Radiation-shielding properties of titanium dioxide-added composites
Emerging Materials Research, vol.11, no.3, pp.319-324, 2022 (Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 11 Issue: 3
- Publication Date: 2022
- Doi Number: 10.1680/jemmr.22.00054
- Journal Name: Emerging Materials Research
- Journal Indexes: Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.319-324
- Keywords: composite materials, gamma-ray attenuation, hydroxyapatite composite, modeling composite structures, TiO2
- Süleyman Demirel University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
© 2022 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved.In radiation protection physics, development of alternative shielding materials to lead and lead-based materials is very popular nowadays, and thus, the present work aims to study the radiation-shielding parameters of a newly developed titanium dioxide (TiO2)-added hydroxyapatite composite material. The gamma-ray-shielding parameters were given in terms of the linear attenuation coefficient, half-value length, effective atomic number (Z eff) and effective electron density (N eff) for four different composites. The variations of these parameters with the titanium dioxide rate were also investigated.