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Supercritical Coupling Boosts Photon Upconversion
SINGAPORE, March 4, 2024 — Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have unveiled a novel concept termed supercritical coupling that enables a several-fold increase in photon upconversion efficiency. This discovery not only challenges existing paradigms, but also opens a new direction in the control of light emission, the team said. Photon upconversion, the process of converting low-energy photons into higher-energy ones, is a crucial technique with broad applications, ranging from superresolution
Photoswitchable Materials Streamline Thermal Regulation
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain, May 12, 2023 — The design and development of functional materials with tunable thermal conductivity — for example, to ensure the thermal dissipation in microelectronics devices — is necessary to prevent such devices from overheating. The ability to...
Nobel Prize-Winning Techniques Help Resolve Imaging Challenge
ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2022 — Using a technique that was recently awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry, researchers at Cornell University used expansion microscopy to study lipids, the water-repellent, dynamic components that comprise the walls of cells and organelles. The...
Photonic Technology Converts Greenhouse Gases into Clean Energy
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 25, 2022 — The European consortium SPOTLIGHT is developing a process that uses sunlight and LEDs to turn carbon dioxide and green hydrogen into clean energy products such as methane gas and methanol liquid fuel. Using a photonic device, the SPOTLIGHT...
Eikon Therapeutics Raises $518M, Completes Recruitment of Leadership Team
HAYWARD, Calif., Jan. 10, 2022 — Eikon Therapeutics, a company focused on the application of superresolution microscopy to drug discovery, closed a $517.8 million Series B financing round. Since its founding, Eikon Therapeutics has raised more than $688 million. The company has...
Partnership to Advance Quantum Computing for Materials Science
PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 28, 2021 — PsiQuantum, a silicon photonic fault-tolerant quantum computing company, and QunaSys, a developer of quantum algorithms and quantum chemistry calculations for materials development, have launched a joint research project to assess the power of...
Synthetic Fibers Light the Path for Molecular Motion
NOTTINGHAM, England, Oct. 19, 2021 — Research from the University of Nottingham demonstrated the use of synthetic fibers to drive molecular motion over long distances, fueled by light. The work may open avenues for the use of light as a source of sustainable energy, as well as in...
Pulsed 'Laser-in-Liquids' Approach Speeds Catalyst Discovery
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 5, 2021 — A team at the University of Rochester showed the efficacy of pulsed lasers in accelerating research into chemical catalysts. The development of even a single catalyst material capable of triggering the arrangement and motion of the atoms needed to...
Light-Based Method Creates 2D Polymer, Expedites Quest for New 2D Materials
LINKÖPING, Sweden, June 16, 2021 — A method that uses light to manufacture 2D polymers that have the thickness of a single molecule could create a path for the development of ultrathin, functional 2D materials with highly defined and regular crystalline structures. The new method was...
Transparent Display Shows Smooth Transitions over Broad Color Spectrum
CHANGCHUN, China, March 11, 2021 — Researchers from Jilin University developed a transparent glass display with a high white-light contrast ratio that is able to smoothly transition between a broad spectrum of color when stimulated with electricity. The technology overcomes hurdles...
HORIBA Businesses Invest in R&D Site, Acquire MedTest Holdings
KYOTO, Japan, Feb. 5, 2021 — HORIBA FRANCE SAS, a developer of Raman spectroscopy systems and technology, inaugurated a new site in Loos, France. The facility replaces the company’s former location in Villeneuve d’Ascq. In a press release, HORIBA said the production...
Synthetization Process Yields Green Light-Emitting Idolizines
MOSCOW, Dec. 11, 2020 — Chemists from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) have introduced a new approach for synthesizing indolizines, a group of organic substances with biological and optical properties. The method, which uses pyridinium...
From Contradictory Polymers, Scientists Develop Nanocoatings with Optimal Properties for Optics
KIEL, Germany, Nov. 11, 2020 — Materials scientists at Kiel University in Germany have synthesized nanoscale gradient copolymers, which possess distinct contradictory properties, to create material coatings that could be used to coat aircraft and glass fronts. In such...
Large-Area Organic Photodiodes Offer Cost-effective Alternative to Silicon Sensors
ATLANTA, Nov. 5, 2020 — A research team at Georgia Tech has demonstrated that large-area organic photodiodes, produced from solutions at low temperatures, can detect several hundred thousand photons every second. The process, the researchers said, is conceptually similar...
Low-Energy Light Invigorates Polymer Object Production Process
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 21, 2020 — Visible yellow and green light are central to a process that researchers from North Carolina State University used to produce polymer gel objects from pure monomer solutions. After dissolving zinc meso-tetraphenylporphyrin (ZnTPP) into pure monomers...
COVID-19 Spreads, New York Institutions Remain Resilient
Mar 12, 2020 — New York state universities have begun moving to online classes. Courtesy of University of Rochester. With COVID-19 spreading across the U.S., universities are facing decisions of closing live classes and navigating to online formats. Among such...
Researchers Build Chip-Size Particle Accelerator
STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 2, 2020 — For the first time, scientists at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created a silicon chip that can accelerate electrons using an infrared laser to deliver, at less than a hair’s width, the sort of energy...
Rhodopsin Mimic Advances Light-Sensitive Artificial Cell Design
BRISTOL, England, April 21, 2016 — An artificial mimic of a key light-sensitive molecule could enable techniques for building light-sensitive artificial cells. Professor Jonathan Clayden and colleagues in the University of Bristol's School of Chemistry, along with collaborators at...
Superresolution Microscopy Pioneers Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 8, 2014 — Circumventing the diffraction limit to achieve nanoscale microscope images has earned Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and W.E. Moerner the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
SRS Probes Inner Workings of Solar Panels
Oct 6, 2014 — Using femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (SRS), scientists have now probed the inner workings of plastic solar panels. The findings could further efforts to improve solar panels and broaden their use, according to a team at the University of...
Molecular Movies Enhance Bioimaging, Health Research
CORVALLIS, Ore., and EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada, July 2, 2014 — While they won’t be hitting the red carpet anytime soon, bioimaging and health research are becoming molecular movie stars. A team from Oregon State University and the University of Alberta has created a biosensor imaging system that allows...
Hungarian Attosecond Laser Facility Gets EU Funding
BRUSSELS, May 28 2014 — The European Commission recently approved € 111 million (about $150 million) to build an attosecond laser research complex in Hungary. This will be the third of four parts in a pan-European laser research hub dubbed Extreme Light Infrastructure...
Silica-Based Fiber Boosts Broad-Spectrum Spectroscopy
Nov 1, 2013 — Fibers with a broad optical spectrum are useful in spectroscopic applications because they enable the collection and analysis of more information over a greater wavelength range. A variety of spectroscopic applications require light transmission...
Mars! Cameras! Action!
Sep 1, 2012 — NASA’s Curiosity rover landed safely on Mars on Aug. 5 – with no fewer than 17 cameras onboard. The rover’s mast features seven cameras: the Remote Micro Imager, part of the Chemistry and Camera suite; four black-and-white...
StellarNet Launches Spectrometry Contest
TAMPA, Fla., Oct 4, 2011 — Are you an academic researcher with an exciting new project involving spectroscopy, and do you need a free spectrometer system to help achieve this? StellarNet Inc. has launched its STAR Instrument Program, which aims to provide annually a complete...
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