Everything about Flashlight

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: FlashlightA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Ultrafast flashlight sintered mesoporous NiO nanosheets for stable asymmetric supercapacitorsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Photo-flash in practiceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Mobile Phone Flashlight‐Excited Red Afterglow BioimagingCited 229 times
5. Go sideways: Bicycle lightingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Dive lightA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Mobile Phone Flashlight‐Excited Red Afterglow Bioimaging

  Yuanyuan Fan, Siwei Liu, Min Wu · 2022 · Advanced Materials · 229 citations

• Research at the Interface between Chemistry and Virology: Development of a Molecular Flashlight

  George A. Kraus, Weijiang Zhang, Michael J. Fehr · 1996 · Chemical Reviews · 129 citations

• The Revealing Flashlight

  Brett Ridel, Patrick Reuter, Jeremy Laviole · 2014 · Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage · 106 citations

• Accretion Disks and Coronae in the X-Ray Flashlight

  Nathalie Degenaar, David R. Ballantyne, Tomaso Belloni · 2017 · Space Science Reviews · 90 citations

• Chemiluminescent activation of the antiviral activity of hypericin: a molecular flashlight.

  S Carpenter, M J Fehr, G A Kraus · 1994 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 87 citations

• Light for All Reasons: Versatility in the Behavioral Repertoire of the Flashlight Fish

  James G. Morin, Anne Harrington, Kenneth Nealson · 1975 · Science · 86 citations

• Bioluminescent symbionts of flashlight fishes and deep-sea anglerfishes form unique lineages related to the genus Vibrio

  Margo G. Haygood, Daniel L. Distel · 1993 · Nature · 69 citations

• The flashlight test and van Herick's test are poor predictors for occludable angles

  Ravi Thomas, Thomas George, Andrew Braganza · 1996 · Australian and New Zealand Journal of Ophthalmology · 69 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Ultrafast flashlight sintered mesoporous NiO nanosheets for stable asymmetric supercapacitors

  Rohan B. Ambade, Hojae Lee, Ki Hyun Lee · 2022 · Chemical Engineering Journal · 68 citations

• An efficient and thermally stable red emitting Eu2+ doped oxide for rechargeable portable flashlight

  Zelong Jiang, Tao Hu, Fanchao Men · 2024 · Chemical Engineering Journal · 64 citations

• Smartphone flashlight-triggered covalent organic framework nanozyme activity: A universal scheme for visual point-of-care testing

  Ling Liang, Yuting Jiang, Fengping Liu · 2023 · Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical · 49 citations

• Flashlight treatment for instantaneous structuring of dense MXene film into porous MXene/TiO2 nanocomposite for lithium-ion battery anodes

  Jeongsoo Hong, Changung Paeng, Seongmin Park · 2024 · Chemical Engineering Journal · 37 citations

• Flashlight-Net: A Modular Convolutional Neural Network for Motor Imagery EEG Classification

  Weidong Dang, Dongmei Lv, Mengxiao Tang · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems · 22 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Photo-flash in practiceGilbert, Geoffrey · 1947
• "Strobe," the lively lightHoward Lee Luray · 1949
• To photograph darknessChris Howes · 1989
• Flash Photography Field GuideAdam Duckworth · 2012
• 📕Electronic flash guideLeonard Gaunt · 1967
• 📕Electronic flash photographyR. L. Aspden · 1959
• Flash in modern photographyWilliam Mortensen · 1941
• The hot shoe diariesMcNally, Joe · 2009

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