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Li F, Lin FR, Jen AKY. Current State and Future Perspectives of Printable Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells. Adv Mater 2024; 36:e2307161. [PMID: 37828582 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202307161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Revised: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
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Photovoltaic technology presents a sustainable solution to address the escalating global energy consumption and a reliable strategy for achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Emerging photovoltaic technologies, especially the printable organic and perovskite solar cells, have attracted extensive attention due to their rapidly transcending power conversion efficiencies and facile processability, providing great potential to revolutionize the global photovoltaic market. To accelerate these technologies to translate from the laboratory scale to the industrial level, it is critical to develop well-defined and scalable protocols to deposit high-quality thin films of photoactive and charge-transporting materials. Herein, the current state of printable organic and perovskite solar cells is summarized and the view regarding the challenges and prospects toward their commercialization is shared. Different printing techniques are first introduced to provide a correlation between material properties and printing mechanisms, and the optimization of ink formulation and film-formation during large-area deposition of different functional layers in devices are then discussed. Engineering perspectives are also discussed to analyze the criteria for module design. Finally, perspectives are provided regarding the future development of these solar cells toward practical commercialization. It is believed that this perspective will provide insight into the development of printable solar cells and other electronic devices.
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- Fengzhu Li
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, 999077, Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Institute for Clean Energy, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, 999077, Hong Kong
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, 999077, Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Institute for Clean Energy, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, 999077, Hong Kong
- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, 999077, Hong Kong
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, 999077, Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Institute for Clean Energy, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, 999077, Hong Kong
- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, 999077, Hong Kong
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Huang H, Yang W. MXene-Based Micro-Supercapacitors: Ink Rheology, Microelectrode Design and Integrated System. ACS Nano 2024. [PMID: 38307615 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c10246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2024]
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MXenes have shown great potential for micro-supercapacitors (MSCs) due to the high metallic conductivity, tunable interlayer spacing and intercalation pseudocapacitance. In particular, the negative surface charge and high hydrophilicity of MXenes make them suitable for various solution processing strategies. Nevertheless, a comprehensive review of solution processing of MXene MSCs has not been conducted. In this review, we present a comprehensive summary of the state-of-the-art of MXene MSCs in terms of ink rheology, microelectrode design and integrated system. The ink formulation and rheological behavior of MXenes for different solution processing strategies, which are essential for high quality printed/coated films, are presented. The effects of MXene and its compounds, 3D electrode structure, and asymmetric design on the electrochemical properties of MXene MSCs are discussed in detail. Equally important, we summarize the integrated system and intelligent applications of MXene MSCs and present the current challenges and prospects for the development of high-performance MXene MSCs.
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- Haichao Huang
- Research Institute of Frontier Science, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
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- Research Institute of Frontier Science, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
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Ren S, Wang Z, Chen J, Wang S, Yi Z. Organic Transistors Based on Highly Crystalline Donor-Acceptor π-Conjugated Polymer of Pentathiophene and Diketopyrrolopyrrole. Molecules 2024; 29:457. [PMID: 38257368 PMCID: PMC10819643 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29020457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2023] [Revised: 01/11/2024] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
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Oligomers and polymers consisting of multiple thiophenes are widely used in organic electronics such as organic transistors and sensors because of their strong electron-donating ability. In this study, a solution to the problem of the poor solubility of polythiophene systems was developed. A novel π-conjugated polymer material, PDPP-5Th, was synthesized by adding the electron acceptor unit, DPP, to the polythiophene system with a long alkyl side chain, which facilitated the solution processing of the material for the preparation of devices. Meanwhile, the presence of the multicarbonyl groups within the DPP molecule facilitated donor-acceptor interactions in the internal chain, which further improved the hole-transport properties of the polythiophene-based material. The weak forces present within the molecules that promoted structural coplanarity were analyzed using theoretical simulations. Furthermore, the grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray scanning (GIWAXS) results indicated that PDPP-5Th features high crystallinity, which is favorable for efficient carrier migration within and between polymer chains. The material showed hole transport properties as high as 0.44 cm2 V-1 s-1 in conductivity testing. Our investigations demonstrate the great potential of this polymer material in the field of optoelectronics.
