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 Discussed a lot of unpublished works, future directions, and collaboration ideas.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....

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...

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...

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/...

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...

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!!

My neighborhood. #GionFestival

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!!

🔜Only 3 days left for #MOFschool2025 !! 🚀Kicking off our deep dive into reticular chemistry and MOFs next week with three incredible teachers: Shuhei Furukawa, Omar M. Yaghi, and Davide M. Proserpio

It was a wonderful workshop with great people. Thanks Ashlee and Sarah for the invitation and the perfect organization!!

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/

Stay in Kyoto next week!! We will organize The 3rd Kyoto Advanced Porous Science Symposium (KAPS3) as a post-symposium of #ISMSC2025. Date: June/2-3 Place: iCeMS, Kyoto University Details: www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/107...

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

It is time to enjoy supramolecular chemistry in Kyoto!! #ISMSC2025

Ryo Horikoshi's impressive paper models of supramolecular structures were achieved through many hours of effort, and a little help from a beer. As he says himself, 'Isn’t the structure of MOCs and MOFs very architectural complex and beautiful?' #ChemSky #ScienceSky

#MOPs WITH A GECKO'S GRIP.💎🦎 I got the chance to write a #News&Views in @natchem.nature.com about a paper I enjoyed by @furukawas.bsky.social. They made cool MOPs (that's not new) consistently packed in a diamond fashion, the same way geckos climb walls (that's super cool)!👇 rdcu.be/ei8Pj #MOFs

Coming to Kyoto for #ISMSC2025? If you stay longer, please attend the post-symposium on porous materials held at iCeMS, Kyoto University, on June/2-3. We are happy to provide oral slots if you did not get one in ISMSC2025. Please contact Shuhei by email!! Details will come soon.

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.

Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks, from Shuhei Furukawa and Shun Tokuda @furukawas.bsky.social @shuntokuda.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chemsky

WaaFs appeared in @naturechemistry.bsky.social!! Assembling large supramolecules via van der Waals interaction leads forming robust, stable three-dimensional open frameworks. The beautiful sole research done by our former master student @shuntokuda.bsky.social!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today is a special day! I am very proud to announce that my first first-author paper on WaaFs is finally out in @naturechemistry.bsky.social !!! 🎊🎉 Huge thanks to @furukawas.bsky.social and the group members for their great support in my last six years in Kyoto! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last Friday, Ayana gave an excellent master thesis presentation. Beautiful story with massive experimental data. Congratulations!!

Conversion from RhMOP to RhMOF by linker insertion!! Nice research done by our visiting student from Taiwan, Yu-Shan, supervised by Javi is now published in Chem Asian J. Great collaboration with Chia-Her Lin :) Congrats!! aces.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Zaoming is highlighted in the iCeMS First Author Interview, related to his first-author paper about the pore-networked membrane. Enjoy his interview!! www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news/10547/

Can you guess where I am?

Our phase-transformer MOPs is highlighted in @natrevmater.bsky.social. Thanks, @natcomms.bsky.social for this opportunity!!

Great to showcase our works in Australian inorganic chemistry community!!

Hello, world, in the bluesky.