Title of Presentation

“Gas Science and Technology for Sustainable Future ”

Looking back on the advent of synthetic materials, the development of new materials faced a steep path. Until 1997, it was believed that crystalline compounds with a regular porous structure based on organic molecules were unlike inorganic zeolites and collapsed without guest filling. We challenged this notion, and successfully synthesized robust crystalline porous materials from organic molecules, called coordination polymer (PCP) (or metal-organic framework (MOF)). PCPs have attracted the attention of chemists, physicists, and biologists due to not only scientific but also application interest in the creation of unprecedented regular nano-sized spaces and in the finding of novel phenomena. One target of the synthesis of PCPs is for gas science & technology, focusing on low molecular weight molecules, such as CO, CO₂, O₂, CH₄, C₂H₂, NO, and alkanes because they are associated with the global issues of energy, natural resources, the environment, and living systems. High efficiency separation technology, different from conventional ways, is essential for low energy separation of gas resources, flue gases, air, pollutant gases and other industrial materials. Stimulus-responsive PCPs are also useful for gas biology, providing spatiotemporal bioactive gas (NO and CO) releasing PCPs for control of cell functions. The social contribution of the materials to science and technology is to separate, store and convert gases freely. Our efforts with the materials have not only enhanced the industrial value of PCPs, but opened pathways to store and separate key gas substances that will provide solutions for key issues in energy, environment, natural chemical resources, and health-care.

Profile

Web Site URL

https://www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/wwa/kitagawa/

A brief Biography

March 1974	BS, Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
March 1976	MS, Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of　Engineering, Kyoto University
March 1979	PhD in Engineering, Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
April 1979	Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kinki University
April 1983	Lecturer, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kinki University
1987	Visiting Scientist, F. A. Cotton Laboratory, Department of　Chemistry, Texas A&M University
April 1988	Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kinki University
April 1992	Professor, 1st Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University
June 1998 – March 2017	Professor, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
October 2007	Deputy Director, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University
January 2013 – present	Director, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University
April 2017 – present	Distinguished Professor, Deputy Director-General, Kyoto University　Institute　for Advanced Study

Details of selected Awards and Honors

2007	The Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Award, Japan
2008	Humboldt Research Award (Germany)
2009	The Chemical Society of Japan Award, Japan
2010	Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate (Chemistry)
2011	Research Category, Prizes for Science and Technology, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2011	The Medal with Purple Ribbon (The Japanese Government)
2013	The 10 th Leo Esaki Prize
2013	The de Gennes Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry)
2016	Japan Academy Award
2016	Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
2016	Fred Basolo Medal (American Chemical Society)

A list of selected Publications

“Three-Dimensional Framework with Channeling Cavities for Small Molecules: {[M₂(4,4′-bpy)₃(NO₃)₄]･xH₂O}_n (M = Co, Ni, Zn)”, Mitsuru Kondo, Tomomichi Yoshitomi, Kenji Seki, Hiroyuki Matsuzaka and Susumu Kitagawa, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 1997, 36, 1725-1727.

“Formation of a One-Dimensional Array of Oxygen in a Microporous Metal-Organic Solid”, Ryo Kitaura, Susumu Kitagawa, Yoshiki Kubota, Tatsuo C. Kobayashi, Koichi Kindo, Yoshimi Mita, Akira Matsuo, Michihiro Kobayashi, Ho-Chol Chang, Tadashi C. Ozawa, Megumi Suzuki, Makoto Sakata and Masaki Takata, Science, 2002, 298, 2358-2361.

“Porous Coordination-Polymer Crystals with Gated Channels Specific for Supercritical Gases”, Ryo Kitaura, Kenji Seki, George Akiyama and Susumu Kitagawa, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2003, 42, 428-431.

“Functional Porous Coordination Polymers”, Susumu Kitagawa, Ryo Kitaura and Shin-ichiro Noro, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 2334-2375.

“Highly controlled acetylene accommodation in a metal–organic microporous material”, Ryotaro Matsuda, Ryo Kitaura, Susumu Kitagawa, Yoshiki Kubota, Rodion V. Belosludov, Tatsuo C. Kobayashi, Hirotoshi Sakamoto, Takashi Chiba, Masaki Takata, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe and Yoshimi Mita, Nature, 2005, 436, 238-241.

“Soft porous crystals”, Satoshi Horike, Satoru Shimomura, Susumu Kitagawa, Nature Chem. 2009, 1, 695-704.

“Selective sorption of oxygen and nitric oxide by an electron-donating flexible porous coordination polymer”, Satoru Shimomura, Masakazu Higuchi, Ryotaro Matsuda, Ko Yoneda, Yuh Hijikata, Yoshiki Kubota, Yoshimi Mita, Jungeun Kim, Masaki Takata and Susumu Kitagawa, Nature Chemistry, 2010, 2, 633-637.

“Shape-Memory Nanopores Induced in Coordination Frameworks by Crystal Downsizing”, Yoko Sakata, Shuhei Furukawa, Mio Kondo, Kenji Hirai, Nao Horike, Yohei Takashima, Hiromitsu Uehara, Nicolas Louvain, Mikhail Meilikhov, Takaaki Tsuruoka, Seiji Isoda, Wataru Kosaka, Osami Sakata, Susumu Kitagawa, Science, 2013, 339, 193-196.

“Localized cell stimulation by nitric oxide using a photoactive porous coordination polymer platform”, Stéphane Diring, Dan Ohtan Wang, Chiwon Kim, Mio Kondo, Yong Chen, Susumu Kitagawa, Ken-ichiro Kamei, Shuhei Furukawa, Nature Communications, 2013, 4, 2684.

“Self-Accelerating CO Sorption in a Soft Nanoporous Crystal”, Hiroshi Sato, Wataru Kosaka, Ryotaro Matsuda, Akihiro Hori, Yuh Hijikata, Rodion V. Belosludov, Shigeyoshi Sakaki, Masaki Takata, Susumu Kitagawa, Science, 2014, 343, 167-170.