Chemistry at the Mesoscale
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…
Incorporation of insoluble MOP into porous soft matter is now reported in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. This coordination solubilizer method is not only limited to the formation of porous soft matter but can be potentially applied to an older sister, crystalline metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)! The lead authors are Arnau and Gavin. This is a second…
The post-synthetic modification on Rh-based metal-organic polyhedra is now realized through coordination chemistry and organic chemistry. We are happy to see this paper out in J. Am. Chem. Soc.!! This is a true collaboration with our former postdoc, Dr. Arnau Carné-Sánchez, and Prof. Daniel Maspoch from ICN2, Barcelona!! Congratulations, Arnau!! "Postsynthetic Covalent and Coordination Functionalization…
Dr. Jeremy Dhainaut got a CNRS Chargé de Recherche position at Lille (Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide (UCCS) - UMR 8181) and went back to France in January/2019. Jeremy initiated a new research project of 3D printer and we continue the collaboration on this project. Congratulations, Jeremy!! Mr. Philipp Royla finished his Erasmus+…
Gavin, Alex and Shuhei participated the biggest conference in our field, MOF2018, at Auckland!! It was an amazing conference, where a lot of new researches in the field were showcased and we were able to meet many nice researchers in the field. All of us presented our recent studies of MOP assemblies and got nice…
Most of the Furukawa group members participated "The 3rd Taiwan-Japan Workshop on Nanospace Materials" organized by Prof. Kevin Wu at National Taiwan University in October 27-29, 2018. We enjoyed nice science and discussion with researchers from Taiwan and Japan. And we were so happy to meet our former member, Li-Hao! He was very kind to…
