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Boron carbide nanowires from castor oil for optronic applications: a low‐temperature greener approach

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The development of one-dimensional nanostructures has revolutionized electronic and photonic industries because of their unique properties. The present paper reports the low-temperature green synthesis of boron carbide nanowires, of diameter 14 nm and length 2 µm, by the condensation method using castor oil as the carbon precursor. The nanowires synthesized exhibit beaded chain morphology, and bandgap energy of 2.08 eV revealed through the Tauc plot analysis. The structure of boron carbide nanowires is revealed by micro-Raman, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic, and X-ray diffraction analyses. The thermogravimetric analysis of the sample reveals the excellent thermal stability. The photoluminescence study reveals the nanowire’s blue light emission capability under ultraviolet excitation, which is substantiated by the CIE plot suggesting its potential in photonic applications.

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The author H.V. Saritha Devi is grateful to Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) for the fellowship. We had put the manuscript in research square (DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-60234/v1), because of the novelty and the relevance of work in the field of semiconductor technology where the nanowires find tremendous applications.

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SarithaDevi, H.V., Swapna, M.S. & Sankararaman, S. Boron carbide nanowires from castor oil for optronic applications: a low‐temperature greener approach. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 7391–7398 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-05449-w

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