{"id":206503,"date":"2025-02-15T00:08:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T06:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/replacing-trial-and-error-molecular-methods-clear-the-way-for-faster-and-more-cost-effective-separations"},"modified":"2025-02-15T00:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T06:08:52","slug":"replacing-trial-and-error-molecular-methods-clear-the-way-for-faster-and-more-cost-effective-separations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/replacing-trial-and-error-molecular-methods-clear-the-way-for-faster-and-more-cost-effective-separations","title":{"rendered":"Replacing trial and error: Molecular methods clear the way for faster and more cost-effective separations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/replacing-trial-and-error-molecular-methods-clear-the-way-for-faster-and-more-cost-effective-separations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The process of separating useful molecules from mixtures of other substances accounts for 15% of the nation\u2019s energy, emits 100 million tons of carbon dioxide and costs $4 billion annually.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial manufacturers produce columns of porous materials to separate potential new drugs developed by the pharmaceutical industry, for example, and also for energy and chemical production, environmental science and making foods and beverages.<\/p>\n<p>But in a new study, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found these manufactured separation materials don\u2019t function as intended because the pores are so packed with polymer they become blocked. That means the separations are inefficient and unnecessarily expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process of separating useful molecules from mixtures of other substances accounts for 15% of the nation\u2019s energy, emits 100 million tons of carbon dioxide and costs $4 billion annually. Commercial manufacturers produce columns of porous materials to separate potential new drugs developed by the pharmaceutical industry, for example, and also for energy and chemical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206503","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\/206503","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}