ACS Applied Energy Materials
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Jiuyao Du,Jifeng Yuan,Hui Wang,Fei Huang,Jianjun Tian
Charge carrier recombination caused by the buried interface defects in perovskite solar cells is widely accepted as a challenge that seriously degrades device performance and stability. Herein, we devise a facile method to passivate the buried titanium dioxide (TiO2)/perovskite interface using potassium hydroxide (KOH) through a wet chemical process. OH– and K+ can coordinate with the undercoordinated Ti and O on the TiO2 surface, respectively. Meanwhile, due to the strong interaction between K+ and Br–, Br– in the MAPbI2.85Br0.15 perovskite would be attracted and thus migrate toward the TiO2/perovskite interface during the formation process. Hence, KOH can not only passivate the interface but also effectively glue the TiO2 electron transfer layer and the perovskite layer together to generate a tightly integrated interface, which effectively reduces interface defects. Moreover, KOH at the interface can mediate the nucleation process and promote the formation of the perovskite layer with less defects. Thus, improved charge carrier extraction and reduced nonradiative recombination are achieved. As a result, the perovskite solar cell with KOH interface passivation demonstrates an increase in power conversion efficiency from 17.12 to 19.19%, associated with a good improvement of stability.
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Frontiers in Materials
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2022
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Long Biyu,Zhou Xianzi,Cao Huafeng,Chen Renjie,He Nannan,Chi Lina,Fan Penghui,Chen Xiaohong
Superior encapsulation technology is important for PSCs to prolong their lifetime and realize their commercial application. Paraffin/EVA/paraffin composite encapsulated layers were fabricated with the ambient environment under the thermal temperature of 80°C, which has advantages for simple procedures and low cost. PSCs encapsulated with paraffin/EVA/paraffin and pure EVA layers maintained 95 and 45% of the initial power conversion efficiency (PCE) aged for 1000 h at RH 75%, respectively. Paraffin/EVA/paraffin-encapsulated PSCs were immersed in water for 5 h, which remained 98% of the original PCE, which is far superior to EVA-encapsulated PSCs. High melting point paraffin at 68°C shows better encapsulation than low melting point (60 and 55°C) paraffin, indicating that the high molecular weight of paraffin helps improve the encapsulation performance of PSCs. PSCs encapsulated with paraffin/EVA/paraffin showed better stability of Voc than pure EVA layer because paraffin can inhibit defects, voids, and edges of metal electrodes that quickly expand, and decay. Therefore, paraffin/EVA/paraffin combination encapsulation is an effective strategy, which can form continuous and dense hydrophobic composite encapsulation films with a friendly metal electrode.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2022
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Beier Hu,Jing Zhang,Zhongli Guo,Lihua Lu,Puyang Li,Mengyu Chen,Cheng Li
Instability caused by the migrating ions is one of the major obstacles toward the large-scale application of metal halide perovskite optoelectronics. Inactivating mobile ions/defects via chemical passivation, e.g., amino acid treatment, is a widely accepted approach to solve that problem. To investigate the detailed interplay, L-phenylalanine (PAA), a typical amino acid, is used to modify the SnO2/MAPbI3 interface. The champion device with PAA treatment maintains 80% of its initial power conversion efficiency (PCE) when stored after 528 h in an ambient condition with the relative humidity exceeding 70%. By employing a wide-field photoluminescence imaging microscope to visualize the ion movement and calculate ionic mobility quantitatively, we propose a model for enhanced stability in perspective of suppressed ion migration. Besides, we reveal that the PAA dipole layer facilitates charge transfer at the interface, enhancing the PCE of devices. Our work may provide an in-depth understanding toward high-efficiency and stable perovskite optoelectronic devices.
