{"id":28816,"date":"2016-08-10T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-to-turn-green-light-blue"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:58:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:58:58","slug":"how-to-turn-green-light-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-to-turn-green-light-blue","title":{"rendered":"How to turn green light blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-turn-green-light-blue.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The upconversion of photons allows for a more efficient use of light: Two photons are converted into a single photon having higher energy. Researchers at KIT now showed for the first time that the inner interfaces between surface-mounted metal-organic frameworks (SURMOFs) are suited perfectly for this purpose \u2014 they turned green light blue. The result, which is now being published in Advanced Materials (\u201cPhoton Upconversion at Crystalline Organic\u2013Organic Heterojunctions\u201d), opens up new opportunities for optoelectronic applications such as solar cells or LEDs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-turn-green-light-blue.jpg\" alt=\"Photon upconversion: energy transfer between the molecules is based on electron exchange\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photon upconversion: energy transfer between the molecules is based on electron exchange (Dexter electron transfer). (Image: Michael Oldenburg) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=44203.php\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=44203.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upconversion of photons allows for a more efficient use of light: Two photons are converted into a single photon having higher energy. Researchers at KIT now showed for the first time that the inner interfaces between surface-mounted metal-organic frameworks (SURMOFs) are suited perfectly for this purpose \u2014 they turned green light blue. The result, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28816","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50049,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28816\/revisions\/50049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}