Imagine a car so black it behaves like a sort of black hole on wheels. Instead of bouncing back sunlight toward your eyes, ...

Atmospheric black carbon (BC) is a potent absorber of sunlight, exerting a significant warming influence on the climate system. Generated by incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass, BC ...

A collaborative research team has introduced a nitrogen-centric framework that explains the light-absorbing effects of atmospheric organic aerosols. This groundbreaking study reveals that ...

Aerosol scientists quantify the extent of light absorption by black carbon in fire clouds to better model climate impacts of extreme wildfire events. In an actively warming world, large-scale ...

Achieving enantioselectivity directly through light absorption is a long-standing challenge in photochemistry. Now, light can resolve racemic mixtures at the very moment of photon capture — enabling ...

A new publication in Opto-Electronic Science discusses boosting UV light absorption in a 2D semiconductor with quantum dot hybrids for enhanced light emission. Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal ...