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
Mitsuyoshi Ueda 　Specially Appointed Professor
Shigeyoshi Sakaki 　Program-Specific Professor
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 Assistant Professor
Ping Wang 　Program-Specific Research Associate
Nathan Flanders 　Program-Specific Research Associate
XUE, Ziqian 　Program-Specific Research Associate
Meng Wang 　International Guest Research Associate
Xia Lia 　International Guest Research Associate
Tao Jia 　International Guest Research Associate
Qiuyi Huang 　JSPS Foreign Research Fellow
Basdeb Dutta 　JSPS Foreign Research Fellow
Wataru Michida 　Collaborative Researcher
Mika Gochomori 　Researcher
Yukiko Tsuji 　Researcher

Papers

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Media

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News

Events

[Jan 11] Kitagawa Lab Seminar: Prof Qiang Xu
Awards

Susumu Kitagawa Selected as 2022 Highly Cited Researcher
Research

Material separates water from … water
Events

[June 2] Kitagawa Lab Seminar: Dr Christian Serre
Research

Safely storing explosive gasses in pores
Events

[Mar 22] Kitagawa Lab Seminar: Dr Ryo Kitaura
Activities

iCeMS International Laboratories Website goes live!
Events

[Nov 30] Kitagawa Lab Seminar: Prof Daisuke Tanaka
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
Events

iCeMS Kitagawa Group Seminar: Dr Saioa Cobo
Events

iCeMS Furukawa-Kitagawa Group Seminar: Prof Ben Slater
Research

New material captures carbon dioxide
Events

iCeMS Kitagawa Group Seminar: Dr Omar K. Farha
Events

iCeMS Materials Group Seminar: Prof Michihisa Koyama
Awards

iCeMS Director Susumu Kitagawa receives Emanuel Merck Lectureship 2019
Events

iCeMS Kitagawa / Furukawa Lab Seminar: Prof Chung-Wei Kung
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
Events

Materials Joint Seminar (Prof. Malcolm D. E. Forbes)
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
Events

iCeMS Kitagawa Lab Symposium: JST ACCEL Project International Symposium
Events

Joint Seminars (Furukawa-Horike-Kitagawa groups)
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
Events

iCeMS Furukawa-Kitagawa Group Seminar: Prof Roland Fischer
Awards

Susumu Kitagawa wins Basolo Award
Events

iCeMS Learning Lounge #9: Patrick Larpent + Wan-Ting Hong
Events

208th iCeMS Seminar: Drs Peter Jönsson and Hiroshi Uji-i
Events

203rd iCeMS Seminar: Prof Josef Breu

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...

iCeMS主任

北川进
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