Author: thefurukawagroup

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…

The collaboration paper with Prof. Rob Ameloot (KU Leuven, Belgium) is published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.!! We contributed to the QCM experiments. Joao and Lenz were visiting iCeMS for the implementation of the QCM experiments in 2016. Congratulations, Joao, Lenz and Rob plus all other collaborators for this great work. “Vapor‐phase linker exchange of…

The visiting student, Po-Chun Han, went back to Taiwan. He worked on the project of porous colloids and showed a very interesting result at last! I hope that Po-Chun will be back to Kyoto in the near future as a long-term visiting student for bridging between the Kevin Wu group at National Taiwan University and our…

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.…