Yuki Uematsu, updated August 20, 2024,
Address: Kawazu, 680-4, Iizuka, Fukuoka, 820-8502, JAPANTEL: +81 (0) 948 29 7616
Mail: uematsu@phys.kyutech.ac.jp
Affiliation: Department of Physics and Information Technology, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Married, a daughter in 2017 and a son in 2021

I. EDUCATION• April 2007 – March 2011, Bachelor course in Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan.
• April 2011 – March 2013, Master course in Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan.
Master thesis “Electro-osmotic flow of polyelectrolyte solutions” under supervision of Prof.
Takeaki Araki.
• April 2013 – March 2016, Ph. D. course in Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan.
Ph. D. thesis “Electro-osmosis of polymer solutions: Linear and nonlinear behavior” under
supervision of Prof. Takeaki Araki.

II. EMPLOYMENT• April 2013 – Match 2016, Ph. D. student at Kyoto University (Host: Prof. Takeaki Araki)supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship (DC1).
• April 2016 – January 2019, Post-doctoral researcher at Kyushu University (Host: Prof. RyoAkiyama) supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship (PD).
– May 2016 – October 2017, Visiting researcher at Freie Universität Berlin (Host: Prof.
Roland R. Netz)• February 2019 – December 2019, Post-doctoral researcher at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Host:Prof. Lyderic Bocquet) supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Overseas
Fellowships.
• October 2019 – March 2022, Assistant professor at Department of Physics, Kyushu University• April 2022 – present, Associate professor (tenure-track) at Department of Physics and Information Technology, Kyushu Institute of Technology

III. RESEARCH INTEREST
I am interested in physics and chemistry of electrolyte solutions and other charge-related phenomena. By using theoretical and experimental methods, I want to clarify simple physico-chemicalmechanism of fascinating phenomena and compare the theory with experiments directly. Specially,
interfacial effects such as surface tension, slippage, and electrokinetics are my main targets so far.
IV. PUBLICATIONS
1. Yuki Uematsu and Keiju Suda, Statistical-Mechanical Theory on the Probability Distribution
Function for the Net Charge of an Electrolyte Droplet, Part. Part. Syst. Charact. (2024).
doi:10.1002/ppsc.202400111
2. Riku Miyazaki, Yasuyuki Kimura, and Yuki Uematsu, Nanobubble-Assisted Formation of NonGaseous Nanoparticles in Water, Physica A 648, 129932 (2024). doi:10.1016/j.physa.2024.129932
3. Maximilian Becker, Philip Loche, Majid Rezaei, Amanuel Wolde-Kidan, Yuki Uematsu, Roland
R. Netz, and Douwe Jan Bonthuis, Multiscale modeling of aqueous electric double layers,Chem. Rev. 124, 1-26 (2024). doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00307
4. Haruto Iwasaki, Yasuyuki Kimura, and Yuki Uematsu, Ubiquitous preferential water adsorption to electrodes in water/1-propanol mixtures detected by electrochemical impedance spec1

