Recent Publications
- H. Ning, R. Kita, H. Kriegs, J. Luettmer-Strathmann, and S. Wiegand
"Thermal Diffusion Behavior of Nonionic Surfactants in Water",
J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 10746-10756 (2006).
- R. Sugaya, B. A. Wolf, and R. Kita
"Thermal Diffusion of Dextran in Aqueous Solutions in the Abscence and the Presence of Urea",
Biomacromolecules7, 435-440 (2006).
- R. Kita and S. Wiegand:
"Soret Coefficient of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/Water
in the Vicinity of Coil-Globule Transition Temperature",
Macromolecules 38, 4554-4556 (2005).
- F. Hua, R. Kita, G. Wegner, and W. Meyer:
"Interactions between Brushlike
Polyacrylic Acid Side Chains on a Polyacrylate Backbone in Dioxane-Water",
ChemPhysChem 6, 336-343 (2005).
- R. Kita, G. Kircher, and S. Wiegand:
"Thermally induced sign change of
Soret coefficient for dilute and semidilute solutions of
poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in ethanol",
J. Chem. Phys. 121, 9140-9146 (2004).
- K. Kubota, H. Kogure, Y. Masuda, Y. Toyama, R. Kita, A. Takahashi and M.
Kaibara:
"Gelation Dynamics and Gel Structure of Fibrinogen",
Colloids
Surf. B 38, 103-109 (2004).
- R. Kita, S. Wiegand and J. Luettmer-Strathmann:
"Sign change of Soret
coefficient of poly(ethylene oxide)in water-ethanol mixtures observed by
Thermal Diffusion Forced Rayleigh Scattering",
J. Chem. Phys. 121,
3874-3885 (2004).
- B.-J. de Gans, R. Kita, S. Wiegand and J. Luettmer-Strathmann:
"Unusual thermal diffusion in polymer solutions",
Phys. Rev. Lett.
91, 245501 (2003).
- B.-J. de Gans, R. Kita, B. Mueler and S. Wiegand:
"Negative
thermodiffusion of polymers and colloids in solvent mixtures",
J. Chem.
Phys. 118, 8073-8081 (2003).
- A. Takahashi, R. Kita, T. Shinozaki, K. Kubota and M. Kaibara:
"Real
space observation of three-dimensional network structure of hydrated fibrin
gel",
Colloid Polym. Sci. 281, 832-838 (2003).
- R. Kita, T. Kaku, H. Ohashi, T. Kurosu, M. Iida, S. Yagihara and T.
Dobashi:
"Thermally induced coupling of phase separation and gelation in
an aqueous solution of hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC)",
Physica A
319, 56-64 (2003).
- R. Kita, A. Takahashi, M. Kaibara and K. Kubota:
"Formation of fibrin
gel in fibrinogen-thrombin system: Static and dynamic light scattering study",
Biomacromolecules 3, 1013-1020 (2002).