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Search Publications by: Michihiro Nagao (Assoc)

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Scaling of Lipid Membrane Rigidity with Domain Area Fraction

February 21, 2019
Author(s)
Elizabeth G. Kelley, Michihiro Nagao, Paul D. Butler
The elastic properties of cell membranes play a vital role in controlling the morphology changes necessary for cell processes such as endocytosis and cell division. These elastic properties are highly sensitive to the lipid composition and distribution

Two Inherent Crossovers of the Diffusion Process in Glass-Forming Liquids

October 5, 2018
Author(s)
Maiko Kofu, Antonio Faraone, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Michihiro Nagao, Osamu Yamamuro
We report on incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering measurements examining a self-diffusion process in two types of glass-forming liquids, a molecular liquid (3-methylpentane) and an ionic liquid (1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bis

Effect of Interlamellar Interactions on Shear Induced Multilamellar Vesicles Formation

July 21, 2017
Author(s)
Youhei Kawabata, Robert David Bradbury, S. Kugizaki, Kathleen Weigandt, Y. B. Melnichenko, K. Sadakane, N. L. Yamada, H. Endo, Michihiro Nagao, H. Seto
Shear-induced multilamellar vesicle (MLV) formation has been studied by means of small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) technique coupled with neutron spin echo (NSE) spectroscopy. A mass fraction of 10% of nonionic surfactant pentaethylene glycol dodecyl

Effect of Charge on the Mechanical Properties of Surfactant Bilayers

November 23, 2016
Author(s)
Robert David Bradbury, Michihiro Nagao
The viscoelastic properties of surfactant bilayers have been measured over a range of surface charge densities, for a system with a low ionic strength, using small-angle neutron scattering and neutron spin echo (NSE) spectroscopy. An increase in the

Neutron Polarization Analysis for Biphasic Solvent Extraction Systems

June 16, 2016
Author(s)
Ryuhei Motokawa, Hitoshi Endo, Michihiro Nagao, William T. Heller
We performed neutron polarization analysis (NPA) of extracted organic phases containing complexes, comprised of Zr(NO 3( 4 and tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP), to decompose the intensity distribution of small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) into the coherent

Mechanism of Spontaneous Blebbing Motion of Oil-Water Interface: Elastic Stress Generated by a Lamellar-Lamellar Transition

March 3, 2016
Author(s)
Yutaka Sumino, Norifumi L. Yamada, Michihiro Nagao, Takuya Honda, Hiroyuki Kitahata, Yuri B. Melnichenko, Hideki Seto
A mimic of biological blebbing motions constructed by a purely chemical system has been studied to understand nanometer scale structure and their roles in the spontaneous motion. Transition of surfactant lamellar phase was away rom the interface

Nanostructures and Dynamics of Macromolecules Bound to Attractive Filler Surfaces

August 18, 2015
Author(s)
Naisheng Jiang, Maya K. Endoh, Tadanori Koga, Tomomi Masui, Hiroyuki Kishimoto, Michihiro Nagao, Sushil K. Satija, Takashi Taniguchi
We report in-situ structures and dynamics of polybutadiene (PB) chains bound to carbon black (CB) fillers (the so-called "bound polymer layer (BPL)") in a good solvent. The BPL on the CB fillers were extracted by solvent leaching of a CB-filled PB compound