Big news! π Our very own Hideya Kono has been awarded the Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists, recognizing outstanding researchers under 37. Massive congrats, Hideya!
05.02.2026 05:11 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@kenitami.bsky.social
A chemist believing the power of molecules. Synthetic chemistry, molecular nanocarbon science, catalysis, and chemical biology. Be unique, go crazy! kenichiro.itami@riken.jp https://itami-lab.com/?lang=en
Big news! π Our very own Hideya Kono has been awarded the Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists, recognizing outstanding researchers under 37. Massive congrats, Hideya!
05.02.2026 05:11 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Finally, L-region-selective APEX reaction through dearomative activation. Congrats to Kanami, Wataru, and Hideto!!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Super excited to hear significant research progress at our year-end presentation! Of course we fully enjoyed the year-end party afterwards!! Thank you all for our great 2025 and letβs make our 2026 even greater!!
27.12.2025 06:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Our very own Hideya Kono will receive Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists!!! Huge congratulations Hideya!!!
www.inoue-zaidan.or.jp/b-01.html?ei...
Mini ASPiRE happening at Honolulu with @cathleencrudden.bsky.social
19.12.2025 00:04 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0German Christmas Night in Itami Lab!! Thank you all!! Sooo fun!
06.12.2025 10:09 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Short but very concentrated visit to Tottori University for the lecture and short course. I sincerely thank Nokami-san, Matsuura-san and many other profs and students there for sharing exciting discussions!! Many many thanks for the wonderful hospitality!
29.11.2025 05:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Great pizza party!!! Otsukare party for the Itami Lab Reunion Symposium which was huge success! Many thanks all!!
28.11.2025 00:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itami Lab Reunion Symposium, IKOCS, was huge success!!! 140 people gathered in RIKEN! Great lectures, discussion, and party!!! So many thanks for coming and also to current members for dedicated organization! GOAT!
08.11.2025 22:22 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mission complete! As a CNRS chemistry ambassador, I did 7 lectures at 7 different places in France in 11 days! 3800 km by trains! It was hard but huge fun to find lots of seeds for future collaboration! Thanks everyone! I will come back!!
24.10.2025 04:42 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Today we have the pleasure to host Ken Itami in Rennes as a @cnrs.fr ambassador. Fantastic talk! π
@kenitami.bsky.social
@iscr-rennes.bsky.social
We welcome Lucas (6 month master course study) and Ayaka (staff scientist) in Itami Lab!! So nice to have you two! Letβs explore crazy chemistry!!!
03.10.2025 22:23 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It was huge fun!! Many thanks Murakami Lab!!! See you next at RIKEN!!
18.09.2025 10:23 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Kei Murakami (previous staff) and Yota Sakakibara (previous student) in front of beautiful campus. Super great host!
16.09.2025 21:14 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yesterday I fully enjoyed the really exciting discussion and mixing with Murakami Lab, Kwansei Gakuin University. Door to door it took me 6 hours to come but worth it! Today and tomorrow, I will do extensive short course and lecture!
16.09.2025 21:11 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks Larry!!!
14.09.2025 22:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Extremely excited to be selected as CNRS Ambassador for Chemical Sciences in France!
I expect the upcoming lecture tour to strengthen the ties between French and Japanese science, fostering a spirit of mutual inspiration.Β
www.inc.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
Thank you so much!!! I greatly look forward to seeing you all!
11.09.2025 22:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tomokiβs work making non-emissive [6]CPP fluorescent by simple multiple methyl substitution is now out @chemicalscience.rsc.org ! We hope this simple, yet pronounced βmethyl effectβ facilitates the design and application of CPP-based materials in various fields!
β¨pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
A bioactive nanocarbon that targets cross-species PPIs.
We discovered a molecular nanocarbon (clionene) that inhibits PPIs in insect diapause and human immune signalings. Very exciting collaboration with Larry Scott @scott61144.bsky.social and Hasegawa lab!
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Happy birthday Prof. Noyori and Dorae-mon!β¨β¨Donβt miss Noyoriβs autobiography βResearch should be fresh, simple, and clearβ, recently released !β¨β¨l-i-c.org/ryoji-noyori...
03.09.2025 11:27 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks Larry!!
18.08.2025 11:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Could caterpillar guts help to manufacture nanomaterials?
Check out the RIKEN research highlight!
www.riken.jp/en/news_pubs...
We very much enjoyed the lecture by Bruce Yu from Academia Sinica, Taiwan! Very insightful and exciting!! Thanks Bruce!
08.08.2025 05:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So great to have two very active players in our lab! Welcome Asim and Ando-kun to Itami Lab!! It was very nice welcome party last night with LOTS of Indian curry!
08.08.2025 00:19 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A great collaborative paper with Jean Bouffard Lab is out in JACS! From your arenes and molecular nanocarbons, you can make C-H amination products! My favorite examples are double amination of CPP and coronene! Congrats Rikuo, Sajan, and the team!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
A simple, Mg-mediated, 12-fold dearomative esterification of carbon nanobelt, dedicated to Fraser Stoddart in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Huge congrats to Tsubasa, Takehisa & the team! Nice artwork created by Issey Takahashi!β¨onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
07.07.2025 08:08 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks for the highlight article!
10.06.2025 12:16 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks Larry!!!
09.06.2025 22:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cycloparaazine, a full-azine carbon nanoring - Congratulations , Ken! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PiSky
09.06.2025 15:43 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1