{"id":240309,"date":"2026-07-05T03:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/common-nanostructures-may-explain-shared-photoproperties-in-two-widespread-dark-materials"},"modified":"2026-07-05T03:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:13:05","slug":"common-nanostructures-may-explain-shared-photoproperties-in-two-widespread-dark-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/common-nanostructures-may-explain-shared-photoproperties-in-two-widespread-dark-materials","title":{"rendered":"Common nanostructures may explain shared photoproperties in two widespread dark materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/common-nanostructures-may-explain-shared-photoproperties-in-two-widespread-dark-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly developed framework for understanding the photoproperties of both natural organic matter and eumelanin, a natural pigment responsible for dark colors in organisms, may inspire advanced sustainable technologies, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>Although they are some of the most widespread substances on Earth, not much is known about <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-04-newly-revealed-properties-melanin-ingredient.html\">eumelanin<\/a> or natural organic matter (NOM)\u2014a dark-colored substance formed by the decomposition of biological material. In humans, eumelanin is a vital pigment in skin and other tissues that protects cells from damage caused by ultraviolet radiation. In nature, NOM gives rivers and soils their color and affects light-driven reactions like photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>Although these compounds have been studied individually for decades, researchers in a new study, by scrutinizing them alongside each other, have shown that eumelanin and NOM have common properties beyond their dark colors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly developed framework for understanding the photoproperties of both natural organic matter and eumelanin, a natural pigment responsible for dark colors in organisms, may inspire advanced sustainable technologies, scientists say. Although they are some of the most widespread substances on Earth, not much is known about eumelanin or natural organic matter (NOM)\u2014a dark-colored substance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-nanotechnology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240309","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=240309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}