Olaf Karthaus Explained
Olaf Karthaus (born 1963 in Koblenz) is a German polymer chemist and Professor at the Chitose Institute of Science and Technology in Chitose, Hokkaidō, Japan, researching polymer chemistry, thin films, photonics, and nanotechnology.
Karthaus received a PhD from Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Mainz, Germany, in 1992 under the supervision of Helmut Ringsdorf. From 1992 to 1993 he worked as a post-doctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Tohoku University. He then served as a research assistant from 1994 to 2000 at the Research Institute for Electronic Science at Hokkaido University in Sapporo.
Karthaus was a co-plaintiff with Debito Arudou and Kenneth Sutherland in an anti-discrimination lawsuit against a hot spring (onsen) in Otaru, Japan, that refused entry to individuals with foreign appearance even if they were Japanese citizens.
Karthaus's wife,, received a personal reply to a letter written to, the mayor of Otaru, in 1999.[1] [2]
Selected publications
He has authored or coauthored 54 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals: according to Science Citation Index, the ones that have been the most cited are:
- Karthaus . Olaf . Norihiko Maruyama . Xavier Cieren . Masatsugu Shimomura . Hirokazu Hasegawa . Takeji Hashimoto . 2000 . Water-Assisted Formation Of Micrometer-Size Honeycomb Patterns Of Polymers . . 16 . 15 . 6071–6076 . 10.1021/la0001732 . abstract. (cited 116 times)
- Karthaus . Olaf . Lars Gråsjö . Norihiko Maruyama . Masatsugu Shimomura . 1999 . Formation Of Ordered Mesoscopic Polymer Arrays By Dewetting . . 9 . 2 . 308–314 . 10.1063/1.166407 . 12779828. 1999Chaos...9..308K . (cited 72 times)
- Maruyama . Norihiko . T. Koito . J. Nishida . T. Sawadishu . Xavier Cieren . K. Ijiro . Olaf Karthaus . Masatsugu Shimomura . 1998 . Mesoscopic Patterns Of Molecular Aggregates On Solid Substrates . . 329 . 854–856 . 10.1016/S0040-6090(98)00777-9. 1998TSF...327..854M . (cited 67 times)
- Karthaus . Olaf . H. Ringsdorf . V.V. Tsukruk . J.H. Wendorff . 1992 . Columnar Ordering Of Liquid-Crystalline Discotics In Langmuir-Blodgett-Films . . 8 . 9 . 2279–2283 . 10.1021/la00045a034 . abstract. (cited 65 times)
- Bengs . H. . O. Karthaus . J. Ringsdorf . C. Baehr . M. Ebert . J.H. Wendorff . 1991 . Induction Of A Nematic Columnar Phase In A Discotic Hexagonal Ordered Phase Forming System . Liquid Crystals . 10 . 2 . 161–168 . 10.1080/02678299108036422. (cited 44 times)
References
- "OTARU ONSENS PERSONAL REPLY FROM OTARU MAYOR YAMADA KATSUMARO DATED OCTOBER 12, 1999 (translated by Dave Aldwinckle)," Arudou Debito
- http://www.debito.org/otarumayor101299.jpg Letter from Katsumaro Yamada to Yuki Karthaus
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