Associate Professor Yoshimoto Kenji
Faculty, Affiliation
Advanced Manufacturing Technology Institute Digital Twin Group
Associate Professor
College and School Educational Field
Division of Frontier Engineering, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology
Division of Natural System, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology
School of Frontier Engineering, College of Science and Engineering
Laboratory
Chemical Process Engineering Lab, Division of Frontier Engineering, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology
Academic Background
【Academic background(Doctoral/Master's Degree)】
University of Wisconsin - Madison Graduate School of Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering 2005 Completed
【Degree】
Ph.D
Career
Kanazawa University Advanced Manufacturing Technology Institute Associate Professor(2024-)
Toray Industries, Inc. Advanced Materials Laboratories Senior Research Associate(2022-2023)
Research Association of High-Throughput Design and Development for Advanced Functional Materials (ADMAT) Research Associate(2020-2022)
Toray Industries, Inc. Advanced Materials Laboratories Research Associate(2019-2020)
Kyoto University Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research Program-Specific Associate Professor(2012-2019)
GlobalFoundries Member of Technical Staff(2009-2012)
Advanced Micro Devices Senior Research Engineer(2008-2009)
Year & Month of Birth
Academic Society
The Society of Chemical Enginnering, Japan
The Society of Photopolymer Science and Technology
Award
○Photopolymer Science and Technology Best Paper Award(2017)
Specialities
Biological physics/Chemical physics/Soft matter physics
Speciality Keywords
Polymers, Simulations, Multiscale, Phase Separation, Viscoelastic, Directed Self-Assembly, Separation Membrane
Research Themes
Research and development of Directed Self-Assembly (DSA) for the generation of next-generation lithography technology
Digital design of innovative polymer separation membranes
Books
- Chi-chun Liu, Kenji Yoshimoto, Juan J. de Pablo, Paul F. Nealey Microlithography: Science and Technology, 3rd Ed. (B. Smith & K. Suzuki Eds.) CRC Press 2020/05
- Kenji Yoshimoto Self-Assembly in Block Copolymers : Structural Control and Applications CMC Publisher 2018/10
Papers
- Multiscale Rheology Model for Entangled Nylon6 Melt Heyi Liang. Kenji Yoshimoto, Masahiro Kitabata, Umi Yamamoto, Juan J. de Pablo Journal of Polymer Science B: Polymer Physics 60 22 3071-3084 2022/11
- Control of the Cell Structure of UV-Induced Chemically Blown Nanocellular Foams by Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Morphology Podchara Rattanakawin, Kenji Yoshimoto, Yuta Hikima, Shinsuke Nagamine, Yuhan Jiang, Masatoshi Tosaka, Shigeru Yamago, Masahiro Ohshima Macromolecules 55 12 5176-5187 2022/06
- Bottom-Up Multiscale Approach to Estimate Viscoelastic Properties of Entangled Polymer Melts with High Glass Transition Temperature Heyi Liang. Kenji Yoshimoto, Phwey Gil, Masahiro Kitabata, Umi Yamamoto, Juan J. de Pablo Macromolecules 55 8 3159–3165 2022/04
- Viscoelastic phase separation model for ternary polymer solutions Kenji Yoshimoto, Takashi Taniguchi Journal of Chemical Physics 154 10 0039208 2021/03
- Highly Ordered Nanocellular Polymeric Foams Generated by UV-Induced Chemical Foaming Podchara Rattanakawin, Kenji Yoshimoto, Yuta Hikima, Alvin Chandra, Teruaki Hayakawa, Masatoshi Tosaka, Shigeru Yamago, Masahiro Ohshima ACS Macro Letters 9 10 1433-1438 2020/10
- Development and Optimization of UV-Induced Chemical Foaming Process Podchara Rattanakawin, Kai Yamamura, Kenji Yoshimoto, Masahiro Ohshima Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology 32 5 693-698 2019/06
- Toward Realization of Next-Genration Patterning with Directed Self-Assembly Kenji Yoshimoto Polymers 67 9 523‐525 2018/09
