{"id":698445,"date":"2021-08-09T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=698445"},"modified":"2021-08-09T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:11:37","slug":"optical-effects-of-the-divalent-functionalization-of-carbon-nanotubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=698445","title":{"rendered":"Optical effects of the divalent functionalization of carbon nanotubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have learned how to place crystalline defects in new materials with atomic-scale precision. This enables materials that can control excitons\u2014energy carriers that are similar to subatomic particles. New research shows that, by precisely attaching specific chemical compounds to a carbon nanotube surface, scientists can create local energy wells that &#8220;capture&#8221; the excitons. The wells lower the excitons&#8217; energy state. This prevents the loss of their energy as heat and controls the color of the light that they emit.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-08-optical-effects-divalent-functionalization-carbon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Optical effects of the divalent functionalization of carbon nanotubes<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have learned how to place crystalline defects in new materials with atomic-scale precision. This enables materials that can control excitons\u2014energy carriers that are similar to subatomic particles. New research&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-698445","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\/698445","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=698445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698445\/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=698445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}