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Associate Professor Hattori and coworkers have reported that the fluorinated activated carbon fibers (F-ACFs) can act as a quantum molecular sieve. Quantum effects in molecular adsorption become of importance if the difference between pore diameter and the molecular diameter is no longer large compared to the de Broglie wavelength of radial motion. This makes the F-ACFs start to behave as quantum molecular sieves for hydrogen and deuterium.