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Dec. 1, 2025

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

Sept. 21-24, 2025

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.

Sept. 17, 2025

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

Aug. 14, 2025

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

Feb. 14, 2025

Our 2.5D-COFs results were released as news from EurekAlert! (AAAS)
(Title: New 2.5-dimensional skeletons in porous organic crystals are key to superior CO2 separation)

Jan. 2, 2025

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). Link to Paper  Link to Supplementary Information

Oct. 1, 2024

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.

Sept. 1, 2024

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.

May 30, 2024

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

Apr. 1, 2024

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

Mar. 5, 2024

News of our latest results on isomerism of covalent organic frameworks was released from EurekAlert! at AAAS.

Jan. 30, 2024

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.

Jan. 11, 2024

Our new paper, "Triple Isomerism in 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks" was published from Journal of American Chemical Society (IF=15.0). Link to Paper

Sept. 18, 2023

News release about our latest results from AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). See also the news release from top page of Tokyo Tech on Sep. 22, 2023.

Sept. 15, 2023

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). Link to Paper

Sept. 15, 2023

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). Link to Paper

Aug. 14, 2023

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). Link to Paper

Jul. 13, 2023

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). Link to Paper

Mar. 31, 2023

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!!

Mar. 25, 2023

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

Mar. 25, 2023

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

Feb. 28, 2023

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.

Dec. 20, 2022

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). Link to Paper

Sept. 30, 2022

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

Aug. 24, 2022

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

Jun. 30, 2022

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.

May 19, 2022

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.

May 5, 2022

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. Link to announcements from RSC: (HTML  PDF  Blog).

Apr. 1, 2022

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.