{"id":241759,"date":"2026-07-29T00:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/dynamic-breathing-in-nanopore-structures-can-maximize-efficiency-of-molecule-separation-and-diffusion"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:26:23","slug":"dynamic-breathing-in-nanopore-structures-can-maximize-efficiency-of-molecule-separation-and-diffusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/dynamic-breathing-in-nanopore-structures-can-maximize-efficiency-of-molecule-separation-and-diffusion","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic \u2018breathing\u2019 in nanopore structures can maximize efficiency of molecule separation and diffusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dynamic-breathing-in-nanopore-structures-can-maximize-efficiency-of-molecule-separation-and-diffusion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nanoporous material-based separation technology is vital in many applications because it can precisely distinguish between and separate nearly identical chemical or biochemical molecules.<\/p>\n<p>Previous research by Professor Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University\u2019s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS) and colleagues, published in <i>Nature<\/i>, applied this technology to separate two very similar types of water molecules\u2014regular water (H\u2082O) and heavy water (D\u2082O), which have similar overall properties but slightly different masses. But the underlying mechanisms of that separation were not well understood.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a study led by Professor Shinji Saito of the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) in Japan and published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-75540-5\" target=\"_blank\"><i><i>Nature<\/i> Communications<\/i><\/a> in July has provided a theoretical explanation for that phenomenon, using H\u2082O and D\u2082O molecules to study nanopore behavior in a metal-organic framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanoporous material-based separation technology is vital in many applications because it can precisely distinguish between and separate nearly identical chemical or biochemical molecules. Previous research by Professor Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University\u2019s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS) and colleagues, published in Nature, applied this technology to separate two very similar types of water molecules\u2014regular [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241759","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}