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Water-dispersible X-ray scintillators enabling coating and blending with polymer materials for multiple applications

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  • Hailei Zhang

    (Hebei University, 180 Wusi Road
    Centre of Macromolecular Chemistry (CMaC), Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan)

  • Bo Zhang

    (Hebei University, 180 Wusi Road)

  • Chongyang Cai

    (Hebei University, 180 Wusi Road)

  • Kaiming Zhang

    (Centre of Macromolecular Chemistry (CMaC), Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan)

  • Yu Wang

    (Hebei University, 180 Wusi Road)

  • Yuan Wang

    (Hebei University, 180 Wusi Road)

  • Yanmin Yang

    (Hebei University, 180 Wusi Road)

  • Yonggang Wu

    (Hebei University, 180 Wusi Road)

  • Xinwu Ba

    (Hebei University, 180 Wusi Road)

  • Richard Hoogenboom

    (Centre of Macromolecular Chemistry (CMaC), Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan)

Abstract

Developing X-ray scintillators that are water-dispersible, compatible with polymeric matrices, and processable to flexible substrates is an important challenge. Herein, Tb3+-doped Na5Lu9F32 is introduced as an X-ray scintillating material with steady-state X-ray light yields of 15,800 photons MeV−1, which is generated as nanocrystals on halloysite nanotubes. The obtained product exhibits good water-dispersibility and highly sensitive luminescence to X-rays. It is deposited onto a polyurethane foam to afford a composite foam material with dose-dependent radioluminescence. Moreover, the product is dispersed into polymer matrixes in aqueous solution to prepare rigid or flexible scintillator screen for X-ray imaging. As a third example, it is incorporated multilayer hydrogels for information camouflage and multilevel encryption. Encrypted information can be recognized only by X-ray irradiation, while the false information is read out under UV light. Altogether, we demonstrate that the water-dispersible scintillators are highly promising for aqueous processing of radioluminescent, X-ray imaging, and information encrypting materials.

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  • Hailei Zhang & Bo Zhang & Chongyang Cai & Kaiming Zhang & Yu Wang & Yuan Wang & Yanmin Yang & Yonggang Wu & Xinwu Ba & Richard Hoogenboom, 2024. "Water-dispersible X-ray scintillators enabling coating and blending with polymer materials for multiple applications," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-46287-8
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46287-8
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