{"id":202365,"date":"2024-12-25T05:25:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T11:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/novel-molecular-design-achieves-1300-fold-increase-in-scintillator-radioluminescence"},"modified":"2024-12-25T05:25:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T11:25:44","slug":"novel-molecular-design-achieves-1300-fold-increase-in-scintillator-radioluminescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/novel-molecular-design-achieves-1300-fold-increase-in-scintillator-radioluminescence","title":{"rendered":"Novel molecular design achieves 1,300-fold increase in scintillator radioluminescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-molecular-design-achieves-1300-fold-increase-in-scintillator-radioluminescence3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a highly effective and general molecular design that enables an enhancement in radioluminescence within organometallic scintillators by more than three orders of magnitude. This enhancement harnesses X-ray-induced triplet exciton recycling within lanthanide metal complexes.<\/p>\n<p>Detection of ionizing radiation is crucial in diverse fields, such as medical radiography, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/environmental+monitoring\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environmental monitoring<\/a> and astronomy. As a result, significant efforts have been dedicated to the development of luminescent materials that respond to X-rays.<\/p>\n<p>However, current high-performance scintillators are almost exclusively limited to ceramic and perovskite materials, which face issues such as complex manufacturing processes, environmental toxicity, self-absorption and stability problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a highly effective and general molecular design that enables an enhancement in radioluminescence within organometallic scintillators by more than three orders of magnitude. This enhancement harnesses X-ray-induced triplet exciton recycling within lanthanide metal complexes. Detection of ionizing radiation is crucial in diverse fields, such as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202365","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}