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Journal of Environmental Sciences
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2022
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IF 6.796
Jie Wen,Zewei Liu,Hongxia Xi,Bichun Huang
In this work, hydrothermal technique combined with KOH activation were employed to develop a series of porous carbons (NPCK- x ) using tobacco stem as a low-cost carbon source and (NH 4 ) 2 C 2 O 4 as a novel nitrogen-doping agent. Physicochemical properties of NPCK- x were characterized by Brunauer-Emmett-Teller, field emission scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, Raman microscope, elemental analysis, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Results showed that the NPCK- x samples possessed large surface areas (maximum: 2875 m 2 /g), hierarchical porous structures, and high degree of disorder. N-containing functional groups decomposed during activation process, which could be the dominant reason for appearance of abundant mesopores and well-developed pore structure. Dynamic chlorobenzene adsorption experiments demonstrated that carbon materials with (NH 4 ) 2 C 2 O 4 modification exhibited higher adsorption capacity (maximum: 1053 mg/g) than those without modification (maximum: 723 mg/g). The reusability studies of chlorobenzene indicated that the desorption efficiency of (NH 4 ) 2 C 2 O 4 modified porous carbon reached 90.40% after thermal desorption at 100°C under N 2 atmosphere. Thomas model fitting results exhibited that the existence of mesopores accelerated the diffusion rate of chlorobenzene in porous carbon. Moreover, Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulation was conducted to verify that micropores with pore sizes of 1.2–2 nm of the optimized porous carbon were the best adsorption sites for chlorobenzene and mesopores with pore sizes of 2–5 nm were also highly active sites for chlorobenzene adsorption.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2022
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IF 10.383
Qian-Qian Chu,Zhijian Sun,Yan Liu,Hao Cui,Bo Cheng,Davoud Dastan,Kyoung-sik Moon,Guan-Jun Yang,Ching-Ping Wong
As one of the most competitive light-harvesting materials, organometal halide perovskites have attracted great attention due to their low-cost and top-down solution fabricability. However, the instability of perovskites in a moist environment reduces the potential for their commercialization. In this study, novel 2,4-fluorobenzylamine (FBA) was employed as the passivation material, which could successfully suppress the defects and improve the moisture resistance of perovskites, resulting in an ultrahigh power conversion efficiency of 17.6% for the carbon-based perovskite solar cells with good stability. Meanwhile, the whole process of interactions between the H2O molecule and the perovskite lattice was first elucidated by density functional theory calculations, which demonstrated the underlying mechanism of the improvement of moisture stability with the FBA treatment. This work opens up a new route toward addressing the main obstacles in the practical application of perovskite devices under ambient conditions.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry C
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2022
·Vol. 10
·期 16
·6473-6480
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Junhan Guo,Yang Tang,Longtao Li,Pengcheng Jia,Bo Song,Xin Liu,Xiaomeng Li,Zhenbo Deng,Zhidong Lou,Yufeng Hu,Feng Teng,Liang Qin,Yanbing Hou
Micro–nano cesium lead halide perovskites have become one of the most potential materials for optoelectronic applications due to their excellent photoelectric properties such as tunable band gap, high absorption efficiency, long carrier diffusion length, and high stability. Although significant efforts have been made to grow CsPbBr3 single crystal perovskites via solution processing, it is difficult to prepare discrete high-quality factors and small volumes of Fabry–Pérot (F–P) mode and whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) optical resonators on the substrate due to random nucleation and excessive nucleation points, which lead to the accretion of a large number of crystallites. In this work, CsPbBr3 crystallites with different aspect ratios have been prepared on poly[bis(4-phenyl) (2,4,6-trimethylphenyl) amine] (PTAA) modified glass substrates by combining the control of evaporation rate of anti-solvents with the coffee ring effect and Marangoni effect. Due to the hydrophobic properties of PTAA, the nucleation points are significantly reduced, resulting in the growth of high-quality and robust single crystals separated from each other. These crystallites exhibit a high-quality factor (Q = 1200–1600) with a threshold of 10–20 μJ cm−2. The results indicate that the prepared CsPbBr3 crystallites can be used as promising micro–nano F–P and WGM lasers.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2022
