Tomoki kindly invited us to his wedding party!! We can just say, congratulations!!! It was really a gorgeous party at Heian Shrine!!
Tomoki’s wedding
What’s New
MOF2022
Alex and Shuhei traveled to Dresden for participating MOF2022 as a first conference after the pandemic. We were so happy to meet a lot of group alumni and to see how they are working very well; Manuel Tsotsalas from Karlsruhe, Arnau Carne from Barcelona, Frederik Haase from Halle, Eli Sanchez Gonzalez from Mexico City and…
Shun got presentation award!!
Our master student, Shun Tokuda, joined the summer school of the Coordination Chemistry Society and got a BCSJ oral presentation award!! Kotoha Kageyama from the Horike group also got a ChemLett poster presentation award as well!! Our students from iCeMS showed high research performances. We are proud of you!!
Summer internship students
This summer, we welcomed three undergraduates for their internship. Michel Lu from Harvard joined us as an Amgen Scholar, Mathew Cao from Toronto as an internship student supported by Mitacs Globalink Research Award, and Nicholas Wiesner from Michigan as an iCeMS Summer Internship Student. Michel worked with Idaira for new material fabrication toward environmental analysis,…
Spring change under Sakura blooming
At the beginning of the new academic year, we farewelled and welcomed group members. Sakura aka cherry blossom season bloom in such a season. Dr.Yosuke Hara worked in our group as a visiting student left the group and started working in the chemical industry. He worked on the hierarchical porous system based on metal-organic frameworks…
Zaoming’s defense
Our PhD student, Zaoming Wang, gave an excellent presentation at his PhD viva and successfully defended!! He is the first official PhD from the Furukawa group!! Congratulations!!On the day of PhD defense, we had so many unexpected troubles (including a car accident on the way to the Katsura campus by an inter-campus university bus) before…
[Paper] J. Am. Chem. Soc.
Our long-term collaboration with Lyon finally got published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. This true collaboration with the group of Jerome Canivet and David Farrusseng in IRCELyon showed our Rh-based MOP and their solid-state materials (linked MOP aerogels and linked MOP particles) catalyze CO2 to formic acid!! In this study we demonstrated the best performance…
Tomoki got an award!!
Our postdoc, Tomoki Tateishi, got Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists!! This award is given to a young scientist who submitted their excellent Ph.D. Thesis. Tomoki got this award based on his research at the Hiraoka group at the University of Tokyo. Congratulations!!
Hasta luego Javier
Our own Javier Troyano moved back to Madrid after two years and four months of his stay in our group. Javier contributed a lot to our recent developments on MOP-based assemblies and most of his papers will show up soon.We organized his farewell lecture and the small party. Javier looks so happy to get nice…
Excellent Postdocs got fellowships
We are always happy to have excellent members in our group. This time, our four postdocs got fellowships to move to the next step. Tomoki got the prestigious JSPS postdoctoral fellowship to continue the research in our group for the next three years. Congratulations!! Our three Spanish friends got all prestigious Spanish fellowships. Idaira and…