AsiaChem | Chemistry in Japan | December 2021 Volume 2 Issue 1

48 | December 2021 www.facs.website Our technology-driven society continues to advance, and with it the demand for various high-function plastics also advances, calling for precision-engineered polymers with few defects in their structures even at the molecular level. People’s lives have come to strongly rely upon these plastics, but in recent decades have we also come to recognize their negative aspects in the form of the environmental and resource crises. It is against this backdrop that a new method of efficient and precise control over polymer structure has been developed - the use of porous materials called ‘MOFs’ as nano-sized ‘factories’. With this new technology, desired polymers can be supplied and utilized effectively, and we envision a future where they may also be reclaimed post-use then re-circulated. Nanoporous Chem MOFs as Polymer M Takashi Uemura Takashi Uemura received his Ph.D. degree at Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University in 2002. He then began his academic career as Assistant Professor (2002) and then Associate Professor (2010) at Kyoto University and was promoted to Professor at the University of Tokyo in 2018. He has received a number of awards, including JSPS Prize, the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award for Young Chemists, The CSJ Award for Creative Works, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. He has been appointed as Associate Editor of several international journals, such Dalton Trans. (RSC), Chem. Lett. (CSJ), and Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. (CSJ). His research interest is preparation of synergistic nanohybrids between coordination compounds and polymeric materials, in particular, polymer chemistry in coordination nanospaces. Keat Beamsley Keat T. Beamsley received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is currently pursuing his M.S. in Applied Chemistry at the University of Tokyo, and is working with Professor Takashi Uemura on the controlled synthesis of polymers in Metal-Organic Frameworks.

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