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Light-emitting smart materials include materials or products with molecules that become excited by the effect of energy, e.g. the effects of light or an electrical field, to emit light. This happens as a result of the molecules taking up a temporary state of higher energy before leaving it again, at which time part of the energy taken up is emitted in the form of visible electromagnetic radiation, without the simultaneous emission of considerable thermal radiation. This optical phenomenon is called luminescence.
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(2007). Light-Emitting Smart Materials. In: Smart Materials. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8227-8_6
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