A sustainable path for energy-demanding photochemistry

Novel strategy for the generation of highly energetic UV light

05-Dec-2022 - Many photochemical processes rely on UV light from inefficient or toxic light sources that the LED technology cannot replace for technical reasons. An international team of scientists led by Professor Christoph Kerzig of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany and Professor Nobuhiro ...

World’s first LED lights developed from rice husks

19-Apr-2022 - Milling rice to separate the grain from the husks produces about 100 million tons of rice husk waste globally each year. Scientists searching for a scalable method to fabricate quantum dots have developed a way to recycle rice husks to create the first silicon quantum dot (QD) LED light. Their ...

Merck to lead OLED research

Launches joint project to conduct basic research on quantum materials as light sources

02-Feb-2018 - Merck, a leading science and technology company, is announcing its leadership role in the joint project entitled “Exploration of quantum materials – New paths to realizing innovative optoelectronic components (ELQ-LED)”. The aim of the project, which will receive total funding of €5.5 million ...