Shuhei Furukawa
@furukawas.bsky.social
Professor of Chemistry at iCeMS, Kyoto University. Love science, curry, and basketball.
https://furukawa.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp
https://furukawa.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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....
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...
pubs.acs.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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....
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...
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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...
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Group reunion at Mexico City. Eli is doing great at UNAM!! Always wonderful to catch up with Ilich ;)
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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...
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...
chemrxiv.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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...
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Reposted by Shuhei Furukawa
Chem Nobel reaction live from Kyoto Uni! Not every day your nextdoor neighbour wins!
October 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Chem Nobel reaction live from Kyoto Uni! Not every day your nextdoor neighbour wins!
Reposted by Shuhei Furukawa
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...
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
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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...
Hopefully useful for new students.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Reposted by Shuhei Furukawa
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
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
September 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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
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!!
September 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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.
September 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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!!
September 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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!!
Reposted by Shuhei Furukawa
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)
September 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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)
Reposted by Shuhei Furukawa
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/...
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
September 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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/...
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...
@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
August 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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...
@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
@chemrxiv.org.
shorturl.at/ev8gx
July 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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
@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!!
July 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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!!
June 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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.
June 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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!!
June 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Congratulations!! Ayana and Heng-Yu got poster prizes at #ISMSC2025, Kyoto, and #MOFSchool2025, Como, respectively. Excellent achievements!!
Reposted by Shuhei Furukawa
🔜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
🚀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
June 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🔜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
🚀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!!
MOFs (and COFs, HOFs, ChOFs) in the Mountains! Our Telluride workshop is off to a great start this week 🤗
June 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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.
June 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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/
icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/10795/
June 2, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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/
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...
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 ...
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May 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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...
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
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
May 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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
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