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Professor FURUSAWA Hiroshi


Year of birth Gender Male
Affiliation School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Research Organization for Regional Alliances
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Laboratory/research office Statistical Physics Laboratory
As well as materials, ecosystems are constituted by a vast number of strongly interacting components. In our laboratory we are working to (a) address fundamental issues in statistical physics, including out-of-equilibrium dynamics, nonlinear response, and complex network formation, which are generic to strongly interacting systems; and (b) develop a method of using data analytics in agroforestry, to identify useful plant systems, and in social and economic systems, to detect collective emotional states and systemic responses causing micro-hits or financial crises.
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Educational background 1992: Bachelor
Professional background 1996-2003: 
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  1. Authors: Riku Kato, Hiroshi Frusawa
    Title: Microscopic Characterization of Individual Submicron Bubbles during the Layer-by-Layer Deposition: Towards Creating Smart Agents
    Journal: Materials, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 4176-4190, MDPI AG
    Year: 2015/07/08
  2. Authors: Hiroshi Frusawa, Gen Yoshii
    Title: Anisotropic micro-cloths fabricated from DNA-stabilized carbon nanotubes: one-stop manufacturing with electrode needles
    Journal: Nanoscale Research Letters, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-8
    Year: 2015/03/01
  3. Authors: Hiroshi Frusawa
    Title: Emerging quasi-0D states at vanishing total entropy of the 1D hard sphere system: A coarse-grained similarity to the car parking problem
    Journal: Physics Letters A, Vol. 378, p. 1780
    Year: 2014/04
  4. Authors: FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, Youei Matsumoto
    Title: Tuning the size and configuration of nanocarbon microcapsules: aqueous method using optical tweezers
    Journal: Scientific Reports, Vol. 4, p. 4074, Nature Publishing Group
    Year: 2014/02/10
  5. Authors: FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, Tatsuhiko Manabe, Eri Kagiyama, Ken Hirano, Naohiro Kameta, Mitsutoshi Masuda, Toshimi Shimizu
    Title: Electric moulding of dispersed lipid nanotubes into a nanofluidic device
    Journal: Scientific Reports, Vol. 3, p. 2165, Nature Publishing Group
    Year: 2013/07/09
  6. Authors: Tatsuya Toda, FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, FURUTA, Mamoru
    Title: Thin-film Transistors using uniform and well aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes channels by dielectrophoretic assembly
    Journal: Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 52, pp. 03BB09-1-03BB09-5
    Year: 2013/03/21
  7. Authors: Tatsuya Toda, KAWAHARAMURA, Toshiyuki, FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, FURUTA, Mamoru
    Title: Thin-Film Transistor Using Dielectrophoretic Assembly of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
    Journal: ECS Transactions, Vol. 50, No. 8, pp. 223-228
    Year: 2012/10/08
  8. Authors: Kiminori Ito, Hiroshi Frusawa, Masahiro Kimura
    Title: Precise switching control of liquid crystalline microgears driven by circularly polarized light
    Journal: Optics Express, Vol. 20, p. 4254
    Year: 2012/02/06
  9. Authors: H. Frusawa, R. Yoshida
    Title: A Non-stoichiometric Universality in Microbubble-Polyelectrolyte Complexation
    Journal: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 81, p. SA008-1
    Year: 2012
  10. Authors: H. Frusawa, Masaiti Inoue
    Title: Scanning Dielectrophoresis for the Directed-assembly and Non-contact Manipulation of Colloidal Particles
    Journal: Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol. 18, pp. 187-199
    Year: 2012
  11. Authors: Hiroshi Frusawa, Masaichi Inoue
    Title: When MicrobubblePolyelectrolyte Complexes Overcharge: A Comparative Study Using Electrophoresis
    Journal: Chemistry Letters, Vol. 40, p. 372
    Year: 2011/03/05
  12. Authors: Masaichi Inoue, S. Tanaka, H. Frusawa
    Title: Histone-based self-assembly into DNA-wrapped meso-clusters
    Journal: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
    Year: 2011/02/03
  13. Authors: Hiroshi Frusawa
    Title:  A Variational Principle Behind the van der Waals Picture of Strongly Coupled Plasmas
    Journal: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A: MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL, Vol. 42, pp. 08204-1-08204-8
    Year: 2009
  14. Authors: Ken Hirano, Masaru Aoyagi, Tomomi Ishido, Toshihiko Ooie, Hiroshi Frusawa, Masumi Asakawa, Toshimi Shimizu, Mitsuru Ishikawa
