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A team of researchers has invented a technique to characterize nanoscale spaces in porous materials, an important advancement towards efficiently separating “proteins of interest” for drug manufacturing. The team aims to improve protein separation in a process called chromatography, in which solutions flow through porous material in a column.
Because different materials travel at different speeds, the components separate and can be purified. It should also benefit the analysis of porous materials of all kinds, like liquid crystals, hydrogels, polymers and even biological substances like cytosol, the compartmentalized fluids in cells.Image credit: Courtesy of the Landes Research Group
