{"id":110976,"date":"2020-08-06T19:42:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T02:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/chemists-create-the-brightest-ever-fluorescent-materials"},"modified":"2020-08-06T19:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T02:42:20","slug":"chemists-create-the-brightest-ever-fluorescent-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/chemists-create-the-brightest-ever-fluorescent-materials","title":{"rendered":"Chemists create the brightest-ever fluorescent materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemists-create-the-brightest-ever-fluorescent-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By formulating positively charged fluorescent dyes into a new class of materials called small-molecule ionic isolation lattices (SMILES), a compound\u2019s brilliant glow can be seamlessly transferred to a solid, crystalline state, researchers report August 6 in the journal <i>Chem<\/i>. The advance overcomes a long-standing barrier to developing fluorescent solids, resulting in the brightest known materials in existence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese materials have potential applications in any technology that needs bright fluorescence or calls for designing optical properties, including <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar energy<\/a> harvesting, bioimaging, and lasers,\u201d says Amar Flood, a chemist at Indiana University and co-senior author on the study along with Bo Laursen of the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond these, there are interesting applications that include upconverting light to capture more of the solar spectrum in solar cells, light-switchable materials used for information storage and photochromic glass, and circularly polarized luminescence that may be used in 3D display technology,\u201d Flood says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By formulating positively charged fluorescent dyes into a new class of materials called small-molecule ionic isolation lattices (SMILES), a compound\u2019s brilliant glow can be seamlessly transferred to a solid, crystalline state, researchers report August 6 in the journal Chem. The advance overcomes a long-standing barrier to developing fluorescent solids, resulting in the brightest known materials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}