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Takamasa Sakai

Takamasa Sakai

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Materials Science

D-Index
52
Citations
10356
World Ranking
9528
National Ranking
564

Overview

Takamasa Sakai is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and intersects significantly with biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Sakai's work spans various subfields including molecular medicine, biomedical engineering, biomaterials, polymers and plastics, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of specialized areas such as hydrogels synthesis, properties, and applications, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, 3D printing in biomedical research, advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, advanced materials and mechanics, polymer nanocomposites and properties, and polymer surface interaction studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sakai include Ung-il Chung, Naoyuki Sakumichi, Takuya Katashima, Shohei Ishikawa, and Hiroyuki Kamata. These recurring partnerships indicate ongoing collaborative research efforts across various projects.

Sakai has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are Macromolecules, arXiv (Cornell University), Polymer Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Soft Matter. These journals cover a variety of interdisciplinary topics related to polymers, materials science, and biomedical research.

Among recent notable papers, Sakai contributed to the following:

  • Network of cyano-p-aramid nanofibres creates ultrastiff and water-rich hydrospongels, 2024, Nature Materials
  • Tri-branched gels: Rubbery materials with the lowest branching factor approach the ideal elastic limit, 2022, Science Advances
  • Swelling Behaviors of Hydrogels with Alternating Neutral/Highly Charged Sequences, 2020, Macromolecules
  • Percolation-induced gel-gel phase separation in a dilute polymer network, 2023, Nature Materials
  • Star-Polymer-DNA Gels Showing Highly Predictable and Tunable Mechanical Responses, 2022, Advanced Materials

Best Publications

  • Design and Fabrication of a High-Strength Hydrogel with Ideally Homogeneous Network Structure from Tetrahedron-like Macromonomers

    Takamasa Sakai;Takuro Matsunaga;Yuji Yamamoto;Chika Ito

  • Self-Walking Gel

    Shingo Maeda;Yusuke Hara;Takamasa Sakai;Ryo Yoshida

  • “Nonswellable” Hydrogel Without Mechanical Hysteresis

    Hiroyuki Kamata;Yuki Akagi;Yuko Kayasuga-Kariya;Ung-il Chung

  • Structure Characterization of Tetra-PEG Gel by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

    Takuro Matsunaga;Takamasa Sakai;Yuki Akagi;Ung-il Chung

  • SANS and SLS Studies on Tetra-Arm PEG Gels in As-Prepared and Swollen States

    Takuro Matsunaga;Takamasa Sakai;Yuki Akagi;Ung-il Chung

  • Transition between Phantom and Affine Network Model Observed in Polymer Gels with Controlled Network Structure

    Yuki Akagi;Yuki Akagi;Jian Ping Gong;Jian Ping Gong;Ung-il Chung;Ung-il Chung;Takamasa Sakai;Takamasa Sakai

  • Fast-forming hydrogel with ultralow polymeric content as an artificial vitreous body

    Kaori Hayashi;Fumiki Okamoto;Sujin Hoshi;Takuya Katashima

  • Connectivity and Structural Defects in Model Hydrogels: A Combined Proton NMR and Monte Carlo Simulation Study

    Frank Lange;Konrad Schwenke;Manami Kurakazu;Yuki Akagi

  • Highly Elastic and Deformable Hydrogel Formed from Tetra-arm Polymers

    Takamasa Sakai;Yuki Akagi;Takuro Matsunaga;Manami Kurakazu

  • Self-oscillation of polymer chains with rhythmical soluble-insoluble changes.

    Ryo Yoshida;Takamasa Sakai;Shoji Ito;Tomohiko Yamaguchi

  • Yielding Criteria of Double Network Hydrogels

    Takahiro Matsuda;Tasuku Nakajima;Yuki Fukuda;Wei Hong

  • Examination of the Theories of Rubber Elasticity Using an Ideal Polymer Network

    Yuki Akagi;Takuya Katashima;Yukiteru Katsumoto;Kenta Fujii

  • High-performance ion gel with tetra-PEG network

    Kenta Fujii;Hanako Asai;Takeshi Ueki;Takamasa Sakai

  • Design of Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications.

    Hiroyuki Kamata;Xiang Li;Ung-il Chung;Takamasa Sakai

  • Evaluation of Topological Defects in Tetra-PEG Gels

    Yuki Akagi;Takuro Matsunaga;Mitsuhiro Shibayama;Ung-il Chung

  • Self‐Flocculating/Self‐Dispersing Oscillation of Microgels

    Daisuke Suzuki;Takamasa Sakai;Ryo Yoshida

  • State of water, molecular structure, and cytotoxicity of silk hydrogels.

    Keiji Numata;Takuya Katashima;Takamasa Sakai

  • Fracture energy of polymer gels with controlled network structures

    Yuki Akagi;Hayato Sakurai;Jian Ping Gong;Ung-il Chung

  • Synthesis and Fracture Process Analysis of Double Network Hydrogels with a Well-Defined First Network

    Tasuku Nakajima;Yuki Fukuda;Takayuki Kurokawa;Takamasa Sakai

  • Photoregulated wormlike motion of a gel.

    Shu-ichi Shinohara;Takahiro Seki;Takamasa Sakai;Ryo Yoshida

Frequent Co-Authors

Ung-il Chung
Ung-il Chung University of Tokyo
Mitsuhiro Shibayama
Mitsuhiro Shibayama Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society
Kenta Fujii
Kenta Fujii Yamaguchi University
Ryo Yoshida
Ryo Yoshida University of Tokyo
Jian Ping Gong
Jian Ping Gong Hokkaido University
Tetsuro Oshika
Tetsuro Oshika University of Tsukuba
Elliot P. Gilbert
Elliot P. Gilbert Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Keiji Numata
Keiji Numata Kyoto University
Kenji Urayama
Kenji Urayama Kyoto Institute of Technology
Takahiro Seki
Takahiro Seki Nagoya University

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