Shuhei Furukawa
@furukawas
Professor of Chemistry at iCeMS, Kyoto University. Love science, curry, and basketball.
And, this is the first first author paper of Xiangmei as a phd student. Great achievement. Congratulations!!
Our PhD student, Xiangmei, found a new way to drastically change the viscosity of porous liquids!! Always great to collaborate with the best rheologist, Urayama-sensei. Now published in @jacs.acspublications.org. Congratulations, Xiangmei!! doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
Want to know all about redox-active MOCs? Please see the recent review summarized by our PhD student, Tayier @ftayier.bsky.social. This article is published in a new journal from our Japan Coordination Chemistry Society, COCR!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our new paper in @chemicalscience.rsc.org shows two activated phases generated in MOC assemblies with their distinct porous properties: permanent porosity or gate-opening behavior. Great work done by our former postdoc, Donglin, together with Javi and Jack. doi.org/10.1039/d6sc...
Summer has already started in Kyoto, after returning from a two-week stay in Europe.
[First first author paper] Our PhD student, Ayana Miyata, published her work on 1D vdW porous fibrils assembled from MOPs in @jacs.acspublications.org. Her dedicated efforts and leadership led to this great achievement. Congratulations!!
Enjoyed the wonderful Nobel Week in Stockholm. Congratulations again to our big boss Susumu Kitagawa, and other Chemistry Laureates Omar Yaghi and Richard Robson.
New PI promotion alert!! Our postdoc, Emily Meekel, left the group and will start research as an assistant professor at Birmingham @uobchemistry.bsky.social next year. We had a farewell party at Vegi Shabu-Shabu restaurant. Emily's work in Kyoto will be posted sometime soon. Good luck, Emily!
Arraying MOPs into one-dimensional structures via van der Waals interactions creates new porous aerogels. Three years of Ayana's work is now posted on @chemrxiv.org!! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Group reunion at Mexico City. Eli is doing great at UNAM!! Always wonderful to catch up with Ilich ;)
Our master student, Atsuto Okubo, got a poster prize at the Japanese Coordination Chemistry Conference in Nagasaki!! He was super happy as you can see in the photo. Congratulations, Atsuto!!
Together with Dun-Yen Kang group, we organized the NTU-KU worksop in Taipei. Particularly, Ayana made the student session so successful. We enjoyed a lot!! Thanks KU SP+Fund for supporting us.
Our postdoc, Donglin He, left the group last week and started her own group at HKUST Guangzhou already. We had her farewell talk and party at our favorite Okinawa place. Good luck, Donglin!!
Happy to show the true collaboration of the Furukawa-Inose group!! Our PI, Tomoko Inose, realized remote-controlled nitric oxide release at the single-cell level by coating plasmonic nanowires with photo-responsive MOFs. Just posted on @chemrxiv.org. shorturl.at/ev8gx
Happy to welcome @chenfengke.bsky.social to Kyoto!! We really enjoyed his beautiful chemistry concept and very thorough scientific characterization. And, of course we came to Bungalow!!
Heng-Yu did it again!! Outstanding poster award at MOF Taiwan 2025 #moftaiwan2025. Two poster prizes in a week. Congratulations!!
Wonderful reunion of the group at #MOFSchoool2025, Lake Como, Italy. Kiko organized it, Shuhei gave lectures, Shun @shuntokuda.bsky.social got an in-person engagement award and Heng-Yu got a poster prize. Well done!! We appreciate Valentina, Simona and Jorge for this opportunity.
Congratulations!! Ayana and Heng-Yu got poster prizes at #ISMSC2025, Kyoto, and #MOFSchool2025, Como, respectively. Excellent achievements!!
Nothing better than the friendship since our early career stage. Great to have both Paolo and Christian at our favorite Bungalow on the last day of Christian’s 6 weeks stay as a JSPS visiting professor.
The spirit of #ISMSC2025 still continues in iCeMS, Kyoto Univ. We are enjoying a lot of nice talks at the 3rd Kyoto Advanced Porous Science Symposium. icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/10795/
Our group will showcase recent results at #ismsc2025!! Happy to welcome you at posters. CL-40: Emily Meekel (finished) P1A-170: David Burke P1B-58: Javi Lopez-Cabrelles P1B-91: Tomoki Tateishi P2A-28: Ayana Miyata P2A-29: Fuerkaiti Tayier P2A-93: Joe O’Connell-Dane P2B-128: Donglin He
Do you like controlling materials by light? We show photodimerization of MOPs to tune the stiffness of highly crosslinked colloidal gels. Great work done by our former postdoc, David Burke!! Now in @chemicalscience.rsc.org. Congralutions!! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
A bit chilly still, but sakura bloomed already. Our 2025 Hanami party ended without too much drunk.
Last Friday, Ayana gave an excellent master thesis presentation. Beautiful story with massive experimental data. Congratulations!!