Developing cost-efficient, reusable, sensitive, in situ online detection systems for radioactive gases remains challenging. Now researchers show that scintillating metal–organic frameworks can provide a high-performance detector solution.
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Sun, HT., Shirahata, N. Metal–organic framework scintillators detect radioactive gases. Nat. Photon. 17, 646–647 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01256-3
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