Unravelling the Mysteries of Deep-Blue Luminescence
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English - September 17, 2021 09:00 - 13 minutes - 9.39 MBScience Technology science research outreach education stem learning academic technology impact scicomm Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In the deepest, darkest parts of our oceans live creatures that have mastered bioluminescence. Out of all these creatures and their colourful displays, what makes it so challenging to find species that emit light in the deep-blue region?
Dr Masahito Oh-e at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, together with his collaborator Dr Akira Nagasawa, Professor Emeritus of Saitama University in Japan, uses computational chemistry modelling approaches to investigate.
Read the original article: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00506