The production of ultra-thin layers of ion-exchange resin and metallic silver by electrospraying

Abstract

Highly efficient radioactive sources for use in radioisotope metrology have been prepared on ultra-thin layers of electrosprayed ion-exchange resin. The efficiency of these sources can be reduced for the purpose of radioactivity standardisation by coating them with conducting silver layers which are also produced by electrospraying. A description is given of improvements to the electrospraying methods together with details of the rotating oscillating source-mount turntable.