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Liu S, Hao Y, Sun M, Ren J, Li S, Wu Y, Sun Q, Hao Y. SnSe 2 Quantum Dots and Chlorhexidine Acetate Suppress Synergistically Non-radiative Recombination Loss for High Efficiency and Stability Perovskite Solar Cells. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024:e2402385. [PMID: 38742952 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202402385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2024] [Revised: 05/05/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
Abstract
Non-radiative recombination losses limit the property of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Here, a synergistic strategy of SnSe2QDs doping into SnO2 and chlorhexidine acetate (CA) coating on the surface of perovskite is proposed. The introduction of 2D SnSe2QDs reduces the oxygen vacancy defects and increases the carrier mobility of SnO2. The optimized SnO2 as a buried interface obviously improves the crystallization quality of perovskite. The CA containing abundant active sites of ─NH2/─NH─, ─C═N, CO, ─Cl groups passivate the defects on the surface and grain boundary of perovskite. The alkyl chain of CA also improves the hydrophobicity of perovskite. Moreover, the synergism of SnSe2QDs and CA releases the residual stress and regulates the energy level arrangement at the top and bottom interface of perovskite. Benefiting from these advantages, the bulk and interface non-radiative recombination loss is greatly suppressed and thereby increases the carrier transport and extraction in devices. As a result, the best power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 23.41% for rigid PSCs and the best PCE of 21.84% for flexible PSCs are reached. The rigid PSC maintains 89% of initial efficiency after storing nitrogen for 3100 h. The flexible PSCs retain 87% of the initial PCE after 5000 bending cycles at a bending radius of 5 mm.
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- Shaoting Liu
- College of Physics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China
- Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan, 030000, China
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- College of Physics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China
- Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan, 030000, China
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- College of Physics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China
- Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan, 030000, China
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- College of Physics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China
- Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan, 030000, China
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- College of Physics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China
- Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan, 030000, China
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- College of Physics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China
- Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan, 030000, China
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- College of Physics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China
- Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan, 030000, China
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- College of Physics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China
- Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan, 030000, China
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Kumar A, Kim JH, Chang DW. Flexible and Ultra Low Weight Energy Harvesters Based on 2D Phosphorene or Black phosphorus (BP): Current and Futuristic Prospects. CHEMSUSCHEM 2024:e202301718. [PMID: 38318655 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202301718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2023] [Revised: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/07/2024]
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Phosphorene, or two-dimensional (2D) black phosphorus, has recently emerged as a competitor of graphene as it offers several advantages, including a tunable band gap, higher on/off current ratio, piezoelectric nature, and biocompatibility. Researchers have succeeded in obtaining several forms of phosphorene, such as nanosheets, nanorods, nanoribbons, and quantum dots, with satisfactory yields. Nanostructures with various controlled properties have been fabricated in multiple devices for energy production. These phosphorene-based devices are lightweight, flexible, and efficient, demonstrating great potential for energy-harvesting applications in sensors and nanogenerators. While ongoing exploration and advancements continue for these lightweight energy harvesters, it is essential to review the current progress in order to develop a future roadmap for the potential use of these phosphorene-based energy harvesters in space programs. They could be employed in applications such as wearable devices for astronauts, where ultralow weight is a vital component of any integrated device. This review also anticipates the growing significance of phosphorene in various emerging applications such as robots, information storage devices, and artificial intelligence.
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- Avneesh Kumar
- Department of Industrial Chemistry and CECS Core Research Institute, Pukyong National University, Busan, 48513, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Polymer Engineering and CECS Core Research Institute, Pukyong National University, Busan, 48513, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Industrial Chemistry and CECS Core Research Institute, Pukyong National University, Busan, 48513, Republic of Korea
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Yin Y, Zhou Y, Rafailovich MH, Nam CY. Recent advances of two-dimensional material additives in hybrid perovskite solar cells. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2023; 34:172001. [PMID: 36652701 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/acb441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have become one of the state-of-the-art photovoltaic technologies due to their facile solution-based fabrication processes combined with extremely high photovoltaic performance originating from excellent optoelectronic properties such as strong light absorption, high charge mobility, long free charge carrier diffusion length, and tunable direct bandgap. However, the poor intrinsic stability of hybrid perovskites under environmental stresses including light, heat, and moisture, which is often associated with high defect density in the perovskite, has limited the large-scale commercialization and deployment of PSCs. The use of process additives, which can be included in various subcomponent layers in the PSC, has been identified as one of the effective approaches that can address these issues and improve the photovoltaic performance. Among various additives that have been explored, two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged recently due to their unique structures and properties that can enhance the photovoltaic performance and device stability by improving perovskite crystallization, defect passivation, and charge transport. Here, we provide a review of the recent progresses in 2D material additives for improving the PSC performance based on key representative 2D material systems, including graphene and its derivatives, transitional metal dichalcogenides, and black phosphorous, providing a useful guideline for further exploiting unique nanomaterial additives for more efficient and stable PSCs in the near future.
