And, this is the first first author paper of Xiangmei as a phd student. Great achievement. Congratulations!!

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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...

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...

Nanowire endoscopy + MOF = Remote-controlled release of nitric oxide!! Finally, we showed our collaborative research from the former "Furukawa-Inose" group. Tomoko will continue this direction using her hybrid nanowires. Congratulations, Tomoko!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Remote‐Controlled Release of Nitric Oxide by Plasmonic Waveguide Coated With Metal–Organic Frameworks

Remote-controlled intracellular delivery is achieved using a plasmonic waveguide coated with a photoresponsive NO-releasing MOF. Surface plasmon polariton propagation remotely induces photocleavage a...

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First societal implementation of cubitan started at Bungalow!!

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.

✅This week’s Chemical Science Pick of the Week is “Phase-Dependent Responsiveness in Soft Porous Crystals Assembled from Flexible Metal-Organic Cages” by Professor Shuhei Furukawa et al. from Kyoto University. You can read for free here: doi.org/10.1039/d6sc...

Last week the one an only @furukawas.bsky.social visited @uniulm.bsky.social and gave a fantastic talk on cages, MOFs, and anything in-between. We got a bit confined in our discussions on dynamic frameworks and started a new tradition - Guest Portrait on dry plates with historical camera.

It was a great pleasure to welcome Prof. Shuhei Furukawa (@furukawas.bsky.social) from Kyoto University for a fascinating talk on “Van der Waals Porous Solids.” He shared inspiring insights into metal-organic polyhedra and engaged in lively discussions with our group!

MOPEG gel appeared in @jacs.acspublications.org!! The MOP gel, covalently linked by PEG, affords free coordination sites that recognize guest molecules, and changes its size and mechanical properties. Great work by Tomoki Tateishi @tomokitateishi.bsky.social!! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Coordinative Guest Recognition Triggers Macroscale Deformation of Covalently Linked Metal–Organic Polyhedra Polymer Gels

Molecular recognition plays a central role in supramolecular chemistry. The concept of molecular recognition initially emerged from discrete molecular systems and has now been expanded to solid-state ...

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[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!!

MOPEG, a new PEG-based polymer gel crossliked by MOP, shows macroscale deformation by coordinative guest recognition!! The idea from our former postdoc, Tomoki @tomokitateishi.bsky.social, finally appeared on @chemrxiv.org!! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

Our Assoc. Prof. Tomoko Inose moved to RIKEN as a unit leader!! She is also affiliated with iCeMS and is now a PI. We are so happy to see how Tomoko flies high!! Congratulations, Tomoko!! www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/people/11...

Tomoko Inose | People | Kyoto University iCeMS

institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) strives to 1) create a new integrated discipline of cell-material sciences based on the cross-disciplinary field of chemistry, physics and cell ...

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Enjoyed the wonderful Nobel Week in Stockholm. Congratulations again to our big boss Susumu Kitagawa, and other Chemistry Laureates Omar Yaghi and Richard Robson.

Last week, we had a two-day kickoff meeting of our JST ASPIRE project in Madrid!! Discussed a lot of unpublished works, future directions, and collaboration ideas. Thanks, Javier Troyano, for the great organization!! #JST #ASPIRE

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!

A new POP for gas-drug combination therapy!! The excellent teamwork led by our former postdoc Tina is now published in ACS AMI!! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Multistimuli-Responsive Porous Organic Polymers for Drug-Gas Anticancer Combination Therapy

Combination therapies can significantly aid in the treatment of biologically complex diseases, including cancer. These powerful therapies, such as combination nitric oxide (NO) gas and chemotherapy, a...

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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 ;)

We designed soft porous crystals based on flexible MOCs!! MircoED enables us to characterize two distinct activated phases of MOCs: one is flexible, and the other is rigid. Nice teamwork with Donglin, Javi @cabrelles497.bsky.social, and Jack!! Posted on @chemrxiv.org. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Phase-Dependent Responsiveness in Soft Porous Crystals Assembled from Flexible Metal–Organic Cages

Soft porous crystals (SPCs) based on flexible metal–organic cages (MOCs) remain elusive due to challenges in preserving both dynamic behavior and crystallinity after desolvation. Here, we report an SP...

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Chem Nobel reaction live from Kyoto Uni! Not every day your nextdoor neighbour wins!

Michael McGuirk and I wrote an tutorial review on supramolecular frameworks (hydrogen bonds, halogen bonds, chalcogen bonds etc) where we try to get everyone to agree on some common definitions for things. Might be a long shot! Hopefully useful for new students. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Defining, designing and determining the structure of supramolecular frameworks

Supramolecular frameworks, ordered porous networks assembled by noncovalent interactions, are a broad class of functional materials with emergent combinations of properties arising from the relatively...

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Great discussions at today’s ISC meeting! 🎉 We reflected on EUROMOF 2025, shared ideas for making future conferences even better, and welcomed new committee members. Excited for EUROMOF 2027 in Lake Como – where science meets beauty! 🌍✨ #EUROMOF #ScienceCommunity

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!!

Come join our team! We have a PhD position available on noncovalent interactions in COFs. The position is part of the BEAM graduate school. (Details in the alt text)

Really happy to see this team effort out in Angew. Chem., where we used 3D electron diffraction to observe a metal-organic polyhedron-to-polymer transition, and observe the activated phase. Big thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for supporting our work on this. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A Metal‐Organic Polyhedron‐to‐Coordination Polymer Transition Revealed by 3D Electron Diffraction

Here, we show that 3D electron diffraction (3D ED) is an effective technique to observe structural transformations in porous metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs), as well as for obtaining the structure of ....

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We grafted peptides on the MOP surface to form an enzyme-responsive synthetic channel!! The long-time collaboration with @kawanolab-tuat.bsky.social pushes us to reach this point, the end of our second season. What can be the next one? chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

A kinase-responsive synthetic ion channel

Synthetic ion channels that imitate biological counterparts have become increasingly important in synthetic biology and the recently emerging field of engineering biology. Recent advances have yielded...

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