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Carbon Dots from Human Hair Waste Improve Stability, Performance of Solar Cells
Scientists from the
Image Credit: Queensland University of Technology.
The researchers have designed these carbon dots using human hair waste sourced from a barbershop in Brisbane.
The research team, headed by Professor Hongxia Wang in association with Associate Professor Prashant Sonar from QUT’s Centre for Materials Science, has demonstrated how the carbon nanodots can potentially be used to enhance the performance of perovskite solar cells. The study has been published in the
Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
Perovskite solar cells are a comparatively new photovoltaic technology and are regarded as the ideal PV candidate to supply highly efficient, low cost solar electricity in the days to come.