Journal
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 462-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-020-0683-8
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- Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) through the grant Dipartimenti di Eccellenza-2017 'Materials For Energy'
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) through the ESQUIRE project
- EU-H2020 through the EIT SPARK project [16290]
- programme for research and innovation Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) under the Marie Skodowska-Curie Grant Agreement COMPASS [691185]
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Poly(methyl methacrylate) nanocomposites embedding CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals can be used to simultaneously achieve optimized parameters in scintillator devices. The urgency for affordable and reliable detectors for ionizing radiation in medical diagnostics, nuclear control and particle physics is generating growing demand for scintillator devices combining efficient scintillation, fast emission lifetime, high interaction probability with ionizing radiation and mitigated reabsorption losses in large-volume/high-density detectors. To date, the simultaneous achievement of all such features is still an open challenge. Here we realize this regime with poly(methyl methacrylate) nanocomposites embedding CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals as sensitizers for a conjugated organic dye featuring a large Stokes shift and a fast emission lifetime in the red spectral region. Complete energy transfer from the nanocrystals to the dye under both X-rays and alpha-particle excitation results in highly stable radioluminescence with an efficiency comparable to that of commercial-grade inorganic and plastic scintillators; an similar to 3.4 ns emission lifetime, competitive with fast lanthanide scintillators; and reabsorption-free waveguiding for long optical distances.
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