{"id":239488,"date":"2026-06-23T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/solid-state-material-turns-visible-light-into-high-energy-uv-at-sunlight-intensity-expanding-solar-energy-potential"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:06:18","slug":"solid-state-material-turns-visible-light-into-high-energy-uv-at-sunlight-intensity-expanding-solar-energy-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/solid-state-material-turns-visible-light-into-high-energy-uv-at-sunlight-intensity-expanding-solar-energy-potential","title":{"rendered":"Solid-state material turns visible light into high-energy UV at sunlight intensity, expanding solar energy potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solid-state-material-turns-visible-light-into-high-energy-uv-at-sunlight-intensity-expanding-solar-energy-potential.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two cups of warm water don\u2019t make one cup of boiling water. But in the quantum world, multiple low-energy photons can combine to produce a single, higher-energy photon.<\/p>\n<p>A research team at Kyushu University has developed a solid-state molecular material that \u201cupgrades\u201d visible light into ultraviolet (UV) light under ordinary outdoor sunlight, achieving a conversion efficiency of 1.9%. The study is published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-026-73898-0\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harsh UV light is something most people try to avoid in summer, yet it is indispensable in fields ranging from air purification and resin curing in 3D printing to gel hardening in dental fillings and nail art. Despite its importance, UV accounts for only about 6% of the sunlight reaching Earth\u2019s surface, with only a fraction of that being practically usable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two cups of warm water don\u2019t make one cup of boiling water. But in the quantum world, multiple low-energy photons can combine to produce a single, higher-energy photon. A research team at Kyushu University has developed a solid-state molecular material that \u201cupgrades\u201d visible light into ultraviolet (UV) light under ordinary outdoor sunlight, achieving a conversion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1617,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239488","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}