Chemists from St. Petersburg University has developed a new family of luminescent iridium complexes that, for the first time, realize a unique mechanism of photoactivated proton transfer. In the ...

From your car's navigation display to the screen you are reading this on, luminescent polymers—a class of flexible materials that contain light-emitting molecules—are used in a variety of today's ...

In recent years, semiconductor quantum dots have been used in various medical and biological imaging applications because their optical properties are considered to be superior to those of organic ...

"What interests us is that within Mycena, the luminescent species come from 16 different lineages, which suggests that luminescence evolved at a single point and some species later lost the ability to ...

(Nanowerk News) A technology for obtaining luminescent ceramics which may become a cheaper alternative to modern light sources is being developed by scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University. In the ...

Researchers have developed a luminescent small-molecule system that changes from a solution to a suspension when heated. The solubility change is accompanied by a color change in the photoemission ...

A Dutch-Australian research team has developed a 1 cm3 luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) device, equipped with 20%-efficient bifacial silicon PV cells, which can be used and assembled in several ...

The right indoor lighting can help set the mood, from a soft romantic glow to bright, stimulating colors. But some materials used for lighting, such as plastics, are not eco-friendly. Now, researchers ...

A new photo-luminescent or glow-in-the-dark leather has been developed that combines a high quality finish with sustainability benefits including reduced electricity consumption. An innovation from UK ...