{"id":176378,"date":"2023-11-20T12:30:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/researchers-develop-neutron-shielding-film-for-radiation-protection"},"modified":"2023-11-20T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:30:46","slug":"researchers-develop-neutron-shielding-film-for-radiation-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/researchers-develop-neutron-shielding-film-for-radiation-protection","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop neutron-shielding film for radiation protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-neutron-shielding-film-for-radiation-protection3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An advancement in neutron shielding, a critical aspect of radiation protection, has been achieved. This breakthrough is poised to revolutionize the neutron shielding industry by offering a cost-effective solution applicable to a wide range of materials surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>A research team, led by Professor Soon-Yong Kwon in the Graduate School of Semiconductors Materials and Devices Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has successfully developed a neutron shielding film capable of blocking neutrons present in radiation. This innovative shield is not only available in large areas but also lightweight and flexible.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-42670-z\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An advancement in neutron shielding, a critical aspect of radiation protection, has been achieved. This breakthrough is poised to revolutionize the neutron shielding industry by offering a cost-effective solution applicable to a wide range of materials surfaces. A research team, led by Professor Soon-Yong Kwon in the Graduate School of Semiconductors Materials and Devices Engineering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}