[1] Examples of radiation sensitive materials are silver chloride, photoresists and biomaterials.
Examples of radiation insensitive materials are metals and ionic crystals such as quartz and sapphire.
The radiation effect depends on the type of the irradiating particles, their energy, and the number of incident particles per unit volume.
The persistence of the radiation effect depends on the stability of the induced physical and chemical change.
Physical radiation effects depending on diffusion properties can be thermally annealed whereby the original structure of the material is recovered.