Publications

Pre-yielding and necking process of double network hydrogels revealed by sample geometry effects🔗

Masahiro Yoshida, Ryuji Kiyama*, Ye Zhang, Daniel R. King, Takayuki Kurokawa, Jian Ping Gong*

Extreme Mechanics Letters, 69, 102163-102163 (2024)

Spatial Analysis of the Damage Zone in Double Network Hydrogel Using the Microelectrode Technique🔗

Takuya Nishimura, Honglei Guo, Yoshinori Katsuyama, Masahiro Yoshida, Jian Ping Gong, Takayuki Kurokawa*

Macromolecules, 57(4), 1502-1508 (2024)

Sustainable Mechanochemical Growth of Double-Network Hydrogels Supported by Vascular-like Perfusion🔗

Gumi Wei, Yumeko Kudo, Takahiro Matsuda, Zhi Jian Wang, Qi Feng Mu, Daniel Rudolf King, Tasuku Nakajima*, Jian Ping Gong*

Materials Horizons, 2023(10), 4882-4891 (2023)

Tunable structure of chimeric isomaltomegalosaccharides with double α-(1 → 4)-glucosyl chains enhances the solubility of water-insoluble bioactive compounds🔗

Weeranuch Lang*, Takayoshi Tagami, Yuya Kumagai, Seiya Tanaka, Hye-Jin Kang, Masayuki Okuyama, Wataru Saburi, Haruhide Mori, Tohru Hira, Chaehun Lee, Takuya Isono, Toshifumi Satoh, Hiroshi Hara, Takayuki Kurokawa, Nobuo Sakairi, Yoshiaki Yuguchi, Atsuo Kimura*

Carbohydrate Polymers, 319, 121185 (2023)

Novel endoscopic management of gastroenterological anastomosis leakage by injecting gel‑forming solutions: an experimental animal study🔗

Yusuke Watanabe, Keiko Yamamoto*, Zijian Yang, Haruna Tsuchibora, Masakazu Fujii, Masayoshi Ono, Shoko Ono, Takayuki Kurokawa, Naoya Sakamoto

Surgical endoscopy, 37, 8029-8034 (2023)

Origin of Surface Charge of Double Network Hydrogels Prepared by Sequential Polymerization🔗

Martin Frauenlob, Honglei Guo, Takayuki Kurokawa*, Jian Ping Gong*

ACS Macro Letters, 12(7), 860-865 (2023)

Engineering of an Electrically Charged Hydrogel Implanted into a Traumatic Brain Injury Model for Stepwise Neuronal Tissue Reconstruction🔗

Satoshi Tanikawa, Yuki Ebisu, Tomáš Sedlačík, Shingo Semba, Takayuki Nonoyama, Takayuki Kurokawa, Akira Hirota, Taiga Takahashi, Kazushi Yamaguchi, Masamichi Imajo, Hinako Kato, Takuya Nishimura, Zen-ichi Tanei, Masumi Tsuda, Tomomi Nemoto, Jian Ping Gong, Shinya Tanaka*

Scientific Reports, 13(2233) (2023)

Nanoscale TEM Imaging of Hydrogel Network Architecture🔗

Ryuji Kiyama, Masahiro Yoshida, Takayuki Nonoyama*, Tomáš Sedlačík, Hiroshi Jinnai, Takayuki Kurokawa, Tasuku Nakajima, Jian Ping Gong*

Advanced Materials, 35(1), 220892 (2022)

Gluing Blood into Gel by Electrostatic Interaction using a Water-soluble Polymer as an Embolic Agent🔗

Zhiping Jin, Hailong Fan,* Toshiya Osanai,* Takayuki Nonoyama, Takayuki Kurokawa, Hideki Hyodoh, Kotaro Matoba, Akiko Takeuchi, Jian Ping Gong, Miki Fujimura

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(42), e2206685119 (2022)

Macroscale Double Networks: Highly Dissipative Soft Composites🔗

Daniel R. King

Polymer Jounral, 54(8), 943-955 (2022)