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- Shiwei Ren
- Zhuhai-Fudan Research Institute of Innovation, Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone, Hengqin 519031, China;
- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
- Technical Center of Gongbei Customs District, Zhuhai 519001, China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China;
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- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Alternative Technologies for Fine Chemicals Process, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing 312000, China
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- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Zhuhai-Fudan Research Institute of Innovation, Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone, Hengqin 519031, China;
- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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Kim J, Rhee D, Jung M, Cheon GJ, Kim K, Kim JH, Park JY, Yoon J, Lim DU, Cho JH, Kim IS, Son D, Jariwala D, Kang J. Defect-Engineered Semiconducting van der Waals Thin Film at Metal-Semiconductor Interface of Field-Effect Transistors. ACS Nano 2024; 18:1073-1083. [PMID: 38100089 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c10453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
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The significance of metal-semiconductor interfaces and their impact on electronic device performance have gained increasing attention, with a particular focus on investigating the contact metal. However, another avenue of exploration involves substituting the contact metal at the metal-semiconductor interface of field-effect transistors with semiconducting layers to introduce additional functionalities to the devices. Here, a scalable approach for fabricating metal-oxide-semiconductor (channel)-semiconductor (interfacial layer) field-effect transistors is proposed by utilizing solution-processed semiconductors, specifically semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes and molybdenum disulfide, as the channel and interfacial semiconducting layers, respectively. The work function of the interfacial MoS2 is modulated by controlling the sulfur vacancy concentration through chemical treatment, which results in distinctive energy band alignments within a single device configuration. The resulting band alignments lead to multiple functionalities, including multivalued transistor characteristics and multibit nonvolatile memory (NVM) behavior. Moreover, leveraging the stable NVM properties, we demonstrate artificial synaptic devices with 88.9% accuracy of MNIST image recognition.
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- Jihyun Kim
- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
- Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
- Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Nanophotonics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
- KIST-SKKU Carbon-Neutral Research Center, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
- Nanophotonics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
- KIST-SKKU Carbon-Neutral Research Center, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
- Nanophotonics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
- KIST-SKKU Carbon-Neutral Research Center, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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Ren S, Wang Z, Zhang W, Yassar A, Chen J, Wang S. Incorporation of Diketopyrrolopyrrole into Polythiophene for the Preparation of Organic Polymer Transistors. Molecules 2024; 29:260. [PMID: 38202843 PMCID: PMC10780697 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29010260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2023] [Revised: 12/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/01/2024] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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Polythiophene, as a class of potential electron donor units, is widely used in organic electronics such as transistors. In this work, a novel polymeric material, PDPPTT-FT, was prepared by incorporating the electron acceptor unit into the polythiophene system. The incorporation of the DPP molecule assists in improving the solubility of the material and provides a convenient method for the preparation of field effect transistors via subsequent solution processing. The introduction of fluorine atoms forms a good intramolecular conformational lock, and theoretical calculations show that the structure displays excellent co-planarity and regularity. Grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray (GIWAXS) results indicate that the PDPPTT-FT is highly crystalline, which facilitates carrier migration within and between polymer chains. The hole mobility of this π-conjugated material is as high as 0.30 cm2 V-1 s-1 in organic transistor measurements, demonstrating the great potential of this polymer material in the field of optoelectronics.
