Susumu Kitagawa

TL;DR: In this article, a bifunctional porous metal-organic framework, [Co(HLdc)]·1.5MeOH·dioxane, incorporates both free-standing carboxyl and pyridyl groups within its pores.

TL;DR: NMR studies revealed a hydrogen-bond interaction between the framework and methanol, which enables the modulation of proton conductivity within the framework, demonstrating the dual functionality of the framework.

TL;DR: Future prospects of the modular design for porous soft materials are provided with the anticipation that the bottom-up design will combine porous materials and soft matter sciences, leading to the discovery and development of many unexplored new materials and devices such as MOF-based self-healing membranes possessing well-defined nanochannels.

TL;DR: A quasielastic neutron scattering and solid-state NMR spectroscopy study of the polymeric spin-crossover compound {Fe(pyrazine)[Pt(CN)(4)]} shows that the switching of the rotation of a molecular fragment--the pyrazine ligand--occurs in association with the change of spin state.

TL;DR: Isolation of polypyrrole from the host framework led to stacked sheet polymer objects whose orientation and morphology are directly related to the original coordination polymer template.