{"id":221373,"date":"2025-09-03T15:06:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/here-we-glow-new-organic-liquid-provides-efficient-phosphorescence"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:06:44","slug":"here-we-glow-new-organic-liquid-provides-efficient-phosphorescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/here-we-glow-new-organic-liquid-provides-efficient-phosphorescence","title":{"rendered":"Here we glow: New organic liquid provides efficient phosphorescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/here-we-glow-new-organic-liquid-provides-efficient-phosphorescence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nostalgic \u201cglow-in-the-dark\u201d stars that twinkle on the ceilings of childhood bedrooms operate on a phenomenon called phosphorescence. Here, a material absorbs energy and later releases it in the form of light. However, recent demand for softer, phosphorescent materials has presented researchers with a unique challenge, as producing organic liquids with efficient phosphorescence at room temperature is considered difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at the University of Osaka have attempted to tackle this problem by producing an organic liquid that phosphoresces in the ambient environment. This discovery is published in Chemical Science.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional materials that can phosphoresce at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/room+temperature\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">room temperature<\/a> contain heavy metal atoms. These phosphors are used to create the colored electronic displays we utilize every day, such as those in our smartphones. Organic materials, which contain carbon and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hydrogen+atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen atoms<\/a> (similar to materials found in nature), are more environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nostalgic \u201cglow-in-the-dark\u201d stars that twinkle on the ceilings of childhood bedrooms operate on a phenomenon called phosphorescence. Here, a material absorbs energy and later releases it in the form of light. However, recent demand for softer, phosphorescent materials has presented researchers with a unique challenge, as producing organic liquids with efficient phosphorescence at room [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1512,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221373","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}