Heavy-ion irradiation, as a novel breeding method, has demonstrated high efficiency in creating diverse new mutants. Compared to other physical mutagenic sources, such as X-rays and γ-rays ...

More information: Kazumasa Minami et al, The Appropriate Conditions for the Cell Sparing (FLASH) Effect Exist in Ultra-high Dose Rate Carbon Ion Irradiation, Anticancer Research (2025).

"Looking years into the future, there's a possibility that ion irradiation can be used to deliberately introduce defects into materials and manipulate them," he said. "But, in the near term ...

Published in Physical Review X on March 11, a new study has uncovered a key mechanism involving intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) in aqueous environments initiated by heavy-ion irradiation ...

A research team has made a significant breakthrough in cancer radiotherapy by identifying conditions under which carbon ion beams -- delivered at ultra-high dose rates (uHDR) -- can protect normal ...

reported for the first time the synergistic damage behavior of He ion irradiation and molten salt corrosion on CVD SiC at 750 °C. This work not only suggests the mechanism of the synergistic ...