Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Organic phosphorescent scintillation from copolymers by X-ray irradiation

  • Nan Gan,
  • Xin Zou,
  • Mengyang Dong,
  • Yanze Wang,
  • Xiao Wang,
  • Anqi Lv,
  • Zhicheng Song,
  • Yuanyuan Zhang,
  • Wenqi Gong,
  • Zhu Zhao,
  • Ziyang Wang,
  • Zixing Zhou,
  • Huili Ma,
  • Xiaowang Liu,
  • Qiushui Chen,
  • Huifang Shi,
  • Huanghao Yang,
  • Long Gu,
  • Zhongfu An,
  • Wei Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31554-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The authors achieved the X-ray-excited organic phosphorescent scintillation from copolymers through copolymerization of bromine-substituted chromophores and acrylic acid and demonstrated their potential application in X-ray radiography.