Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  mai.thanhtam.7tkyoto-u.ac.jp

Academic Degree

• 13 Aug. 2013

  Master's degree（Vietnam National University）
• 26 Mar. 2018

  京都工芸繊維大学博士（工学）

Academic Resume (Graduate Schools)

• 京都工芸繊維大学, 大学院工芸科学研究科博士後期課程材料科学専攻, 修了
• Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Physical chemistry (Polymer), Master of science, 修了

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Material Sciences, Polymer and Composite, 卒業

Research History

• From Oct. 2022, To Present

  Laboratory of Soft Material Physics and Function, Department of Material Chemistry, Program-Specific Assistant Professor
• From Apr. 2022, To Sep. 2022

  Kyoto University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Research Associate
• From Apr. 2018, To Mar. 2022

  Kyoto Institute of Technology, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Research Associate
• From Jan. 2010, To Sep. 2014

  University of Science, Vietnam National Uni. Ho Chi Minh City, Polymer Chemistry, Assistant Lecturer

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0001-6190-1142

• J-Global ID

  202201015360515069

• Researcher ID

  D-6368-2019

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/mttam

Research

Research Interests

• Local strain fields
• Digital image correlation
• Fracture mechanics
• Biaxial Deformation
• Polymer Physics

Research Areas

• Nanotechnology/Materials, Composite materials and interfaces
• Natural sciences, Bio-, chemical, and soft-matter physics
• Nanotechnology/Materials, Polymer materials, Polymer Physics

Papers

• Flaw-Tolerant Fracture Enabled by Liquid-like Elasticity in Liquid Crystal Elastomers

  Shunsuke Imai; Yuki Tokudome; Thanh-Tam Mai; Kenji Urayama

  ACS Materials Letters, 06 Jul. 2025

  
• Crystallization of natural rubber under non-uniform deformation

  D. Nozaki; T.-T. Mai; K. Urayama; R. Osumi; K. Tsunoda

  Constitutive Models for Rubbers XIII, 29 Jan. 2025

  
• Exploring the stress-softening effects in filled elastomers: Beyond uniaxial stretching

  Thanh-Tam Mai; Kenji Urayama; Katsuhiko Tsunoda

  Constitutive Models for Rubbers XIII, 29 Jan. 2025

  
• Exploring non-uniform strain-induced crystallization around a stationary crack tip in natural rubber

  T.-T. Mai; K. Urayama; T. Yasui; R. Tanaka; S. Sakurai; H. Masunaga; T. Kabe; K. Tsunoda

  Constitutive Models for Rubbers XIII, 29 Jan. 2025

  
• Tracking the Evolution of Heterogeneous Crystallization Driven by Complex Deformation Scenarios in Natural Rubber

  Daichi Nozaki; Thanh-Tam Mai; Katsuhiko Tsunoda; Kenji Urayama

  Macromolecules, 22 Apr. 2025

  Access this paper :

  
• Analysis of Stress Softening Effects and Crack Properties for Polymer Network-Based Soft Materials under Biaxial Stretching

  Thanh-Tam Mai

  Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi, 16 Dec. 2024

  
• Poisson’s ratio transition in strain crystallizing elastomer: from rubbery amorphous to semicrystalline

  Takuho Naraoka; Ruito Tanaka; Hideaki Takagi; Katsuhiko Tsunoda; Thanh-Tam Mai; Shinichi Sakurai; Kenji Urayama

  Polymer Journal, Apr. 2025

  Access this paper :

  
• Crack tip stress intensification in strain-induced crystallized elastomer

  Thanh-Tam Mai; Katsuhiko Tsunoda; Kenji Urayama

  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Dec. 2024

  
• An anisotropic damage visco-hyperelastic model for multiaxial stress-strain response and energy dissipation in filled rubber

  Lionel Ogouari; Qiang Guo; Fahmi Zaïri; Thanh-Tam Mai; Kenji Urayama

  International Journal of Plasticity, Aug. 2024

  
• A multiscale model for the multiaxial anisotropic damage of double-network gels

