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Ichiro Sakurada and Polymer Chemistry at Kyoto University
The Society of Polymer Science, Japan is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2012. To commemorate this event, the January issue of Polymer Journal celebrates the work of Ichiro Sakurada.
Dr. Sakurada was a professor at Kyoto Imperial University (now Kyoto University) in the Department of Polymer Science. Conducting many of the frontier works in the study of synthetic fibers, such as development of Vinylon (also Vinalon-) in 1939, he is considered as a father of polymer chemistry research in Japan.
Along with the special issue, which publishes English-translated reproductions of the late Dr. Sakurada's papers and articles contributed by today's successors of studies in polymer chemistry in Japan, the accompanying Web Focus brings together papers reporting research conducted at Kyoto University – the home of polymer chemistry studies in Japan.
Articles
Single-chain technology using discrete synthetic macromolecules
Makoto Ouchi, Nezha Badi, Jean-François Lutz & Mitsuo Sawamoto
Nature Chemistry 3, 917–924(2011) doi:10.1038/nchem.1175
doi:10.1038/nchem.1175
Entanglement network of agarose in various solvents
Jun-ichi Horinaka, Ryosuke Yasuda and Toshikazu Takigawa
Polym J 43: 1000-1002; advance online publication, September 28, 2011; doi:10.1038/pj.2011.98
Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)-based hybrid materials with reactive zirconium oxide nanocrystals
Takeshi Otsuka and Yoshiki Chujo
Polym J 42: 58-65; doi:10.1038/pj.2009.309
Segmental orientation of a single polymer chain in Langmuir–Blodgett films studied by defocus fluorescence imaging
Hiroyuki Aoki, Toshiaki Takahashi and Shinzaburo Ito
Polym J 43: 218-221; advance online publication, December 8, 2010; doi:10.1038/pj.2010.125
Polysaccharide nanogel–cyclodextrin system as an artificial chaperone for in vitro protein synthesis of green fluorescent protein
Yoshihiro Sasaki, Yuta Nomura, Shin-ichi Sawada and Kazunari Akiyoshi
Polym J 42: 823-828; advance online publication, August 18, 2010; doi:10.1038/pj.2010.73
Kinetics of Living Anionic Polymerization of Polystyrenyl Lithium in Cyclohexane
Eri Mishima, Yumi Matsumiya, Shigeru Yamago and Hiroshi Watanabe
Polym J 40: 749-762; advance online publication, June 25, 2008; doi:10.1295/polymj.PJ2008047
Structure and dynamics of poly(vinyl alcohol) gels in mixtures of dimethyl sulfoxide and water
Toshiji Kanaya, Nobuaki Takahashi, Hiroki Takeshita, Masatoshi Ohkura, Koji Nishida and Keisuke Kaji
Polym J advance online publication, October 19, 2011; doi:10.1038/pj.2011.88
Dynamics in miscible blends of polyisoprene and poly(p-tert-butyl styrene): thermo–rheological behavior of components
Quan Chen, Yumi Matsumiya and Hiroshi Watanabe
Polym J advance online publication, May 18, 2011; doi:10.1038/pj.2011.33
Addition effects of imidazolium salts on mesophase structure and optical properties of concentrated hydroxypropyl cellulose aqueous solutions
Ryotaro Chiba, Mitsuhiro Ito and Yoshiyuki Nishio
Polym J 42: 232-241; advance online publication, January 13, 2010; doi:10.1038/pj.2009.338
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