Organic phosphorescent scintillation from copolymers by X-ray irradiation.
Nan GanXin ZouMengyang DongYanze WangXiao WangAnqi LvZhicheng SongYuanyuan ZhangWenqi GongZhu ZhaoZiyang WangZixing ZhouHuili MaXiaowang LiuQiushui ChenHuifang ShiHuang-Hao YangLong GuZhongfu AnKaiwei HuangPublished in: Nature communications (2022)
Scintillators that exhibit X-ray-excited luminescence have great potential in radiation detection, X-ray imaging, radiotherapy, and non-destructive testing. However, most reported scintillators are limited to inorganic or organic crystal materials, which have some obstacles in repeatability and processability. Here we present a facile strategy to achieve the X-ray-excited organic phosphorescent scintillation from amorphous copolymers through the copolymerization of the bromine-substituted chromophores and acrylic acid. These polymeric scintillators exhibit efficient X-ray responsibility and decent phosphorescent quantum yield up to 51.4% under ambient conditions. The universality of the design principle was further confirmed by a series of copolymers with multi-color radioluminescence ranging from green to orange-red. Moreover, we demonstrated their potential application in X-ray radiography. This finding not only outlines a feasible principle to develop X-ray responsive phosphorescent polymers, but also expands the potential applications of polymer materials with phosphorescence features.
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