Fumihiko Tanaka

Prof. Dr. Fumihiko Tanaka

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Academic Career Length

44Years (1983-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 March 1992 in Macromolecules
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Fumihiko TanakaFumihiko Tanaka
Fumihiko Tanaka
SES. F. Edwards
S. F. Edwards

20 April 2005 in Macromolecules
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YOYukinori Okada
Yukinori Okada
Fumihiko TanakaFumihiko Tanaka
Fumihiko Tanaka

7 September 2007 in Macromolecules
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XQXing-Ping Qiu
Xing-Ping Qiu
Fumihiko TanakaFumihiko Tanaka
Fumihiko Tanaka
FWFrançoise M. Winnik
Françoise M. Winnik

10 December 2005 in Macromolecules
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PKPiotr Kujawa
Piotr Kujawa
FSFlorence Segui
Florence Segui
SSSherry Shaban
Sherry Shaban
CDCharbel Diab
Charbel Diab
YOYukinori Okada
Yukinori Okada
FWFrançoise M. Winnik
Françoise M. Winnik

11 July 2008 in Physical Review Letters
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Fumihiko TanakaFumihiko Tanaka
Fumihiko Tanaka
TKTsuyoshi Koga
Tsuyoshi Koga
FWFrançoise M. Winnik
Françoise M. Winnik
If two good solvents become poor for a polymer when mixed, the solvent pair is called a cononsolvent pair. The sharp reentrant coil-to-globule-to-coil transition of a poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) chain observed in the mixed solvent of water and methanol is shown to be caused by the competitive hydrogen bonding by water and methanol molecules onto the polymer chain. On the basis of a new statistical-mechanical model for competitive hydrogen bonds, the mean square end-to-end distance is theoretically calculated and compared with experiment. The chain sharply collapses at the molar fraction xm≃0.2 of methanol, stays collapsed up to xm≃0.4, and finally recovers the swollen state at xm≃0.6. Such a reentrant coil-globule transition takes place because the total number of hydrogen bonds along the chain exhibits a similar square-well-type depression as a result of the competition.

1 July 1992 in Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
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Fumihiko TanakaFumihiko Tanaka
Fumihiko Tanaka
SES.F. Edwards
S.F. Edwards