X-ray transmission through nanostructured and microstructured CuO materials

This study presents a comparison of the X-ray transmission through microsized and nanosized materials. for this purpose CuO nanoparticles, with 13.4 nm average grain size, and CuO microparticles, with a mean particle size of 56 mu m, were incorporated separately to beeswax in a concentration of 5%....

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Autores: Botelho, M. Z., Kunzel, Roseli [UNIFESP], Okuno, Emico, Levenhagen, Ronaldo Savarino [UNIFESP], Basegio, Tania, Bergmann, Carlos Pérez
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unifesp.br:11600/33365
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2010.11.002
http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/33365
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:CuO nanoparticles
CuO microparticles
X-ray attenuation
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Sumario:This study presents a comparison of the X-ray transmission through microsized and nanosized materials. for this purpose CuO nanoparticles, with 13.4 nm average grain size, and CuO microparticles, with a mean particle size of 56 mu m, were incorporated separately to beeswax in a concentration of 5%. Results show that the transmission through the above material plates with microsized and nanosized CuO was almost the same for X-ray beams generated at 60 and 102 kV tube voltages. However, for the radiation beams generated at 26 and 30 kV tube voltages the X-rays are more attenuated by the nanostructured CuO plates by a factor of at least 14%. Results suggest that the difference in the low energy range may be due to the higher number of particles/gram in the plates designed with CuO nanoparticles and due to the grain size effect on the X-ray transmission. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.