Chemistry across multiple length scales
Our friend, the longest member of the group, Assist. Prof. Gavin Craig left the group at the end of July and moved to the University of Strathclyde @Glasgow, UK, as a new PI (Lecturer). Gavin starts his own group at the beginning of September. Gavin has been contributing to the group since 2016, even at…
We welcomed two new members in the Furukawa group!! Dr. Sophia Schmitt joined the group. Sophia used to be our member as a visiting student when she was a PhD student in the group of Manuel Tsotsalas and Christof Wöll at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. She rejoined the group as a postdoc! Welcome back,…
Our super talented and self-motivated "post-master", Shota Hasegawa, who worked in our group as a technical stuff, moved to Germany to work as a PhD student in the group of Prof. Guido Clever at the Dortmund University of Technology. Shota only worked for two months but gave a huge impact on us. In particular, our…
Greeny May is the best season in Kyoto. Just right after a nice cherry blossom blooming and just before the rainy season (so-called Tsuyu) followed by horribly hot and humid summer. Such great weather drove us to organize a group BBQ party at the lake-side of northern part of Biwa-lake. We totally enjoyed good beach,…
Our collaboration paper with Dr. Josep Puigmarti-Luis, Dr. Salvador Pane (both from ETH) and Prof. Paolo Falcaro (TU Graz) is published in Adv. Mater. This paper showed the successful collaboration of MOFs with microrobots (so-called MOFBOTS) would create a novel opportunity to develop a sophisticated drug delivery system. We initiated this idea 3.5 year ago.…
The collaboration paper with the group of Prof. Ilich Ibarra at UNAM, Mexico, is accepted in J. Mater. Chem. A!!! We are able to partially functionalize the MOF (MIL-101) with fluorinated molecules and to enhance O2 adsorption. This collaboration was initiated by the iCeMS internationalization program to invite Ilich to iCeMS. Congratulations, Ilich and his…
Our group members are highlighted recently in several media! The former member, Arnau Carné-Sánchez is highlighted in the iCeMS website, First Author Interview. He is telling the story behind his discovery of porous gels. First author interview: English/Japanese Shuhei and the group members are recently highlighted in the Kyoto University promotion program, Kyoto University Professor…
Shuhei is invited to write his vision for the future of chemistry in Nature Chemistry! This is a part of feature article "Charting a course for chemistry" in the special issue of 10 years anniversary of Nature Chemistry. It was a great opportunity to write this commentary together with other 57 great scientists. It is…
New members joined the Furukawa group in the season of beautiful cherry blossom blooming. Shota Hasegawa joined as a technical stuff and will stay in the group next two month prior to his PhD training in Germany. Shota trained as an organic chemist will definitely contribute to our new MOP chemistry. Natalia Adati joined as…
We organized "The SPIRITS International Symposium -Shaping Self-Assembled Mesoscale (Bio)Materials with Microengineering-", in which we aim the integration of microengineering technologies such as microfluidics, microrobots into self-assembled (bio)materials towards sophisticated fabrication, microenvironmental analysis and applications in biology. Twelve invited speakers shared their ideas and approaches with audiences. It was an amazing opportunity for us to…