WPI-SKCM² Graduate Students Receive Awards at the 23rd Symposium on Host–Guest and Supramolecular Chemistry

On June 7, 2026, Tomoki Kodama and Senri Miyagi, graduate students at the International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM²), Hiroshima University, received awards at the 23rd Symposium on Host–Guest and Supramolecular Chemistry held at Osaka University (Toyonaka Campus).

Tomoki Kodama received the BCSJ Award for Oral Presentation in recognition of his outstanding presentation on the controlled assembly of multicomponent molecular systems.

His research demonstrated that negative cooperativity—an interaction mechanism that remains difficult to implement in artificial molecular systems—can be utilized to precisely control the arrangement of guest molecules within supramolecular complexes. This achievement highlights the potential of negative cooperativity as a powerful strategy for controlling molecular organization and may contribute to the future development of advanced functional molecular materials.

“I am deeply honored to receive such a prestigious Oral Presentation Award at the 23rd Symposium on Host–Guest and Supramolecular Chemistry, a conference that is closely connected to my research field,” said Kodama. “This recognition encourages me to continue advancing my research and pursuing new scientific discoveries.”

The award-winning research has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) and is available here:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c07484

In addition, Senri Miyagi received the Excellent Poster Award for her research presentation at the symposium.

“The originality of this work lies in demonstrating that supramolecular chirality can be controlled by a small chiral molecule acting at metal coordination sites rather than through guest encapsulation,” said Miyagi. “This recognition encourages me to further pursue my research in supramolecular chemistry and chirality, and I look forward to contributing to the continued development of this field.”

Miyagi’s publication in Chemistry – An Asian Journal is available here:

https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.70748

WPI-SKCM² congratulates both students on their outstanding achievements and wishes them continued success in their future research endeavors.