Kenji Urayama

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
224 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Kenji Urayama is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenji Urayama has authored 224 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 78 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 76 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Kenji Urayama's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (69 papers), Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (66 papers) and Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (60 papers). Kenji Urayama is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (69 papers), Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (66 papers) and Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (60 papers). Kenji Urayama collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Kenji Urayama's co-authors include Toshikazu Takigawa, Shinzo Kohjiya, Takanobu Kawamura, Itaru Hamachi, Toshiro Masuda, Thanh‐Tam Mai, Saori Minami, Shuhei Furukawa, Yoshihiro Morishita and Katsuhiko Tsunoda and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kenji Urayama

215 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Installing logic-gate responses to a variety of biological substances in supramolecular hydrogel–enzyme hybrids

2014 382 citations Kenji Urayama, Itaru Hamachi et al. profile →
Quasi-Homogeneous Photocatalysis in Ultrastiff Microporous Polymer Aerogels

2024 50 citations Zaoming Wang, Takuma Aoyama et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kenji Urayama Japan	43	2.4k	2.2k	1.7k	1.2k	1.2k	224	6.3k
Qiang Zheng China	42	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	940 0.8×	3.0k 2.5×	257	7.0k
Jiaxi Cui China	42	2.1k 0.9×	952 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	188	6.4k
Toshikazu Takigawa Japan	32	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	571 0.5×	908 0.7×	163	4.5k
Yachin Cohen Israel	35	2.5k 1.0×	1.0k 0.5×	1.9k 1.1×	1.7k 1.4×	3.4k 2.8×	161	7.1k
Wei Lü China	52	4.6k 1.9×	2.7k 1.3×	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	3.1k 2.6×	146	8.7k
Jinhwan Yoon South Korea	43	1.8k 0.8×	994 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	564 0.5×	1.7k 1.4×	125	4.9k
Takamasa Sakai Japan	47	3.1k 1.3×	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	2.3k 1.9×	1.1k 0.9×	214	8.5k
Michael J. Serpe Canada	48	3.4k 1.4×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.4×	166	8.1k
Xu‐Ming Xie China	41	2.3k 1.0×	807 0.4×	2.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	2.1k 1.8×	144	6.5k
Pingchuan Sun China	49	1.8k 0.8×	834 0.4×	2.0k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	3.2k 2.6×	202	7.2k

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Nozaki, D., Thanh‐Tam Mai, Katsuhiko Tsunoda, & Kenji Urayama. (2025). Tracking the Evolution of Heterogeneous Crystallization Driven by Complex Deformation Scenarios in Natural Rubber. Macromolecules. 58(8). 4059–4069. 3 indexed citations

Tanaka, Keiji, Kenji Urayama, Tasuku Nakajima, & Takeshi Serizawa. (2025). Special issue: Molecular picture of heterogeneity in polymer networks: from thermosetting polymers to elastomers and gels. Polymer Journal. 57(4). 341–342.

Guo, Qiang, et al.. (2024). An anisotropic damage visco-hyperelastic model for multiaxial stress-strain response and energy dissipation in filled rubber. International Journal of Plasticity. 182. 104111–104111. 11 indexed citations

Mai, Thanh‐Tam, Hiroyasu Masunaga, Taizo Kabe, et al.. (2024). Unraveling Non‐Uniform Strain‐Induced Crystallization Near a Crack Tip in Natural Rubber. Advanced Science. 11(12). e2307741–e2307741. 21 indexed citations

Fa, Shixin, Masataka Yamashita, Shunsuke Ohtani, et al.. (2024). Helical-Sense Matching Facilitates Supramolecular Copolymerization of Helical–Chiral Pillar[5]arenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(46). 31816–31824. 2 indexed citations

Guo, Qiang, et al.. (2024). A multiscale model for the multiaxial anisotropic damage of double-network gels. Mechanics of Materials. 196. 105058–105058. 12 indexed citations

Tsunoda, Katsuhiko, et al.. (2023). Transition of rupture mode of strain crystallizing elastomers in tensile edge-crack tests. Soft Matter. 19(10). 1966–1976. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Zaoming, Aydın Özcan, Gavin A. Craig, et al.. (2023). Pore-Networked Gels: Permanently Porous Ionic Liquid Gels with Linked Metal–Organic Polyhedra Networks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(26). 14456–14465. 30 indexed citations

Troyano, Javier, et al.. (2023). Porous supramolecular gels produced by reversible self-gelation of ruthenium-based metal–organic polyhedra. Chemical Science. 14(35). 9543–9552. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Zaoming, Takuma Aoyama, Elı́ Sánchez-González, et al.. (2022). Control of Extrinsic Porosities in Linked Metal–Organic Polyhedra Gels by Imparting Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly with Electrostatic Repulsion. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(20). 23660–23668. 11 indexed citations

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Watanabe, K., Takahiro Seki, Kenji Urayama, et al.. (2020). Highly Transparent and Tough Filler Composite Elastomer Inspired by the Cornea. ACS Materials Letters. 2(4). 325–330. 25 indexed citations

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Watanabe, K., Takahiro Seki, Kenji Urayama, et al.. (2020). Composite Elastomer Exhibiting a Stress-Dependent Color Change and High Toughness Prepared by Self-Assembly of Silica Particles in a Polymer Network. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 2(9). 4078–4089. 23 indexed citations

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Nishizawa, Yuichiro, Shusuke Matsui, Kenji Urayama, et al.. (2019). Non‐Thermoresponsive Decanano‐sized Domains in Thermoresponsive Hydrogel Microspheres Revealed by Temperature‐Controlled High‐Speed Atomic Force Microscopy. Angewandte Chemie. 131(26). 8901–8905. 4 indexed citations

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Mayumi, Koichi, Chang Liu, Makoto Ishida, et al.. (2019). Mechanical properties of slide-ring materials for dielectric elastomer actuators. 30–30. 2 indexed citations

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Tanaka, Wataru, Hajime Shigemitsu, Takahiro Fujisaku, et al.. (2019). Post-assembly Fabrication of a Functional Multicomponent Supramolecular Hydrogel Based on a Self-Sorting Double Network. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(12). 4997–5004. 53 indexed citations

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Carné‐Sánchez, Arnau, Gavin A. Craig, Patrick Larpent, et al.. (2019). A Coordinative Solubilizer Method to Fabricate Soft Porous Materials from Insoluble Metal–Organic Polyhedra. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(19). 6347–6350. 71 indexed citations

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Carné‐Sánchez, Arnau, Gavin A. Craig, Patrick Larpent, et al.. (2018). Self-assembly of metal–organic polyhedra into supramolecular polymers with intrinsic microporosity. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2506–2506. 184 indexed citations

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Minami, Saori, et al.. (2018). Elastic and Flow Properties of Densely Packed Binary Microgel Mixtures with Size and Stiffness Disparities. Macromolecules. 51(23). 9901–9914. 23 indexed citations

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Minami, Saori, Takumi Watanabe, Daisuke Suzuki, & Kenji Urayama. (2018). Viscoelasticity of dense suspensions of thermosensitive microgel mixtures undergoing colloidal gelation. Soft Matter. 14(9). 1596–1607. 16 indexed citations

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Murakami, Syozo, Kenji Urayama, & Shinzo Kohjiya. (1999). Deformation Behavior of Extruded Blown Film of High Density Polyethylene (STATES AND STRUCTURES- Polymer Condensed States). Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University). 5. 8–9. 1 indexed citations

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