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- Shiwei Ren
- Zhuhai-Fudan Research Institute of Innovation, Hengqin 519000, China;
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Alternative Technologies for Fine Chemicals Process, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing 312000, China
- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
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- Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France;
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- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Alternative Technologies for Fine Chemicals Process, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing 312000, China
- Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
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- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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Yu H, Guan J, Chen Y, Sun Y, Zhou S, Zheng J, Zhang Q, Li S, Zhang S. Large-Area Soluble Covalent Organic Framework Oligomer Coating for Organic Solution Nanofiltration Membranes. Small 2024; 20:e2305613. [PMID: 37712119 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202305613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023]
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Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a family of engaging membrane materials for molecular separation, which remain challenging to fabricate in the form of thin-film composite membranes due to slow crystal growth and insoluble powder. Here, an additive approach is presented to construct COF-based thin-film composite membranes in 10 min via COF oligomer coating onto poly(ether ether ketone) (PEEK)ultrafiltration membranes. By the virtue of ultra-thin liquid phase and liquid-solid interface-confined assembly, the COF oligomers are fast stacked up and grow along the interface with the solvent evaporation. Benefiting from the low out-plane resistance of COFs, COF@PEEK composite membranes exhibit high solvent permeances in a negative correlation with solvent viscosity. The well-defined pore structures enable high molecular sieving ability (Mw = 300 g mol-1 ). Besides, the COF@PEEK composite membranes possess excellent mechanical integrities and steadily operate for over 150 h in the condition of high-pressure cross flow. This work not only exemplifies the high-efficiency and scale-up preparation of COF-based thin-film composite membranes but also provides a new strategy for COF membrane processing.
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- Huiting Yu
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China
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- Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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Wan S, Xiao S, Li M, Wang X, Lim KH, Hong M, Ibáñez M, Cabot A, Liu Y. Band Engineering Through Pb-Doping of Nanocrystal Building Blocks to Enhance Thermoelectric Performance in Cu 3 SbSe 4. Small Methods 2023:e2301377. [PMID: 38152986 DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202301377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Revised: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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Developing cost-effective and high-performance thermoelectric (TE) materials to assemble efficient TE devices presents a multitude of challenges and opportunities. Cu3 SbSe4 is a promising p-type TE material based on relatively earth abundant elements. However, the challenge lies in its poor electrical conductivity. Herein, an efficient and scalable solution-based approach is developed to synthesize high-quality Cu3 SbSe4 nanocrystals doped with Pb at the Sb site. After ligand displacement and annealing treatments, the dried powders are consolidated into dense pellets, and their TE properties are investigated. Pb doping effectively increases the charge carrier concentration, resulting in a significant increase in electrical conductivity, while the Seebeck coefficients remain consistently high. The calculated band structure shows that Pb doping induces band convergence, thereby increasing the effective mass. Furthermore, the large ionic radius of Pb2+ results in the generation of additional point and plane defects and interphases, dramatically enhancing phonon scattering, which significantly decreases the lattice thermal conductivity at high temperatures. Overall, a maximum figure of merit (zTmax ) ≈ 0.85 at 653 K is obtained in Cu3 Sb0.97 Pb0.03 Se4 . This represents a 1.6-fold increase compared to the undoped sample and exceeds most doped Cu3 SbSe4 -based materials produced by solid-state, demonstrating advantages of versatility and cost-effectiveness using a solution-based technology.
