In the early 1900s, Dr. Sabin Arnold von Sochocky formulated a radium-based paint that glowed in the dark. For many years the radio-luminescent paint was used on things like watch faces so they could ...

A century ago, glow-in-the-dark watches were an irresistible novelty. The dials, covered in a special luminous paint, shone all the time and didn’t require charging in sunlight. It looked like magic.

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An inventor has used his luminous paint to make an Aston Martin super car glow in the dark - and wants you to consider painting your motor the same colour. Hamish Scott, head of Nevana Designs, has ...

You don’t need to add lights to pimp up your motorcycle now that Australian company LuminAuz has produced paint work that can be electrically charged to light up. Their first motorcycle using LuminAuz ...

“Smart paint” containing fluorescent and phosphorescent pigments could extend the possibilities of proposed LiFi networks, report a team led by K S Narayan at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced ...

In 1957, Edward Shapiro filed a patent for a novel type of “self-luminous paint.” The concept was not new, luminous paints based on radioactive emissions from radium striking a phosphor such as zinc ...

IN NATURE of November 1, p. 529, reference was made to luminous strontium sulphide and its possible use for A.R.P. purposes. Dr. S. Rothschild points out that although this substance has a long ...