{"id":84701,"date":"2018-11-14T19:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T03:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/detecting-light-in-a-different-dimension"},"modified":"2018-11-14T19:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T03:27:04","slug":"detecting-light-in-a-different-dimension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/detecting-light-in-a-different-dimension","title":{"rendered":"Detecting light in a different dimension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/detecting-light-in-a-different-dimension2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not expect to see such a dramatic improvement just by changing the morphology of the polymer,\u201d said co-corresponding author Mircea Cotlet, a materials scientist in the CFN Soft and Bio Nanomaterials Group.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists believe that there are two explanations behind their observations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a certain polymer concentration, the nanowires have dimensions comparable to the wavelength of light,\u201d said Li. \u201cThis size similarity has the effect of increasing light scattering and absorption. In addition, crystallization of P3HT molecules within the nanowires provides more charge carriers to transfer electricity to the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene<\/a> layer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-dimension.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-dimension.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe did not expect to see such a dramatic improvement just by changing the morphology of the polymer,\u201d said co-corresponding author Mircea Cotlet, a materials scientist in the CFN Soft and Bio Nanomaterials Group. The scientists believe that there are two explanations behind their observations. \u201cAt a certain polymer concentration, the nanowires have dimensions comparable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84701","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}