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- Shanhong Wan
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, P. R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, P. R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, P. R. China
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- Center of Analysis and Test, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, P. R. China
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- Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou, 99 Zheda Rd, Quzhou, 324000, P. R. China
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- Centre for Future Materials, and School of Engineering, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield Central, Queensland, 4300, Australia
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- IST Austria, Am Campus 1, Klosterneuburg, 3400, Austria
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- Catalonia Institute for Energy Research-IREC, Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, 08930, Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats - ICREA, Barcelona, 08010, Spain
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, P. R. China
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Dickson LE, Cranston RR, Xu H, Swaraj S, Seferos DS, Lessard BH. Blade Coating Poly(3-hexylthiophene): The Importance of Molecular Weight on Thin-Film Microstructures. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023; 15:55109-55118. [PMID: 37963182 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c12335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2023]
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Poly(3-hexylthiophene) is one of the most prevalent and promising conjugated polymers for use in organic electronics. However, the deposition of this material in thin films is highly dependent on the process, such as blade coating versus spin coating and material properties such as molecular weight. Typically, large polymer dispersity makes it difficult to isolate the effect of molecular weight without considering a distribution. In this study, we characterize oligothiophenes of exactly 8, 11, and 14 repeat units, which were deposited into thin films by varying blade coating conditions and postdeposition annealing. From synchrotron-based grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS), scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) and near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (NEXAFS), Raman microscopy, optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction (XRD), it was suggested that higher molecular weight polymers exhibit a fast-forming crystalline polymorph (form-1) while low molecular weight polymers exhibit a slow forming polymorph (form-2) with large domain boundaries. As molecular weight is gradually increased, the polymorph formed transitions from form-1 and form-2, where 11 repeat unit oligomers display both polymorphs. We also found that processing conditions can increase the formation of the form-2 polymorph. We also report improved organic thin film transistor (OTFT) performance when form-1 is present. Overall, oligothiophene polymorph formation is highly dependent on the molecular weight and processing conditions, providing critical insight into the importance of polymer weight control in the development of thin-film electronics based on conjugated polymers.
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- Laura E Dickson
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- L'Orme des Merisiers, Départementale 128, SOLEIL Synchrotron, Saint-Aubin 91190, France
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
- Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E5, Canada
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Ave., Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
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Gupta B, Zhang D, Chen H, Jagadish C, Tan HH, Karuturi S. Ferri-hydrite: A Novel Electron-Selective Contact Layer for InP Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Cells. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023; 15:44912-44920. [PMID: 37712229 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c08560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/16/2023]
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Solar energy conversion devices with charge-selective contacts are attracting significant research interest as a cost-effective alternative to homojunction counterparts. This study presents a novel approach for fabricating high-performance solar cells based on InP heterojunctions using a solution-processed ferri-hydrite (Fh) electron-selective contact (ESC). The champion cell efficiency of 16.6% is achieved, which is a significant improvement over those from previous studies using other solution-processed ESC materials. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements showed that the low conduction band offset at the Fh-InP interface facilitated selective transport of photogenerated electrons from InP. Moreover, the Fh electron-selective contact layer provided an excellent photoelectrochemical half-cell water reduction efficiency of 8.4%. The Fh layer not only selectively extracts photogenerated electrons from InP but also simultaneously serves as a surface protection layer, improving the cell's long-term stability. These results demonstrate the potential of Fh as a low-cost and easily fabricated material for use in high-efficiency photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices. Our findings pave the way for further improvements in the efficiency of InP heterojunction solar cells by addressing the losses incurred in the cells.
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- Bikesh Gupta
- Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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- School of Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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- Faculty of Science, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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- Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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- School of Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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Kelly AG, Sheil S, Douglas-Henry DA, Caffrey E, Gabbett C, Doolan L, Nicolosi V, Coleman JN. Transparent Conductors Printed from Grids of Highly Conductive Silver Nanosheets. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023; 15:39864-39871. [PMID: 37561092 PMCID: PMC10450683 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c07459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Accepted: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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Transparent conductors (TCs) represent key components in many applications from optoelectronic devices to electromagnetic shielding. While commercial applications typically use thin films of indium tin oxide, this material is brittle and increasingly scarce, meaning higher performing and cheaper alternatives are sought after. Solution-processible metals would be ideal owing to their high conductivities and printability. However, due to their opacity to visible light, such films need to be very thin to achieve transparency, thus limiting the minimum resistance achievable. One solution is to print metallic particles in a grid structure, which has the advantages of high tunable transparency and resistance at the cost of uniformity. Here, we report silver nanosheets that have been aerosol jet printed into grids as high-performance transparent conductors. We first investigate the effect of annealing on the silver nanosheets where we observe the onset of junction sintering at 160 °C after which the silver network becomes continuous. We then investigate the effect of line width and thickness on the electrical performance and the effect of varying the aperture dimensions on the optical performance. Using these data, we develop simple models, which allow us to optimize the grid and demonstrate a printed transparent conductor with a transmittance of 91% at a sheet resistance of 4.6 Ω/sq.
