Distinguished Professor / PI / Director

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 / Director
Koji Tanaka 　Specially Appointed Professor
Kohei Kusada 　The Hakubi Project Program-Specific Associate Professor
Ken-ichi Otake 　Program-Specific Assistant Professor
Ping Wang 　Program-Specific Research Associate
Mingshui Yao 　Program-Specific Research Associate
Cheng Gu 　International Guest Scholar
Yan Su 　International Guest Research Associate
Mohana Shivanna 　JSPS Foreign Research Fellow
Ziqian Xue 　JSPS Foreign Research Fellow
Takashi Kajiwara 　Visiting Assistant Professor
Christophe Lavenn 　Collaborative Researcher
Mika Gochomori 　Researcher
Yukiko Tsuji 　Researcher

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iCeMS Leader Interviews | Prof Susumu Kitagawa

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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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