{"id":191561,"date":"2024-06-21T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T17:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-discover-new-behavior-of-membranes-that-could-lead-to-unprecedented-separations"},"modified":"2024-06-21T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T17:22:23","slug":"scientists-discover-new-behavior-of-membranes-that-could-lead-to-unprecedented-separations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-discover-new-behavior-of-membranes-that-could-lead-to-unprecedented-separations","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover new behavior of membranes that could lead to unprecedented separations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-new-behavior-of-membranes-that-could-lead-to-unprecedented-separations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a close basketball game that comes down to the final shot. The probability of the ball going through the hoop might be fairly low, but it would dramatically increase if the player were afforded the opportunity to shoot it over and over.<\/p>\n<p>A similar idea is at play in the scientific field of membrane separations, a key process central to industries that include everything from biotechnology to petrochemicals to water treatment to food and beverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeparations lie at the heart of so many of the products we use in our everyday lives,\u201d said Seth Darling, head of the Advanced Materials for Energy Water Systems (AMEWS) Center at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. \u201cMembranes are the key to achieving efficient separations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a close basketball game that comes down to the final shot. The probability of the ball going through the hoop might be fairly low, but it would dramatically increase if the player were afforded the opportunity to shoot it over and over. A similar idea is at play in the scientific field of membrane [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}