Perikala, Manasa and Bhardwaj, Asha (2022) Waste to white light: a sustainable method for converting biohazardous waste to broadband white LEDs. In: RSC Advances, 12 (18). pp. 11443-11453. ISSN 2046-2069
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Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has generated a lot of non-degradable biohazardous plastic waste across the globe in the form of disposable surgical and N95 masks, gloves, face shields, syringes, bottles and plastic storage containers. In the present work we address this problem by recycling plastic waste to single system white light emitting carbon dots (CDs) using a pyrolytic method. The synthesized CDs have been embedded into a transparent polymer to form a carbon dot phosphor. This CD phosphor has a broad emission bandwidth of 205 nm and is stable against photo degradation for about a year. A white LED with CRI ∼70 and CIE co-ordinates of (0.25, 0.32) using the fabricated CD phosphor is reported. Further our phosphor is scalable and is environmentally sustainable, and will find wide application in next generation artificial lighting systems.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | RSC Advances |
| Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Additional Information: | The copyright of this article belongs to the Authors. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Instrumentation Appiled Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 23 May 2022 11:40 |
| Last Modified: | 23 May 2022 11:40 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/72361 |
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