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Title: Emergence of Uranium as a Distinct Metal Center for Building Intrinsic X‐ray Scintillators

Abstract

Abstract The combination of high atomic number and high oxidation state in U VI materials gives rise to both high X‐ray attenuation efficiency and intense green luminescence originating from ligand‐to‐metal charge transfer. These two features suggest that U VI materials might act as superior X‐ray scintillators, but this postulate has remained substantially untested. Now the first observation of intense X‐ray scintillation in a uranyl–organic framework ( SCU‐9 ) that is observable by the naked eye is reported. Combining the advantage in minimizing the non‐radiative relaxation during the X‐ray excitation process over those of inorganic salts of uranium, SCU‐9 exhibits a very efficient X‐ray to green light luminescence conversion. The luminescence intensity shows an essentially linear correlation with the received X‐ray intensity, and is comparable with that of commercially available CsI:Tl. SCU‐9 possesses an improved X‐ray attenuation efficiency ( E >20 keV) as well as enhanced radiation resistance and decreased hygroscopy compared to CsI:Tl.

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ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [4];  [2];  [5]; ORCiD logo [2]
  1. State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection School for Radiological and interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X) Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions Soochow University Suzhou 215123 China, Key Laboratory of Radiation Physics and Technology Ministry of Education Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology Sichuan University Chengdu 610064 China
  2. State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection School for Radiological and interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X) Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions Soochow University Suzhou 215123 China
  3. Key Laboratory of Transparent Opto-functional Inorganic Materials Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai Institute of Ceramics Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 201899 China
  4. Key Laboratory of Radiation Physics and Technology Ministry of Education Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology Sichuan University Chengdu 610064 China
  5. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Florida State University 95 Chieftain Way Tallahassee FL 32306 USA
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1434070
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Journal Name:
Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) Journal Volume: 57 Journal Issue: 26; Journal ID: ISSN 1433-7851
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Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English

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Wang, Yaxing, Yin, Xuemiao, Liu, Wei, Xie, Jian, Chen, Junfeng, Silver, Mark A., Sheng, Daopeng, Chen, Lanhua, Diwu, Juan, Liu, Ning, Chai, Zhifang, Albrecht‐Schmitt, Thomas E., and Wang, Shuao. Emergence of Uranium as a Distinct Metal Center for Building Intrinsic X‐ray Scintillators. Germany: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1002/anie.201802865.
Wang, Yaxing, Yin, Xuemiao, Liu, Wei, Xie, Jian, Chen, Junfeng, Silver, Mark A., Sheng, Daopeng, Chen, Lanhua, Diwu, Juan, Liu, Ning, Chai, Zhifang, Albrecht‐Schmitt, Thomas E., & Wang, Shuao. Emergence of Uranium as a Distinct Metal Center for Building Intrinsic X‐ray Scintillators. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201802865
Wang, Yaxing, Yin, Xuemiao, Liu, Wei, Xie, Jian, Chen, Junfeng, Silver, Mark A., Sheng, Daopeng, Chen, Lanhua, Diwu, Juan, Liu, Ning, Chai, Zhifang, Albrecht‐Schmitt, Thomas E., and Wang, Shuao. Fri . "Emergence of Uranium as a Distinct Metal Center for Building Intrinsic X‐ray Scintillators". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201802865.
@article{osti_1434070,
title = {Emergence of Uranium as a Distinct Metal Center for Building Intrinsic X‐ray Scintillators},
author = {Wang, Yaxing and Yin, Xuemiao and Liu, Wei and Xie, Jian and Chen, Junfeng and Silver, Mark A. and Sheng, Daopeng and Chen, Lanhua and Diwu, Juan and Liu, Ning and Chai, Zhifang and Albrecht‐Schmitt, Thomas E. and Wang, Shuao},
abstractNote = {Abstract The combination of high atomic number and high oxidation state in U VI materials gives rise to both high X‐ray attenuation efficiency and intense green luminescence originating from ligand‐to‐metal charge transfer. These two features suggest that U VI materials might act as superior X‐ray scintillators, but this postulate has remained substantially untested. Now the first observation of intense X‐ray scintillation in a uranyl–organic framework ( SCU‐9 ) that is observable by the naked eye is reported. Combining the advantage in minimizing the non‐radiative relaxation during the X‐ray excitation process over those of inorganic salts of uranium, SCU‐9 exhibits a very efficient X‐ray to green light luminescence conversion. The luminescence intensity shows an essentially linear correlation with the received X‐ray intensity, and is comparable with that of commercially available CsI:Tl. SCU‐9 possesses an improved X‐ray attenuation efficiency ( E >20 keV) as well as enhanced radiation resistance and decreased hygroscopy compared to CsI:Tl.},
doi = {10.1002/anie.201802865},
journal = {Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)},
number = 26,
volume = 57,
place = {Germany},
year = {Fri Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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