Surfactant Induced Bilayer-Micelle Transition for Emergence of Functions in Anisotropic Hydrogel🔗

Md Anamul Haque, Takayuki Kurokawa, Tasuku Nakajima, Gen Kamita, Zannatul Fatema, Jian Ping Gong*

Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 10(41), 8386-8397 (2022)

Synthesis of Dgradable Double Network Gels Using a Hydrolysable Cross-Linker🔗

Takanori Yokoi, Akinori Kuzuya, Tasuku Nakajima, Takayuki Kurokawa, Jian Ping Gong, Yuichi Ohya*

Polymer Chemistry, 13(25), 3756-3762 (2022)

Evaluation of Biological Responses to Micro-particles Derived from a Double Network Hydrogel🔗

Gen Matsumae, Mohamad Alaa Terkawi*, Takayuki Nonoyama, Takayuki Kurokawa, Daisuke Takahashi, Tomohiro Shimizu, Ken Kadoya, Jian Ping Gong, Kazunori Yasuda, Norimasa Iwasaki

Biomaterials Science, 10(9), 2182-2187 (2022)

High strength hydrogels enable dendrite-free Zn metal anodes and high-capacity Zn-MnO2 batteries via a modified mechanical suppression effect🔗

Ruijie Zhu, Huijun Yang, Wei Cui, Laras Fadillah, Tianhong Huang, Zetao Xiong, Chunmei Tang, Damian Kowalski, Sho Kitano, Chunyu Zhu, Daniel Rudolf King* Takayuki Kurokawa, Yoshitaka Aoki, Hiroki Habazaki

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10(6), 3122-3133 (2022)

Quantitative Determination of Cation-π Interaction between Metal Ions and Aromatic Groups in Aqueous Media by A Hydrogel Donnan Potential Method🔗

Hailong Fan, Honglei Guo, Takayuki Kurokawa, Jian Ping Gong*

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(10), 6126-6132 (2022)

Unique Crack Propagation of Double Network Hydrogels under High Stretch🔗

Ye Zhang, Kazuki Fukao, Takahiro Matsuda, Tasuku Nakajima, Katsuhiko Tsunoda, Takayuki Kurokawa, Jian Ping Gong*

Extreme Mechanics Letters, 51, 101588 (2022)

In Situ Evaluation of the Polymer Concentration Distribution of Microphase-Separated Polyelectrolyte Hydrogels by the Microelectrode Technique🔗

Takuya Nishimura, Honglei Guo, Ryuji Kiyama, Yoshinori Katsuyama, Jian Ping Gong, Takayuki Kurokawa*

Macromolecules, 54(23), 10776-10785 (2021)

How Chain Dynamics Affects Crack Initiation in Double Network Gels🔗

Yong Zheng, Takahiro Matsuda, Tasuku Nakajima*, Wei Cui, Ye Zhang, Chung-Yuen Hui, Takayuki Kurokawa, Jian Ping Gong*

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(49), e2111880118 (2021)

Hydroxyapatite-hybridized Double-network Hydrogel Surface Enhances Differentiation of Bone Marrow-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Osteogenic Cells🔗

Takuma Kaibara*, Lei Wang, Masumi Tsuda, Takayuki Nonoyama, Takayuki Kurokawa, Norimasa Iwasaki, Jian Ping Gong, Shinya Tanaka, Kazunori Yasuda*

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A, 110(4), 747-760 (2021)

Facile Preparation of Cellulose Hydrogel with Achilles Tendon-like Super Strength through Aligning Hierarchical Fibrous Structure🔗

Yun Zhou Guo, Tasuku Nakajima*, Md. Tariful Islam Mredha, Hong Lei Guo, Kunpeng Cui, Yong Zheng, Wei Cui, Takayuki Kurokawa, Jian Ping Gong*

Chemical Engineering Journal, 428, 132040 (2022)

Tiny Yet Tough: Maximizing the Toughness of Fiber-Reinforced Soft Composites in the Absence of a Fiber-Fracture Mechanism🔗

