TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Sept. 29 -- Florida State University issued the following news release:

Florida State University researchers have developed a method to make a class of materials more robust and potentially easier to manufacture for advanced radiation detection devices, including those used in medical imaging and radiation therapy as well as space technologies.

Nearly a decade ago, FSU Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Biwu Ma and his lab pioneered research on low-dimensional organic metal halide hybrids, or OMHHs, and have since expanded the materials' structures, properties and applications across a range of technologies and industries. Now, in collaboration with Robert O. Lawton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Joseph Sc...