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Molecular Assembly Chemistry Lab
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Assembling pores into materials for health, the environment, and energy.
AboutAbout the lab
Linking molecules to the macroscale through assemblies.
The Molecular Assembly Chemistry Lab (Furukawa Lab) aims to create new porous materials that help solve challenges in health, the environment, and energy.
While deepening the fundamental chemistry of molecular assemblies, the lab works with scientists from many fields at iCeMS, Kyoto University's interdisciplinary research hub.
It is a group that values diversity, bringing together students and researchers of many nationalities, cultures, and scientific fields.
In this international environment, the lab pursues interdisciplinary research with chemistry at its core.
Key terms
- Metal–organic polyhedron
- A hollow, cage-shaped molecule formed by combining metal ions and organic molecules. Also known as MOP.
- Signaling molecule
- A molecule that carries information inside cells or between cells. Nitric oxide is one example.
- Mesoscale
- The range between the size of molecules and the size visible to the naked eye.
NewsLab news
Paper on flexible porous fibers made of metal–organic polyhedra assembled in one dimension published in JACS
A researcher in the lab received the 2026 Young Researcher Award of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the chemistry of porous materials and, through collaboration with scientists in many fields, turns them into materials that solve problems in health, the environment, and energy. It works on "multiscale chemistry," which links the functions of molecules all the way up to the macroscopic, visible scale.
*Illustrative imagePutting pores into soft matter
The lab embeds space in soft materials such as gels to control how substances are transported. By linking metal–organic polyhedra, its specialty, through supramolecular polymerization, it makes materials with a variety of properties while preserving the properties of the space.
*Illustrative image3D printing with porous ink
Being able to freely change the shape of a material is essential for applications. The lab mixed porous metal complexes with organic polymers to make a porous ink, and showed that it can be printed with a 3D printer. It is now working on printing materials that use MOPs.
*Illustrative imageMaterials that deliver signaling molecules
The lab trapped signaling molecules such as nitric oxide in porous materials so that they can be released, in response to an external stimulus, when and where they are needed. It has shown that these materials can directly change cell activity, and is working toward medical applications.
*Illustrative imageConnecting the micro and macro
Controlling how molecules assemble brings out new properties. Making use of the nature of coordination bonds, the lab developed a synthesis method that controls the number of building units at the mesoscale, and discovered a shape-memory function that appears only in mesoscale crystals.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Molecular Assembly Chemistry Lab are faculty, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorShuhei Furukawa
- Program-Specific Assistant Professor (Research Base)LOPEZ CABRELLES Javier
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “CSIRO ScienceImage 11637 Scanning electron microscope image of the seed inside the MOF crystals” Dr Paolo Falcaro and Dr Dario Buso, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Putting pores into soft matter: “MOF scandium open framework material Mowat” John Patrick Stephen Mowat / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- 3D printing with porous ink: “3D Printing” MukhtaromST / CC0 (cropped)
- Materials that deliver signaling molecules: “Nitric-oxide-3D-vdW” Benjah-bmm27 / Public domain (cropped)
- Connecting the micro and macro: “High resolution bimodal AFM image of elastic properties of metal organic frameworks” Vggisbert / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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