Chemistry across multiple length scales
Our PhD student, Zaoming Wang, gave an excellent presentation at his PhD viva and successfully defended!! He is the first official PhD from the Furukawa group!! Congratulations!!On the day of PhD defense, we had so many unexpected troubles (including a car accident on the way to the Katsura campus by an inter-campus university bus) before…
Our long-term collaboration with Lyon finally got published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. This true collaboration with the group of Jerome Canivet and David Farrusseng in IRCELyon showed our Rh-based MOP and their solid-state materials (linked MOP aerogels and linked MOP particles) catalyze CO2 to formic acid!! In this study we demonstrated the best performance…
Our postdoc, Tomoki Tateishi, got Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists!! This award is given to a young scientist who submitted their excellent Ph.D. Thesis. Tomoki got this award based on his research at the Hiraoka group at the University of Tokyo. Congratulations!!
Our own Javier Troyano moved back to Madrid after two years and four months of his stay in our group. Javier contributed a lot to our recent developments on MOP-based assemblies and most of his papers will show up soon.We organized his farewell lecture and the small party. Javier looks so happy to get nice…
We are always happy to have excellent members in our group. This time, our four postdocs got fellowships to move to the next step. Tomoki got the prestigious JSPS postdoctoral fellowship to continue the research in our group for the next three years. Congratulations!! Our three Spanish friends got all prestigious Spanish fellowships. Idaira and…
In the autumn 2021, some of our members left the group for starting a new life. Dr. Colm Healy, the JSPS postdoctoral fellow, left the group for starting a new life in Ireland. We really appreciate that Colm joined our group during the most tough time due to the COVID-19. Mr. Vincent Monnier who visited…
The research project of our Assistant Professor Tomoko Inose, "Nanowire-based single cell diagnosis", is awarded the JST PRESTO (さきがけ研究）. This is one of the most prestigious research grants for the young scientists in Japan. Congratulations, Tomoko!!
Our new paper appeared in Chemical Science!! This research led by our PhD student Zaoming Wang demonstrated the post-synthetic linker reorganization in linked metal-organic polyhedra gels by simple solvent exchange method, so-called aging process. By repeated aging processes, the networks in gel become more crosslinkded, both at the molecular level (linkage between MOPs) and at…
Our JSPS postdoc, Eli Sanchez-Gonzales finished his postdoc time and moved back to Mexico to start his tenure-track position in Instituto De Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Eli spent almost two years in Kyoto and contributed to the important study of soft materials based on non-cuboctahedral metal-organic cages. The research will be…
In Japan, a new academic year starts in April and we farewelled and welcomed members. Our master student, Mr. Thiago Negrao Chuba, graduated his master course and continued to the PhD!! The undergrad student, Mr. Yuuki Hiramatsu, left the group and started working in business industry. Our office assistant, Mr. Shu Takagi is officially assigned…