Radioluminescence from polymer dots based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence.

Daiki AsanumaHieu Thi Minh NguyenZuoyue LiuSachiko TojoHajime Shigemitsu Minoru Yamaji Kiyohiko Kawai Tadashi Mori Toshiyuki Kida Guillem J Pratx Mamoru Fujitsuka Yasuko Osakada

Published in: Nanoscale advances (2023)

We demonstrate that polymer dots doped with thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecules clearly exhibit blue radio-luminescence upon hard X-ray and electron beam irradiation, which is a new design for nano-sized scintillators.

Keyphrases

light emitting
energy transfer
quantum dots
single molecule
electron microscopy
high resolution
dual energy
mass spectrometry
computed tomography
radiation therapy
radiation induced
visible light
liquid chromatography