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Exploring the Potential of Allamanda cathartica-derived Carbon Dots for Enhancing Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Performance

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Carbon dots (CD) produced through chemical sources need a passivation agent, unlike those created from natural sources. These CD have a vivid luminescence, mainly in the blue spectrum, which can be used in various fields of science and engineering. In this study, we have utilized the widely available Allamanda cathartica flowers to produce CD through solvothermal process. The resulting CD exhibited excellent optical properties with a fluorescence lifetime of 4.71 ns and an average particle size of 3.23 nm. The CD were utilized as co-sensitizers in a dye-sensitized solar cell with N719 dye which showed four times more efficiency than the only CD-sensitized device.

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by AYM, GS, and SK. The first draft of the manuscript was written by AYM and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Madkhli, A.Y., Souadi, G. & Kakroo, S. Exploring the Potential of Allamanda cathartica-derived Carbon Dots for Enhancing Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Performance. J. Electron. Mater. 53, 1067–1073 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-023-10807-x

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