Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Thermochemiluminescent peroxide crystals

  • Stefan Schramm,
  • Durga Prasad Karothu,
  • Nathan M. Lui,
  • Patrick Commins,
  • Ejaz Ahmed,
  • Luca Catalano,
  • Liang Li,
  • James Weston,
  • Taro Moriwaki,
  • Kyril M. Solntsev,
  • Panče Naumov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08816-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Chemiluminescence is known in solution, but has remained undetected in macroscopic crystalline solids so far. Here the authors demonstrate direct transduction of heat into light by thermochemiluminescence in a centimeter-size lophine hydroperoxide crystal.