[Lectures] Fabrice Odobel & Christian Serre

We invited Prof. Fabrice Odobel, Research Director of CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), from University of Nants, France, and Prof. Christian Serre, Research Director of CNRS, from Institute of Laboisier, University of Versailles-St-Quentin, France, for their lectures at the 149th and 151st iCeMS seminars, respectively, on 14/November. Prof. Fabrice OdobelTitle: Dye‐sensitized p‐type semiconductors for hybrid…

[Conferences] 63th Conference of JSCC & ACCC4

We have attended two conferences in the beginning of November. 1. 63th Conference of JSCC(錯体化学会第63回討論会)@Okinawa, 2-4/Nov. Assoc. Prof. Shuhei Furukawa and Assist. Prof. Stéphane Diring gave lectures in the symposia and Assist. Prof. Julien Reboul and a PhD student Chiwon Kim gave oral presentations, as well as poster presentations by a postdoc Dr. Kenji Sumida…

[Lecture] Prof. Gilles Ulrich

We invited Prof. Gilles Ulrich, Research Director of CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), from University of Strasbourg, France, for his lecture at the 146th iCeMS seminar on 14/November.Title: BODIPY and related boron complexes: versatile functional fluorescent dyes

UK-Japan Workshop on “Organic-Inorganic Framework Materials”

We organized the UK-Japan Workshop on “Organic-Inorganic Framework Materials”, together with iCeMS and British Consulate-General, Osaka. Time&Date: 10-11th/October, 2013Place: 2nd Floor Seminar Room @iCeMS Main Bldg, Kyoto University.No registration required, free of charge. Please visit the workshop website. — — All participants!!! Susumu Kitagawa (iCeMS, Kyoto Univ); Opening Remarks Tomohiro Nakayama (JST); Opening Remarks Ed Thomson…

[Lecture] Prof. Alain Fuchs

We invited Prof. Alain Fuchs, Executive President of CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), from École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris (ENSCP), France, for his lecture at the 142nd iCeMS seminar on 04/October.Title: Structural Transitions in Soft Porous Crystals Upon Fluid Adsorption: a Theoretical Approach

The recently published paper in Adv. Mater. is highlighted in Nature Materials!

The recently published collaboration paper in Adv. Mater. with Dr. Paolo Falcaro and Dr. Cara Doherty (CSIRO, Australia) is highlighted in Nature Materials!! The original manuscript in Adv. Mater.: Combining UV Lithography and an Imprinting Technique for Patterning Metal-Organic Frameworks The highlight in Nature Mater.: MOF patterns

[Lecture] Prof. Jürgen Groll

We invited Prof. Jürgen Groll from University of Würzburg, Germany, for his lecture at the 139th iCeMS seminar on 03/July.Title: Biomaterial based polarization of macrophage response: can biomaterial 3D-design stimulate healing? Link to the iCeMS Facebook page with some more pictures.

iCeMS symposium on “Programing functionalities into porous materials”

We organize the iCeMS symposium on "Programing functionalities into porous materials".We invite four speakers from oversea and two speakers from Kyoto. Time&Date: 8th/March, 13:00-17:30Place: FUNAI TETSURO AUDITORIUM @Katsura Campus, Kyoto University.No registration required, free of charge. Please visit the symposium website. -- Invited Speakers: Prof. Mircea Dinca (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Prof. Christian Doonan (University…