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Porous material can arrange disordered gas molecules into a crystal-like structure, study predicts

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Researchers at KAIST have developed a computational framework using machine learning to design porous materials that can organize gas molecules into crystal-like structures. The study, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates this effect using xenon and suggests potential applications in carbon capture and gas storage.

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Porous material can arrange disordered gas molecules into a crystal-like structure, study predicts Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Robert Egan Senior Editor Capturing carbon or storing hydrogen to combat global warming requires compressing gases into…

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Until now, gas molecules were thought to adsorb in a disordered manner throughout the pores.

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Researchers at KAIST have developed a computational framework using machine learning to design porous materials that can organize gas molecules into crystal-like structures. The study, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates this effect using xenon and suggests potential applications in carbon capture and gas storage.

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Claim 1: “Using xenon (Xe), a monatomic noble gas, as a model system, the research team identified a specific cobalt-based porous material—Co-CAU-36—that stabilizes xenon in a regular lattice.”
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Three independent web search results explicitly state that the research team identified the cobalt-based porous material Co-CAU-36 which stabilizes xenon in a regular lattice.
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web search NEUTRAL — Using xenon (Xe), a monatomic noble gas, as a model system, the research team identified a specific cobalt-based porous material—Co-CAU-36—that stabilizes xenon in a regular lattice.
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-porous-material-disordered-gas…
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Claim 2: “Younghun Kim and Dohoon Kim, Ph.D. candidates in KAIST's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, are co-first authors, with Seungwoo Kim, a master's candidate, and Yunsung Lim, a Ph.D., serving as co-authors.”
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Two independent sources (EurekAlert! and Memesita) list Younghun Kim and Dohoon Kim as co-first authors and Seungwoo Kim and Yunsung Lim as co-authors from KAIST.
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web search NEUTRAL — Younghun Kim and Dohoon Kim, PhD candidates in KAIST's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, are co-first authors, with Seungwoo Kim, a master's candidate, and Yunsung Lim, a PhD, servi…
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web search NEUTRAL — The study was co-authored by PhD candidates Younghun Kim and Dohoon Kim, along with Seungwoo Kim and Yunsung Lim.
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web search NEUTRAL — Younghun Kim. Utopus Insights. Doctor of Engineering.Younghun Kim. With the decreasing cost of data collection and storage and advances in analytics, companies have begun prioritizing deep analysis of…
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Claim 3: “Younghun Kim et al, Framework-templated gas lattices in metal-organic frameworks, Nature Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-74776-5”
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Three independent sources confirm the paper title 'Framework-templated gas lattices in metal-organic frameworks', the journal Nature Communications, the year 2026, and the DOI 10.1038/s41467-026-74776-5.
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web search NEUTRAL — Framework-templated gas lattices in metal-organic frameworks. Younghun Kim1 na1Nature Communications (2026) Cite this article. We are providing an unedited version of this manuscript to give early acc…
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web search NEUTRAL — ※ Paper title: Framework-templated gas lattices in metal-organic frameworks, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-74776-5. This work was supported by grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), fu…
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web search NEUTRAL — Younghun Kim et al, Framework-templated gas lattices in metal-organic frameworks, Nature Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-74776-5. Journal information: Nature Communications.
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Claim 4: “The findings are published in Nature Communications.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of coordination polymers consisting of metal clusters, also known as secondary building units (SBUs), coordinated to organic ligands to form one-, two-, or …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Carboxylate–based metal–organic frameworks are metal–organic frameworks that are based on organic molecules comprising carboxylate functional groups.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Conductive metal−organic frameworks are a class of metal–organic frameworks (MOF) with intrinsic ability of electronic conduction. Metal ions and organic linkers assemble to form a framework that are …
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Claim 5: “A research team led by Professor Jihan Kim from the KAIST Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering developed a computational framework that combines large-scale screening of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) with machine learning-guided inverse design.”
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Claim 6: “Inside the framework, xenon preferentially occupies an ordered shell region, displacing krypton toward the pore core”
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Two independent sources explicitly state that xenon occupies an ordered shell region and displaces krypton toward the pore core.
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web search NEUTRAL — Xenon preferentially occupies ordered shell regions while krypton is displaced toward pore cores, enabling separation. The framework also designs candidates for BCC- and FCC-like confined gas lattices…
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-porous-material-disordered-gas…
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web search NEUTRAL — Using xenon as a model gas, the researchers identified Co-CAU-36, a cobalt-based metal–organic framework (MOF) that stabilizes xenon in a body-centered cubic lattice.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/한국과학기술원-kaist-_kaist-gaslatti…
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web search NEUTRAL — The KAIST team observed a previously unreported behavior: inside the framework, xenon preferentially occupies an ordered shell region, which effectively displaces krypton toward the core of the pore.
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Claim 7: “Computer simulations (GCMC) confirmed that xenon inside this material does not spread out randomly but instead lines up in a body-centered cubic (BCC) lattice”
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Multiple sources confirm that GCMC simulations were used and that xenon formed a body-centered cubic (BCC) lattice inside the material.
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web search NEUTRAL — Instead, it formed a body-centered cubic (BCC) lattice. This result is significant because it achieves gas crystallization by using the pore structure itself as a template, bypassing the need for the …
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web search NEUTRAL — Solution For distance between the a body centered cubic lattice (bcc) with the edge of the unit cell 5.2 \mathrm{~A}. The.
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