![]() Assistant Professor Phone: 413-577-1121 Email: rkatsumata@umass.edu Meet the Katsumata Group! | Degree Information:B.Eng. Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2009M.Eng. Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2011 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2016 Katsumata Group Website Mailing Address:Department of Polymer Science and EngineeringRoom: A516, Conte Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst 120 Governors Drive Amherst, MA 01003 |
Research InterestsDesign Extremely Confined Soft/Hard InterfacesCurrent Research
Recent Publications“Polymer Zwitterions as “Electronic Tuning of Monolayer Graphene with Polymeric “Zwitterists”,” J.N. Pagaduan, N. Hight-Huf, A. Datar, M. Barnes, D. Naveh, A. Ramasubramaniam*, R. Katsumata*, and T. Emrick*, accepted to ACS Nano, 2021. “Glass Transition and Self-Diffusion of Unentangled Polymer Melts Nanoconfined by Different Interfaces” Reika Katsumata, Austin R. Dulaney, Chae Bin Kim, and Christopher J. Ellison, Macromolecules, 2018, 51 (19), 7509-7517 “Mussel-Inspired Strategy for Stabilizing Ultrathin Polymer Films and Its Application to Spin-On Doping of Semiconductors” Reika Katsumata, Ratchana Limary, Yuanyi Zhang, Bhooshan C. Popere, Andrew T. Heitsch, Mingqi Li, Peter Trefonas, and Rachel A. Segalman, Chemistry of Materials, 2018, 30 (15), 5285-5292 “Large area Fabrication of Graphene Nanoribbons by Wetting Transparency-assisted Block Copolymer Lithography” Reika Katsumata, Maruthi Nagavalli Yogeesh, Helen Wong, Sunshine X Zhou, Stephen M Sirard, Tao Huang, Richard D Piner, Zilong Wu, Wei Li, Alvin L Lee, Matthew C Carlson, Michael J Maher, Deji Akinwande, Christopher J Ellison, Polymer, 2017, 110, 131-138 “Conflicting Confinement Effects on the Tg, Diffusivity, and Effective Viscosity of Polymer Films: A Case Study with Poly(isobutyl methacrylate) on Silica and Possible Resolution” Kun Geng, Reika Katsumata, Xuanji Yu, Heonjoo Ha, Austin R Dulaney, Christopher J Ellison, Ophelia KC Tsui, Macromolecules, 2017, 50 (2), 609-617 Honors and Distinctions
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