photoactive
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Ultrafast spectroscopic techniques using laser pulses with sub-picosecond time resolution revealed an unusual excited-state reactivity and two different photoactive states: a very short-lived but extremely oxidizing high-energy state and a longer-lived moderately oxidizing lower-energy state.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024
The scientists combined the two photoactive polymorphs of cesium lead iodide to form a phase-heterojunction -- which can suppress the transformation to the undesirable phase, the scientists said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2023
Although not a complex, self-darkening sunglasses are an example of a photoactive substance.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
These interfaces include large surface area junctions between photoelectron donors and acceptors, the intralayer grain boundaries within the absorber, and the interfaces between photoactive layers and the top and bottom contacts.
From Nature ● Aug. 15, 2012
Nanosolar ceo Martin Roscheisen, who, like many new solar kings, has roots in Silicon Valley, says he can achieve radical cost savings by directly applying photoactive chemicals with an ink composed of nanoparticles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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