But recently, it was shown that spiking TiO2 with nitrogen ions gives it photocatalytic capabilities in UV light and visible light.
Dr. Daoud said the clothes simply needed to be exposed to natural or UV light for the cleaning process to begin.
In early 2009 Cruver met Dr. Mark Stibich and Dr. Julie Stachowiak, who were studying Russian methods of fighting tuberculosis using UV light.
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She peels back the note with a smile and, without even taking it out, scans my license under the UV light and lets me past.
There are about 70, 000 new cases of skin cancer diagnosed in the UK each year, many of which could be prevented by avoiding overexposure to UV light.
He called for an education campaign warning people of the risks of UV light and said there was a need to look at the access to salons and the regulation and use of the sunbeds.
Zech (The ADVENT Group of Colorado Springs, CO) noted optical storage technology expert, a new commercial optical storage technology using UV light would probably have to be in the 200 nm range and would provide storage capacities of over 100 GB in a single layer.
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It was also a big week for lighting news as we learned that compact fluorescent light bulbs emit potentially harmful UV radiation -- another good reason to make the switch to LEDs.
Window coatings that block UV rays also give the option of natural light while minimizing its clothing-fading side effects.
However there are lots of commercial issues with a UV optical disc besides creating inexpensive devices to generate this wavelength of light.
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