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IF 6.371
Haichao Liu,Cong Geng,Peng Wei,Huamei Chen,Shenshen Zheng,Haobin Wang,Yahong Xie
Recently, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted widespread attention due to their outstanding advantages. Hole-transport-material-free carbon-based PSCs (C-PSCs) are some of the most potential devices. However, intrinsically inferior contact at perovskite/carbon interfaces and low conductivity of carbon electrode are restricting the commercial application of C-PSCs. In this study, an N, O co-doped biomass porous composite carbon electrode based on KOH-activated soybean dregs carbon, conductive carbon black and polymethylmethacrylate—N-KSDC—is prepared via a spraying method to efficiently improve perovskite/carbon interface qualities as well as enhance the efficiency and stability of C-PSCs. The results showed that the best power conversion efficiencies of N-KSDC-based C-PSCs with an active area of 0.08 and 1 cm 2 were 13.45% and 11.08%, respectively. In addition, unencapsulated PSCs retained 92% of their initial power conversion efficiencies under ambient conditions without intentionally controlling humidity for 62 days. In this study, we propose a feasible and effective strategy to improve the performance and stability of perovskite/carbon interfaces in C-PSCs.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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Lei Zhang,Bingquan Han,Zhiyuan Liu,Yuxin Yao,Lingbo Xu,Peng Wang,Ping Lin,Xiaoping Wu,Xuegong Yu,Can Cui
CsPbI 3 all-inorganic perovskite has now drawn much attention due to its superior thermal stability compared with the organic-inorganic hybrid counterparts. Despite the great progress achieved recently in this field, CsPbI 3 still suffers from low phase stability when exposed to moisture. We found the phase transition of CsPbI 3 would be accelerated after depositing the conventional hole transport material (HTM) 2,2′,7,7′-Tetrakis[N,N-di(4-methoxyphenyl)amino]− 9,9′-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD). This is attributed to the negative effects of the additives in spiro-OMeTAD HTM: the hydrolysis of lithium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI), the corrosivity of 4-tert-butylpyridine (TBP), and the evaporation of TBP. By slightly modifying the additive content, full coordination between LiTFSI and TBP could be achieved and the negative effects mentioned above could be mitigated. Furthermore, tris(2-(1 H-pyrazol-1-yl)− 4-tert-butylpyridine)cobalt(III)-tris(bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide) (Co(III)TFSI) was added to promote oxidation of spiro-OMeTAD HTM in inert environment. With these approaches of additive engineering, HTMs with better interface contact and charge transport capability could be obtained. The device with optimized spiro-OMeTAD HTM achieved a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 10.61% compared with 6.63% of the control one. Moreover, the optimal device maintained 81% of its initial PCE after storage for 30 days, exceeding that (68%) of the control one. Our results highlight the importance of spiro-OMeTAD HTM on the stability of CsPbI 3 all-inorganic perovskite and provide a facile and feasible way to increase the stability and performance of corresponding solar cells.
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RSC Advances
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2022
·Vol. 12
·期 13
·7950-7960
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IF 4.036
Chuanxiang Zhang,Xiqiang Li,Lingling Ding,Chen Jin,Haijun Tao
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are considered to be ideal energy devices, where perovskite-type organic metal halides act as light-absorbing materials. In PSCs, the photoexcitons are extracted and separated to afford high photoelectric conversion efficiency under the action of the built-in electric field (Ebi). However, the current challenge is that a low Ebi cannot provide a sufficient driving force to separate photonic excitons, which causes the captured charges to escape from the deep energy-level defect state. Here, the ferroelectric material barium titanate (BaTiO3) was directly introduced into the perovskite precursor solution to reduce the defection density (to 8.58 × 1017 cm−3) in PSCs and promote the separation of photoexcitons. Furthermore, the addition of BaTiO3 improved the quality of the perovskite film and significantly increased the photoelectric performance after the polarization treatment. This is mainly attributed to the residual polarization electric field generated by ferroelectric polarization, which increased the Ebi of the PSCs and the width of the depletion layer and inhibited the non-radiative recombination of carriers. This work provides a possibility to design and develop optoelectronic devices with high-efficiency optoelectronic response behavior.
