Superluminova, photo courtesy of MrTime2give/flickr.com

SuperLumiNova

Luminova and SuperLumiNova are based on strontium aluminate, mixed with a resin binder. They are both brand names belonging to Japanese company Nemoto & Co., and they are virtually identical: SuperLumiNova is used by Nemoto & Co’s European partner Tritec. The ultra-violet radiation in daylight and in some artificial light sources adds energy to the…

What do you do when the SuperLuminova runs out?

In actual fact, it doesn’t, at least for the moment. Luminova has been around only since 1998, SuperLuminova since about 2000, and so the situation is a bit like that for artists using acrylic paint: while we know what happens to oil paints because they have been in use for centuries, it could be that…