Dr. Arnau Carne, the JSPS research fellow of the MC2 group, gave a special lecture to high school students at the Wakasa High School, Fukui（福井県立若狭高等学校）on 29th of January. Arnau introduced a basic concept of porous solids and discussed with students how to become a scientist!! Great job, Arnau!!
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Year-end and new year parties
We had a big year-end party on 5th of December, together with neighboring colleagues working in iCeMS! Kenji Yoshida prepared his special hotpot (nabe) and we enjoyed cooking of Takoyaki. On 7th of January, we had a great visit of the former MC2 member, Ms. Sophia Schmitt. Occasionally, that day was the last working day…
[Alumni] Kenji Hirai gets Assistant Professor position at Hokkaido University
The former member of MC2, Dr. Kenji Hirai, is appointed assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry at Hokkaido University, Japan. He works in the Sada Group. Congratulations!!
[Alumni] Yu Hijikata gets Assistant Professor position at Nagoya University
The former MC2 member, Dr. Yu Hijikata is appointed as an assistant professor position at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM) at Nagoya University, Japan. He works at the Irle group. Congratulations!!!
Summer party – farewell and welcome
We had a summer party at the nice beer garden for the occasions of the farewell for Dr. Kenji Sumida, who is finishing his JSPS postdoctoral fellowship at the middle of August and will move to the Kitagawa ACCELL project, and of the welcome for Mr. Ivo Stassen, who is staying till the middle of…
Shuhei Furukawa gave a lecture series at Mexico
Assoc. Prof. Shuhei Furukawa was invited to give a lecture series in the summer school of "Science and Engineering of Materials" organized by the Institute of Materials Investigations at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (IIM-UNAM). Shuhei gave the total 10 hours lectures on "Functional hybrid porous coordination polymers" and enjoyed a lot communicating with…
Welcome party for Patrick
We had a welcome party for a new JSPS postdoc Patrick at our favourite Kyoyasai restaurant, ONIKAI!! Welcome Patrick!
Our 2012 paper published in Nat. Mater. is highlighted in Science!!!
The paper reporting "coordination replication" published in Nature Mater. in 2012 is recently highlighted in Science!! The original manuscript in Nature Mater.: Mesoscopic architectures of porous coordination polymers fabricated by pseudomorphic replication The highlight in Science written by Prof. Andrew Putnis.: Why Mineral Interfaces Matter
Spring parties and group trip
As a tradition of the Kitagawa group, we had a spring cherry blossoms party (Hamami Party) with all members in the Kitagawa group, @Arashiyama district. We enjoyed the beautiful atmosphere! We also had the farewell and welcome party at the italian restaurant. Prof. Chris Sumby is leaving back to Adelaide after two month stay as…
[Alumni] Yoko Sakata and Yohei Takashima move to new positions
The former MC2 members, Assist. Prof. Yoko Sakata formerly working in Kobe University and Assist. Prof. Yohei Takashima formerly in Kyoto University move to their new academic positions. Yoko starts working in Kanazawa University and Yohei starts working in Konan University. Both of them got permanent positions!! Congratulations!!