We are developing new porous materials contributing to environmental restoration and conservation.
Graduate students wanted!!
We can accept students from Division of Environmental Science Development or Division of Environmental Materials Science.

We welcome applicatioins from students at other universities and national colleges of technology.

List of Update

2025.4.7
Mr. Zhang, who was staying as a special research student from Liu Lab. of Dalian University of Technology, has left our lab. Thank you for your hard work for about 3 months!
2025.4.1
We welcomed new member (Iiboshi san, Fujino san, Daisaku san, and Sato san).
2025.3.3
Press releases were issued by Hokkaido University, Tohoku University, Wakayama University, and JASRI regarding a technology that can easily separate H2 and D2 at room temperature!
2025.3.3
My research project on photo-induced guest-releasing materials has been selected for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)!
2024.12.7
Publication was updated.
2024.10.1
We welcomed new graduate students and research student.
2024.9.25
Huang and Du san attended the degree conferral ceremony.
2024.9.24
Publication was updated.
2024.6.4
Noro received a President's Award of the reasearch grant achievemnet award (FY 2024) from Steel Foundation for Environmental Protection Technology.
2024.4.30
Publication and Events were updated.
2024.4.25
Noro's paper (Chem. Commun. 2006, 701-707) was published in ChemComm 60th Anniversary Historic Papers from Japan and South Korea.
2024.4.2
We welcomed new graduate students.
2024.3.12
Publication was updated.
2023.11.7
Events was updated.
2023.10.2
We welcomed new postdoctoral researcher.
2023.9.19
Aditya got the Hokkaido University DX Doctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!
2023.8.25
Publication was updated.
2023.8.22
Our research result was introduced in Hokkaido News Paper.
2023.7.26
We welcomed new research student.
2023.7.14
Dr. Saito won the 9th Matsuno Environmental Science Award. Congratulations!
2023.6.26
Publication was updated.
2023.4.3
We welcomed new PD and graduate student. Dr. Jia bing Wu moved to Nakamura Lab. in Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University as a specially appointed assistant professor. Congraturations and thank you for your contribution!
2023.1.5
Publication was updated.
2023.1.4
Dr. Yuki Saito joined Noro lab. as specially appointed assistant professor. Welcome!
2022.12.22
Microwave Synthesizer was installed.
2022.11.1
Dr. Xin Zheng was promoted to the post of specially appointed assistant professor. Congratulations!
2022.10.3
We welcomed new reserach students, graduate student, and PD. Publication was updated.
2022.9.26-28
We attended the JSCC 72nd Annual Symposium.
2022.8.15
Publication was updated.
2022.7.14
The alumni, Dr. Zheng and Dr. Tanimoto, won the 8th Matsuno Environmental Science Award. Congratulations!
2022.4.1
We welcomed new graduate student. Publication, Member, and Events was updated.
2021.10.1
We welcomed new graduate student.
2021.9.2
A temperature-controllable sample changer was installed to a UV-vis-NIR spectrophotometer.
2021.9.1
Publication was updated.
2021.4.1
Publication, Member, and Events was updated.
2020.10.29
Publication was updated.
2020.10.5
Publication, Member, and Events was updated.
2020.6.29
Publication was updated.
2020.4.27
Publication was updated.
2020.4.1
Publication and Member were updated.
2020.3.25
Events was updated.
2020.2.5
Publication was updated.
2019.11.19
We welcomed new research students. Publication was updated.
2019.4.10
We welcomed new graduate students. Publication was updated.
2018.10.1
We welcomed new graduate students.
2018.4.27
Publication was updated.
2018.4.6
We welcomed new graduate student.
2017.11.17
Noro's group started!!

Latest Publications

Composite with a Glassy Nonporous Coordination Polymer Has Enhanced Gas Adsorption Selectivity

Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 1257-1263 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c04068).

Structure- and phase-transformable coordination polymers/metal complexes with fluorinated anions

Coord. Chem. Rev. 2022, 471, 214728 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214728 (open access)).

Micropores adsorbing carbon dioxide are formed by a ball-millig

Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 3379-3386 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02762).

A diluent negatively affects adosrption properties of organic contaminants on a MOF composite in water

RSC Adv. 2021, 11, 23707-23713 (DOI: 10.1039/d1ra03348d (open access).

Temporarily Pore-Openable Porous Coordination Polymer

Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 4531-4538 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03420).