Magnets could improve oxygen production in space - new paper by an AWG member 😊🚀

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Great new paper from @alvromcal and colleagues here:

Akay, Ö., Monfort-Castillo, M., St Francis, T. et al. Magnetically induced convection enhances water electrolysis in microgravity. Nat. Chem. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-01890-0

Which also has this fantastic news article written about the paper in C&EN (chemical and engineering news):

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Funding from a NASA Innovative Advanced Concept award, with info here:

:tada: Cheers Álvaro! :100:

@AIMLawg @ALSDAawg @AnimalAWG @PlantAWG @HUMANawg @MicrobesAWG @MultiOmicsAWG @FemaleReproAWG @HUMANawg @HardwareAWG @BrainAWG @RLWG

Maybe reading this could spur AWG members to some ideas on how this work could be advanced via data mining and the AWGs?

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Massive advancement!

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very cool!!! we need collabs with the @PlantAWG and @alvromcal

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100% yes - makes me wonder on potential intersections via the O2/CO2/radiation/RH environmental data, :seedling:plant data. I wish OSDR had :droplet:water data of some sort? Perhaps PSI has some?

environmental data app: Environmental Data App

Repo which has plant data: NASA OSDR: Open Science for Life in Space

RadLab: RadLab > Overview

Physical Sciences Informatics: NASA PSI

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Thanks, everyone! Yes, this one took some work, but it has been fun to see it out. Reach out if you want to explore a collaboration! All contact info at https://lowgravitylab.ae.gatech.edu/

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I have been working with neodymium magnets to depolarize cells for 10 years, and the excellent results delight me more and more.

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