Radioluminescence from polymer dots based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence

Nanoscale Adv. 2023 May 23;5(13):3424-3427. doi: 10.1039/d3na00308f. eCollection 2023 Jun 27.

Abstract

We demonstrate that polymer dots doped with thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecules clearly exhibit blue radio-luminescence upon hard X-ray and electron beam irradiation, which is a new design for nano-sized scintillators.