2025. 9. 26.

Professor Furukawa received 2025 APACS Outstanding Researcher Award. This prestigious award is presented to only two individuals in the Asia-Pacific region every three years. He also delivered a keynote lecture at APCAT-10 as an awardee talk.

2025. 9. 24.

Dr. Watcharaphol from Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC) will be staying for two weeks. Welcome!

2025. 9. 17-19.

At the Catalysis Symposium held at Tohoku University's Aobayama Campus, M2 students Tsuzuki and Tobettto gave oral presentations, and Okada and Jojima presented posters.

2025. 9. 1.

For three months, Cheney Wu, a B4 student from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, will be joining us as an exchange student. Welcome!

2025. 8. 28.

Assistant Professor Nakatani gave a presentation at the Petroleum Society Colloquium 2025.

2025. 8. 21.

We had a party for B4's graduate school entrance exam!

2025. 7. 30. - 8. 1.

M1 students Ooe, Kajiwara, Kubota, and Tanaka gave poster presentations at the Catalysis Society of Japan Young Scientists Meeting held at Ayaha Lakeside Hotel.

2025. 7. 19-21.

Lecturer Miyazaki, Assistant professor Nakaya, M2 students Okada and Tsuzuki gave presentations at the Catalysis Chemistry Lab.(CatChem21) held at Kurashiki Geibunkan.

2025. 7. 11.

A pep rally was held for the B4 postgraduate entrance examinations!

2025. 6. 27.

A graduation party was held for Tan!

2025. 5. 2.

We had a barbecue in Senriyama!

2025. 4. 9.

Iwaki Soma, Otake Yu, Sato Ryota, Tanida Hiroto and Matsusaka Ayumu have joined the group as new B4 members. Welcome!

2025. 4. 1.

Masayoshi Miyazaki has arrived as a lecturer. In addition, Reiji Kubota joined our group as a new M1 member. Welcome!

2025. 3. 31.

Associate Professor Padchanee Sangthong of Chiang Mai University (our partner university) visited our laboratory.

2025. 3. 27-28.

An international workshop was held with The University of Melbourne. Both sides introduced each other's research and discussed future initiatives. The participants also visited the Furukawa Laboratory to further deepen their understanding of our research.

2025. 3. 25.

It was a B4 graduation ceremony.

2025. 3. 7.

We had a B4 graduation research presentation and a party to celebrate their hard work.

2025. 3. 1.

Prof. Furukawa has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the journal "Catal". Catal is a new journal founded by Nature Springer in 2025 to cover a broad range of catalytic sciences.

2025. 1. 22-23.

We went to Shirahama-cho, Wakayama Prefecture on a lab trip.

2024. 12. 24.

We had a year-end party! We celebrated Professor Furukawa's birthday.

2024. 11. 21.

Plasma-derived atomic hydrogen enables low-temperature methanation.
The result of our joint research with Prof. Nozaki's group at Tokyo University of Science and other groups was press-released.
An article about this research was published also in the Nikkei electronic version.
"Plasma-Derived Atomic Hydrogen Enables Eley–Rideal-Type CO₂ Methanation at Low Temperatures", JACS Au, 2024, in press.

2024. 10. 7.

We won our first game in futsal at the Suita Festival.

2024. 10. 2.

Tan Kai Qi has joined the group as a new D3 member. Welcome!

2024. 9. 5-7.

M1 students Okada, Jojima, Tsuzuki, and Tobbeto gave poster presentations at the Catalysis Society of Japan Young Scientists Meeting held at the Ishikawa Youth Training Center.

2024. 8. 23.

We had a party for B4's graduate school entrance exam!

2024. 7. 14-19.

Professor Furukawa and Assistant Professor Nakatani gave oral presentations at the 18th International Congress on Catalysis in Lyon, France.

2024. 7. 5.

A pep rally was held for the B4 postgraduate entrance examinations!

2024. 6. 21.

We had a BBQ in Expo Park!

2024. 4. 9.

Nao Ooe, Saho Kajiwara, Takeyori Tanaka and Suzuno Murata have joined the group as new B4 members. Welcome!

2024. 4. 1.

Tomomi Uchikoshi joined as administrative assistant, and Kimitaka Kobe, Michito Jojima, Ryosuke Tsuzuki, Aoto Okada and Naoya Toubet joined as new M1 members. Welcome!

2024. 3. 28.

Associate Professors Nawee Kungwan and Padchanee Sangthong of Chiang Mai University (our partner university) visited our laboratory and held discussions.

2024. 3. 27.

Dr. Helena Wang from the University of Melbourne (Global Knowledge Partner of Osaka University) and Dr. Hamid Arandiyan from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology visited our laboratory and had discussions on future collaboration.

2024. 2. 14.

Publication has been updated.

2024. 1. 1.

Assistant professor Yuki Nakaya has been appointed.

2023. 12. 25.

Yuki Nakaya and Ke Liu received their Ph.D. degrees in Engineering and graduated Hokkaido University. Congratulations to them!

2023. 12. 22.

We had a year-end party for our lab & farewell party for Dr. Liu & birthday celebration for Prof. Furukawa (12/24). Thank you very much for your good contribution this year!

2023. 11. 16.

Hiroshi Kobayashi joined the group as a research fellow. Welcome!

2023. 10. 1.

Fang Zhang joined the group as a D1 student (Chemical Science Course).

2023. 9. 25.

Jiamin Ma received a PhD degree (engineering) and promoted to postdoc reseacher (JSPS PD). Congratulations!

2023. 7. 5-7.

We had synchrotron XAFS measurement at SPring-8 BL01B1 (Proposal number: 2023A0302, Graduate Student Proposal (long-term) by Yuki Nakaya)

2023. 7. 3.

Dr. Duanxing Li joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher.

2023. 5. 22.

Prof. Tu Xin of Liverpool University visited our lab for a discussion.

2023. 5. 16.

Dr. Fangyi Yao joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher.

2023. 5. 12-14.

We had synchrotron XAFS measurement at SPring-8 BL01B1 (Proposal number: 2023A0302, Graduate Student Proposal (long-term) by Yuki Nakaya)

2023. 5. 8.

Yuki Nakaya (D3), Ke Liu (D3), Jiamin Ma (D3) joined the group.

2023. 5. 1.

Prof. Shinya Furukawa arrived and started his laboratory.