This discovery has a potential to develop efficient sensors to monitor heavy metal ions in drinking water. The synthesized luminescent MOFs demonstrate significantly lower limits of detection on heavy metal ions.
A research group has developed a method for making an ultra-high material efficient solar cell using semiconductor nanowires. If this is placed on top of a traditional silicon-based solar cell, it could potentially double the efficiency of today's Si solar cells at low cost.
By watering bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris) with a solution that contains conjugated oligomers, researchers have shown that the roots of the plant become electrically conducting and can store energy.
A temporal change in the titania surface chemical state during the UV light irradiation is not observable through conventional methods such as regular FTIR or Raman spectroscopy. Therefore, scientists observed this reaction through time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy.
