Inorganic scintillators play a major role in ionizing radiation detection due to their high
versatility to detect multiple radiation sources such as X-rays, gamma-rays, alpha, beta, and …

Optical nanomaterials (ONMs) have attracted significant attention of the global research
community owing to their several superior advantages. Some of the ONMs depict negligible …

A wide range of inorganic nanomaterials with many fascinating properties and application
potentials in widespread fields may be synthesized by wet chemical synthetic routes. To …

In recent years, the field of radiation detection has witnessed a paradigm shift with the
emergence of plastic scintillators incorporating perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs). This …

Scintillators, one of the essential components in medical imaging and security checking
devices, rely heavily on rare‐earth‐containing inorganic materials. Here, a new type of …

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of fascinating supramolecular crystalline
materials that have been widely developed for catalysis, gas storage, illumination, drug …

There are a wide range of applications with ionizing radiation and a common theme
throughout these is that accurate dosimetry is usually required, although many newer …

Persistent luminescence is an optical phenomenon where materials continue to emit light
after the cessation of the excitation source which leads to different applications in areas like …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT), the use of light to excite photosensitive molecules whose
electronic relaxation drives the production of highly cytotoxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) …

The short-wavelength sub-nanosecond luminescence in BaF 2 material, discovered in the
early 80s, gave a new direction to research into fast scintillators and phosphors. In contrast …