バイオプラスチックが低炭素社会実現のカギになることを確信して日々研究に勤しんでいます。若手研究者の自由で独創的な発想を活かし、研究課題のブレークスルーを生み出せるよう、活発な議論を繰り返しながら研究を進めています。
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).