Distinguished Professor / PI

Susumu Kitagawa SUSUMU KITAGAWA

Research Interest

Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of Coordination Space

Synthesis and Properties of Porous Coordination Polymers / Metal-Organic Frameworks for understanding and controlling the role of nanospace.

What I like about my science

Creating any nanoscale network structures ad arbitrium.

Researcher Q & A

Where are you from?

Kyoto city

Why did you become a researcher?

I chose chemistry as a career because … chemists understand the difference between ethanol and methanol.

What is your favorite experiment, theory, device, reagent, lab equipment? Why do you like it?

Experiment: Crystallization of metal complexes; it makes a start for our chemistry.
Theory: Frontier orbital theory; it gives a guideline for synthetic chemists.
Instrument: Solid State NMR; we can observe spectrum without any treatments.

What is your hobby?

Detective and police fiction novels: I can be a detective in the fictive world.
Kabuki and Super Kabuki: representation of human nature is fantastic.
European thriller movies: I quickly become entranced in the story.

Wine-tasting in a winery in Katsunuma, which is the best place to produce excellent white wines in Japan.
Organic molecules and metal ions provide a wide variety of networks having nanospaces, which have great potential in applications for our imminent environment as well as a wide variety of fields, such as the global environment, resources, outer space, life, and energy, suggesting that porous materials are extremely valuable both scientifically and industrially.

Members

Susumu Kitagawa 　Distinguished Professor / PI
Shigeyoshi Sakaki 　Program-Specific Professor
Mitsuyoshi Ueda 　Specially Appointed Professor
Masaaki Uemura 　Specially Appointed Researcher
Kohei Kusada 　The Hakubi Project Program-Specific Associate Professor
Takashi Kajiwara 　Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
Hirotoshi Sakamoto 　Program-Specific Senior Lecturer
Ken-ichi Otake 　Program-Specific Research Center Associate Professor
Qiuyi Huang 　Program-Specific Research Associate
Tao Jia 　International Guest Research Associate
Hengcong Huang 　International Guest Research Associate
Basdeb Dutta 　JSPS Foreign Research Fellow
Fuqiang Chen 　JSPS Foreign Research Fellow
Yu Tian 　Researcher
Yangyang Hu 　Researcher
Runhan Li 　Researcher
Mika Gochomori 　Researcher
Yukiko Tsuji 　Researcher
Sainan Liu 　Researcher

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Awards

Susumu Kitagawa Selected as 2023 Highly Cited Researcher
Research

Interactive networks for capturing gas with high selectivity
Awards

Distinguished Prof Susumu Kitagawa Elected as Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Activities

219th iCeMS Seminar – Hybridizing Light and Matter with Prof Thomas W Ebbesen
Activities

iCeMS hosts the 1st KAPS Symposium
Activities

Development of separation/capture technology for low-concentration CO2 contained in industrial discharge gas: Aiming to realizing a carbon neutral society
Awards

Susumu Kitagawa Selected as 2022 Highly Cited Researcher
Research

Material separates water from … water
Research

Safely storing explosive gasses in pores
Activities

iCeMS International Laboratories Website goes live!
Awards

Susumu Kitagawa Selected as 2021 Highly Cited Researcher
Research

‘Opposite action’ could improve industrial gas separation
Activities

iCeMS to establish an On-site Laboratory in Singapore
Awards

Susumu Kitagawa Selected as 2020 Highly Cited Researcher
Research

New state-of-the-MOF materials
Awards

iCeMS Dir Susumu Kitagawa named member of Japan Academy
Awards

Susumu Kitagawa Selected as 2019 Highly Cited Researcher
Research

New material captures carbon dioxide
Awards

iCeMS Director Susumu Kitagawa receives Emanuel Merck Lectureship 2019
Activities

[New article available] iCeMS Frontrunners: Dr Susumu Kitagawa
Awards

French Maison de la Chimie awards Susumu Kitagawa the Grand Prix
Research

Materials that open in the heat of the moment
Research

Capturing the surprising flexibility of crystal surfaces
Awards

Susumu Kitagawa Selected as 2018 Highly Cited Researcher
Research

Shape-memory porous materials provide new possibilities
Activities

Video of iCeMS Director Kitagawa’s lecture at Kyoto Prize Symposium available
Activities

[New article available] First Author Interview: Dr Sanjog S Nagarkar
Awards

Susumu Kitagawa Selected as 2017 Highly Cited Researcher
Awards

Susumu Kitagawa wins Solvay Prize
Research

Getting closer to porous, light-responsive materials
Awards

Susumu Kitagawa wins Fujihara Award
Activities

Videos of Learning Lounge #9 now available
Research

Controlling proton conduction with light
Activities

iCeMS co-hosts a symposium with India’s Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Awards

iCeMS to start joint study with Air Liquide and Nagoya University
Awards

Susumu Kitagawa Selected as 2016 Highly Cited Researcher
Awards

Susumu Kitagawa wins Basolo Award

Movies

iCeMS Leader Interviews | Prof Susumu Kitagawa

Interview

Potential for a New Kind of “Empty Space”

To date, there are about 9,000 papers regarding porous materials published each year, many dealin...

Distinguished Professor / Director of iCeMS

Susumu Kitagawa

新型 “空间”的潜力

到目前为止，每年发表的有关多孔材料的论文约有9000篇，其中很多是涉及过渡金属离子的。当北川开始他的...

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