troscopy, J. Phys. Chem. C 127, 23382-23389 (2023). doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c05320
5. Sota Inoue, Yasuyuki Kimura, and Yuki Uematsu, Ostwald ripening of aqueous microbubble
solutions, J. Chem. Phys. 157, 244704 (2022). doi:10.1063/5.0128696
6. Yuki Uematsu, Analytic theory of nonlinearly coupled electrokinetics in nanochannels, Phys.
Fluids 34, 122012 (2022). doi:10.1063/5.0131481
7. Yuki Uematsu and Hiroyuki Ohshima, Electrophoretic mobility of a water-in-oil droplet separately affected by the net charge and surface charge density, Langmuir 38, 4213-4221 (2022).
doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c03145
8. Yuki Uematsu, Electrification of water interface, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 33, 423001 (2021).
doi:10.1088/1361-648X/ac15d5
9. Majid Rezaei, Bernhard Mitterwallner, Philip Loche, Yuki Uematsu, Roland R. Netz, andDouwe Jan Bonthuis, Interfacial, electroviscous, and nonlinear dielectric effects on electrokinetics at highly charged surfaces, J. Phys. Chem. B 125, 4767-4778 (2021). doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c11280
10. Alexandre dos Santos, Yuki Uematsu, Alexander Rathert, Philip Loche, and Roland Netz,
Consistent description of ion-specificity in bulk and at interfaces by solvent implicit simulations
and mean-field theory, J. Chem. Phys. 153, 034103 (2020). doi:10.1063/5.001610
11. Yuki Uematsu, Douwe Jan Bonthuis, and Roland R. Netz, Nanomolar surface-active charged
impurities account for the zeta potential of hydrophobic surfaces, Langmuir 36, 3645-3658(2020). doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03795
12. Philip Loche, Cihan Ayaz, Alexander Schlaich, Yuki Uematsu, and Roland R. Netz, Giant
Axial Dielectric Response in Water-Filled Nanotubes and Effective Electrostatic Ion-Ion Interactions from a Tensorial Dielectric Model, J. Phys. Chem. B, 123, 10850-10857, (2019).
doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b09269
13. Yuki Uematsu, Douwe J. Bonthuis, and Roland R. Netz, Impurity Effects at Hydrophobic
Surfaces Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 13, 166-173 (2019).
doi:10.1016/j.coelec.2018.09.003
14. Yuki Uematsu, Kengo Chida, and Hiroki Matsubara, Intentionally Added Ionic Surfactants Induce Jones-Ray Effect at Air-Water Interface, Colloid and Interfacial Science Communications
27, 45-48 (2018). doi:10.1016/j.colcom.2018.10.003
15. Ram M. Adar, Yuki Uematsu, Shigeyuki Komura, and David Andelman, Linear Response
Functions of an Electrolyte Solution in a Uniform Flow, Phys. Rev. E 98, 032604 (2018).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.98.032604
16. Yuki Uematsu, Roland R. Netz, and Douwe J. Bonthuis, Analytical interfacial layer modelfor the capacitance and electrokinetics of charged aqueous interfaces, Langmuir 34, 9097-9113(2018). doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b04171
17. Yuki Uematsu, Roland R. Netz, Lydéric Bocquet, and Douwe J. Bonthuis, Cross-over of thepower law exponent for carbon nanotube conductivity as a function of salinity, J. Phys. Chem.
B 122, 2992–2997 (2018). doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b01975
18. Yuki Uematsu, Roland R. Netz, and Douwe J. Bonthuis, The effects of ion adsorption on thepotential of zero charge and the differential capacitance of charged aqueous interfaces, J. Phys.
Condens. Matter 30, 064002 (2018). doi:10.1088/1361-648X/aaa4d4
19. Yuki Uematsu, Douwe J. Bonthuis, and Roland R. Netz, Charged Surface-Active Impurities
At Nanomolar Concentration Induce Jones-Ray Effect, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 189–193(2018). doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02960
20. Yuki Uematsu, Roland R. Netz, and Douwe J. Bonthuis, Power-law electrokinetic behavior as a direct probe of effective surface viscosity, Chem. Phys. Lett. 670, 11–15 (2017).
doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2016.12.056
21. Douwe J. Bonthuis, Yuki Uematsu, and Roland R. Netz, Interfacial Layer Effects on SurfaceCapacitances and Electro-osmosis in Electrolytes, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 374, 20150033 (2016).
doi:10.1098/rsta.2015.0033
22. Yuki Uematsu, Nonlinear Electro-Osmosis of Dilute Non-Adsorbing Polymer Solutions withLow Ionic Strength, Soft Matter 11, 7402-7411 (2015). doi:10.1039/C5SM01507C
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23. Yuki Uematsu, Electrophoresis of Electrically Neutral Porous Spheres Induced by Selective
Affinity of Ions, Phys. Rev. E 91, 022303 (2015). doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.022303
24. Yuki Uematsu and Takeaki Araki, Electro-Osmotic Flow of Semidilute Polyelectrolyte Solutions, J. Chem. Phys. 139, 094901 (2013). doi:10.1063/1.4820236
25. Yuki Uematsu and Takeaki Araki, Effects of Strongly Selective Additives on Volume Phase
Transition in Gels, J. Chem. Phys. 137, 024902 (2012). doi:10.1063/1.4732857

