{"id":1085,"date":"2022-12-20T06:42:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T06:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2022-12-20T06:42:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T06:42:32","slug":"enriched-plastic-scintillators-for-application-in-thermal-neutron-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/enriched-plastic-scintillators-for-application-in-thermal-neutron-detection\/1085.html","title":{"rendered":"Enriched plastic scintillators for application in thermal neutron detection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We report here on the synthesis and characterization of a novel 10B enriched aromatic molecule that can be incorporated into common poly(vinyltoluene) (PVT) based <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/Scintillators\/Plastic-Scintillators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plastic scintillators<\/a><\/strong> to achieve enhanced thermal neutron detection. Starting from relatively inexpensive 10B enriched boric acid, we have prepared 4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-2-phenyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolane (MBB) in three high yield steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MBB is soluble and compatible with PVT based formulations and results in stable plastic scintillators. Chemical synthesis, solubility limit in PVT, and the physical properties of the dopant were explored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The relevant response properties of the resulting plastic scintillators when exposed to neutron and gamma radiation, including light yield and pulse shape discrimination properties were measured and analyzed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We report here on the synthesis and characterizati &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}