The glowing ghost mushroom looks like it comes from a fungal netherworld  The Conversation AU

Sign up to Beating Around the Bush, a series that profiles native plants: part gardening column, part dispatches from country, entirely Australian.

Nanoporous Anodic Oxides: Fabrication, Applications, Sensing and Biosensing  Products Finishing Magazine

Numerous metals are subjected to anodic oxidation. As a result, one can obtain amorphous barrier-type oxides, crystalline barrier-type oxides or amorphous ...

Get smart to fix weak links  Packaging Today

Identifying the right smart pack to beat counterfeiting threats is now a priority for operators in the fast-moving consumer goods sector. Matthew Rogerson ...

Luminescence and reactivity of a charge-transfer excited iron complex with nanosecond lifetime  Science Magazine

Many photoactive coordination compounds contain precious metals. Replacing ruthenium with more–earth-abundant iron has been a long-sought goal, but iron ...

Is Your Watch Radioactive? How That Luminous Dial Gets Its Glow  Bloomberg

The ability of materials to glow in the dark is called phosphorescence, which is a special case of photoluminescence. Photoluminescence is the ability of some ...

Fluorescence Quenching  News-Medical.net

Fluorescence quenching is a physicochemical process that lowers the intensity of emitted light from fluorescent molecules.

Li substituent tuning of LED phosphors with enhanced efficiency, tunable photoluminescence, and improved thermal stability  Science Advances

Solid-state phosphor-converted white light-emitting diodes (pc-WLEDs) are currently revolutionizing the lighting industry. To advance the technology, phosphors ...

In-Depth: Luminous Dials, What Makes Them Glow, And How To Spot Their Differences  HODINKEE

Luminous dials are a compromise. On the one hand, we would like to be able to tell the time in the dark without dropping a hundred large on a minute repeater.

Synthetic WSe2 monolayers with high photoluminescence quantum yield  Science Advances

In recent years, there have been tremendous advancements in the growth of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) by chemical vapor deposition ...

A single-stranded coordination copolymer affords heterostructure observation and photoluminescence intensification  Science Advances

Few artificial systems can be exfoliated into, and observed as, single wires with lengths of more than several micrometers, and no previous example features a ...

Three-level spaser for next-generation luminescent nanoprobe  Science Advances

The development of modern biological and medical science highly depends on advanced luminescent probes. Current probes typically have wide emission ...

Origin of the bright photoluminescence of few-atom silver clusters confined in LTA zeolites  Science Magazine

Small silver clusters stabilized by organic materials or inorganic surfaces can exhibit bright photoluminescence, but the origin of this effect has been difficult to ...

What is Fluorescence Spectroscopy?  News-Medical.net

Fluorescence spectroscopy is an analytical method which is based on the fluorescence properties of the sample.

Luminescence III set to light up the night at Deer Lake Gallery  Burnaby Now

There wasn't much doubt in Jay Senetchko's mind about the value of getting involved with Luminescence III. “I remember very distinctly reading about the first ...