V. AWARD• March 2023, The 17th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan• January 2021, The 5th Fukui Kenichi Award• September 2016, Best Presentation Award for Young Researchers at the 67th Divisional Meeting on Colloid and Interface Chemistry of the Chemical Society of Japan• May 2016, Springer Theses Award
VI. FUNDING• (PI) April 2024 - March 2025, Grant from The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences “Studyon the mechanism of electrification in forming emulsions and aerosols” Total 2,000,000 JPY• (PI) April 2023 - March 2026, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists “ Experimental studyof voltage-induced prewetting transition in mixed solvents” 23K13073, Total 3,500,000 JPY• April 2022 - March 2025, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C, “Unveiling cooperative effectsof hydrogen bonding on the interfacial tension of dilute electrolyte liquids” (PI: Hayato Shiba),
22K03546, Total 1,000,000 JPY• (PI) October 2021 - March 2025, JST Presto “Ionic hydrodynamics in micro- and nanointerfaces” JPMJPR21O2, Total 52,000,000 JPY• (PI) October 2021 - September 2022 Kurita Water and Environment Foundation “Effect ofsurfactants on the radii dynamics of microbubble solutions” 21E006, Total 500,000 JPY• (PI) April 2021 - March 2022 Kyushu University QR program, “Research on the stability ofbubbles by measuring radii dynamics in microbubble solutions”, R3-01302, Total 1,400,000
JPY• (PI) April 2021 - February 2022 The Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant, “Search of nonequilibrium phase separation in ternary systems of water/alchol/electrolytes under steadyelectric currents”, 2021-3001, Total 700,000 JPY• June 2020 – March 2022, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (FosteringJoint International Research (B)), Total 2,000,000 JPY.
• (PI) April 2020 – March 2022, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists “Revealing the originof surface charge of hydrophobic interface based on charged impurities”, Total 3,200,000 JPY.
• (PI) February 2019 – December 2019, JSPS Fellowship for Research Abroad, “Comprehensive
study on fluidic transport of confined electrolytes in nanotubes by theory and experiment”,Total 5,600,000 JPY as maintenance allowance• (PI) April 2016 – March 2019, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellows “Study on electrokinetics of electrolyte solutions in nanotubes”, Total 3,400,000 JPY as Grant and 12,308,000
JPY as Salary.
• (PI) April 2013 – March 2016, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellows “Study on hydrodynamics and electrostatics of polymer gels with ion and interfacial effects”, Total 2,700,000 JPY
as Grant and 7,200,000 JPY as Saraly.
VII. TEACHING Experience• Experimental Training Class “Physics Experiments” (BZ reaction and Brownian motion, 2019,2020, 2021).
• Undergraduate Class “Exercises in Electromagnetism” (2020, 2021)

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• Undergraduate Class “Thermodynamics” (2022)• Undergraduate Class “Statistical Mechanics” (2022,2023,2024)• Graduate Class “Physical Chemistry of Colloid and Interface” (2023, 2024)• Experimental Training Class “Seminar of Physics and Information Technology” (Colloid physicsand chemistry, 2022, 2023, 2024)
VIII. Supervising Experience• Bachelor thesis: Sota Inoue (2021), Kenichiro Ide (2022), Haruto Iwasaki (2022), Riku Miyazaki(2022), Keigo Shimizu (2023), Yuto Fujihara (2023), Ryota Shioya (2023), Ayumu Muta(2024), Natsuki Fushitani (2024), Atsushi Tachibana (2024)• Master thesis: Sota Inoue (2023), Haruto Iwasaki (2024), Riku Miyazaki (2024)4