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Yukikazu Takeoka

Yukikazu Takeoka

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Materials Science

D-Index
49
Citations
7953
World Ranking
10610
National Ranking
655

Overview

Yukikazu Takeoka is a researcher affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan, with a focus on materials science and engineering. Their work primarily intersects the fields of organic chemistry, materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, and polymers and plastics.

Their research topics cover a breadth of areas including photonic crystals and applications, advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, hydrogels' synthesis, properties, and applications, Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization, biocrusts and microbial ecology, and polymer composites and self-healing.

Frequent coauthors with whom they have collaborated include Takahiro Seki, Ryosuke Ohnuki, Shinya Yoshioka, Mitsuo Hara, and Fumio Asai.

Major publication venues for their research include ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Macromolecules, Langmuir, ACS Applied Nano Materials, and Soft Matter, reflecting a consistent contribution to leading journals in materials science and polymer research.

Selected recent publications are:

  • Optical Characterization of the Photonic Ball as a Structurally Colored Pigment, 2020, Langmuir
  • Stimuli-Responsive Structural Colored Gel That Exhibits the Three Primary Colors of Light by Using Multiple Photonic Band Gaps Acquired from Photonic Balls, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Monodisperse Silica Nanoparticle-Carbon Black Composite Microspheres as Photonic Pigments, 2020, ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • Composite Elastomer Exhibiting a Stress-Dependent Color Change and High Toughness Prepared by Self-Assembly of Silica Particles in a Polymer Network, 2020, ACS Applied Polymer Materials
  • Bioinspired Color Elastomers Combining Structural, Dye, and Background Colors, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Best Publications

  • Extremely stretchable thermosensitive hydrogels by introducing slide-ring polyrotaxane cross-linkers and ionic groups into the polymer network.

    Abu Bin Imran;Kenta Esaki;Hiroaki Gotoh;Takahiro Seki

  • Production of Colored Pigments with Amorphous Arrays of Black and White Colloidal Particles

    Yukikazu Takeoka;Shinya Yoshioka;Atsushi Takano;Shigeo Arai

  • Simple and precise preparation of a porous gel for a colorimetric glucose sensor by a templating technique.

    Daisuke Nakayama;Yukikazu Takeoka;Masayoshi Watanabe;Kazunori Kataoka

  • A thermally adjustable multicolor photochromic hydrogel.

    Kazuki Matsubara;Masayoshi Watanabe;Yukikazu Takeoka

  • Reversible Molecular Adsorption Based on Multiple-Point Interaction by Shrinkable Gels

    Taro Oya;Takashi Enoki;Alexander Yu. Grosberg;Satoru Masamune

  • Angle-independent structural coloured amorphous arrays

    Yukikazu Takeoka

  • An Electro- and Thermochromic Hydrogel as a Full-Color Indicator**

    Kazuhide Ueno;Kazuki Matsubara;Masayoshi Watanabe;Yukikazu Takeoka

  • Angle-independent structural color in colloidal amorphous arrays.

    Mohammad Harun-Ur-Rashid;Abu Bin Imran;Takahiro Seki;Masahiko Ishii

  • Template Synthesis and Optical Properties of Chameleonic Poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide) Gels Using Closest‐Packed Self‐Assembled Colloidal Silica Crystals

    Yukikazu Takeoka;Masayoshi Watanabe

  • Bio-Inspired Bright Structurally Colored Colloidal Amorphous Array Enhanced by Controlling Thickness and Black Background.

    Masanori Iwata;Midori Teshima;Takahiro Seki;Shinya Yoshioka

  • Optically transparent, high-toughness elastomer using a polyrotaxane cross-linker as a molecular pulley

    Hiroaki Gotoh;Chang Liu;Abu Bin Imran;Mitsuo Hara

  • Polymer Gels That Memorize Elements of Molecular Conformation

    Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo;Orhan Guney;Taro Oya;Yasuzo Sakai

  • Structural colored liquid membrane without angle dependence.

    Yukikazu Takeoka;Masaki Honda;Takahiro Seki;Masahiko Ishii

  • Recent advances in hydrogels in terms of fast stimuli responsiveness and superior mechanical performance

    Abu Bin Imran;Takahiro Seki;Yukikazu Takeoka

  • Polymer Gels that Memorize Structures of Mesoscopically Sized Templates. Dynamic and Optical Nature of Periodic Ordered Mesoporous Chemical Gels

    Yukikazu Takeoka;Masayoshi Watanabe

  • Tuning Structural Color Changes of Porous Thermosensitive Gels through Quantitative Adjustment of the Cross-Linker in Pre-gel Solutions

    Yukikazu Takeoka;Masayoshi Watanabe

  • Free volume and permeabilities of O2 and H2 in Nafion membranes for polymer electrolyte fuel cells

    Hamdy F.M. Mohamed;Hamdy F.M. Mohamed;K. Ito;Y. Kobayashi;N. Takimoto

  • Stimuli-responsive opals: colloidal crystals and colloidal amorphous arrays for use in functional structurally colored materials

    Yukikazu Takeoka

  • Structural color coating films composed of an amorphous array of colloidal particles via electrophoretic deposition

    Kiyofumi Katagiri;Yuuki Tanaka;Kensuke Uemura;Kei Inumaru

  • Dual Tuning of the Photonic Band-Gap Structure in Soft Photonic Crystals

    Masaki Honda;Takahiro Seki;Yukikazu Takeoka

Frequent Co-Authors

Takahiro Seki
Takahiro Seki Nagoya University
Masayoshi Watanabe
Masayoshi Watanabe Yokohama National University
Kohzo Ito
Kohzo Ito University of Tokyo
Alexander Y. Grosberg
Alexander Y. Grosberg New York University
Naoya Ogata
Naoya Ogata Sophia University
Ryo Yoshida
Ryo Yoshida University of Tokyo
Kohei Sanui
Kohei Sanui Sophia University
Takamasa Sakai
Takamasa Sakai University of Tokyo
Masami Kamigaito
Masami Kamigaito Nagoya University

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