{"id":686688,"date":"2021-04-09T09:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=686688"},"modified":"2021-04-09T09:31:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:31:02","slug":"optically-active-defects-improve-carbon-nanotubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=686688","title":{"rendered":"Optically active defects improve carbon nanotubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The properties of carbon-based nanomaterials can be altered and engineered through the deliberate introduction of certain structural &#8220;imperfections&#8221; or defects. The challenge, however, is to control the number and type of these defects. In the case of carbon nanotubes\u2014microscopically small tubular compounds that emit light in the near-infrared\u2014chemists and materials scientists at Heidelberg University led by Prof. Dr. Jana Zaumseil have now demonstrated a new reaction pathway to enable such defect control. It results in specific optically active defects\u2014so-called sp3 defects\u2014which are more luminescent and can emit single photons, that is, particles of light. The efficient emission of near-infrared light is important for applications in telecommunication and biological imaging.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-04-optically-defects-carbon-nanotubes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Optically active defects improve carbon nanotubes<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The properties of carbon-based nanomaterials can be altered and engineered through the deliberate introduction of certain structural &#8220;imperfections&#8221; or defects. The challenge, however, is to control the number and type&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}