Polymer Phasing: Self-Organization of Order/Disorder Under Flow Fields

About Takeji Hashimoto

Takeji Hashimoto received degrees from Kyoto University (BS 1965 and MS 1967) and from the University of Massachusetts (MS1969 and PhD 1971). He was appointed as an Assistant Professor in 1971 in the Faculty of Engineering Kyoto Univ. and was promoted to full Professor in 1994. He was a director of the Hashimoto Polymer Phasing Project ERATO JST from 1993 to 1998. He was appointed as a group leader for the Project Neutron Scattering and Structure-Functionality of Soft Matters at Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) JAEA from 2003 to 2005. Since his retirement from Kyoto Univ. in 2005 he has been Professor Emeritus of Kyoto Univ. and was appointed as a full-time researcher at ASRC JAEA (2005 2008) as a group leader and as a Visiting Scientist at JAEA (2008 - 2015) and an Honorary Chair Professor National Tsing Hua University Taiwan (2011 - 2016) and at National Chenkung University Taiwan (2017 to 2019). His research interests include elucidation of mechanism and dynamics of self-organization of molecular assemblies in multicomponent polymer systems via phase transitions and phase separation in the absence (equilibrium systems) and presence (non-equilibrium systems) of externally applied fields (polymer phasing and mechanics of polymer assemblies). He published 600 original articles 58 review articles and contributed to 44 books. He published two monographs entitled Principles and Applications of X-ray Light and Neutron Scattering (one in Japanese Kodansha 2017 and the other in English Springer 2022). He published original articles in internationally renowned journals such as J. Chem. Phys. Phys. Rev. Letters Rev. Sci. Instruments Phys. Rev. B. Phys. Rev. E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. Langmuir Macromolecules J. Appl. Cryst. IUCrJ Progr. Colloid Polym. Sci. Macromolecular Symposia and so on. He won award High Polymer Physics Prize (Ford Prize) from American Physical Society (March 1987); Scattering techniques to the elucidation of phase and order disorder transitions in complex polymeric systems with particular emphasis on structure morphology and kinetics and many other awards.