Chemistry across multiple length scales
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…
In the occasion of iCeMS learning lounge, the 9 students from Aizu Gakuhou High School in Fukushima Prefecture, visited the Furukawa group and got experiences the simple chemistry of metal-organic frameworks. This time, Ms. Shuya Ikemura, a master student, demonstrated the localization of MOF crystallization on silicon wafer and the students also enjoyed the patterning…
We had a nice summer party together with Horike, Hirori, Kitagawa-Kajiwara groups + a legend chemist Prof. Koji Tanaka, for celebrating the successful job hunting of master students. We had a nice chat in HUB@Karasuma and then our favorite spot, Bungalow!! Congratulations, Ikemura, Ohara and Mine!! Good time to chill out over a cold beer.…
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