{"id":765294,"date":"2023-09-10T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=765294"},"modified":"2023-09-10T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T10:00:01","slug":"novel-membrane-could-reduce-energy-expenditure-in-separating-molecules-for-desalination-drug-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=765294","title":{"rendered":"Novel membrane could reduce energy expenditure in separating molecules for desalination, drug development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Separating molecules is critical to producing many essential products. For example, in petroleum refining, the hydrocarbons\u2014chemical compounds composed of hydrogens and carbons\u2014in crude oil are separated into gasoline, diesel and lubricants by sorting them based on their molecular size, shape and weight. In the pharmaceutical industry, the active ingredients in medications are purified by separating drug molecules from the enzymes, solutions and other components used to make them.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-09-membrane-energy-expenditure-molecules-desalination.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Novel membrane could reduce energy expenditure in separating molecules for desalination, drug development<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separating molecules is critical to producing many essential products. For example, in petroleum refining, the hydrocarbons\u2014chemical compounds composed of hydrogens and carbons\u2014in crude oil are separated into gasoline, diesel and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}