{"id":185036,"date":"2024-03-13T20:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T01:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/how-to-upcycle-low-energy-light-a-new-design-for-highly-efficient-conversion-materials"},"modified":"2024-03-13T20:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T01:24:06","slug":"how-to-upcycle-low-energy-light-a-new-design-for-highly-efficient-conversion-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/how-to-upcycle-low-energy-light-a-new-design-for-highly-efficient-conversion-materials","title":{"rendered":"How to upcycle low-energy light: A new design for highly efficient conversion materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-upcycle-low-energy-light-a-new-design-for-highly-efficient-conversion-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To combine two low-energy photons into one high-energy photon efficiently, the energy must be able to hop freely, but not too quickly, between randomly oriented molecules of a solid. This Kobe University discovery provides a much-needed design guideline for developing materials for more efficient PV cells, displays, or even anti-cancer therapies.<\/p>\n<p>Light of different colors has different energies and is therefore useful for very different things. For the development of more efficient PV cells, OLED displays, or anti-cancer therapies, it is desirable to be able to upcycle two low-energy photons into a high-energy <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photon<\/a>, and many researchers worldwide are working on materials for this up-conversion.<\/p>\n<p>During this process, light is absorbed by the material, and its energy is handed around among the material\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecules<\/a> as a so-called \u201ctriplet exciton.\u201d However, it was unclear what allows two triplet excitons to efficiently combine their energies into a different excited state of a single molecule that then emits a high-energy photon, and this knowledge gap has been a serious bottleneck in the development of such materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To combine two low-energy photons into one high-energy photon efficiently, the energy must be able to hop freely, but not too quickly, between randomly oriented molecules of a solid. This Kobe University discovery provides a much-needed design guideline for developing materials for more efficient PV cells, displays, or even anti-cancer therapies. Light of different colors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185036","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}