The dark side of LEDs: Suppression of melatonin by blue light
You may have heard that exposure to blue light can disrupt your sleep. As it turns, out it's also harmful to wildlife.
You may have heard that exposure to blue light can disrupt your sleep. As it turns, out it's also harmful to wildlife.
Plants & Animals
Sep 9, 2022
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to produce high quality monolayers of a selection of different transition metal dichalcogenides which meet over an atomically thin seam. By coating this ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 29, 2022
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A Florida State University research team has developed a new way to create blue light from a class of materials that shows enormous potential for optoelectronic devices, including solar cells, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) ...
Materials Science
Aug 26, 2022
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When early humans discovered how to harness fire, they were able to push back against the nightly darkness that enveloped them. With the invention and widespread adoption of electricity, it became easier to separate heat ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 16, 2022
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Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Regensburg move packets of energy along a molecular ladder made of hundreds of benzene rings. Such polymers can potentially be used to design new displays based on organic light-emitting ...
Polymers
Nov 17, 2021
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Perovskite solar cells are in many ways already as efficient as conventional crystalline silicon-based solar cells; perovskite has the added benefit of being much more cost-effective than its silicon counterpart. Perovskites ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 27, 2021
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A first-of-its-kind instrument that samples smoke from megafires and scans humidity will help researchers better understand the scale and long-term impact of fires—specifically how far and high the smoke will travel; when ...
Environment
Mar 29, 2021
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In a new publication in the scientific journal Nature Materials, researchers of the Institute for Applied Physics at TU Dresden introduce a novel device concept towards high-efficient and low-voltage vertical organic lighting-emitting ...
Materials Science
Mar 2, 2021
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A joint research team at RIKEN and Hokkaido University developed a method to predict rate constants of reverse intersystem crossing (RISC)associated with light emission efficiency of organic semiconductors used for organic ...
Materials Science
Sep 8, 2020
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Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are nearly ubiquitous in modern life, providing the brightness in phone displays, televisions, and lights. A new form of LEDs, made of a class of materials called halide perovskites, promises ...
Materials Science
Aug 19, 2020
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