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- Adam G. Kelly
- School
of Physics, CRANN and AMBER Research Centres, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D2, Ireland
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- School
of Physics, CRANN and AMBER Research Centres, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D2, Ireland
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- School
of Physics, CRANN and AMBER Research Centres, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D2, Ireland
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- School
of Physics, CRANN and AMBER Research Centres, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D2, Ireland
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- School
of Physics, CRANN and AMBER Research Centres, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D2, Ireland
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- School
of Chemistry, CRANN and AMBER Research Centres, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D2, Ireland
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- School
of Physics, CRANN and AMBER Research Centres, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D2, Ireland
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Rao KS, Senthilnathan J, Ting JM, Yoshimura M. Continuous Production of Functionalized Graphene Inks by Soft Solution Processing. Nanomaterials (Basel) 2023; 13:2043. [PMID: 37513054 PMCID: PMC10384762 DOI: 10.3390/nano13142043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Revised: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
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The continuous production of high-quality, few-layer graphene nanosheets (GNSs) functionalized with nitrogen-containing groups was achieved via a two-stage reaction method. The initial stage produces few-layer GNSs by utilizing our recently developed glycine-bisulfate ionic complex-assisted electrochemical exfoliation of graphite. The second stage, developed here, uses a radical initiator and nitrogen precursor (azobisisobutyronitrile) under microwave conditions in an aqueous solution for the efficient nitrogen functionalization of the initially formed GNSs. These nitrile radical reactions have great advantages in green chemistry and soft processing. Raman spectra confirm the insertion of nitrogen functional groups into nitrogen-functionalized graphene (N-FG), whose disorder is higher than that of GNSs. X-ray photoelectron spectra confirm the insertion of edge/surface nitrogen functional groups. The insertion of nitrogen functional groups is further confirmed by the enhanced dispersibility of N-FG in dimethyl formamide, ethylene glycol, acetonitrile, and water. Indeed, after the synthesis of N-FG in solution, it is possible to disperse N-FG in these liquid dispersants just by a simple washing-centrifugation separation-dispersion sequence. Therefore, without any drying, milling, and redispersion into liquid again, we can produce N-FG ink with only solution processing. Thus, the present work demonstrates the 'continuous solution processing' of N-FG inks without complicated post-processing conditions. Furthermore, the formation mechanism of N-FG is presented.
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- Kodepelly Sanjeeva Rao
- Promotion Center for Global Materials Research (PCGMR), Department of Material Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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- Promotion Center for Global Materials Research (PCGMR), Department of Material Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
- Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Promotion Center for Global Materials Research (PCGMR), Department of Material Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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- Promotion Center for Global Materials Research (PCGMR), Department of Material Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
- Hierarchical Green-Energy Materials (Hi-GEM) Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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Liu Y, Li M, Wan S, Lim KH, Zhang Y, Li M, Li J, Ibáñez M, Hong M, Cabot A. Surface Chemistry and Band Engineering in AgSbSe 2: Toward High Thermoelectric Performance. ACS Nano 2023. [PMID: 37310395 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c03541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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AgSbSe2 is a promising thermoelectric (TE) p-type material for applications in the middle-temperature range. AgSbSe2 is characterized by relatively low thermal conductivities and high Seebeck coefficients, but its main limitation is moderate electrical conductivity. Herein, we