Improving X-ray Scintillating Merits of Zero-Dimensional Organic-Manganese(II) Halide Hybrids via Enhancing the Ligand Polarizability for High-Resolution Imaging.

Lu, Jian; Gao, Juan; Wang, Shuaihua; Xie, Mei-Juan; Li, Bao-Yi; Wang, Wen-Fei; Mi, Jia-Rong; Zheng, Fa-Kun et al. · Nano Lett · 2023

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Luminescent metal halides have been exploited as a new class of X-ray scintillators for security checks, nondestructive inspection, and medical imaging. However, the charge traps and hydrolysis vulnerability are always detrimental to the three-dimensional ionic structural scintillators. Here, the two zero-dimensional organic-manganese(II) halide coordination complexes <b>1-Cl</b> and <b>2-Br</b> were synthesized for improvements in X-ray scintillation. The introduction of a polarized phosphine oxide can help to increase the stabilities, especially the self-absorption-free merits of these Mn-based hybrids. The X-ray dosage rate detection limits reached up to 3.90 and 0.81 μGy<sub>air</sub>/s for <b>1-Cl</b> and <b>2-Br</b>, respectively, superior to the medical diagnostic standard of 5.50 μGy<sub>air</sub>/s. The fabricated scintillation films were applied to radioactive imaging with high spatial resolutions of 8.0 and 10.0 lp/mm, respectively, holding promise for use in diagnostic X-ray medical imaging.