Shinpei Tanaka

Last Updated :2024/04/03

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Associate Professor
E-mail
shinpeihiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
Complex systems, self-propelled system, active matter

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • Doctor of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
  • Master of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Educational Activity

  • [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Integrated Arts and Sciences : Department of Integrated Global Studies : Integrated Global Studies
  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering : Division of Advanced Science and Engineering : Physics Program
  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering : Division of Advanced Science and Engineering : Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering Program
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering : Division of Advanced Science and Engineering : Physics Program
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering : Division of Advanced Science and Engineering : Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering Program

In Charge of Primary Major Programs

  • Integrated Physical Sciences
  • Integrated Arts and Sciences

Research Fields

  • Mathematical and physical sciences;Physics;Biological physics / Chemical physics / Soft matter physics
  • Mathematical and physical sciences;Physics;Mathematical physics / Fundamental condensed matter physics

Research Keywords

  • colloids
  • self-propulsion
  • active matter
  • surfactant
  • FCS
  • crystal
  • crystallization
  • protein

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • The Physical Society of Japan

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Experimental Methods and Laboratory Work in Science B
  2. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Perspectives in Physics A
  3. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introduction to physical mathematics
  4. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Methods of Physics
  5. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Experimental Methods and Laboratory Work in Physics I
  6. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Experimental Methods and Laboratory Work in Physics I
  7. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Experimental Methods and Laboratory Work in Physics II
  8. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Experimental Methods and Laboratory Work in Physics II
  9. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Basic Electromagnetism
  10. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Introduction to Physical Sciences
  11. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Laboratory Work in Material Sciences D
  12. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Experimental Methods for Materials Sciencs D
  13. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Statistical Physics II
  14. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Physics of Complex Liquids and Soft Matters
  15. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Frontiers of Material Science
  16. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Invitation to Integrated Global Studies II
  17. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Year, Graduation Thesis
  18. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Experimental Methods and Laboratory Work in Science for IGS I
  19. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Experimental Methods and Laboratory Work in Science for IGS II
  20. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Natural Disasters and Society I
  21. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Natural Disasters and Society II
  22. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Introduction to Self-organization I
  23. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Introduction to Self-organization II
  24. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Special Study of Advanced Science and Engineering Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
  25. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Exercises of Advanced Science and Engineering Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering A
  26. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Special Exercises of Advanced Science and Engineering Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering B
  27. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering Program Common Subjects 3 (Resilient Development)
  28. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Structure of Complex Matter