- Synthesis of Photocleavable Block Copolymers for UV Induced Foaming Rattanakawin Podchara,Fan Weijia,Yamago Shigeru,Yoshimoto Kenji,Ohshima Masahiro Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology 31 5 647 2018/05
- Effect of wall potential on morphology of symmetric diblock copolymers in nanotrench Akihisa Yoshida,Kenji Yoshimoto,Masahiro Ohshima Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 55 6 06GE01 2016/06
- Direct Self-Assembly for Non-Periodic Designs Kenji Yoshimoto,Akihisa Yoshida,Masahiro Ohshima,Katsuyoshi Kodera,Yoshihiro Naka,Hideki Kanai,Sachiko Kobayashi,Simon Maeda,Phubes Jiravanichsakul,Katsutoshi Kobayashi,Hisako Aoyama Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology 29 5 709-715 2016/06
- Effects of thermal fluctuations and block copolymers compositions on defects in directed self-assembly hole shrink process Ken Fukawatase,Kenji Yoshimoto,Masahiro Ohshima Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 54 6 06FE01 2015/06
- Optimization of directed self-assembly hole shrink process with simplified model Kenji Yoshimoto,Ken Fukawatase,Masahiro Ohshima,Yoshihiro Naka,Shimon Maeda,Satoshi Tanaka,Seiji Morita,Hisako Aoyama,Shoji Mimotogi Journal of Micro-Nanolithography MEMS and MOEMS 13 3 031305 2014/07
- Large-scale simulations of directed self-assembly with simplified model Kenji Yoshimoto,Takashi Taniguchi Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology 26 6 809 2013
- Hexameric Helicase Deconstructed: Interplay of Conformational Changes and Substrate Coupling Kenji Yoshimoto, Karunesh Arora, Charles L. Brooks Biophysical Journal 98 8 1449-1457 2010/04
- Mechanical properties of polymer nanostructures: measurements based on deformation in response to capillary forces Mark. P. Stoykovich, Kenji Yoshimoto, Paul F. Nealey Applied Physics A - Materials Science & Processing 90 2 277-283 2008/02
- Influence of confinement on the fragility of antiplasticized and pure polymer films Robert A. Riggleman, Kenji Yoshimoto, Jack F. Douglas, Juan J. de Pablo Physical Review Letters 97 4 045502 2006/07
- Local mechanical properties of polymeric nanocomposites George J. Papakonstantopoulos, Kenji Yoshimoto, Manolis Doxastakis, Paul F. Nealey, Juan J. de Pablo Physical Review E 72 3 031801 2005/09
- Isothermal stress and elasticity tensors for ions and point dipoles using Ewald summations Kevin V. Workum, Kenji Yoshimoto, Juan J. de Pablo, Jack F. Douglas Physical Review E 71 6 061102 2005/06
- Statistical calculation of elastic moduli for atomistic models Kenji Yoshimoto, George J. Papakonstantopoulos, James F. Lutsko, Juan J. de Pablo Physical Review B 71 18 184108 2005/05
- Local dynamic mechanical properties in model free-standing polymer thin films Kenji Yoshimoto, Tushar S. Jain, Paul F. Nealey, Juan J. de Pablo Journal of Chemical Physics 122 14 144712 2005/04
- Mechanical heterogeneities in model polymer glasses at small length scales Kenji Yoshimoto,Tushar S. Jain, Kevin V. Workum, Paul F. Nealey, Juan J. de Pablo Physical Review Letters 93 17 175501 2004/10
- A two-dimensional model of the deformation of photoresist structures using elastoplastic polymer properties Kenji Yoshimoto, Mark P. Stoykovich, Heidi B. Cao, Juan J. de Pablo, Paul F. Nealey, Walt J. Drugan Journal of Applied Physics 96 4 1857-1865 2004/08
- Deformation of nanoscopic polymer structures in response to well-defined capillary forces Mark P. Stoykovich, Kenji Yoshimoto, Heidi Cao, Leonidas E. Ocola, Paul F. Nealey Advanced Materials 15 14 1180-1184 2003/07
Conference Presentations
Others
Arts and Fieldwork
Patent
Theme to the desired joint research
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Competitive research funding,Contribution
Collaborative research,Consignment study
Classes (Bachelors)
○Material Simulation A(2024)
○Material Simulation B(2024)
○Practical Exercise of Material Process(2024)
○Introduction to Advanced Technologies A(2024)
Classes (Graduate Schools)
○Advanced Chemical Process Engineering A(2024)
○Advanced Chemical Process Engineering B(2024)