Confinement of all-inorganic perovskite quantum dots assembled in metal-organic frameworks for ultrafast scintillator application.

Nucleation and growth of quantum dots (QDs) are thermodynamic processes driven by the total Gibbs free energy change (Δ). We discuss the nucleation and growth theory of perovskite quantum dots (PeQDs) inside a metal-organic framework (MOF) as a strong constraint framework, which can effectively confine the size of QDs below 3 nm and achieve a scintillator with an ultra-fast transient lifetime of fluorescence. Therefore, based on the requirements for the optical properties of ultra-fast scintillation materials, two kinds of suitable MOFs (UiO-67-bpy and MIL-101(Cr)) were selected for synthesis.