{"id":220684,"date":"2025-08-22T08:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-harness-polaritons-making-a-leap-in-molecular-charge-transfer"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:32:19","slug":"scientists-harness-polaritons-making-a-leap-in-molecular-charge-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-harness-polaritons-making-a-leap-in-molecular-charge-transfer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists harness polaritons, making a leap in molecular charge transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-harness-polaritons-making-a-leap-in-molecular-charge-transfer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long speculated that polaritons\u2014hybrids of light and matter\u2014could be harnessed to control photochemistry. Now, researchers at the City University of New York (CUNY) have shown that these fleeting states can indeed drive a fundamental type of molecular reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long speculated that polaritons\u2014hybrids of light and matter\u2014could be harnessed to control photochemistry. Now, researchers at the City University of New York (CUNY) have shown that these fleeting states can indeed drive a fundamental type of molecular reaction.<\/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-220684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220684","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=220684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}