Chemistry across multiple length scales
The paper about the localized MOF to Gel conversion is now published in Chem. Mater. This research was conducted by Sophia, who came to our group as a guest student from KIT and were working with Dr. Manuel Tsotsalas, who is also an alumni of the group. Dr. Stephane Diring currently in Nantes supervised the…
The collaboration paper with Prof. Easan Sivaniah Group at iCeMS is now published in Nature Energy. This study highly improved the CO2 separation efficiency by mixed matrix membrane of PIM-1 and nanosized MOFs. Congratulations!!
The collaboration paper with the group of Prof. Fischer is now published in J. Mater. Chem. A. We applied coordination modulation into the layer-by-layer growth and controlled the surface feature and crystallinity. Congratulation, Suttipong and Kenji!!
The collaboration paper with the group of Prof. Rob Ameloot is now published in Chem. Commun. This study demonstrated the photopatterning of microchannels in single crystals of MOFs. The research was supported by JSPS-FWO bilateral collaboration project. Congratulations, Ivo and Rob! "Photopatterning of fluorescent host–guest carriers through pore activation of metal–organic framework single crystals" Prof.…
Prof. Shuhei Furukawa is awarded The Young Scientists' Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for his study on "Structural Control of Coordination Polymers at the Mesoscale". Congratulations!! 古川准教授が平成29年度「科学技術分野の文部科学大臣表彰若手科学者賞」を受賞しました。受賞課題は「配位高分子のメゾスコピック構造制御に関する研究」です。 Press Release: MEXT (Japanese), Kyoto Univ. (Japanese), iCeMS (Japanese, English)
Prof. Shuhei Furukawa was invited by Prof. Kevin Wu at NTU to give a lecture for graduate students in the Department of Chemical Engineering. It was a great opportunity to talk about the importance of fundamental science and its possible transformation to industrial applications. Lecture title: Multiscale structuring of metal-organic frameworks
Our recent publication "Sol–Gel Processing of Metal–Organic Frameworks" is ranked #1 in monthly updated Most Read Articles in Chem. Mater. Congratulations to our international authors team, Paolo, Kenji, Kang, Julien and Ilich!!!
The Furukawa group starts in April/2017 at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Materials (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University!! Our research group has been working on the research of metal-organic frameworks/porous coordination polymers (MOFs/PCPs) as a sub-research group in the Susumu Kitagawa laboratory, the hybrid pores group (2008-2013) and the mesoscopic coordination chemistry group (2013-2017). By extending this chemistry, we…
Ms. Marina Kawano who did a research for her bachelor traning left the group and started to work in the car industry. Marina was a hard worker and contributed to our kick-off project of supramolecular polymerization. Good luck, Marina!!
The paper about synthetic ion channels based on metal-organic polyhedra is now published in Chem. This is a true collaboration with Prof. Ryuji Kawano (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) and Prof. Shoji Takeuchi (The University of Tokyo). The former technical staff, Ms. Nao Horike, synthesized the molecules and so many group members contributed to…