Team leader

Team Leader : Hideki Abe (Ph.D.)

Education

1991: Bachelor, Department of Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology

1993: Master, Department of Environmental Chemistry and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

1996: Ph.D., Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Position Held

1993 - 1996: Junior Research Scientist, Polymer Chemistry Lab., RIKEN Discovery Research Institute

1996 - 2005: Research Scientist, Polymer Chemistry Lab., RIKEN Discovery Research Institute

2005 - 2006: Senior Research Scientist, Polymer Chemistry Lab., RIKEN Discovery Research Institute

2006 - 2010: Senior Research Scientist, Chemical Analysis Team, Advanced Development and Supporting Center, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute

2002 - 2012.Oct: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Innovative and Engineered Materials, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

2010 - present: Team Leader, Bioplastic Research Team, RIKEN Biomass Engineering Program

2012.Oct - present: Visiting Professor, Department of Innovative and Engineered Materials, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Selected Papers

H. Abe, I. Matsubara, Y. Doi, Y. Hori, and A. Yamaguchi: Physical properties and enzymatic degradability of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) stereoisomers with different stereoregularities; Macromolecules, 27 6018-6025 (1994).
H. Abe, I. Matsubara, and Y. Doi: Physical properties and enzymatic degradability of polymer blends of bacterial poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] and poly[(R,S)-3-hydroxybutyrate] stereoisomers; Macromolecules, 28 844-853 (1995).
Y. Doi, S. Kitamura, and H. Abe: Microbial synthesis and characterization of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate); Macromolecules, 28 4822-4828 (1995).
H. Abe, Y. Doi, H. Aoki, T. Akehata, Y. Hori, and A. Yamaguchi: Physical properties and enzymatic degradability of copolymers of (R)-3-hydroxybutyric and 6-hydroxyhexanoic acids; Macromolecules, 28 7630-7637 (1995).
Y. Doi, K. Kasuya, H. Abe, N. Koyama, S. Ishiwatari, K. Takagi, and Y. Yoshida: Evaluation of biodegradabilities of biosynthetic and chemosynthetic polyesters in the river water; Polym. Degrad. Stab., 51 281-286 (1996).
S. Kusaka, H. Abe, S. Y. Lee, and Y. Doi: Molecular mass of poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyric acid] produced in a recombinant Escherichia coli; Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 47 140-143 (1997).
H. Abe, Y. Doi, H. Aoki, and T. Akehata: Solid-state structures and enzymatic degradabilities for melt-crystallized films of copolymers of (R)-3-hydroxybutyric acid with different hydroxyalkanoic acids; Macromolecules, 31 1791-1797 (1998).
I. Ohkoshi, H. Abe, and Y. Doi: Miscibility and solid-state structures for blends of poly[(S)-lactide] with atactic poly[(R,S)-3-hydroxybutyrate]; Polymer, 41 5985-5992 (2000).
H. Abe, Y. Kikkawa, Y. Doi, and Y. Inoue: Morphological and kinetic Analyses of regime transition for poly[(S)-lactide] crystal; Biomacromolecules, 2 1007-1014 (2001).
Z. Gan, H. Abe, H. Kurokawa, and Y. Doi: Solid-state microstructures, thermal properties, and crystallization of biodegradable poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) and its copolyesters; Biomacromolecules, 2 605-613 (2001).