Prof. Murakami will provide a keynote lecture at 18th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-18).

Prof. Murakami chaired MIT Session at GX Global Workshop.

Prof. Murakami gave an invited talk at PACIFICHEM 2025 (The 2025 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies) in Honolulu.

Prof. Murakami gave an invited talk at IWTED 2025 (2nd International Workshop on Thermo-electrochemical Devices) in Tokyo.

Dr.Wang Zhang joined our group as a researcher. See also Lab life.

Prof. Murakami and Mr. Kitano made an oral presentation and a poster presentation, respectively, in EUROMOF2025 taken place in Crete, Greece. See also Lab life.

Dr.Vijayakumar joined our group as a researcher. See also Lab life.

The results of our paper below have been featured as news released from EurekAlert! of AAAS (title: New non-volatile memory platform built with covalent organic frameworks) and Science Magazine of Scienmag (title: Innovative Non-Volatile Memory Platform Developed Using Covalent Organic Frameworks).

Our paper on creation of novel covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with sln topology, dipole rotors, and shape dimorphism (all of which are world firsts) has been published in Journal of American Chemical Society (IF=15.6, American Chemical Society). Link to Paper Supporting Information

Prof. Murakami gave an oral talk at 17th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC17) (Edinburgh International Conference Centre, UK) in Nano and Porous Materials session.

Mr. Kitano, a graduate student in our group, won Best Presentation Award at the 62nd National Heat Transfer Symposium of Japan.

Our new paper, “2.5-dimensional covalent organic frameworks,” which reports excellent CO2 capture performances, was published from Nature Communications (IF=14.7, Springer Nature).
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Our university’s name has changed from “Tokyo Institute of Technology” to “Tokyo University of Science” due to a merger with Tokyo Medical and Dental University.

Dr. Paul started his tenure as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow. I deeply appreciate people who reviewed application for JSPS Fellowship and administrative staff in our university for support to application.

Assist. Prof. Enomoto and Dr. Wang were awarded at 61st National Heat Transfer Symposium of Japan. See “Photos” on left.

Dr. Riku Enomoto joined our group as an assistant professor.

Our paper published last year from J. Mater. Chem. C has been selected for 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry C Most Popular Articles. Since about 1,600 papers were published from this journal in 2023, our paper was selected as a within top 2% article. We thank all related collaborators, supporters, and Tokyo Tech’s public relations staff.

Our new paper, “Triple Isomerism in 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks” was published from Journal of American Chemical Society (IF=15.0).
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Our new paper, “Absorption bandwidth broadening of photon upconversion solid-solution organic crystals by co-dissolution of multiple sensitizers” was published from Applied Physics Express (IF=2.3, IOP Publishing).
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A collaborative paper with Prof. Teppei Yamada, “Molecular Design of Organic Ionic Plastic Crystals Consisting of Tetracyanoborate with Ultralow Phase Transition Temperature” was published from Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (IF=5.7, American Chemical Society).
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Our new paper, “Composite formation of covalent organic framework crystals and sugar alcohols for exploring a new class of heat-storage materials”was published from Materials Horizons (IF=13.3, Royal Society of Chemistry).
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Our new paper, “Composite formation of covalent organic framework crystals and sugar alcohols for exploring a new class of heat-storage materials”was published from Materials Horizons (IF=13.3, Royal Society of Chemistry).
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Prof. Murakami made an invited presentation at the 10th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena (San Diego, USA).

Our new paper, “Stable and Low-Threshold Photon Upconversion in NonDegassed Water by Organic Crystals” was published from Frontiers in Chemistry (IF=5.545, Frontiers Media).
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Five of us made presentations at the 60th National Heat Transfer Symposium of Japan (Fukuoka). See also Lab life.

Prof. Murakami made an invited lecture at Science Council of Japan Symposium (Tokyo).

Mr. Cho has been selected as a recipient of Young Excellent Lecture Fellow Award of Society of Mechanical Engineers (Thermal Engineering Division). See details. Congrats!!

Our new review paper “Recent advances and applications of ionic liquids-based photonic materials” was published from Applied Materials Today (IF=8.663, Elsevier). Link to Paper

Prof. Murakami brought a keynote lecture at the 103rd Chemical Society of Japan Annual Meeting (Chiba).

Our group has obtained a new fund of JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A). We deeply appreciate reviewers and university office staff who examined/checked our application.

Our new paper “Solvent-free temperature gradient melt formation of efficient visible-to-UV photon upconversion organic films with subsolar threshold and over 100 h photostability in air” was published from Journal of Materials Chemistry C (IF=8.067, Royal Society of Chemistry).
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Ms. Wang won Best Presentation Award as a result of her oral presentation at 13th Asian Thermophysical Properties Conference (ATPC2022). Congrats!! See also Lab life.

We had a farewell party for Dr. Ikeda, a graduate from our group. See also Lab life.

We had a farewell party for Dr. Ikeda, a graduate from our group. See also Lab life.

Our new paper “Thermoelectrochemical Seebeck coefficient and viscosity of Co-complex electrolytes rationalized by Einstein relation, Jones–Dole B coefficient, and quantum-chemical calculations” was published from Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (IF=3.676, Royal Society of Chemistry). Link to Paper

Our group has obtained a new fund of JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering). We deeply appreciate reviewers and university office staff who examined/checked our application.

Dr. Ikeda and Mr. Enomoto, respectively, received awards from Heat Transfer Society of Japan in awarding ceremony held during 59th National Heat Transfer Symposium of Japan. See also Lab life.

Our paper, “van der Waals Solid Solution Crystals for Highly Efficient In-air Photon Upconversion under Subsolar Irradiance,” was selected for Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Runner-up Award from about 250 original papers published from Materials Horizons in 2021.
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Our research group has moved to and restarted in Laboratory for Zero-Carbon Energy at Institute of Innovative Research at Tokyo Institute of Technology. The new location is North #1 building.