detail an efficient and scalable hot-injection synthesis route to produce AgSbSe2 nanocrystals (NCs). To increase the carrier concentration and improve the electrical conductivity, these NCs are doped with Sn2+ on Sb3+ sites. Upon processing, the Sn2+ chemical state is conserved using a reducing NaBH4 solution to displace the organic ligand and anneal the material under a forming gas flow. The TE properties of the dense materials obtained from the consolidation of the NCs using a hot pressing are then characterized. The presence of Sn2+ ions replacing Sb3+ significantly increases the charge carrier concentration and, consequently, the electrical conductivity. Opportunely, the measured Seebeck coefficient varied within a small range upon Sn doping. The excellent performance obtained when Sn2+ ions are prevented from oxidation is rationalized by modeling the system. Calculated band structures disclosed that Sn doping induces convergence of the AgSbSe2 valence bands, accounting for an enhanced electronic effective mass. The dramatically enhanced carrier transport leads to a maximized power factor for AgSb0.98Sn0.02Se2 of 0.63 mW m-1 K-2 at 640 K. Thermally, phonon scattering is significantly enhanced in the NC-based materials, yielding an ultralow thermal conductivity of 0.3 W mK-1 at 666 K. Overall, a record-high figure of merit (zT) is obtained at 666 K for AgSb0.98Sn0.02Se2 at zT = 1.37, well above the values obtained for undoped AgSbSe2, at zT = 0.58 and state-of-art Pb- and Te-free materials, which makes AgSb0.98Sn0.02Se2 an excellent p-type candidate for medium-temperature TE applications.
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- Yu Liu
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, 230009, Hefei, P. R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, 230009, Hefei, P. R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, 230009, Hefei, P. R. China
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- Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou, 78 Jiuhua Boulevard North, Quzhou 324000, Zhejiang, P. R. China
- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Rd, Hangzhou 310007, Zhejiang, P. R. China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- School of Physics and Microelectronics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, P. R. China
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610106, P. R. China
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- IST Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Centre for Future Materials and School of Engineering, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield Central, Queensland 4300, Australia
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- Catalonia Institute for Energy Research-IREC, Sant Adrià de Besòs, 08930 Barcelona, Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats - ICREA, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Li N, Chen Z, Zhou C, Ni F, Huang Z, Cao X, Yang C. Versatile Host Materials for Both D-A-Type and Multi-Resonance TADF Emitters toward Solution-Processed OLEDs with Nearly 30% EQE. Adv Mater 2023:e2300510. [PMID: 37029773 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202300510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 03/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Fabricating solution-processible host material for thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitter remains a formidable challenge for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). In this work, two new host materials, namely 3CzAcPy and 9CzAcPy, are found to exhibit high triplet energy levels, high thermal stability, and excellent film morphology from a solution process. An in-depth analysis on the photophysical data and device performance reveals the isomeric effect of the host materials has a significant impact not only on the host properties, but also on the host-dopant interactions and thus the performance of the resulting solution-processed TADF OLEDs. Impressively, the new hosts are proven to be suitable for both donor-acceptor type and multi-resonance TADF emitters, achieving state-of-the-art device performance. By using the new host 9CzAcPy, solution-processed OLED based on a donor-acceptor TADF emitter of DPAC-PCN, a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 29.5% is achieved, and solution-processed narrowband OLED based on a multiple-resonance TADF emitter of BN-CP1 acquires a maximum EQE of 26.6%. These efficiencies represent the highest values among the solution-processed TADF OLEDs. This study highlights the significance of host-dopant interactions in modulating the electroluminescence performance of TADF emitters, and provides an effective design principle for solution-processible host materials.
