{"id":247318,"date":"2026-11-14T03:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T09:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/light-activated-molecules-in-porous-crystals-show-potential-for-quantum-chemical-sensing"},"modified":"2026-11-14T03:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T09:20:59","slug":"light-activated-molecules-in-porous-crystals-show-potential-for-quantum-chemical-sensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/light-activated-molecules-in-porous-crystals-show-potential-for-quantum-chemical-sensing","title":{"rendered":"Light-activated molecules in porous crystals show potential for quantum chemical sensing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An international research team led by Nobuhiro Yanai from the University of Tokyo and Michael R. Wasielewski from Northwestern University has created polarized radical pairs, molecules with unpaired electrons whose spins align, in metal\u2013organic frameworks (MOFs), porous materials consisting of metal ions linked by organic molecules.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the quantum properties of polarized radical pairs, this achievement could provide the foundation for future quantum chemical sensing technologies and improve the sensitivity of existing methods such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-026-79262-6\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a> were published in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team led by Nobuhiro Yanai from the University of Tokyo and Michael R. Wasielewski from Northwestern University has created polarized radical pairs, molecules with unpaired electrons whose spins align, in metal\u2013organic frameworks (MOFs), porous materials consisting of metal ions linked by organic molecules. Because of the quantum properties of polarized radical pairs, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247318","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=247318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}