  Lionel Ogouari; Qiang Guo; Fahmi Zaïri; Thanh-Tam Mai; Jian Ping Gong; Kenji Urayama

  Mechanics of Materials, Sep. 2024

  
• Revisit of crystal orientation in a vulcanizate of natural rubber under planar elongation

  Ruito Tanaka; Tomohiro Yasui; Hideaki Takagi; Nobutaka Shimizu; Noriyuki Igarashi; Hiroyasu Masunaga; Yuji Kitamura; Katsuhiko Tsunoda; Thanh-Tam Mai; Kenji Urayama; Shinichi Sakurai

  Polymer Journal, 17 Apr. 2024

  
• Unraveling Non‐Uniform Strain‐Induced Crystallization Near a Crack Tip in Natural Rubber

  Thanh‐Tam Mai; Tomohiro Yasui; Ruito Tanaka; Hiroyasu Masunaga; Taizo Kabe; Katsuhiko Tsunoda; Shinichi Sakurai; Kenji Urayama

  Advanced Science, 16 Jan. 2024

  
• Strain hardening in biaxially stretched elastomers undergoing strain-induced crystallization

  Soichiro Hiraiwa; Thanh-Tam Mai; Katsuhiko Tsunoda; Kenji Urayama

  RSC Advances, 2023

  Access this paper :

  
• Crack Growth Dynamics of Soft Materials

  Thanh Tam MAI; Katsuhiko TSUNODA; Kenji URAYAMA

  Polymers, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan, Sep. 2023

  
• A multiscale model for multiaxial inelastic behavior of elastomeric particulate composites

  Mahrez Saadedine; Fahmi Zaïri; Nourdine Ouali; Thanh-Tam Mai; Kenji Urayama; Abderrahman Tamoud; Amar Mesbah

  International Journal of Plasticity, May 2023

  
• Comparison of Mullins Effect Anisotropy of the Elastomers Reinforced by Carbon-Black and Silica Filler

  Thanh-Tam Mai; Yuga Taniguchi; Katsuhiko Tsunoda; Kenji Urayama

  Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi, 15 Feb. 2023

  
• Experimental Analysis of Fast Crack Growth in Elastomers

  Thanh-Tam Mai; Yoshihiro Morishita; Katsuhiko Tsunoda; Kenji Urayama

  Advances in Polymer Science, 2021

  
• Impact of Strain-Induced Crystallization on Fast Crack Growth in Stretched cis-1,4-Polyisoprene Rubber

  Ryosuke Osumi; Tomohiro Yasui; Ruito Tanaka; Thanh-Tam Mai; Hideaki Takagi; Nobutaka Shimizu; Katsuhiko Tsunoda; Shinichi Sakurai; Kenji Urayama

  ACS Macro Letters, 19 May 2022

  
• Investigating Multiaxial Mullins Effect of Carbon-Black-Reinforced Elastomers Using Electrical Resistivity Measurements

  Yuga Taniguchi; Thanh-Tam Mai; Masashi Yamaguchi; Katsuhiko Tsunoda; Kenji Urayama

  ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 11 Feb. 2022

  
• Biaxial Loading Effects on Strain Energy Release Rate and Crack-Tip Strain Field in Elastic Hydrogels

  Thanh-Tam Mai; Kenji Urayama

  Macromolecules, 25 May 2021

  
• Anisotropic stress-softening effect on fast dynamic crack in filler-reinforced elastomers

  Thanh-Tam Mai; Kenichiro Okuno; Katsuhiko Tsunoda; Kenji Urayama

  Mechanics of Materials, Apr. 2021

  
• Micromechanical modeling of the multi-axial deformation behavior in double network hydrogels

