Chemistry across multiple length scales
The lab head, Prof. Susumu Kitagawa and Prof. Shuhei Furukawa attended the EuroMOF2015 conference in Potsdam and delivered the talks. It was a nice occasion to catch up with the former group members, Manuel, Sophia and Kira!!
The summer internship students, Yue, Kyohei and Kotaro, presented the summary of their 1.5 month researches and shared their experiences in the MC2 group. All of the talks were logically constructed and were presented very well!! We celebrated the birth of these young researchers!! We wish all these students to become great scientists!!
The former member of MC2, Dr. Manuel Tsotsalas, got married with Sabrina and organized the wedding party at Hamburg in the middle of August. It was a great occasion to catch up with a lot of former members, Stéphane, Julien, Mike and Kira, plus Audrey and Azumi. Masashi and Shuhei plus Kiyo joined the party…
The welcome party for Sofie was organized at a teppenyaki restaurant. The former visitor from Leuven, Ivo Stassen, was also visiting us to strengthen the JSPS-FWO collaboration project. We were quite happy to welcome friends, Kenji Yoshida, Hiroyasu Tabe and Prof. Hideki Hirori in the party!!
We organized a summer party at the nice beer garden in the occasion of farewell for our great collaborators from Granada, Prof. Elisa Barea and Mr. Kiko Carmona. We continued a party at the bank of Kamogawa till midnight! Though Elisa and Kiko are leaving back to Spain soon, our collaboration will be continued!
We had a party on the rooftop terrace BBQ restaurant located in the heart of Kyoto on the occasion of farewell for three members. Nice breeze celebrated their departures to successful futures!! Good luck!! Ming Hu is leaving back to Shanghai for his position in East China Normal University Kenji Sumida is moving to Adelaide…
On the day of the anniversary of the establishment of Kyoto University, 18/June, we visited as a group social activity the Tamba Winery located at the middle of Kyoto Prefecture. We learnt how to make wine and enjoyed a cool weather and delicious lunch!
Our former member, Dr. Ayako Umemura, a representative of Futaba Project and a science writer & communicator in Nagoya University, is highlighted in Chem-Station, the biggest chemistry portal site in Japan! We are glad to see how Ayako is actively working in the new field of Science Communications. Congratulations, Ayako!! Ayako's Interview at Chem-Station: Japanese…
Mr. Masashi Nakahama, a PhD student in the MC2 group, defended his PhD thesis on April/17th/2015!!! Hammer has worked in the group since he was a technical stuff in the ERATO project in 2009. During the PhD study, he has been working on the fabrication of hybrid PCPs with inorganic nanomaterials towards the applications in…
Assoc. Prof. Shuhei Furukawa, as one of the committee members, organizes the symposium in Pacifichem 2015. ---Symposium: Design, Synthesis and Applications of Advanced Porous Materials (#111)Organizers:Christian Doonan (Univ. Adelaide, Australia)Mircea Dinca (MIT, USA)Shane Telfer (Massey Univ., New Zealand)Shuhei Furukawa (Kyoto Univ., Japan)Qiaowei Li (Fudan Univ., China) ---