{"id":211482,"date":"2025-04-15T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-develop-new-method-to-measure-and-predict-hydrogen-bond-strength-in-confined-water"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:12:46","slug":"scientists-develop-new-method-to-measure-and-predict-hydrogen-bond-strength-in-confined-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-develop-new-method-to-measure-and-predict-hydrogen-bond-strength-in-confined-water","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop new method to measure and predict hydrogen bond strength in confined water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-new-method-to-measure-and-predict-hydrogen-bond-strength-in-confined-water2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A breakthrough by researchers at The University of Manchester sheds light on one of nature\u2019s most elusive forces, with wide-reaching implications for medicine, energy, climate modeling and more. The researchers have developed a method to precisely measure the strength of hydrogen bonds in confined water systems, an advance that could transform our understanding of water\u2019s role in biology, materials science, and technology.<\/p>\n<p>The work, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-58608-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, introduces a fundamentally new way to think about one of nature\u2019s most important but difficult-to-quantify interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen bonds are the invisible forces that hold water molecules together, giving water its unique properties, from high boiling point to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/surface+tension\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surface tension<\/a>, and enabling critical biological functions such as protein folding and DNA structure. Yet despite their significance, quantifying <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hydrogen+bonds\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen bonds<\/a> in complex or confined environments has long been a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakthrough by researchers at The University of Manchester sheds light on one of nature\u2019s most elusive forces, with wide-reaching implications for medicine, energy, climate modeling and more. The researchers have developed a method to precisely measure the strength of hydrogen bonds in confined water systems, an advance that could transform our understanding of water\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211482","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=211482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}