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Kenji Kiyohara, Senior Research Scientist  aist-symbol

Research Interests:

    Molecular simulation of soft material in particular, calculating thermodynamic, mechanical, optical, and transport properties of molecular liquids, liquid crystals, and electrolytes. 

    Currently, we are working on

    1. Molecular Structure in Porous Electrodes

    2. Molecular Design for Polymer Actuators

    3. Surface anchoring of liquid crystals on substrates.

 

 

 

Contact Info:

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),
Cell Engineering Research Institute,
Artificial Muscle Research Group
AIST Kansai, 1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577 JAPAN
tel: +81-(0)727-51-9164    fax: +81-(0)727-51-9628 email: k.kiyohara@aist.go.jp

Selected Papers:

Kenji Kiyohara, Takushi Sugino, Ichiroh Takeuchi, Ken Mukai and Kinji Asaka,

Expansion and contraction of polymer electrodes under applied voltage,

Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, 063506 (2009). (Erratum: Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, 11902 (2009))

 

Kenji Kiyohara and Kinji Asaka,

Monte Carlo simulation of porous electrodes in the constant voltage ensemble,

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 111, 15903 (2007) (7 pages).

 

Kenji Kiyohara and Kinji Asaka,

Monte Carlo simulation of electrolytes in the constant voltage ensemble,

Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 126, 214704 (2007) (14 pages).

 

Kenji Kiyohara, Kinji Asaka, Hirosato Monobe, Naohiro Terasawa, and Yo Shimizu, 

Surface anchoring of rodlike molecules on corrugated substrates, 

Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 124, 034704 (2006) (11 pages)

Kenji Kiyohara, Yoshifumi Kimura, Yoshihiro Takebayashi, Noboru Hirota, and Koji Ohta
Density dependence of optical Kerr effect of linear molecules, 
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.117, pp.9867-9875 (2002).

Kenji Kiyohara, Koji Ohta, and Yo Shimizu
Optical Kerr effect in nematic liquid crystals: a molecular dynamics simulation study,
Molecular Physics, Vol. 100, No.15, pp2423 -2431 (2002). 

Kenji Kiyohara, Kenji Kamada, and Koji Ohta
Orientational and collision-induced contribution to third-order nonlinear optical response of liquid CS2
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.112, pp.6338-6348 (2000)

Kenji Kiyohara, K. J. Oh, X. C. Zeng, Koji Ohta
The boundary condition in the Gibbs ensemble simulation of a Stockmayer fluid under an applied field,
Molecular Simulation, Vol.23, pp.95-107 (1999)

Kenji Kiyohara, Keith E. Gubbins, and Athanassios Panagiotopoulos, 
Phase Coexistence Properties of Polarizable Water Models,
Molecular Physics, Vol.94, No.5, 803-808 (1998).

Jeff R. Errington, Kenji Kiyohara, Keith E. Gubbins and Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, 
Monte Carlo simulation of high-pressure phase equilibria in aqueous systems,
Fluid Phase Equil., Vol.150, 33-40 (1997).

Kenji Kiyohara, Keith E. Gubbins, and Athanassios Panagiotopoulos, 
Phase Coexistence Properties of Polarizable Stockmayer Fluids,
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 106, No. 8, pp. 3338-3347 (1997)

Kenji Kiyohara, Theodora Spyriouni, Keith E. Gubbins, and Athanassios Panagiotopoulos, 
Thermodynamic Scaling Gibbs Ensemble Monte Carlo: A new method for determination of phase coexistence properties of fluid,
Molecular Physics, Vol.89, No.4, pp. 965-974 (1996).

Yasuo Kita, Kenji Kiyohara, Motohisa Oobatake, and Soichi Hayashi, 
Large permittivity of computer simulated liquid cyanogen,
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.101, No.9, pp. 7828-7834 (1994).

Hideki Tanaka and Kenji Kiyohara
On the thermodynamic stability of clathrate hydrate. II : simultaneous occupation of larger and smaller cages,
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.98, No.10, pp. 8110-8118 (1993).

Hideki Tanaka and Kenji Kiyohara 
On the thermodynamic stability of clathrate hydrate. I,
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.98, No.5, pp. 4098-4109 (1993).

Kenji Kiyohara, Kongshang Zhao, Kinzi Asaka and Tetsuya Hanai, 
Determination of Capacitances and Conductances of the Constituent Phases from Dielectric Observations on Terlamellar Composite Systems,
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol.29, No.9, pp. 1751-1756 (1990).

 

Education and Research Experience:

Research Scientist - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) - 2001 - present
Research Scientist - Osaka National Research Institute - 1997 - 2000
Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska - 1997
Ph.D. - School of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University - 1997
Research Assistant - School of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University - 1991

M.S. - Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University - 1990
B.S. - Faculty of Science, Kyoto University - 1988

 

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e-mail: k.kiyohara@aist.go.jp