Chemistry across multiple length scales
We published the research on MOFs!! Recently we are more focusing on the molecular based porous materials, metal-organic cages (MOCs) but our postdoc Dr. Frederik Haase revived the MOF research in the Furukawa group. His idea was to combine two incompatible building blocks of 5-c nodes of star-shaped ligands with 4-c nodes of paddlewheel complexes.…
Dr. Kiko Carmona left the group in the middle of July to start his new position in the University of Granada. Kiko worked on the project on bioapplications of MOPs, which will be (hopefully) soon published elsewhere. Kiko first joined the group as a visiting student when he was a PhD student in the group…
We wrote a news and views article for Nature Materials to highlight the very interesting work done by the group of Huanting Wang from Monash University. The lead author is Dr. Alex Legrand. The article describes the importance of porous materials for selective ion sensing and rectifying and the device configuration. Hope you enjoy our…
In spring time in Japan, people are moving to next positions. In the Furukawa group, we were sad to see the departure of Dr. Frederik Haase, Ms. Natalia Adati and Ms. Eshiro Shizuka. Frederik decided to leave a bit earlier than initially planned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But this is a positive move. Frederik…
The paper about the influence of molecular modification on the cooperative effect of metal-organic cage (MOCs) assemblies was published in Chem. Commun.!! The lead author is Dr. Gavin Craig. In this paper we discussed how the side chains attached on MOCs affected the structural transition behavior in response to guest molecule accommodation. Great work, Gavin!!…
The paper about the formulation of porous ink for 3D printing of MOFs was published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interface!! The lead author is Dr. Jeremy Dhainaut. We showed how to make porous inks with four different MOFs containing 2-hydroxyethyl cellulose. This project was purely initiated by the idea of Jeremy who worked in our…
Our postdoc, Dr. Sophia Schmitt, got a position at Carl Zeiss AG, microscope industry, and will start to work at the open innovation center at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. Sophia joined our group twice, first as a visiting student in 2014 and this time in 2019 as a postdoc. Unfortunately in both case…
In this autumn, the Furukawa group expanded and four new postdocs joined. We will explore a new chemistry of metal-organic cages all together. Dr. Javier Troyano joined as a JSPS postdoc from the group of Daniel Maspoch at ICN2, Barcelona. He worked on MOF-based actuators by taking advantage of flexible MOFs. Dr. Ivy Tsang also…
We published the paper about the understanding of self-assembly process of metal-organic polyhedra into colloidal gels by dynamic light scattering techniques, and then the fabrication of functionally gradient gels. Our postdoc, Dr. Alex Legrand, carefully investigated the assembling process by analyzing a lot of data of intensity correlation functions. This is also a true collaboration…
The collaboration paper with Prof. Yamil Colon (University of Notre Dame, USA) is published in Mol. Syst. Des. Eng.!! Yamil was visiting us in this May for the collaboration project of the structural simulation of porous soft matter based on metal-organic polyhedra. We investigated the effect of linker flexibility on materials softness. This is the…