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- Yifan Yin
- Department of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States of America
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- Department of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States of America
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- Department of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States of America
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- Department of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States of America
- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton 11973, United States of America
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Gu B, Du Y, Fang S, Chen X, Li X, Xu Q, Lu H. Fabrication of UV-Stable Perovskite Solar Cells with Compact Fe 2O 3 Electron Transport Layer by FeCl 3 Solution and Fe 3O 4 Nanoparticles. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 12:4415. [PMID: 36558268 PMCID: PMC9781711 DOI: 10.3390/nano12244415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 12/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Even though Fe2O3 is reported as the electron-transporting layer (ETL) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs), its fabrication and defects limit its performance. Herein, we report a Fe2O3 ETL prepared from FeCl3 solution with a dopant Fe3O4 nanoparticle modification. It is found that the mixed solution can reduce the defects and enhance the performance of Fe2O3 ETL, contributing to improved electron transfer and suppressed charge recombination. Consequently, the best efficiency is improved by more than 118% for the optimized device. The stability efficiency of the Fe2O3-ETL-based device is nearly 200% higher than that of the TiO2-ETL-based device after 7 days measurement under a 300 W Xe lamp. This work provides a facile method to fabricate environmentally friendly, high-quality Fe2O3 ETL for perovskite photovoltaic devices and provides a guide for defect passivation research.
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- Bangkai Gu
- School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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Zhou Y, Yang J, Luo X, Li Y, Qiu Q, Xie T. Selection, Preparation and Application of Quantum Dots in Perovskite Solar Cells. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23169482. [PMID: 36012746 PMCID: PMC9409050 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23169482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Revised: 08/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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As the third generation of new thin-film solar cells, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted much attention for their excellent photovoltaic performance. Today, PSCs have reported the highest photovoltaic conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.5%, which is an encouraging value, very close to the highest PCE of the most widely used silicon-based solar cells. However, scholars have found that PSCs have problems of being easily decomposed under ultraviolet (UV) light, poor stability, energy level mismatch and severe hysteresis, which greatly limit their industrialization. As unique materials, quantum dots (QDs) have many excellent properties and have been widely used in PSCs to address the issues mentioned above. In this article, we describe the application of various QDs as additives in different layers of PSCs, as luminescent down-shifting materials, and directly as electron transport layers (ETL), light-absorbing layers and hole transport layers (HTL). The addition of QDs optimizes the energy level arrangement within the device, expands the range of light utilization, passivates defects on the surface of the perovskite film and promotes electron and hole transport, resulting in significant improvements in both PCE and stability. We summarize in detail the role of QDs in PSCs, analyze the perspective and associated issues of QDs in PSCs, and finally offer our insights into the future direction of development.
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- Yankai Zhou
- Engineering Research Center for Hydrogen Energy Materials and Devices, College of Rare Earths, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, 86 Hong Qi Road, Ganzhou 341000, China
- Faculty of Materials Metallurgy and Chemistry, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, 86 Hong Qi Road, Ganzhou 341000, China
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- Engineering Research Center for Hydrogen Energy Materials and Devices, College of Rare Earths, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, 86 Hong Qi Road, Ganzhou 341000, China
- Faculty of Materials Metallurgy and Chemistry, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, 86 Hong Qi Road, Ganzhou 341000, China
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- Faculty of Materials Metallurgy and Chemistry, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, 86 Hong Qi Road, Ganzhou 341000, China
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- Engineering Research Center for Hydrogen Energy Materials and Devices, College of Rare Earths, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, 86 Hong Qi Road, Ganzhou 341000, China
- Faculty of Materials Metallurgy and Chemistry, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, 86 Hong Qi Road, Ganzhou 341000, China
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- Engineering Research Center for Hydrogen Energy Materials and Devices, College of Rare Earths, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, 86 Hong Qi Road, Ganzhou 341000, China
- Correspondence:
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- College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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