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Takayuki Kurokawa

Takayuki Kurokawa

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Materials Science

D-Index
74
Citations
24142
World Ranking
3569
National Ranking
150

Overview

Takayuki Kurokawa is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in areas intersecting biochemistry, materials science, and engineering. Their work spans multiple disciplines, including biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, engineering, and materials science, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach.

The main fields of study associated with their research include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Within these areas, their subfields of specialization cover:

  • Molecular Medicine
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Biomaterials
  • Surfaces, Coatings and Films

Kurokawa's publications emphasize the science of hydrogels and polymer-based materials. Their primary topics of research are:

  • Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research

The scientist has published frequently in a range of reputable journals, notably:

  • Macromolecules
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • ACS Macro Letters
  • Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A

Some recent research publications include:

  • Mesoscale bicontinuous networks in self-healing hydrogels delay fatigue fracture, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Fiber-Reinforced Viscoelastomers Show Extraordinary Crack Resistance That Exceeds Metals, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Hydrogels as dynamic memory with forgetting ability, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Effect of mesoscale phase contrast on fatigue-delaying behavior of self-healing hydrogels, 2021, Science Advances
  • Phase Separation Behavior in Tough and Self-Healing Polyampholyte Hydrogels, 2020, Macromolecules

Kurokawa collaborates with several frequent coauthors, indicating a sustained research network. Notable collaborators include:

  • Jian Ping Gong
  • Tasuku Nakajima
  • Takayuki Nonoyama
  • Kunpeng Cui
  • Xueyu Li

Best Publications

  • Double‐Network Hydrogels with Extremely High Mechanical Strength

    Jian Ping Gong;Yoshinori Katsuyama;Takayuki Kurokawa;Yoshihito Osada

  • Physical hydrogels composed of polyampholytes demonstrate high toughness and viscoelasticity

    Tao Lin Sun;Takayuki Kurokawa;Shinya Kuroda;Abu Bin Ihsan

  • Super tough double network hydrogels and their application as biomaterials

    Md. Anamul Haque;Takayuki Kurokawa;Jian Ping Gong

  • Oppositely charged polyelectrolytes form tough, self-healing, and rebuildable hydrogels

    Feng Luo;Tao Lin Sun;Tasuku Nakajima;Takayuki Kurokawa

  • Tough Physical Double-Network Hydrogels Based on Amphiphilic Triblock Copolymers.

    Hui Jie Zhang;Tao Lin Sun;Ao Kai Zhang;Yumihiko Ikura

  • A Facile Method to Fabricate Anisotropic Hydrogels with Perfectly Aligned Hierarchical Fibrous Structures

    Md. Tariful Islam Mredha;Yun Zhou Guo;Takayuki Nonoyama;Tasuku Nakajima

  • Lamellar Bilayers as Reversible Sacrificial Bonds To Toughen Hydrogel: Hysteresis, Self-Recovery, Fatigue Resistance, and Crack Blunting

    M. Anamul Haque;Takayuki Kurokawa;Gen Kamita;J. Ping Gong

  • True Chemical Structure of Double Network Hydrogels

    Tasuku Nakajima;Hidemitsu Furukawa;Yoshimi Tanaka;Takayuki Kurokawa

  • Tough Hydrogels with Fast, Strong, and Reversible Underwater Adhesion Based on a Multiscale Design.

    Ping Rao;Tao Lin Sun;Tao Lin Sun;Liang Chen;Riku Takahashi

  • Determination of fracture energy of high strength double network hydrogels.

    Yoshimi Tanaka;Rikimaru Kuwabara;Yang-Ho Na;Takayuki Kurokawa

  • Adjacent cationic–aromatic sequences yield strong electrostatic adhesion of hydrogels in seawater

    Hailong Fan;Jiahui Wang;Zhen Tao;Junchao Huang

  • Synthesis of hydrogels with extremely low surface friction.

    Jian Ping Gong;Takayuki Kurokawa;Tetsuharu Narita;Go Kagata

  • Microgel-Reinforced Hydrogel Films with High Mechanical Strength and Their Visible Mesoscale Fracture Structure

    Jian Hu;Kenta Hiwatashi;Takayuki Kurokawa;Song Miao Liang

  • Unidirectional Alignment of Lamellar Bilayer in Hydrogel: One‐Dimensional Swelling, Anisotropic Modulus, and Stress/Strain Tunable Structural Color

    Md. Anamul Haque;Gen Kamita;Takayuki Kurokawa;Kaoru Tsujii

  • Double-Network Hydrogels Strongly Bondable to Bones by Spontaneous Osteogenesis Penetration.

    Takayuki Nonoyama;Susumu Wada;Ryuji Kiyama;Nobuto Kitamura

  • Structural Characteristics of Double Network Gels with Extremely High Mechanical Strength

    Yang-Ho Na;Takayuki Kurokawa;Yoshinori Katsuyama;Hiroyuki Tsukeshiba

  • Effect of polymer entanglement on the toughening of double network hydrogels.

    Hiroyuki Tsukeshiba;Mei Huang;Yang Ho Na;Takayuki Kurokawa

  • Characterization of internal fracture process of double network hydrogels under uniaxial elongation

    Tasuku Nakajima;Takayuki Kurokawa;Saika Ahmed;Wen Li Wu

  • Mechano-actuated ultrafast full-colour switching in layered photonic hydrogels

    Youfeng Yue;Takayuki Kurokawa;Anamul Haque;Tasuku Nakajima

  • Mechanically strong hydrogels with ultra-low frictional coefficients

    Daisaku Kaneko;Tomohiro Tada;Takayuki Kurokawa;Jian P. Gong

Frequent Co-Authors

Jian Ping Gong
Jian Ping Gong Hokkaido University
Tasuku Nakajima
Tasuku Nakajima Hokkaido University
Kazunori Yasuda
Kazunori Yasuda Hokkaido University
Hidemitsu Furukawa
Hidemitsu Furukawa Yamagata University
Zi Liang Wu
Zi Liang Wu Zhejiang University
Wei Hong
Wei Hong Southern University of Science and Technology
Feng Luo
Feng Luo Sichuan University
Shinya Tanaka
Shinya Tanaka Hokkaido University

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