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Motomu Tanaka is a researcher affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany. Their work spans several interconnected fields, focusing primarily on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their research interests include diverse subfields such as molecular biology, biomedical engineering, cell biology, surgery, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Within these areas, their main research topics are cellular mechanics and interactions, lipid membrane structure and behavior, polymer surface interaction studies, 3D printing in biomedical research, hydrogels (including synthesis, properties, and applications), gastric cancer management and outcomes, and supramolecular self-assembly in materials.

Tanaka has contributed to multiple recent scientific publications. Notable papers include:

  • "Mechanical stimulation of single cells by reversible host-guest interactions in 3D microscaffolds," 2020, published in Science Advances
  • "Stimuli-responsive hydrogels as a model of the dynamic cellular microenvironment," 2020, published in Polymer Journal
  • "Extreme deformability of insect cell membranes is governed by phospholipid scrambling," 2021, published in Cell Reports
  • "Superiority of Mature Differentiated Cultured Human Corneal Endothelial Cell Injection Therapy for Corneal Endothelial Failure," 2021, published in American Journal of Ophthalmology
  • "Force generation by a propagating wave of supramolecular nanofibers," 2020, published in Nature Communications

The researcher frequently publishes in journals such as Langmuir, Advanced Functional Materials, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, and Soft Matter, with multiple contributions to each.

Tanaka's collaborative work is indicated by frequent coauthorship with several scientists, including Akihisa Yamamoto, Masaki Nakahata, Stefan Kaufmann, Martin Bastmeyer, and Judith Thoma.

Best Publications

  • Polymer-supported membranes as models of the cell surface

    Motomu Tanaka;Motomu Tanaka;Erich Sackmann

  • Supported membranes on soft polymer cushions: fabrication, characterization and applications

    Erich Sackmann;Motomu Tanaka

  • Controlling the shape of 3D microstructures by temperature and light

    Marc Hippler;Eva Blasco;Jingyuan Qu;Motomu Tanaka

  • Swelling Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers in Saturated Water Vapor

    John E. Wong;Florian Rehfeldt;Peter Hänni;Motomu Tanaka

  • Functional Incorporation of Integrins into Solid Supported Membranes on Ultrathin Films of Cellulose: Impact on Adhesion

    Stefanie Goennenwein;Motomu Tanaka;Bin Hu;Luis Moroder

  • Quantitative evaluation of mechanosensing of cells on dynamically tunable hydrogels.

    Hiroshi Y. Yoshikawa;Fernanda F. Rossetti;Stefan Kaufmann;Thomas Kaindl

  • AlxGa1–xN—A New Material System for Biosensors

    G. Steinhoff;O. Purrucker;M. Tanaka;M. Stutzmann

  • Cell surface flip-flop of phosphatidylserine is critical for PIEZO1-mediated myotube formation

    Masaki Tsuchiya;Yuji Hara;Yuji Hara;Masaki Okuda;Karin Itoh

  • Electrochemical Characterization of Self-Assembled Alkylsiloxane Monolayers on Indium−Tin Oxide (ITO) Semiconductor Electrodes

    Heiko Hillebrandt and;Motomu Tanaka

  • Chemical functionalization of GaN and AlN surfaces

    B. Baur;G. Steinhoff;J. Hernando;O. Purrucker

  • Supported membranes with well-defined polymer tethers: Incorporation of cell receptors

    Oliver Purrucker;Anton Förtig;Rainer Jordan;Motomu Tanaka

  • Quantitative determination of ion distributions in bacterial lipopolysaccharide membranes by grazing-incidence X-ray fluorescence

    Emanuel Schneck;Thomas Schubert;Oleg V. Konovalov;Bonnie E. Quinn

  • Stripes of partially fluorinated alkyl chains: dipolar Langmuir monolayers.

    Matthias F. Schneider;David Andelman;Motomu Tanaka

  • Deposition of highly resistive lipid bilayer on silicon-silicon dioxide electrode and incorporation of gramicidin studied by ac impedance spectroscopy

    Oliver Purrucker;Heiko Hillebrandt;Klaus Adlkofer;Motomu Tanaka

  • Confinement of Transmembrane Cell Receptors in Tunable Stripe Micropatterns

    Oliver Purrucker;Anton Förtig;Karin Lüdtke;Rainer Jordan

  • Stable Surface Coating of Gallium Arsenide with Octadecylthiol Monolayers

    Klaus Adlkofer and;Motomu Tanaka

  • Selective deposition of native cell membranes on biocompatible micropatterns.

    Motomu Tanaka;Amy P. Wong;Florian Rehfeldt;Murat Tutus

  • Mechanical stimulation of single cells by reversible host-guest interactions in 3D microscaffolds.

    Marc Hippler;Kai Weißenbruch;Kai Richler;Enrico D. Lemma

  • Calcium ions induce collapse of charged O-side chains of lipopolysaccharides from Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Emanuel Schneck;Erzsebet Papp-Szabo;Bonnie E. Quinn;Oleg V. Konovalov

  • Functionalization of GaAs surfaces with aromatic self-assembled monolayers: A synchrotron-based spectroscopic study

    A. Shaporenko;K. Adlkofer;L. S. O. Johansson;M. Tanaka

  • Orientation selective immobilization of human erythrocyte membranes on ultrathin cellulose films

    Motomu Tanaka;Stefan Kaufmann;Julia Nissen;Marion Hochrein

  • Supported membranes on soft polymer cushions: fabrication, characterization and

    Motomu Tanaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
Stefan H. E. Kaufmann Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Erich Sackmann
Erich Sackmann Technical University of Munich
Anthony D. Ho
Anthony D. Ho University Hospital Heidelberg
Rainer Jordan
Rainer Jordan TU Dresden
Marie Pierre Krafft
Marie Pierre Krafft University of Strasbourg
Klaus Brandenburg
Klaus Brandenburg Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Makoto Kaneko
Makoto Kaneko Osaka University
Martin Eickhoff
Martin Eickhoff University of Bremen
Michael Lanzer
Michael Lanzer University Hospital Heidelberg
Gerhard Abstreiter
Gerhard Abstreiter Technical University of Munich

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