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Dynamic ordering caused by a source-sink relation between two droplets, Soft Matter, 18, 6465-6474, 20220531
  2. Microbeam X-ray diffraction of non-banded polymer spherulites of it-polystyrene and it-poly(butene-1), POLYMER, 51(8), 1837-1844, 20100406
  3. Application of a deconvolution method to construct aqueous phase diagram, THERMOCHIMICA ACTA, 500(1-2), 100-105, 20100310
  4. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and Brownian dynamics simulation of protein diffusion under confinement in lipid cubic phases, SOFT MATTER, 8(34), 8936-8943, 2012
  5. Finger-like pattern formation in dilute surfactant pentaethylene glycol monododecyl ether solutions, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 138(13), 20130407
  6. The effect of NaCl on the eutectic phase behavior of aqueous poly(ethylene glycol) solutions, Polymer, 50(5), 1304-1310, 20090201
  7. Slow molecular dynamics close to crystal surfaces during crystallization of a protein lysozyme studied by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Journal of Chemical Physics, 133, 095103, 20100901
  8. Histone-based self-assembly into DNA-wrapped meso-clusters, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 23, 072206, 20110101
  9. Kinetics of phase separation and coarsening in dilute surfactantpentaethylene glycol monododecyl ether solutions, Journal of Chemical Physics, 20111101
  10. Structural transitions of the mono-olein bicontinuous cubic phase induced by inclusion of protein lysozyme solutions, PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 73(6), 200606
  11. The effect of NaCl on the eutectic phase behavior of aqueous poly(ethylene glycol) solutions, POLYMER, 50(5), 1304-1310, 20090223
  12. Slow molecular dynamics close to crystal surfaces during crystallization of a protein lysozyme studied by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 133(9), 20100907
  13. Histone-based self-assembly into DNA-wrapped meso-clusters, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER, 23(7), 20110223
  14. Improved visibility of lesions of the small intestine via capsule endoscopy with computed virtual chromoendoscopy, GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY, 73(2), 299-306, 201102
  15. Flurbiprofen ameliorated obesity by attenuating leptin resistance induced by endoplasmic reticulum stress, EMBO MOLECULAR MEDICINE, 6(3), 335-346, 201403
  16. Structure and selection in an autocatalytic binary polymer model, EPL, 107(2), 201407
  17. Spontaneous change in trajectory patterns of a self-propelled oil droplet at the air-surfactant solution interface, PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 91(3), 20150311
  18. Protein-protein interaction and crystallizaion induced by polyethylene glycol, Meeting abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan, 56(2), 20010903
  19. Self-inverted reciprocation of an oil droplet on a surfactant solution, Soft Matter, 13, 3422-3430, 20170411
  20. ★, Dynamic ordering in a swarm of floating droplets driven by solutal Marangoni effect, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 86, 101004, 20170825
  21. ★, Spontaneous emulsification and self-propulsion of oil droplets induced by the synthesis of amino acid-based surfactants, Soft Matter, 20170809
  22. Sequence selection by dynamical symmetry breaking in an autocatalytic binary polymer model, PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 96(6), 20171213
  23. Dancing performance of organic droplets in aqueous surfactant solutions, Collids and Surfaces A, 566, 141-147, 20190115
  24. Free-energy model of phase inversion dynamics in binary phase separation, Phys. Rev. E, 100, 022137, 20190826
  25. A surfactant reaction model for the reciprocating motion of a self-propelled droplet, SOFT MATTER, 17(2), 388-396, 20210114
  26. A reaction-diffusion particle model for clustering of self-propelled oil droplets on a surfactant solution,: Nonlinear Phenomena, Physica D, 425, 132949, 20210531

Publications such as books

  1. 2008/03, Delving into the Source of Knowledge (Liberal Arts in the 21st Century) , 2008, 03, Textbook, Compilation, 9784563019044, 260

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Periodic collective behaviors of organic solvent droplets on the surface of aqueous surfactant solutions, Shinpei Tanaka, The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 2019/08/01, Without Invitation, English, Newcastle Helix, Newcastle University
  2. Collective dynamic orderings of oil droplet surfers, Shinpei Tanaka, Takeshi Kano, SWARM2017, 2017/10/31, Without Invitation, English, Kyoto
  3. Dynamic ordering of floating salicylate droplets: Single particle oscillation and cluster oscillation, Shinpei Tanaka, 2016/09/13, Without Invitation, Japanese
  4. Oscillatory dynamic order in a self-propelled oil-droplets system on the air-water surface, Shinpei Tanaka, 2016/03/19, Without Invitation, Japanese
  5. Dynamic ordering and reciprocating motion of ethyl salicylate droplets, Shinpei Tanaka, 2016/01/23, With Invitation, Japanese
  6. Ordering of self-propelled salicylate oil droplets at the air/water interface, Shinpei Tanaka, 2015/09/16, Without Invitation, Japanese

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. KAKENHI, 2007, 2008
  2. KAKENHI, Non-Equilibrium Structural Evolution in Crystallization from Viscoelastic Soft Matter, 2006, 2011
  3. KAKENHI, 2005, 2006
  4. 2017, 2019
  5. 2016, 2020
  6. KAKENHI(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)), 2017, 2019
  7. KAKENHI(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)), 2020, 2024

Social Activities

History as Peer Reviews of Academic Papers

  1. 2018, Physical Review Letters, Others, reviewer, 1
  2. 2018, Journal of Crystal Growth, Others, reviewer, 1
  3. 2018, Journal of Physical Society of Japan, Others, reviewer, 1
  4. 2018, Soft Matter, Others, reviewer, 1