Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Shuhei Furukawa

jgocd.bsky.social @jgocd.bsky.social · 22h

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

Reposted by Shuhei Furukawa

Nick White @nickwhite.bsky.social · 10d

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...

pubs.rsc.org

2 12

Reposted by Shuhei Furukawa

EuroMOF @euromof.bsky.social · 15d

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

8 11

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · 19d

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!!

6

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · 27d

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.

5

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Sep 8

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!!

5

Reposted by Shuhei Furukawa

Frederik Haase @frederikhaase.bsky.social · Sep 3

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)

PhD Position:
One fully-funded doctoral student (m/f/d) position (salary level 65% E13) is available in the group of Jun.-Prof. Frederik Haase at the MLU Halle in Germany (https://www.chemie.uni-halle.de/AK_Haase).
Self-organization in covalent organic frameworks via multiple noncovalent interactions
This project is part of the BEAM: Beyond Amphiphilicity graduate school that also offering career development courses. Applicants must have a completed or soon to be completed scientific university degree (Diploma or Master's) in chemistry, have a solid background in organic chemistry and an interest in organic solid-state chemistry.
Very good knowledge of written and spoken English is required.
Please send your application until 8. September 2025 to frederik.haase@chemie.uni-halle.de. The application should include a cover letter and CV that include your previous research experience.
For the full application text see:
https://www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/ausschr/25_5_8919_25_D_engl.pdf

9 11

Reposted by Shuhei Furukawa

Gavin Craig @g-craig.bsky.social · Sep 6

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 ....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

1 8 29

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

chemrxiv.org

7

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

2 7

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jul 18

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!!

3

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jul 16

My neighborhood. #GionFestival

7

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jul 16

That sounds a bit disappointing. I have to change my introduction for my talk :)

1 2

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jun 25

Heng-Yu did it again!! Outstanding poster award at MOF Taiwan 2025 #moftaiwan2025. Two poster prizes in a week. Congratulations!!

1 6

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jun 22

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.

1 1 8

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jun 21

Congratulations!! Ayana and Heng-Yu got poster prizes at #ISMSC2025, Kyoto, and #MOFSchool2025, Como, respectively. Excellent achievements!!

1 12

Reposted by Shuhei Furukawa

mofschool.bsky.social @mofschool.bsky.social · Jun 13

🔜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

3 12

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

Ashlee Howarth @chemashlee.bsky.social · Jun 11

MOFs (and COFs, HOFs, ChOFs) in the Mountains! Our Telluride workshop is off to a great start this week 🤗

7

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jun 6

家族みんなで誕生日パーティー楽しんでね！

1

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jun 6

Yes, you should have been here, Mircea. And, we did not take a photo of us in Bungalow last month. What a shame!!

1

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jun 5

FX 誕生日おめでとう！美味しいビールとワインを飲んで、お祝いしてね。

1 1

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jun 5

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.

1 16

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thank you, Andy!! We finally made it :)

1 1

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Jun 2

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/

1 12

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · May 28

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...

[6/2-6/3] The 3rd Kyoto Advanced Porous Science (KAPS) Symposium ‒Unveiling dynamic phenomena‒ | Events | 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 ...

www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp

1 2