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Kenichiro Koga

Researcher ID http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-2635-2011

Google Scholar ID Kenichiro Koga

ResearchGate Publication List

Academic Background

Visiting Professor, K. U. Leuven, Belgium, February, 2010
Professor, Okayama University, 2009-present
Associate Professor, Okayama University, 2003 -2009
Visiting scientist (JSPS Research abroad), Cornell University
(Dept. of Chemistry, Prof. B. Widom), 2001-2003
Associate Professor, Fukuoka University of Education, 2000-2003
Lecturer, Fukuoka University of Education, 1999-2000
Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1998-1999
Research Associate, University of Nebraska, 1996-1999 (Dept. of Chemistry, Prof. X.C. Zeng)
Ph. D.: Kyoto University, 1996 (Graduate School of Engineering, Division of Polymer Chemistry)
Master: Kyoto University, 1993 (Graduate School of Engineering, Division of Molecular Engineering)
Bachelor: Osaka University, 1991 (School of Engineering Science)

Selected Publication

The Hydrophobic Effect
B. Widom, P. Bhimalapuram, and K. Koga, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 5, 3085-3093 (2003).
Freezing in one-dimensional liquids
K. Koga, J. Chem. Phys., 118, 7973-7980 (2003).
Solvation forces and liquid-solid phase equilibria for water confined between hydrophobic surfaces
K. Koga, J. Chem. Phys., 116, 10882 (2002).
Formation of ordered ice nanotubes inside carbon nanotubes
K. Koga, G.T. Gao, H. Tanaka, and X.C. Zeng, Nature, 412, 802-805 (2001).
First-order transition in confined water between high-density liquid and low-density amorphous phases
K. Koga, H. Tanaka, and X.C. Zeng, Nature, 408, 564-567 (2000).
PUBLICATION LIST

Proceeding / Presentation

疎水効果と水の相転移 (招待講演)
甲賀研一郎 (理論化学シンポジウム, 近江舞子, Sep. 12-14, 2004)
疎水効果の熱力学と微視的模型 (招待講演)
甲賀研一郎 (立命館大学理工学研究所プロジェクト研究シンポジウム, 草津, Jan.15-16, 2004)
Phase transitions of quasi-one-dimensional and quasi-two-dimensional water (Invited talk)
K. Koga (International Symposium on "Physicochemistry of Water and Dynamics of Materials and the Earth --- Structures and Behaviors of the Thin Film Water ---", Tokyo Institute of Technology, Sep.13, 2003)
Model of freezing in one-dimensional liquids
K. Koga (88th Statistical Mechanics Conference: A Celebration of Elliot Lieb's 70th Birthday. Rutgers University, NJ. USA, Dec. 15-17, 2002)
How does water freeze inside carbon nanotubes? (Invited talk)
K. Koga (Horizons in Complex Systems, Messina, Italy, December 5-8, 2001)
Phase equilibria and phase transitions of water confined in Q2D and Q1D geometries (Invited lecture)
K. Koga (NATO Advanced Research Workshop ---New kinds of phase transition---, Volga River, Russia, May 24-28, 2001)
Phase behavior of water confined in a slit nanopore (Invited talk)
K. Koga, H. Tanaka (AIRAPT-17, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July, 25-30, 1999)

Research Collaboration