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Overview

Tomonori Saito is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on engineering and materials science, with significant contributions in the subfields of electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, organic chemistry, automotive engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics of Saito's work include advanced battery materials and technologies, polymer composites and self-healing, advancements in battery materials, advanced battery technologies research, additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies, fuel cells and related materials, and advanced polymer synthesis and characterization.

Among Saito's recent publications are the following papers:

  • Intrinsically Self-Healing Polymers: From Mechanistic Insight to Current Challenges, 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • Elastic vitrimers: Beyond thermoplastic and thermoset elastomers, 2022, Matter
  • Design of tough adhesive from commodity thermoplastics through dynamic crosslinking, 2021, Science Advances
  • Separator Effect on Zinc Electrodeposition Behavior and Its Implication for Zinc Battery Lifetime, 2021, Nano Letters
  • Polymers with Dynamic Bonds: Adaptive Functional Materials for a Sustainable Future, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Saito frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including Michelle Lehmann, Alexei P. Sokolov, Pengfei Cao, Md Anisur Rahman, and Guang Yang.

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as Macromolecules, ECS Meeting Abstracts, Cell Reports Physical Science, Materials Horizons, and Science Advances.

Best Publications

  • Materials for the Recovery of Uranium from Seawater

    Carter W. Abney;Richard T. Mayes;Tomonori Saito;Sheng Dai

  • Use of Carbon Mesh Anodes and the Effect of Different Pretreatment Methods on Power Production in Microbial Fuel Cells

    Xin Wang;Shaoan Cheng;Yujie Feng;Matthew D. Merrill

  • Intrinsically Self-Healing Polymers: From Mechanistic Insight to Current Challenges.

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  • Turning renewable resources into value-added polymer: development of lignin-based thermoplastic

    Tomonori Saito;Rebecca H. Brown;Marcus A. Hunt;Deanna L. Pickel

  • Using microbial desalination cells to reduce water salinity prior to reverse osmosis

    Maha Mehanna;Tomonori Saito;Jingling Yan;Michael Hickner

  • Lignin-Derived Advanced Carbon Materials.

    Sabornie Chatterjee;Tomonori Saito

  • Elastic vitrimers: Beyond thermoplastic and thermoset elastomers

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  • Separator Effect on Zinc Electrodeposition Behavior and Its Implication for Zinc Battery Lifetime.

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  • Synthesis and properties of polymerized ionic liquids

    Ali Eftekhari;Ali Eftekhari;Tomonori Saito

  • Ti3C2Tx (MXene)–polyacrylamide nanocomposite films

    Michael Naguib;Tomonori Saito;Sophia Lai;Matthew S. Rager

  • Microbial fuel cell cathodes with poly(dimethylsiloxane) diffusion layers constructed around stainless steel mesh current collectors.

    Fang Zhang;Tomonori Saito;Shaoan Cheng;Michael A. Hickner

  • Superstretchable, Self‐Healing Polymeric Elastomers with Tunable Properties

    Peng‐Fei Cao;Bingrui Li;Tao Hong;Jacob Townsend

  • Methanol Fractionation of Softwood Kraft Lignin: Impact on the Lignin Properties

    Tomonori Saito;Joshua H. Perkins;Frederic Vautard;Harry M. Meyer

  • Controlling Interfacial Dynamics: Covalent Bonding versus Physical Adsorption in Polymer Nanocomposites

    Adam P. Holt;Vera Bocharova;Shiwang Cheng;Alexander M. Kisliuk

  • Ion Conduction in Polymerized Ionic Liquids with Different Pendant Groups

    Fei Fan;Yangyang Wang;Tao Hong;Maximilian F. Heres

  • Development of lignin-based polyurethane thermoplastics

    Tomonori Saito;Joshua H. Perkins;Daniel C. Jackson;Neil E. Trammel

  • Examination of the fundamental relation between ionic transport and segmental relaxation in polymer electrolytes

    Yangyang Wang;Fei Fan;Alexander L. Agapov;Tomonori Saito

  • Nitrogen removal in a single-chamber microbial fuel cell with nitrifying biofilm enriched at the air cathode

    Hengjing Yan;Tomonori Saito;Tomonori Saito;John M. Regan

  • Unexpected Molecular Weight Effect in Polymer Nanocomposites.

    Shiwang Cheng;Adam P. Holt;Huiqun Wang;Fei Fan

  • Uranium recovery from seawater: development of fiber adsorbents prepared via atom-transfer radical polymerization

    Tomonori Saito;Suree Brown;Sabornie Chatterjee;Jungseung Kim

  • Rational Design of a Multifunctional Binder for High-Capacity Silicon-Based Anodes

    Peng-Fei Cao;Guang Yang;Bingrui Li;Yiman Zhang

  • Mechanism of Conductivity Relaxation in Liquid and Polymeric Electrolytes: Direct Link between Conductivity and Diffusivity

    Catalin P. Gainaru;Catalin P. Gainaru;Eric W. Stacy;Vera Bocharova;Mallory Gobet

  • Uranium Adsorbent Fibers Prepared by Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) from Poly(vinyl chloride)-co-chlorinated Poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC-co-CPVC) Fiber

    Suree Brown;Yanfeng Yue;Li-Jung Kuo;Nada Mehio

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexei P. Sokolov
Alexei P. Sokolov University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jimmy W. Mays
Jimmy W. Mays University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Michael A. Hickner
Michael A. Hickner Pennsylvania State University
Mark Dadmun
Mark Dadmun University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jagjit Nanda
Jagjit Nanda Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Vera Bocharova
Vera Bocharova Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sheng Dai
Sheng Dai Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Bruce E. Logan
Bruce E. Logan Pennsylvania State University
Shannon M. Mahurin
Shannon M. Mahurin Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Timothy E. Long
Timothy E. Long Arizona State University

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