{"id":214296,"date":"2025-05-19T17:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/light-out-power-up-carbon-nanotubes-discovered-emitting-more-energetic-light-than-they-absorb-in-groundbreaking-quantum-breakthrough"},"modified":"2025-05-19T17:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:02:25","slug":"light-out-power-up-carbon-nanotubes-discovered-emitting-more-energetic-light-than-they-absorb-in-groundbreaking-quantum-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/light-out-power-up-carbon-nanotubes-discovered-emitting-more-energetic-light-than-they-absorb-in-groundbreaking-quantum-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLight Out, Power Up\u201d: Carbon Nanotubes Discovered Emitting More Energetic Light Than They Absorb in Groundbreaking Quantum Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-out-power-up-carbon-nanotubes-discovered-emitting-more-energetic-light-than-they-absorb-in-groundbreaking-quantum-breakthrough.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN A NUTSHELL \ud83c\udf1f Scientists at Japan\u2019s RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics have discovered that carbon nanotubes can emit more energetic light than they absorb. \ud83d\udd0d The phenomenon, known as up-conversion photoluminescence (UCPL), occurs even in <i>pristine nanotubes<\/i>, defying previous theories requiring structural defects. \u2600\ufe0f This discovery holds potential for enhancing solar energy efficiency by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN A NUTSHELL \ud83c\udf1f Scientists at Japan\u2019s RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics have discovered that carbon nanotubes can emit more energetic light than they absorb. \ud83d\udd0d The phenomenon, known as up-conversion photoluminescence (UCPL), occurs even in pristine nanotubes, defying previous theories requiring structural defects. \u2600\ufe0f This discovery holds potential for enhancing solar energy efficiency by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214296","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}