{"id":220384,"date":"2025-08-19T04:19:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/challenging-a-century-old-belief-scientists-rewrite-the-rules-of-light-driven-chemistry"},"modified":"2025-08-19T04:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:19:25","slug":"challenging-a-century-old-belief-scientists-rewrite-the-rules-of-light-driven-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/challenging-a-century-old-belief-scientists-rewrite-the-rules-of-light-driven-chemistry","title":{"rendered":"Challenging a Century-Old Belief: Scientists Rewrite the Rules of Light-Driven Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/challenging-a-century-old-belief-scientists-rewrite-the-rules-of-light-driven-chemistry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have uncovered a new mechanism in photochemistry showing that a molecule\u2019s microenvironment can strongly influence how it reacts to light. A global team of scientists, led by researchers at QUT, is overturning a long-standing belief in photochemistry with findings that could influence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have uncovered a new mechanism in photochemistry showing that a molecule\u2019s microenvironment can strongly influence how it reacts to light. A global team of scientists, led by researchers at QUT, is overturning a long-standing belief in photochemistry with findings that could influence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220384","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=220384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}