{"id":199916,"date":"2024-11-21T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/new-language-encodes-shape-and-structure-to-help-machine-learning-models-predict-nanopore-properties"},"modified":"2024-11-21T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:25:12","slug":"new-language-encodes-shape-and-structure-to-help-machine-learning-models-predict-nanopore-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/new-language-encodes-shape-and-structure-to-help-machine-learning-models-predict-nanopore-properties","title":{"rendered":"New language encodes shape and structure to help machine learning models predict nanopore properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-language-encodes-shape-and-structure-to-help-machine-learning-models-predict-nanopore-properties3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A large number of 2D materials like graphene can have nanopores\u2014small holes formed by missing atoms through which foreign substances can pass. The properties of these nanopores dictate many of the materials\u2019 properties, enabling the latter to sense gases, filter out seawater, and even help in DNA sequencing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is that these 2D materials have a wide distribution of nanopores, both in terms of shape and size,\u201d says Ananth Govind Rajan, Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc). \u201cYou don\u2019t know what is going to form in the material, so it is very difficult to understand what the property of the resulting membrane will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Machine learning models can be a powerful tool to analyze the structure of nanopores in order to uncover tantalizing new properties. But these models struggle to describe what a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanopore\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanopore<\/a> looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of 2D materials like graphene can have nanopores\u2014small holes formed by missing atoms through which foreign substances can pass. The properties of these nanopores dictate many of the materials\u2019 properties, enabling the latter to sense gases, filter out seawater, and even help in DNA sequencing. \u201cThe problem is that these 2D materials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199916","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=199916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}