• Samadian, Hadi
• Arkan, Elham
• Zahabi, Saleh Salehi
• Hosseini, Mehdi
• Rashidi, Mehdi
• Jaymand, Mehdi
• Bijari, Salar

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The main focus of the current study was to fabricate fibrous nanocomposite based on polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers containing Bi<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>O<jats:sub>3</jats:sub> NPs as the X‐ray shielding material. Bi<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>O<jats:sub>3</jats:sub> NPs were synthesized based on the solid dispersion evaporation method and dispersed into PAN polymer solution with different weight concentrations. The electrospinning technique was used to fabricate nanocomposite. The morphology, surface functional group, wettability, elemental analysis, and X‐ray shielding efficacy of the fabricated nanocomposite were thoroughly evaluated. The dimeter of the fibrous nanocomposites containing 10, 20, and 30 wt% Bi<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>O<jats:sub>3</jats:sub> NPs were 1.33 ± 0.08, 1.01 ± 0.11, and 1.69 ± 0.32 μm, respectively. EDX elemental analysis showed that NPs were uniformly distributed into/onto the fibers. The X‐ray shielding studies showed that the prepared nanocomposites effectively attenuate the intensity of the X‐ray. The entrance surface dose for the negative control was 24.10 ± 1.71 mSv and the application of the nanocomposites significantly reduced the entrance surface dose. The results showed NPs concentration‐dependent CT number shift as the indication of X‐ray protection and the highest value was obtained by 30 wt% NPs. The obtained results implied that the fabricated nanocomposites effectively attenuate the radiation and they could be applied as the X‐ray shielding materials.</jats:p>

Topics

• nanoparticle
• nanocomposite
• dispersion
• surface
• polymer
• Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy
• evaporation
• electrospinning
• elemental analysis
• Bismuth