Visual clarity methylammonium lead trichloride perovskite single crystals for X and gamma rays protection

Ionization radiation photons such as X-ray and gamma ray have been widely applied in the nuclear power industry, medical imaging, scientific research, and aerospace exploration. Developing a protective material with excellent shielding properties and clear visibility is an urgent demand in order to protect people who are working in a radiation environment. Hence, we present a highly efficient radiation shielding material based on lead halide organic-inorganic perovskite single crystals with visual clarity, high efficiency and attenuation coefficient, and thin half-value layer. Our results indicate that the shielding performances (mass attenuation coefficients, effective atomic numbers and half value layer) of the perovskite crystals are at least one order higher than the current commercial products, such as Bone-equivalent plastic, Polyethylene terephthalate, and colorless glass. In addition, physical properties (density), and optical properties (transmission, refractive index), can be slightly tuned by the dopant Br concentration in crystals. The present results demonstrate that the organic-inorganic perovksite single crystals are optimized for high attenuation radiation shielding materials with visual clarity.