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- Nengquan Li
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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Carey T, Cassidy O, Synnatschke K, Caffrey E, Garcia J, Liu S, Kaur H, Kelly AG, Munuera J, Gabbett C, O’Suilleabhain D, Coleman JN. High-Mobility Flexible Transistors with Low-Temperature Solution-Processed Tungsten Dichalcogenides. ACS Nano 2023; 17:2912-2922. [PMID: 36720070 PMCID: PMC9933598 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c11319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The investigation of high-mobility two-dimensional (2D) flakes beyond molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) will be necessary to create a library of high-mobility solution-processed networks that conform to substrates and remain functional over thousands of bending cycles. Here we report electrochemical exfoliation of large-aspect-ratio (>100) semiconducting flakes of tungsten diselenide (WSe2) and tungsten disulfide (WS2) as well as MoS2 as a comparison. We use Langmuir-Schaefer coating to achieve highly aligned and conformal flake networks, with minimal mesoporosity (∼2-5%), at low processing temperatures (120 °C) and without acid treatments. This allows us to fabricate electrochemical transistors in ambient air, achieving average mobilities of μMoS2 ≈ 11 cm2 V-1 s-1, μWS2 ≈ 9 cm2 V-1 s-1, and μWSe2 ≈ 2 cm2 V-1 s-1 with a current on/off ratios of Ion/Ioff ≈ 2.6 × 103, 3.4 × 103, and 4.2 × 104 for MoS2, WS2, and WSe2, respectively. Moreover, our transistors display threshold voltages near ∼0.4 V with subthreshold slopes as low as 182 mV/dec, which are essential factors in maintaining power efficiency and represent a 1 order of magnitude improvement in the state of the art. Furthermore, the performance of our WSe2 transistors is maintained on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) even after 1000 bending cycles at 1% strain.
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Hwang JH, Seo E, Park S, Lee K, Kim DH, Lee SH, Kwon YW, Roh J, Lim J, Lee D. All-Solution-Processed Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diode Using Phosphomolybdic Acid as Hole Injection Layer. Materials (Basel) 2023; 16:1371. [PMID: 36837001 PMCID: PMC9960878 DOI: 10.3390/ma16041371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Revised: 01/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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In this study, we investigate phosphomolybdic acid (PMA), which allows solution processing of quantum dot light-emitting diodes. With its low cost, easy solution processes, and excellent physical and optical properties, PMA is a potential candidate as the hole injection layer (HIL) in optoelectronic devices. We evaluate the physical and electrical properties of PMA using various solvents. The surface morphology of the PMA film was improved using a solvent with appropriate boiling points, surface tension, and viscosity to form a smooth, pinhole-free film. The energy level was regulated according to the solvent, and PMA with the appropriate electronic structure provided balanced charge carrier transport in quantum dot electroluminescent (QD-EL) devices with enhanced efficiency. A device using PMA dissolved in cyclohexanone was demonstrated to exhibit improved efficiency compared to a device using PEDOT:PSS, which is a conventional solution HIL. However, the stability of PMA was slightly poorer than PEDOT:PSS; there needs to be further investigation.
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- Jeong Ha Hwang
- Department of Semiconductor Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 52828, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Semiconductor Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 52828, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Semiconductor Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 52828, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Semiconductor Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 52828, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Semiconductor Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 52828, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Science, Center for Artificial Atoms, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Science, Center for Artificial Atoms, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Semiconductor Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 52828, Republic of Korea
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Chen M, Li L, Deng Z, Min P, Yu ZZ, Zhang CJ, Zhang HB. Two-Dimensional Janus MXene Inks for Versatile Functional Coatings on Arbitrary Substrates. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023; 15:4591-4600. [PMID: 36634284 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c20930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Solution processing of two-dimensional nanomaterial inks guarantees efficient, straightforward fabrication of functional films, coatings, flexible devices, etc. Despite the excellent solution processibility and viscoelasticity of MXene aqueous inks, formulation of nonaqueous MXene inks with great affinity to both hydrophilic and hydrophobic substrates has proven quite challenging, limiting the practical applications of MXenes in printing/coatings on various substrates. Here, MXene surface chemistry is manipulated by asymmetrically grafting polystyrene and further concentrating the flakes into additive-free Janus MXene organic inks. The modified MXene nanosheets exhibit hydrophilicity on one side and hydrophobicity on the other. As a result, Janus MXene nanosheets ensure broad dispersibility in polar and nonpolar solvents, which in turn greatly extends the ink shelf life by slowing down the oxidation kinetics. Janus MXene sheets dispersed in toluene at room temperature remain at 90% of the initial solids after 1 month of storage. Janus surface engineering on MXene flakes guarantees the straightforward formation of uniform yet firm, large-area coatings on hydrophilic or hydrophobic substrates. These coatings demonstrate improved photothermal properties and chemical stability as well as good electromagnetic interference shielding performance. This strategy provides a simple and cost-effective way to promote the performance of MXene electronics in a variety of applications.
