Chemistry across multiple length scales
The paper describing gate-opening gas uptake in metal-organic polyhedra and how it can be switched off is now published in Chem. Sci. This would be one of a very few examples of gate-opening effect in the assemblies of molecular cages. We demonstrated it by taking an advantage of MOPs' solution processability!! The lead authors are…
Dr. Jeremy Dhainaut from University of Lille, France, joined the Furukawa group as a JSPS postdoctoral research fellow. Jeremy has a strong background of materials engineering and will contribute to the engineering aspect of our porous materials. Welcome Jeremy!!
Dr. Frederik Haase joined the Furukawa group as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow from the group of Prof. Bettina Lotsch at MPI Stuttgart. As usual we welcome Frederik with pints of beers!!
We are happy to welcome a new member from Brazil, Mr. Thiago Chuba!! Thiago is a MEXT scholarship student who is trying to enter the Graduate School in Kyoto University. Thiago has a research background of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, which would drive our chemistry to more fascinating applications. Welcome, Thiago!! ブラジルから新メンバー（Thiago Negrão Chuba）が加わりました。Thiagoはサンパウロ大学出身の文部科学省奨学生で、京大の大学院へ秋からの入学を目指しています。一足先に技術員として参加してもらうことになりました。Thiagoは工学系出身で、またMBAも持っている多彩なバックグランドを持つ留学生です。古川グループでは、そこに化学のエッセンスを足すことで、個性的な研究者になってもらいたいと思っています。特に、我々の基礎科学を新しい応用につなげていく課題を担当します。どんな応用研究ができるのか楽しみです！
We were pleased to host the visit of Mr. Simon Krause from Technical University of Dresden (the group of Prof. Stefan Kaskel) and to organize his lecture at iCeMS. Though Simon was travelling around Japan for his holidays, he was so kind to accept our offer to give a lecture on his recent discovery of…
Dr. Alexandra Legrand joined the group as a new postdoctoral researcher!! Alex is a synthetic, physical chemist working on MOFs projects previously with Prof. Takashi Uemura, Prof. Daniel Maspoch and Dr. David Farrusseng. Alex is going to develop new porous materials based on metal-organic polyhedra. Welcome Alex!! Mr. Li-Hao Liu joined us as a visiting…
Mr. Shuya Ikemura left the group after getting his master degree. Ikemura worked on the project of CO-releasing materials for gas biology applications and did a great effort to develop new amorphous materials. He moved to the chemistry industry in April. Thanks Ikemura for your wonderful work! We will shortly summarize the research in a…
Ms. Hinano Urabe joined the Furukawa group for a month as an internship to work on the project of supramolecular polymerization. Hinano is a talented and brave bachelor student in Kyoto University to spend her spring holiday time for the research experience. Hinano found a new polymerization process under external stimuli!! Great job, Hinano!! Meanwhile,…
On the occasion of visit of Dr. Patrick Larpent, who worked in the Furukawa group in 2014-2016, we had an alumni party together with the former members, Dr. Masashi Nakahama, Dr. Sophia Schmitt and Mr. Hiroki Enno, plus their friends. We enjoyed the time at a rooftop beer garden and at our favorite pool bar.…
We invited Dr. Cristina Flors, the principal investigator at IMDEA Nanoscience at Madrid, Spain, for her lecture at our group seminar on 9th/August. We enjoyed her new research of development of new super-resolution microscopy. We had a lot of audiences from different groups as well. Thanks Cristina for visiting us!! Dr. Cristina Flors Title: Novel correlative…