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Self-assembly of alkyldimethylamine oxides
Thermodynamics of colloidal electrolytes
The Beta-sheet of polypeptides and proteins
Dissipative structures in polymer solutions
Swelling behaviors of gels
Polymer- ligand interactions

Self-assembly of alkyldimethylamine oxides


H. Maeda, R. Kakehashi, 
Effects of Protonation on the Thermodynamic Properties of Alkyldimethylamine Oxide Micelles, 
Adv. Colloid Interface Sci., 88 (1-2), 275 - 293 (2000). 

H. Maeda, A. Yamamoto, M. Souda, H. Kawasaki, K. S. Hossain, N. Nemoto, M. Almgren, 
Effects of Protonation on the Viscoelastic Properties of Tetradecyldimethylamine Oxide Solutions, 
J. Phys. Chem. B, 105(23), 5411 - 5418 (2001). 

H. Kawasaki, H. Maeda, 
FT-IR Study on Hydrogen Bonds Between the Headgroups of Dodecyldimethylamine Oxide Hemihydrochloride, 
Langmuir, 17(7), 2278 - 2281 (2001). 

H. Kawasaki, M. Syuto, H. Maeda, 
Effects of Protonation on the Aggregate Structures of Tetradecyldimethylamine Oxide at the Solid - Solution Interfaces, 
Langmuir, 7(26),8210 - 8216 (2001). 

Hiroshi Maeda, Shimon Tanaka, Yousuke Ono, Masahiko Miyahara, Hideya Kawasaki, Norio Nemoto, Mats Almgren,
Reversible micelle-vesicle conversion of oleyldimethylamine oxide by pH changes,
J. Phys. Chem. B, 110(25), 12451 - 12458 (2006).

H. Kawasaki, R. Imahayashi, S. Tanaka, G. Karlsson, M. Almgren, H. Maeda, 
Vesicle-Micelle Transition and the Stability of the Vesicle Dispersion in Mixtures of Tetradecyldimethylamine Oxide Hemihydrochloride and Sodium Naphthalenesulfonate, 
J. Phys. Chem. B, 107 (33), 8661-8668 (2003)

H. Kaimoto, K. Shoho, S. Sasaki, and H. Maeda,
Aggregation Numbers of Dodecyldimethylamine Oxide Micelles in Salt Solutions,
J. Phys. Chem., 98(40), 10243 - 10248 (1994).

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Thermodynamics of colloidal electrolytes

Hiroshi Maeda,
A Thermodynamic Analysis of Charged Mixed Micelles in Water,
J. Phys. Chem. B, 109, 15933-15940 (2005).

H. Maeda,
The Electrostatic Contribution to the Stability and the Synergism of Ionic/Nonionic Mixed Micelles in Salt Solutions,
J. Phys. Chem. B, 108 (19), 6043 - 6051 (2004).

H. Maeda, 
A Thermodynamic Analysis of the Hydrogen Ion Titration of Micelles, 
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 266(1), 277 - 287 (2003).

H. Maeda, 
An analytical expression for the approximate dependence of the degree of counterion binding on the composition of ionic-nonionic mixed micelles, 
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 258(2), 390 - 395 (2003). 

H. Maeda, 
Some Thoughts Regarding Theoretical Aspects of the Corrin - Harkins Relation and the Micellization Product of Ionic Micelles (Feature Article), 
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 241(1), 18 - 25 (2001). 

H. Maeda, 
A Simple Thermodynamic Analysis of the Stability of Ionic / Nonionic Mixed Micelles, 
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 172, 98 -105 (1995). 

H. Maeda, 
Thermodynamic Analysis of the Potentiometric Titration with Separation of Phases, 
J. Phys. Chem., 88, 5129 - 5132 (1984). 

H. Maeda and F. Oosawa, 
Effects of Dielectric Saturation on Planar Double Layer Interactions for No Added Salt, 
J. Phys. Chem., 83, 2911 - 2916 (1979). 

H. Maeda and F. Oosawa, 
A Theory for the Dependence of pH on Polyelectrolyte Concentration, 
J. Phys. Chem., 76, 3445 - 3450 (1972). 

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The Beta-sheet of polypeptides and proteins

K. Fukada, H. Maeda, and S. Ikeda, 
Kinetics of pH-induced Random Coil-b-Structure Conversion of Poly[S- (carboxymethyl)-L-cysteine],
Macromolecules, 22, 640 - 645 (1989). 

H. Maeda and A. Nakaishi, 
Kinetics of Precipitation of Monodisperse Short Chain Polypeptides, 
J. Phys. Chem., 99(25), 10408 - 10411 (1995). 

A. Nakaishi, H. Maeda, T. Tomiyama, S. Ikeda, Y. Kobayashi and Y. Kyogoku,
Chain Length Dependence of Solubility of Monodisperse Polypeptides in Aqueous Solutions and the Stability of the b-Structure,
J. Phys. Chem., 92, 6161 - 6166 (1988). 

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Dissipative structures in polymer solutions

H. Maeda, T. Mashita, H. Ojima, S. Sasaki, Y. Tomita, T. Fukuda, M. Yamanaka,
Effects of Simple Salts on the Transport of Polyvinylpyrrolidone in Dextran Solutions,
J. Phys. Chem., 98(50), 13426 - 13431 (1994).

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Swelling behaviors of gels

H. Kawasaki, S. Sasaki, H. Maeda, 
Effect of pH on the Volume Phase Transition of Copolymer Gel of N-isopropylacrylamide and Sodium Acrylate,
J. Phys. Chem. B, 101(26), 5089 - 5093 (1997).

H. Kawasaki, S. Sasaki, H. Maeda, 
Effect of Introduced Electric Charge on the Volume Phase Transition of N- Isopropylacrylamide Gels, 
J. Phys. Chem. B, 101(21), 4184 - 4187 (1997). 

H. Kawasaki, S. Sasaki, H. Maeda, 
Effects of the Gel Size on the Volume Phase Transition of N-Isopropylacrylamide Gels: A Calorimetric Study, 
Langmuir, 14(4), 773 - 776 (1998). 

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Polymer- ligand interactions

Katsuura, H. Kawamura, M. Manabe, H. Kawasaki, H.Maeda,
Interaction of a surfactant counterion with partially ionized poly(methacrylic acids) and poly(acrylic acids),
Colloid Polym. Sci., 280, 30 - 37 (2002).

H. Nishiyama and H. Maeda,
Reduced Lysozyme in Solution and Its Interaction with Nonionic Surfactants,
Biophys. Chem., 44, 199 - 208 (1992).

H. Maeda, H. Kato, and S. Ikeda,
The Effects of Cationic Surfactants on the Conformation and Aggregation of Poly(L-glutamic acid),
Biopolymers, 23, 1333 - 1346 (1984).

H. Maeda, A. Schmidt-Kessen, J. Engel, and J.-C. Jaton,
Kinetics of Binding of Oligosaccharides to a Homogeneous Pneumococcal Antibody: Dependence on Antigen Chain Length Suggests a Labie Intermediate Complex,
Biochemistry, 16, 4086 - 4089 (1977).

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