{"id":243754,"date":"2026-09-08T01:33:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/slender-crystals-blue-to-yellow-glow-could-make-invisible-forces-visible"},"modified":"2026-09-08T01:33:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:33:57","slug":"slender-crystals-blue-to-yellow-glow-could-make-invisible-forces-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/slender-crystals-blue-to-yellow-glow-could-make-invisible-forces-visible","title":{"rendered":"Slender crystal\u2019s blue-to-yellow glow could make invisible forces visible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/slender-crystals-blue-to-yellow-glow-could-make-invisible-forces-visible3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Applying pressure to luminescent organic crystals usually brings molecules closer together and weakens their fluorescence. Materials that instead brighten and undergo a large color change are rare, and clear design principles for achieving both responses in simple, rigid aromatic hydrocarbons have been lacking.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Osaka and collaborators have now found that crystals of a uniformly slender aromatic hydrocarbon become brighter under pressure while changing their fluorescence from light blue to yellow. Its emission-wavelength sensitivity was the highest reported for a molecular material to date.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/TC\/article-lookup\/doi\/10.1039\/D6TC01401A\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applying pressure to luminescent organic crystals usually brings molecules closer together and weakens their fluorescence. Materials that instead brighten and undergo a large color change are rare, and clear design principles for achieving both responses in simple, rigid aromatic hydrocarbons have been lacking. Researchers at the University of Osaka and collaborators have now found that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243754","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=243754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}