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Toyoichi Tanaka
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 176
Citations - 24385
Toyoichi Tanaka is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Phase transition & Polymer. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 176 publications receiving 23560 citations. Previous affiliations of Toyoichi Tanaka include Boston University.
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Volume phase transition in a nonionic gel
TL;DR: In this article, a nonionic Nisopropylacrylamide gel was found to undergo a discontinuous phase transition by changing a solvent composition or temperature, which is an evidence for the universality of the phase transition of polymer gels.
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Kinetics of swelling of gels
TL;DR: In this article, a theory of the kinetics of the swelling of polyacrylamide gels is presented, which is based on the assumption that the swelling time is determined by the diffusion coefficient of the fluid molecules.
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Collapse of Gels and the Critical Endpoint
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain the collapse of polyacrylamide gels in terms of mean field theory based on the extension of Flory's formula for free energy of gels.
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Collapse of Gels in an Electric Field
TL;DR: An infinitesimal change in electric potential across a polyelectrolyte gel produces a discrete, reversible volume change, which can be several hundred times smaller than that of the swollen gel.
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Phase Transitions in Ionic Gels
TL;DR: In this article, the polymer network of a gel undergoes a discrete transition in equilibrium volume with changes in solvent composition or temperature, and the volume collapse is also observed when the p\mathrm{H}$ within the gel is varied.