Earth abundant colloidal carbon quantum dots for luminescent solar concentrators

We reviewed the synthetic strategies, structure and properties of C-dots, and summarized the recent progress of C-dots based luminescent solar concentrators.

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Red and Green-emitting Biocompatible Carbon Quantum Dots for Efficient Tandem Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Journal of Materials Chemistry C ◽

10.1039/d1tc03095g ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yi Han ◽

Xiujian Zhao ◽

Alberto Vomiero ◽

Xiao Gong ◽

Haiguang Zhao

Keyword(s):

Quantum Dots ◽

Large Scale ◽

Carbon Quantum Dots ◽

Solar Concentrators ◽

Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are large-scale sunlight collectors, consisting of fluorophores embedded in waveguides, which can concentrate part of the absorbed sunlight at the borders of the slab through wave-guided...

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Harnessing the properties of colloidal quantum dots in luminescent solar concentrators

Chemical Society Reviews ◽

10.1039/c7cs00701a ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 47 (15) ◽

pp. 5866-5890 ◽

Cited By ~ 69

Author(s):

Yufeng Zhou ◽

Haiguang Zhao ◽

Dongling Ma ◽

Federico Rosei

Keyword(s):

Quantum Dots ◽

Recent Progress ◽

Colloidal Quantum Dots ◽

Solar Concentrators ◽

Luminescent Solar Concentrators

This review summarizes the recent progress, challenges and perspectives of luminescent solar concentrators based on colloidal quantum dots via harnessing their properties.

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Recent advances in green fabrication of luminescent solar concentrators using nontoxic quantum dots as fluorophores

Journal of Materials Chemistry C ◽

10.1039/c9tc03520f ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (40) ◽

pp. 12373-12387 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Zhilin Li ◽

Xiujian Zhao ◽

Chaobo Huang ◽

Xiao Gong

Keyword(s):

Quantum Dots ◽

Recent Progress ◽

Solar Concentrators ◽

Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽

Recent Advances

The recent progress in fabricating luminescent solar concentrators using green quantum dots was summarized.

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High-performance laminated luminescent solar concentrators based on colloidal carbon quantum dots

Nanoscale Advances ◽

10.1039/c9na00527g ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (12) ◽

pp. 4888-4894 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Haiguang Zhao ◽

Guiju Liu ◽

Guangting Han

Keyword(s):

Quantum Dots ◽

Quantum Dot ◽

High Performance ◽

Single Layer ◽

Carbon Quantum Dots ◽

Solar Concentrator ◽

Solar Concentrators ◽

Carbon Quantum Dot ◽

Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽

Luminescent Solar Concentrator

A carbon-quantum-dot based laminated luminescent solar concentrator exhibits an ηopt of 1.6%, 1.6 times higher than that of a single-layer LSC.

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Highly efficient luminescent solar concentrators based on earth-abundant indirect-bandgap silicon quantum dots

Nature Photonics ◽

10.1038/nphoton.2017.5 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 177-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 174

Author(s):

Francesco Meinardi ◽

Samantha Ehrenberg ◽

Lorena Dhamo ◽

Francesco Carulli ◽

Michele Mauri ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Quantum Dots ◽

Silicon Quantum Dots ◽

Solar Concentrators ◽

Highly Efficient ◽

Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽

Earth Abundant

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Gram-scale synthesis of carbon quantum dots with a large Stokes shift for the fabrication of eco-friendly and high-efficiency luminescent solar concentrators

Energy & Environmental Science ◽

10.1039/d0ee02235g ◽

2021 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Haiguang Zhao ◽

Guiju Liu ◽

Shujie You ◽

Franco V. A. Camargo ◽

Margherita Zavelani-Rossi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Quantum Dots ◽

High Efficiency ◽

Stokes Shift ◽

Carbon Quantum Dots ◽

Large Area ◽

Optical Efficiency ◽

Solar Concentrators ◽

Large Stokes Shift ◽

Highly Efficient ◽

Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Highly efficient large-area luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) were demonstrated using colloidal C-dots. The large-area LSC (225 cm2) exhibited an external optical efficiency of 2.2% (under natural sun irradiation, 60 mW cm−2).

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