{"id":85457,"date":"2018-12-04T04:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T12:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/discovery-of-single-material-that-produces-white-light-could-boost-efficiency-of-led-bulbs"},"modified":"2018-12-04T04:23:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T12:23:14","slug":"discovery-of-single-material-that-produces-white-light-could-boost-efficiency-of-led-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/discovery-of-single-material-that-produces-white-light-could-boost-efficiency-of-led-bulbs","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of single material that produces white light could boost efficiency of LED bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-of-single-material-that-produces-white-light-could-boost-efficiency-of-led-bulbs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at The University of Toledo are part of an international team of scientists who discovered a single material that produces white light, opening the door for a new frontier in lighting, which accounts for one-fifth of global energy consumption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to its high efficiency, this new material can potentially replace the current phosphors used in LED lights \u2014 eliminating the blue-tinged hue \u2014 and save energy,\u201d said Dr. Yanfa Yan, professor of physics at UT. \u201cMore research needs to be done before it can be applied to consumer products, but the ability to reduce the power that bulbs consume and improve the color quality of light that the bulbs emit is a positive step to making the future more environmentally friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The renewable energy research was recently published in Nature, the world\u2019s leading multidisciplinary science journal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2018-12\/uot-dos120318.php\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2018&#45;12\/uot-dos120318.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists at The University of Toledo are part of an international team of scientists who discovered a single material that produces white light, opening the door for a new frontier in lighting, which accounts for one-fifth of global energy consumption. \u201cDue to its high efficiency, this new material can potentially replace the current phosphors used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85457","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=85457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}