Development of nitrogen-decorated carbon dots (NCDs) thermally conductive film for windows application

Goei Ronn; Tan Frankie Ting Feng; Ong Amanda Jiamin; Mandler Daniel; Tok Alfred Iing Yoong

doi:10.1007/s42823-022-00337-7

Development of nitrogen-decorated carbon dots (NCDs) thermally conductive film for windows application

Carbon Letters
Abbr : Carbon Lett.
2022, 32(4), pp.1065-1072
DOI : 10.1007/s42823-022-00337-7
Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General
Received : February 17, 2022
Accepted : March 9, 2022
Published : June 1, 2022

Goei Ronn ¹, Tan Frankie Ting Feng ², Ong Amanda Jiamin ³, Mandler Daniel ⁴, Tok Alfred Iing Yoong ¹

¹School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
²School of Materials Science and Engineering
³School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological Uni
⁴Singapore-HUJ Alliance for Research and Enterprise, NEW-CREATE Phase II, Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE)

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ABSTRACT

A thermally conductive film can be used to laterally conduct heat along the surface of glass windows, toward its edges where a heat sink could be located, thereby reducing temperature differential between the inside and outside surfaces of the window and thus lowering cross-sectional conductive heat transfer. This technique can offer optimized thermal energy management to modern buildings without the weight and cost of double- or triple-glazed window panels. In this work, a thermally conductive film was developed using carbon dots with inherently high thermal conductivity. Nitrogen atoms were then added to the carbon dots structure to intensify high-frequency phonon that would result in higher lateral thermal conductivity. The nitrogen-decorated carbon dots (NCDs) were prepared by a simple hydrothermal synthesis of citric acid with the addition of ethylenediamine as the N source. The NCDs were added to a cellulose-based solution and drop-casted onto FTO glass resulting in a transparent, laterally thermally conductive film, that also blocks ultraviolet (UV) and high-intensity blue light radiation. The visible-light transmission of the NCDs’ film was found to be up to 65%, comparable to the commercial solar films. The lateral thermal conductivity of the NCDs’ film increases with increasing N content up to an optimum level, suggesting the role of N to “concentrate’ the high-frequency phonons responsible for effective lateral thermal conductivity of the films.

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Nitrogen-decorated carbon dots Heat conduction film Carbon quantum dots NCDs High-frequency phonon tunneling effect

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