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Inside Back Cover: Emergence of Uranium as a Distinct Metal Center for Building Intrinsic X‐ray Scintillators (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 26/2018)
Author(s) -
Wang Yaxing,
Yin Xuemiao,
Liu Wei,
Xie Jian,
Chen Junfeng,
Silver Mark A.,
Sheng Daopeng,
Chen Lanhua,
Diwu Juan,
Liu Ning,
Chai Zhifang,
AlbrechtSchmitt Thomas E.,
Wang Shuao
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201804574
Subject(s) - uranium , scintillator , uranyl , center (category theory) , scintillation , cover (algebra) , metal , materials science , actinide , radiochemistry , physics , chemistry , nuclear physics , crystallography , optics , metallurgy , engineering , detector , mechanical engineering
The potential civil applications of depleted uranium apart from its nuclear properties have been overlooked in the past. In their Communication on page 7883 ff., S. Wang and co‐authors investigate a uranium‐based scintillator and report the first observation of intense X‐ray scintillation in a uranyl–organic framework compound, SCU‐9. Uranium emerges as a distinct metal center for a new family of intrinsic X‐ray scintillators, with potential advantages in terms of light yield, X‐ray stopping power, and stability.