    Title: Measuring the Length Distribution of Self-Assembled Lipid Nanotubes by Orientation Control with a High-Frequency Alternating Current Electric Field in Aqueous Solutions
    Journal: ANALYTICHAL CHEMISTRY, Vol. 81, pp. 1459-1464
    Year: 2009
  15. Authors: T Fujima, H. Frusawa, H Minamikawa, K Ito, T Shimizu
    Title:  Elastic precursor of the transformation from glycolipid nanotube to vesicle
    Journal: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS : CONDENSED MATTER, Vol. 18, p. 3089
    Year: 2006
  16. Authors: H. Frusawa
    Title: Functional-integral approach to Coulomb fluids in the strong coupling limit
    Journal: J. phys. A, Vol. 38, p. L121
    Year: 2005
  17. Authors: H. Frusawa
    Title: A functional-integral formulation for polymer colloids
    Journal: J. Phys.:Condensed Matter, Vol. 17, p. L241
    Year: 2005
  18. Authors: H. Frusawa
    Title: Coarse-grained counterions in the strong coupling limit
    Journal: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 73, p. 507
    Year: 2004
  19. Authors: H. Frusawa
    Title: Aligning a single-lipid nanotube with moderate stiffness
    Journal: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Vol. 42, p. 72
    Year: 2003
  20. Authors: Takuya Fujima, FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, Kohzo Ito
    Title: Merging of α and slow β relaxation in supercooled liquids
    Journal: Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 66, p. 031503
    Year: 2002
  21. Authors: Toshimi Shimizu, George John, Akihiro Fukagawa, Kohzo Ito, FRUSAWA, Hiroshi
    Title: Molecule-up fabrication and manipulation of lipid nanotubes
    Journal: Int. J. Nanosci., Vol. 01, p. 465
    Year: 2002
  22. Authors: Akihiro Fukagawa, FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, Kohzo Ito, Reinosuke Hayakawa
    Title: Divalent Counterion Effect on the Electrostatic Persistence Length of Polyelectrolyte Chains: An Electric Birefringence Study
    Journal: Jpn. J. App. Phys., Vol. 40, p. 894
    Year: 2001
  23. Authors: FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, Reinosuke Hayakawa
    Title: Generalizing the Debye-Hückel equation in terms of density functional integral
    Journal: Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 61, p. R6079
    Year: 2000
  24. Authors: Y. Nishikawa, A. Fukagawa, FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, K. Ito, R. Hayakawa
    Title: How to Extract the Counterion Valency Effect on Polyelectrolyte Conformations
    Journal: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 69, p. 4116
    Year: 2000
  25. Authors: H. Frusawa, R. Hayakawa
    Title: On the controversy over the stochastic density functional equations
    Journal: J. Phys. A, Vol. 33, p. L155
    Year: 2000
  26. Authors: Takuya Fujima, FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, Kohzo Ito, Reinosuke Hayakawa
    Title: Dielectric Study on the Johari-Goldstein Mode of Glass-Forming Sorbitol
    Journal: Jpn. J. App. Phys., Vol. 39, p. 744
    Year: 2000
  27. Authors: H. Frusawa, R. Hayakawa
    Title: Field theoretical representation of the Hohenberg-Kohn free energy for fluids
    Journal: Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 60, p. R5048
    Year: 1999
  28. Authors: Kozo Hosokawa, Takeshi Shimomura, FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, Yasuyuki Kimura, Kohzo Ito, Reinosuke Hayakawa
    Title: Two-dimensional spectroscopy of electric birefringence relaxation in frequency domain: Measurement method for second-order nonlinear after-effect function
    Journal: J. Chem. Phys., Vol. 110, p. 4101
    Year: 1999
  29. Authors: FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, Reinosuke Hayakawa
    Title: Swelling mechanism unique to charged gels: Primary formulation of the free energy
    Journal: Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 58, p. 6145
    Year: 1998
  30. Authors: FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, K. Ito, R. Hayakawa
    Title: High-frequency dielectric relaxation of polyelectrolyte gels
    Journal: Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 55, p. 7283
    Year: 1997
  31. Authors: FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, K. Ito, R. Hayakawa
    Title: On the swelling and elastic properties of highly charged polyelectrolyte networks
    Journal: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 66, p. 925
    Year: 1997
  32. Authors: T. Shimomura, H. Sato, FRUSAWA, Hiroshi, Y. Kimura, H. Okumoto, R. Hayakawa
    Title: Intrachain conduction and main-chain conformation of conducting polymers as studied by frequency-domain electric birefringence spectroscopy
    Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 72, p. 2073
    Year: 1994

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  1. Polyelectrollyte Properties of Solutions and Gels, Reflexive Polymers and Hydrogels,chapter 8, CRC Press, 2004