Micellular fluorescence resonance energy transfer based fluorescent ratiometric response to hydrocarbon analytes.

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) has been utilised to develop numerous selective and sensitive fluorescent ratiometric sensors. Typically, FRET-based fluorescent ratiometric sensors rely on chemical interactions between the sensor and analyte to illicit a response, thus unreactive hydrocarbons are a neglected analyte and a source for new sensors. By containing an unbound donor-acceptor system within micelles, energy transfer is enabled by spatial confinement.

Tuneable emission in single molecule dyads mediated by a charge transfer state.

The demand for fluorescent organic dyes across a broad range of applications has led to investigation into tuneable emission dyes. The tuneable nature of these dyes makes them desirable for applications in a variety of fields, including organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), optical sensing devices, and fluorescence imaging. In recent investigations, there have only been a handful of mechanisms used to tune emission.

Heterostructured Nanotetrapod Luminophores for Reabsorption Elimination within Luminescent Solar Concentrators.

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) concentrate light via luminescence within a planar-waveguide and have potential use for building-integrated photovoltaics. However, their commercialization and potential applications are currently hindered greatly by photon reabsorption, where emitted waveguided light is parasitically reabsorbed by a luminophore. Nanotetrapod semiconductor materials have been theorized to be excellent luminophores for LSCs owing to their inherently large Stokes shifts.

The Rise and Future of Discrete Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials.

Hybrid nanomaterials (HNs), the combination of organic semiconductor ligands attached to nanocrystal semiconductor quantum dots, have applications that span a range of practical fields, including biology, chemistry, medical imaging, and optoelectronics. Specifically, HNs operate as discrete, tunable systems that can perform prompt fluorescence, energy transfer, singlet fission, upconversion, and/or thermally activated delayed fluorescence. Interest in HNs has naturally grown over the years due to their tunability and broad spectrum of applications.

Luminescent light diffuser for diffuse lighting applications.

The lighting industry currently accounts for a significant proportion of all energy demand. Luminescent white lighting is often impure, inefficient, expensive, and detrimentally emits as a point source, meaning the light is emitted from a focused point. A luminescent light diffuser offers the potential to create a spatially broad lighting fixture.

Enhancing the hydrogen evolution activity of MoS basal planes and edges using tunable carbon-based supports.

The hydrogen adsorption free energy (ΔG) on the basal plane and edges of MoS is studied using periodic density functional theory, with the catalyst supported by a range of two-dimensional carbon-based materials. Understanding how ΔG can be tuned with support gives insight into MoS as a catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction. The supports studied here include graphene oxide materials, heteroatom doped (S, B, and N) graphene, and some insulator materials (hexagonal boron nitride and graphitic carbon nitride).