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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
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2022
·Vol. 24
·期 12
·7451-7457
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IF 3.945
Yifan Liu,Fei Zheng,Longlong Zhang,Weihua Ren,Zetong Sunli,Yufei Ma,Yuying Hao
Perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) are promising interface modification materials for perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, due to the limitation of the preparation method, it is hard to use PQDs as substrates for the growth of perovskite films by the common solution process. In this work, by introducing the rare earth element Ce into PQDs with the vacuum freezing and drying technology, we have successfully improved the solvent stability of PQDs. Moreover, we propose a technology, PQD dynamically mediated growth of perovskite film (PDMG), to prepare high-quality perovskite films, which can avoid the formation of PQD charge-blocking layers. Thanks to the improvement of perovskite crystallinity and the charge transport ability, the PCE is improved from 10.44% to 12.14% for CsPbI2Br PSCs and from 14.43% to 16.38% for CsPbI3 PSCs. Our work opens an avenue for using PQDs as substrates in the fabrication of highly efficient PSCs.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2022
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IF 10.383
Meiqin Xiao,Ting Xiang,Dohyung Kim,Miaosheng Wang,Wei Zhang,Mahshid Ahmadi,Ting Li,Xiaoyan Wu,Long Xu,Ping Chen
The multiple quantum well structure of a quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) perovskite leads to nonradiative Auger recombination (AR). This is due to high local carrier density in recombination centers, although the radiative recombination is improved by efficient energy transfer. In this study, we suppress the AR by introducing phenethylammonium acetate (PEAAc) into the quasi-2D PEA2Csn–1PbnBr3n+1 perovskite. The recombination centers of n ≥ 4 phases can be promoted because the COO– preferentially coordinates with Pb2+, inhibiting the fast formation of n = 1, 2, 3 phases with phenethylammonium anion (PEA+). Thus, the AR is suppressed due to the lower density of local charge carriers. To balance the AR suppression and decreasing binding energy in promoting the n ≥ 4 phases, the PEAAc:PEABr molar ratios are adjusted. At the optimal molar ratio, perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) with a maximum luminescence of ∼29942 cd m–2 and a maximum external quantum efficiency of ∼20.2% are achieved. These results confirm the most efficient PeLEDs based on PEA2Csn–1PbnBr3n+1 without passivation. Moreover, the efficiency roll off is significantly mitigated with a high threshold of over 3.51 mA/cm2. This study develops high-efficiency PeLEDs with a low efficiency rolloff.
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JOURNAL OF SOL-GEL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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2022
·Vol. 103
·期 3
·890-897
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IF 2.606
Tian Zhennan,Wu Taiqi,Hu Rong,Yu Junsheng,Cheng Jiang,Li Lu
In this study, a ZnO-Fe 2 O 3 thin film was designed as electron transport layer for organic solar cells (OSCs). The preparation strategy was based on the spin coating of aqueous sol–gel precursor. The result showed that composite ZnO-Fe 2 O 3 -based OSCs had higher power conversion efficiency than pure ZnO-based OSCs. To explain this result, morphology, optical and physical properties of ZnO-Fe 2 O 3 were investigated to analyze the relation between structure of interface layer and performance of OSCs. It was demonstrated that composite ZnO-Fe 2 O 3 layer had denser structure and lower surface roughness than pure ZnO layer. Thus, it showed a good contact with the active layer. Furthermore, 3.3% Fe 2 O 3 could reduce the W F and E g of ZnO, and greatly enhanced electron mobility from the acceptor (IT-4F) phase to the ZnO/ITO electrode. Meanwhile, ZnO-Fe 2 O 3 layer showed a low reflectivity that allowed more photons to entrance the active layer for utilization. Hence, the higher short-circuit current and power conversion efficiency were achieved in ZnO-Fe 2 O 3 -based OSCs.
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