  Rui Xiao; Thanh-Tam Mai; Kenji Urayama; Jian Ping Gong; Shaoxing Qu

  International Journal of Plasticity, Nov. 2020

  
• Crack-Tip Strain Field in Supershear Crack of Elastomers

  Thanh-Tam Mai; Kenichiro Okuno; Katsuhiko Tsunoda; Kenji Urayama

  ACS Macro Letters, 19 May 2020

  
• A Multiaxial Theory of Double Network Hydrogels

  Vu Ngoc Khiêm; Thanh-Tam Mai; Kenji Urayama; Jian Ping Gong; Mikhail Itskov

  Macromolecules, 13 Aug. 2019

  
• Experimental Analysis on Crack Propagation in Elastomers

  Thanh-Tam MAI

  NIPPON GOMU KYOKAISHI, 2019

  
• Damage cross-effect and anisotropy in tough double network hydrogels revealed by biaxial stretching

  Thanh-Tam Mai; Takahiro Matsuda; Tasuku Nakajima; Jian Ping Gong; Kenji Urayama

  Soft Matter, 2019

  
• Distinctive Characteristics of Internal Fracture in Tough Double Network Hydrogels Revealed by Various Modes of Stretching

  Mai, T.-T.; Matsuda, T.; Nakajima, T.; Gong, J.P.; Urayama, K.

  Macromolecules, 2018

  
• Induced anisotropy by Mullins effect in filled elastomers subjected to stretching with various geometries

  Mai, Thanh-Tam; Morishita, Yoshihiro; Urayama, Kenji

  Polymer, Sep. 2017

  
• Novel features of the Mullins effect in filled elastomers revealed by stretching measurements in various geometries

  Mai, Thanh-Tam; Morishita, Yoshihiro; Urayama, Kenji

  Soft Matter, 2017

  
• Synthesis and properties of bone cement based on poly(methyl methacrylate) reinforced by organo-clay

  Thanh-Tam MAI

  Science and Technology Development Journal, 31 Dec. 2016

  
• Graphene synthesis by hydrazine and reduced thermal expansion graphite oxide and application in the preparation of nano-composite PMMA/graphene

  Thanh-Tam MAI

  Science and Technology Development Journal, 31 Dec. 2016

  
• Investigation of chemical reduction of graphene oxide with many reduced agents

  Thanh-Tam MAI

  Science and Technology Development Journal, 30 Jun. 2015

  
• Synthesis of graphene/Fe3O4 nano composites

  Thanh-Tam MAI

  Science and Technology Development Journal, 30 Jun. 2015

  
• A new method to exfoliate Graphite oxide and application for synthesis Graphene by chemical method

  Thanh-Tam MAI

  Science and Technology Development Journal, 30 Jun. 2014

  
• Preparation of graphene nano-layer by chemical graphitization of graphite oxide from exfoliation and preliminary reduction

  Mai, T.T.; Ha Thuc, C.N.; Thuc, H.H.

  Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures, 2015

  
• Synthesis of graphene/polystyrene nanocomposite by microemulsion polymerization

  Thanh-Tam MAI

  Science and Technology Development Journal, 31 Dec. 2013

  
• A new method in synthesis of polyurethane/graphite oxide nanocomposites by twin-screw extruder

  Thanh-Tam MAI

  Science and Technology Development Journal, 31 Dec. 2013

  
• Synthesis and study on rheological behavior of polystyrene/graphene oxide nanocomposites

  Thanh-Tam MAI

  Science and Technology Development Journal, 31 Dec. 2013

  
• PREPARATION OF ORGANOCLAY BASED ON THUAN HAI (VIET NAM) CLAY MODIFIED BY GLYCERIDE MIXTURE

  Thanh-Tam MAI

  Science and Technology Development Journal, 30 Jun. 2011

  

Presentations

• 

  Understanding Crack-Growth Onset in Elastomers under Biaxial Extension with Different Geometries

  MAI, Thanh Tam

  The 9th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems (9 IDMRCS), in Chiba, Japan, Invited

  
• 

  Crack-growth Criterion in elastomers under biaxial deformation with different geometries

