Research Article

Enhancement of Fluorescence and Photostability Based on Interaction of Fluorescent Dyes with Silver Nanoparticles for Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Table 4

The kinetics of photodegradation and half-life time of dyes/Triton X-100 and dyes/silver NPs/Triton X-100.

Dyes Conditions Without filter With filter
(min−1) (min) (min−1) (min)

Coumarin 6Before adding silver8.37 × 10−582785.33 × 10−512984
After adding silver3.49 × 10−5198471.04 × 10−6665694
FluoresceinBefore adding silver9.80 × 10−570624.85 × 10−614270
After adding silver5.22 × 10−5132551.24 × 10−6554690
Rhodamine 6GBefore adding silver4.4 × 10−215.743.53 × 10−319.59
After adding silver4.89 × 10−5141431.04 × 10−6653773