Scientists from the universities of Sao Paulo and Thueringen present a new methodology for uphill energy conversion, converting red irradiation light into blue emission light using the instability of 1,2-dioxetanes and converting chemical energy into electronic excitation energy.
Chemiluminescence-based uphill energy conversion
Luiz Francisco Monteiro Leite Ciscato, Dieter Weiss, Rainer Beckert, Erick Leite Bastos, Fernando Heering Bartoloni and Wilhelm Josef Baader
New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00843E, Letter
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