  MAI, Thanh Tam

  The XIXth International Congress on Rheology (ICR2023) in Athens, Greece

  
• 

  REVEALING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STRAIN-INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION AND LOCAL STRAIN FIELD AROUND THE CRACK-TIP OF NATURAL RUBBER

  MAi, Thanh Tam

  8TH PACIFIC RIM CONFERENCE ON RHEOLOGY

  
• Effects of Strain Biaxiality on Strain Energy Release Rate and Crack-Tip Strain Field in Elastic Hydrogels

  Thanh Tam Mai

  MATERIALS RESEARCH MEETING 2021, Materials Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals

  
• Crack-Tip Strain Field in Super-Shear Crack of Elastomers

  Thanh Tam Mai

  The elastomer symposium 2020, the Society of Rubber Science and Technology

  
• Strain Field Analysis of Dynamic Crack in Filled Elastomers

  Thanh Tam Mai

  The 29th Annual Meeting of MRS-J 2019

  
• Investigation of Local Strain Field in Dynamic Fracture of Filled Elastomers

  Thanh Tam Mai

  GPS2019 Tokyo. Poly. Sys

  
• Internal Fracture in Tough Double Network Hydrogels Revealed by Various Modes of Stretching

  Thanh Tam Mai

  APS March Meeting 2019, Bulletin of the American Physical Society

  
• Distinctive Characteristics of Internal Fracture in Tough Double Network Hydrogels Revealed by Various Modes of Stretching

  Thanh Tam Mai

  First International Conference on 4D Materials and Systems

  
• Induced Anisotropy by Mullins Effect in Filled Elastomers Subjected to Stretching with Various Geometries

  Thanh Tam Mai

  The 7th Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology (PRCR 2018)

  
• Mullins Effects in Silica-Filled Elastomers under Various Types of Stretching

  Thanh Tam Mai

  APS March Meeting 2018, Bulletin of the American Physical Society

  
• Different Features of Mullins Effect in Tough Double Network Hydrogels and Filled Elastomers Revealed by Various Extension Modes

  Thanh Tam Mai

  The 28th Annual Meeting of MRS-J 2018

  
• Novel Features of the Mullins Effect in Filled Elastomers Revealed by Stretching Measurements in Various Geometries

  Thanh Tam Mai

  The 15th International Conference on Advanced Materials 2017 (IUMRS-ICAM 2017)

  
• Mullins Effects in Silica-Filled Elastomers under Various Types of Stretching

  Thanh Tam Mai

  The 28th elastomer symposium 2017, the Society of Rubber Science and Technology

  
• Mullins' Effect of Filled Elastomers Studied by Biaxial Deformation

  Thanh Tam Mai

  The International Rubber Conference 2016 (IRC2016)

  
• Mullins' Effect of Filled Elastomers Studied by Biaxial Deformation

  Thanh Tam Mai

  The XVIIth International Congress on Rheology (ICR2016)

  

Books and Other Publications

• Experimental Analysis of Fast Crack Growth in Elastomers

  Mai, TT; Morishita, Y; Tsunoda, K; Urayama, K, Joint work

  Advances in Polymer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg., Nov. 2021

  

Awards

• 27 Nov. 2020

  第31回エラストマー討論会英語優秀発表賞（一般社団法人日本ゴム協会）
• 30 Nov. 2019

  The outstanding results, excellent presentation, and enthusiasm in research（高
• 30 Nov. 2017

  The Excellent Young Researcher Award（日本ゴム協会）
• 30 Aug. 2017

  The IUMRS-ICAM 2017 Soft Matter Oral Presentation Award（京都工芸繊維大学）
• 28 Oct. 2016

  The Best Student Paper Award（国際ゴム技術会議機構）

Academic, Social Contribution

Committee Memberships

• From 2021, To Present

  The Society of Rheology. Japan
• From 2017, To Present

  The Society of Rubber Science and Technology, Japan