{"id":241392,"date":"2026-07-23T00:26:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/chemists-develop-a-molecular-platform-for-the-selective-control-of-oxygen-reaction-pathways"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:26:39","slug":"chemists-develop-a-molecular-platform-for-the-selective-control-of-oxygen-reaction-pathways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/chemists-develop-a-molecular-platform-for-the-selective-control-of-oxygen-reaction-pathways","title":{"rendered":"Chemists develop a molecular platform for the selective control of oxygen reaction pathways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemists-develop-a-molecular-platform-for-the-selective-control-of-oxygen-reaction-pathways.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Controlling how oxygen reacts is important for improving technologies such as batteries, fuel cells and environmentally sustainable chemical processes. A research team led by professor Seung Jun Hwang from KAIST\u2019s Department of Chemistry has developed a molecular system capable of directing oxygen activation along a selected electron-transfer pathway.<\/p>\n<p>By combining germanium with a molecular framework that can store and transfer electrons, the team established a design principle for selectively switching oxygen activation between two-and four-electron pathways. The <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2451929426001932\" target=\"_blank\">results were published<\/a> in <i>Chem<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controlling how oxygen reacts is important for improving technologies such as batteries, fuel cells and environmentally sustainable chemical processes. A research team led by professor Seung Jun Hwang from KAIST\u2019s Department of Chemistry has developed a molecular system capable of directing oxygen activation along a selected electron-transfer pathway. By combining germanium with a molecular framework [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241392","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}