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• Cooperativity in Sorption Isotherms
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, Langmuir 2023, 39, 13820-13829.

• Understanding Sorption Mechanisms Directly from Isotherms
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, Langmuir 2023, 39, 6113-6125.

• Sorption from Solution: A Statistical Thermodynamic Fluctuation Theory
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi,  Langmuir, 2023, 39, 12987-12998.

• Surface Area Estimation: Replacing the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller Model with the Statistical Thermodynamic Fluctuation Theory
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, Langmuir, 2022, 38, 7989-8002.

• Ensemble transformation in the fluctuation theory
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, Physica A, 2022, 585, 126430

• Cooperative sorption on porous materials
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, Langmuir, 2021, 37, 10279–10290

• Sorption: a statistical thermodynamic fluctuation theory
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, Langmuir, 2021, 37, 7380–7391

• Temperature dependence of sorption
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, Langmuir, 2021, 37, 11008–11017

• Thermodynamic stability condition can judge whether a nanoparticle dispersion can be considered a solution in a single phase
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, J Coll Interf Sci.,2020, 575, 472-479

• Formulating rationally via statistical thermodynamics
  S Shimizu, Curr Opin Coll Interf Sci, 2020, 48, 53-64.

• Water Networks Can Determine the Affinity of Ligand Binding to Proteins
  Darby JF, Hopkins AP, Shimizu S, Roberts SM, Brannigan JA, Turkenburg JP, Thomas GH, Hubbard RE, Fischer M., J Am Chem Soc., 2019, 141, 15818-15826

• Statistical thermodynamic foundation for mesoscale aggregation in ternary mixtures
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, Phys Chem Chem Phys, 2018, 20, 13777-13784.

• Hydrotropy and scattering: pre-ouzo as extended near-spinodal region
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, Phys Chem Chem Phys., 2017, 19,26734-26742

• Unifying hydrotropy under Gibbs phase rule
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, Phys Chem Chem Phys., 2017, 19,23597-23605 

• The origin of cooperative solubilisation by hydrotropes
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, Phys Chem Chem Phys., 2016, 18,25621-25628 

• Hydrotrope accumulation around the drug: The driving force for solubilization and minimum hydrotrope concentration for nicotinamide and urea
  J J Booth, M Omar, S Abbott and S Shimizu, Phys Chem Chem Phys., 2015, 17, 8028-8037

• Subnanoscale hydrophobic modulation of salt bridges in aqueous media
  S Chen, Y Itoh, T Masuda, S Shimizu, J Zhao, J Ma, S Nakamura, K Okuro, H Noguchi, K Uosaki and T Aida, Science, 2015, 348, 555-559

• Preferential Solvation: Dividing surface vs excess numbers
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi,J Phys Chem B., 2014, 118, 3922-3930.

• Hydrotropy: Monomer–micelle equilibrium and minimum hydrotrope concentration
  S Shimizu and N Matubayasi, J Phys Chem B., 2014, 118, 10515-10524.

• The Mechanism of Hydrophobic Drug Solubilization by Small Molecule Hydrotropes
  J J Booth, S Abbott and S Shimizu, J Phys Chem B., 2012, 116, 14915–14921.

• Estimating hydration changes upon biomolecular reactions from osmotic stress, high pressure, and preferential hydration experiments
  S Shimizu, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2004, 101, 1195-1199.