{"id":213892,"date":"2025-05-13T05:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/switchable-singlet-fission-ph-triggers-molecules-to-split-or-emit-light-for-sensors"},"modified":"2025-05-13T05:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:16:13","slug":"switchable-singlet-fission-ph-triggers-molecules-to-split-or-emit-light-for-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/switchable-singlet-fission-ph-triggers-molecules-to-split-or-emit-light-for-sensors","title":{"rendered":"Switchable singlet fission: pH triggers molecules to split or emit light for sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/switchable-singlet-fission-ph-triggers-molecules-to-split-or-emit-light-for-sensors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers has successfully controlled the flow of energy in a molecule with the help of its pH value. The results of the study, led by Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU), could contribute to the development of new sensors for medical diagnostics, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are also of interest for building more efficient solar cells and for use in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+computing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum computing<\/a>. The results have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-58168-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>A process called singlet fission is at the center of the study. In future generations of solar cells, it should improve the utilization of light and thus increase efficiency. Until now, a large proportion of the energy that shines onto solar cells is lost and released as heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has successfully controlled the flow of energy in a molecule with the help of its pH value. The results of the study, led by Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU), could contribute to the development of new sensors for medical diagnostics, for example. The findings are also of interest for building more efficient [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1617,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213892","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=213892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}