay/poly(methyl methacrylate) and clay/polystyrene nanocomposites via in situ intercalative polymerization

    Masami Okamoto;Satoshi Morita;Hideyuki Taguchi;Yong Hoon Kim

  • New Polylactide/Layered Silicate Nanocomposites: Role of Organoclays

    Pralay Maiti;Kazunobu Yamada;Masami Okamoto;and Kazue Ueda

  • New Polylactide/Layered Silicate Nanocomposites, 6

    Suprakas Sinha Ray;Masami Okamoto

  • New polylactide/layered silicate nanocomposites. 5. Designing of materials with desired properties

    Suprakas Sinha Ray;Kazunobu Yamada;Masami Okamoto;Youhei Fujimoto

  • Biaxial Flow-Induced Alignment of Silicate Layers in Polypropylene/Clay Nanocomposite Foam

    Masami Okamoto;Pham Hoai Nam;Pralay Maiti;Tadao Kotaka

  • A House of Cards Structure in Polypropylene/Clay Nanocomposites under Elongational Flow

    Masami Okamoto;Pham Hoai Nam;Pralay Maiti;Tadao Kotaka

  • Foam processing and cellular structure of polypropylene/clay nanocomposites

    Pham Hoai Nam;Pralay Maiti;Masami Okamoto;Tadao Kotaka

  • Morphology and crystallization kinetics in a mixture of low-molecular weight aliphatic amide and polylactide

    Joo Young Nam;Masami Okamoto;Hirotaka Okamoto;Mitsuru Nakano

Frequent Co-Authors

Suprakas Sinha Ray
Suprakas Sinha Ray Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Pralay Maiti
Pralay Maiti Indian Institute of Technology BHU
Takashi Inoue
Takashi Inoue Yamagata University
Arimitsu Usuki
Arimitsu Usuki Toyota Motor Corporation (Japan)
Harumi Sato
Harumi Sato Kobe University
Jukka Seppälä
Jukka Seppälä Aalto University
Kohji Tashiro
Kohji Tashiro Toyota Technological Institute
Yukihiro Ozaki
Yukihiro Ozaki Kwansei Gakuin University
Richard J.M. Hague
Richard J.M. Hague University of Nottingham
Hemant Mittal
Hemant Mittal Dubai Electricity and Water Authority

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