Wei Cui, Yiwan Huang, Liang Chen, Yoshiyuki Saruwatari, Chung-Yuen Hui, Yong Zheng, Takayuki Kurokawa, Daniel R. King*, Jian Ping Gong*

Matter, 4(11), 3646-3661 (2021)

Fast In Vivo Fixation of Double Network Hydrogel to Bone by Monetite Surface Hybridization🔗

Takayuki Nonoyama*, Lei Wang, Ryuji Kiyama, Naohiro Kashimura, Kazunori Yasuda, Shinya Tanaka, Takayuki Kurokawa, Jian Ping Gong

Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan, 129(9), 584-589 (2021)

Improving the Strength and Toughness of Macroscale Double Networks by Exploiting Poisson’s Ratio Mismatch🔗

Tsuyoshi Okumura, Riku Takahashi, Katsumi Hagita, Daniel R. King*, Jian Ping Gong*

Scientific Reports, 11, 13280 (2021)

Flower-like Photonic Hydrogel with Superstructure Induced via Gradient Shear Field🔗

Ya Nan Ye, Md. Anamul Haque, Akane Inoue, Yoshinori Katsuyama, Takayuki Kurokawa*, Jian Ping Gong*

ACS Macro Letters, 10(6), 708-713 (2021)

Nanophase Separation in Immiscible Double Network Elastomers Induces Synergetic Strengthening, Toughening, and Fatigue Resistance🔗

Yong Zheng, Ryuji Kiyama, Takahiro Matsuda, Kunpeng Cui, Xueyu Li, Wei Cui, Yunzhou Guo, Tasuku Nakajima*, Takayuki Kurokawa, Jian Ping Gong*

Chemistry of Materials, 33(9), 3321-3334 (2021)

Molecular mechanism of abnormally large nonsoftening deformation in a tough hydrogel🔗

Ya Nan Ye, Kunpeng Cui*, Wei Hong, Xueyu Li, Chengtao Yu, Dominique Hourdet, Tasuku Nakajima, Takayuki Kurokawa, Jian Ping Gong*

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(14), e2014694118 (2021)

Experimental Verification of the Balance between Elastic Pressure and Ionic Osmotic Pressure of Highly Swollen Charged Gels🔗

Tasuku Nakajima*, Ken-ichi Hoshino, Honglei Guo, Takayuki Kurokawa, Jian Ping Gong

Gels, Special Issue: Stimuli-Responsive Gels 2.0, 7(2), 39 (2021)

Effect of Mesoscale Phase Contrast on Fatigue-Delaying Behavior of Self-Healing Hydrogels🔗

Xueyu Li, Kunpeng Cui, Takayuki Kurokawa, Ya Nan Ye, Tao Lin Sun, Chengtao Yu, Costantino Creton, Jian Ping Gong*

Science Advances, 7(16), eabe8210 (2021)

Rapid Reprogramming of Tumour Cells into Cancer Stem Cells on Double-Network Hydrogels🔗

Jun Suzuka, Masumi Tsuda, Lei Wang, Shinji Kohsaka, Karin Kishida, Shingo Semba, Sachiyo Aburatani, Martin Frauenlob, Takayuki Kurokawa, Shinya Kojima, Toshihide Ueno, Yoshihiro Ohmiya, Hiroyuki Mano, Kazunori Yasuda, Jian Ping Gong, Shinya Tanaka*

Nature Biomedical Engineering, 5(8), 914-925 (2021)

Dynamic Bonds Enable Multifunctionality in Freely Formable Gelatin/Tannic Acid-based Hydrogels🔗

Hui Jie Zhang*, Xinyi Wang, Lini Wang, Tao Lin Sun, Xugang Dang, Daniel R. King*, Xiangyu You*

Soft Matter, 17(41), 9399-9409 (2021)

Hierarchical Toughening: A Step Toward Matching the Complexity of Biological Materials🔗

Daniel R. King, Jian Ping Gong

Chem, 7(5), 1153-1155 (2021)