Takumi Watanabe

10.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Takumi Watanabe is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Takumi Watanabe has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Organic Chemistry, 24 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Takumi Watanabe's work include Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (24 papers), Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (14 papers) and Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (14 papers). Takumi Watanabe is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (24 papers), Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (14 papers) and Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (14 papers). Takumi Watanabe collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and France. Takumi Watanabe's co-authors include Hideo Hosono, Masahiro Hirano, Yoichi Kamihara, Akira Hirao, Daisuke Suzuki, Akira Matsuo, Toshio Kamiya, Hiroshi Yanagi, Takuma Kureha and Kenji Sugiyama and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Takumi Watanabe

80 papers receiving 7.7k citations

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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.

Iron-Based Layered Superconductor La[O_1-_xF_x]FeAs (x = 0.05−0.12) with T_c = 26 K

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Takumi Watanabe Japan	25	6.2k	4.6k	1.9k	781	694	82	7.9k
Athena S. Sefat United States	50	7.7k 1.3×	5.7k 1.2×	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	145 0.2×	252	9.2k
P. Zheng China	29	2.6k 0.4×	1.9k 0.4×	802 0.4×	970 1.2×	361 0.5×	98	3.7k
Dirk Johrendt Germany	41	7.5k 1.2×	5.4k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	2.3k 3.0×	144 0.2×	265	9.6k
Arnold M. Guloy United States	36	3.1k 0.5×	1.7k 0.4×	556 0.3×	3.5k 4.5×	501 0.7×	100	7.0k
Maw‐Kuen Wu Taiwan	29	5.1k 0.8×	4.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	33 0.0×	242	6.6k
Guang‐Han Cao China	46	6.5k 1.1×	5.4k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 1.8×	46 0.1×	392	8.2k
Nanlin Wang China	36	4.2k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.5×	24 0.0×	133	5.8k
Rongying Jin United States	49	6.8k 1.1×	5.8k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	2.7k 3.4×	27 0.0×	235	8.9k
Serena Margadonna United Kingdom	35	2.0k 0.3×	1.2k 0.3×	393 0.2×	1.8k 2.2×	727 1.0×	107	3.9k
Hiroshi Yanagi Japan	42	3.5k 0.6×	1.8k 0.4×	601 0.3×	8.2k 10.5×	197 0.3×	128	11.2k

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Nishizawa, Yuichiro, Takumi Watanabe, Takuma Kureha, et al.. (2023). Nanoparticle-Based Tough Polymers with Crack-Propagation Resistance. Langmuir. 39(26). 9262–9272. 13 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Takumi, Haruka Minato, Koki Sano, et al.. (2023). Closed-loop recycling of microparticle-based polymers. Green Chemistry. 25(9). 3418–3424. 11 indexed citations

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Nishizawa, Yuichiro, Takumi Watanabe, Tetsuya Noguchi, et al.. (2022). Durable gelfoams stabilized by compressible nanocomposite microgels. Chemical Communications. 58(93). 12927–12930. 13 indexed citations

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Minato, Haruka, et al.. (2022). Adsorption Races of Binary Colloids with Different Softness at the Air/Water Interface of Sessile Droplets. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 9(28). 4 indexed citations

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Nishizawa, Yuichiro, et al.. (2022). Clarification of Surface Deswelling of Thermoresponsive Microgels by Electrophoresis. Langmuir. 38(51). 16084–16093. 8 indexed citations

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Kato, Shunichi, et al.. (2020). Direct Laser Processing of Two-Scale Periodic Structures for Superhydrophobic Surfaces Using a Nanosecond Pulsed Laser. Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing. 7(4). 496–512. 8 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Takumi, Yuichiro Nishizawa, Haruka Minato, et al.. (2020). Hydrophobic Monomers Recognize Microenvironments in Hydrogel Microspheres during Free‐Radical‐Seeded Emulsion Polymerization. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(23). 8849–8853. 29 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Takumi, et al.. (2020). The Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction in Thermoresponsive Core–Shell Hydrogel Microspheres with a Tris(2,2′-bipyridyl)ruthenium Catalyst in the Core. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 124(18). 3828–3835. 17 indexed citations

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Minami, Saori, Takumi Watanabe, Haruka Minato, et al.. (2020). Two-step yielding behavior of densely packed microgel mixtures with chemically dissimilar surfaces and largely different sizes. Soft Matter. 16(31). 7400–7413. 3 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Takumi, Yuichiro Nishizawa, Haruka Minato, et al.. (2020). Hydrophobic Monomers Recognize Microenvironments in Hydrogel Microspheres during Free‐Radical‐Seeded Emulsion Polymerization. Angewandte Chemie. 132(23). 8934–8938. 7 indexed citations

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Minami, Saori, et al.. (2020). Criteria for colloidal gelation of thermo-sensitive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) based microgels. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 568. 165–175. 10 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Takumi, Masaya Takizawa, Hang Jiang, To Ngai, & Daisuke Suzuki. (2019). Hydrophobized nanocomposite hydrogel microspheres as particulate stabilizers for water-in-oil emulsions. Chemical Communications. 55(43). 5990–5993. 39 indexed citations

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Matsui, Shusuke, Takayuki Uchihashi, Takuma Kureha, et al.. (2019). Hydrogel Microellipsoids that Form Robust String‐Like Assemblies at the Air/Water Interface. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(22). 7294–7298. 19 indexed citations

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Matsui, Shusuke, Takayuki Uchihashi, Takuma Kureha, et al.. (2019). Hydrogel Microellipsoids that Form Robust String‐Like Assemblies at the Air/Water Interface. Angewandte Chemie. 131(22). 7372–7376. 3 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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Minato, Haruka, Takumi Watanabe, Shusuke Matsui, et al.. (2018). The deformation of hydrogel microspheres at the air/water interface. Chemical Communications. 54(8). 932–935. 53 indexed citations

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Hirao, Akira, et al.. (2009). Precise Synthesis of Dendrimer-Like Hyperbranched Polymers. Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan. 67(10). 1033–1043. 1 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Takumi, et al.. (1988). Magneto-optical properties of (RBi)3Fe5O12 at 0.8.MU.m wavelength band.. Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan. 12(2). 179–182. 1 indexed citations

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Nariuchi, Hideo, et al.. (1978). Studies on the adjuvant effect of water-in-oil-in-water (w/o/w) emulsion of sesame oil. 1. Enhanced and persistent antibody formation by antigen incorporated into the water-in-oil-in-water emulsion.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 48(2). 149–54. 14 indexed citations

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