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Novel porous gel changes color, shrinks and hardens when it detects target molecules

  • May 22, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Novel porous gel changes color, shrinks and hardens when it detects target molecules
Researchers at Kyoto University and Tohoku University have developed a new porous polymer gel that selectively recognizes specific molecules (referred to as "guests" in the study) through coordination chemistry and converts these invisible molecular-scale interactions into strikingly visible, macroscale deformation.

Originally published at Phys.org

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