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- Mengjie Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- College of Materials Science & Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, Sichuan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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Zhuang X, Kim JS, Huang W, Chen Y, Wang G, Chen J, Yao Y, Wang Z, Liu F, Yu J, Cheng Y, Yang Z, Lauhon LJ, Marks TJ, Facchetti A. High-performance and low-power source-gated transistors enabled by a solution-processed metal oxide homojunction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2216672120. [PMID: 36630451 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2216672120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Cost-effective fabrication of mechanically flexible low-power electronics is important for emerging applications including wearable electronics, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Here, solution-processed source-gated transistors (SGTs) with an unprecedented intrinsic gain of ~2,000, low saturation voltage of +0.8 ± 0.1 V, and a ~25.6 μW power consumption are realized using an indium oxide In2O3/In2O3:polyethylenimine (PEI) blend homojunction with Au contacts on Si/SiO2. Kelvin probe force microscopy confirms source-controlled operation of the SGT and reveals that PEI doping leads to more effective depletion of the reverse-biased Schottky contact source region. Furthermore, using a fluoride-doped AlOx gate dielectric, rigid (on a Si substrate) and flexible (on a polyimide substrate) SGTs were fabricated. These devices exhibit a low driving voltage of +2 V and power consumption of ~11.5 μW, yielding inverters with an outstanding voltage gain of >5,000. Furthermore, electrooculographic (EOG) signal monitoring can now be demonstrated using an SGT inverter, where a ~1.0 mV EOG signal is amplified to over 300 mV, indicating significant potential for applications in wearable medical sensing and human-computer interfacing.
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Mukherjee S, Katea SN, Rodrigues EM, Segre CU, Hemmer E, Broqvist P, Rensmo H, Westin G. Entrapped Molecule-Like Europium-Oxide Clusters in Zinc Oxide with Nearly Unaffected Host Structure. Small 2023; 19:e2203331. [PMID: 36403214 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202203331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2022] [Revised: 10/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Nanocrystalline ZnO sponges doped with 5 mol% EuO1.5 are obtained by heating metal-salt complex based precursor pastes at 200-900 °C for 3 min. X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) show that phase separation into ZnO:Eu and c-Eu2 O3 takes place upon heating at 700 °C or higher. The unit cell of the clean oxide made at 600 °C shows only ≈0.4% volume increase versus undoped ZnO, and EXAFS shows a ZnO local structure that is little affected by the Eu-doping and an average Eu3+ ion coordination number of ≈5.2. Comparisons of 23 density functional theory-generated structures having differently sized Eu-oxide clusters embedded in ZnO identify three structures with four or eight Eu atoms as the most energetically favorable. These clusters exhibit the smallest volume increase compared to undoped ZnO and Eu coordination numbers of 5.2-5.5, all in excellent agreement with experimental data. ZnO defect states are crucial for efficient Eu3+ excitation, while c-Eu2 O3 phase separation results in loss of the characteristic Eu3+ photoluminescence. The formation of molecule-like Eu-oxide clusters, entrapped in ZnO, proposed here, may help in understanding the nature of the unexpected high doping levels of lanthanide ions in ZnO that occur virtually without significant change in ZnO unit cell dimensions.
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- Soham Mukherjee
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75237, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-Ångström, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75121, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation and Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 60616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry-Ångström, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75121, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75237, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-Ångström, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75121, Sweden
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Rhee D, Han B, Jung M, Kim J, Song O, Kang J. Hierarchical Nanoscale Structuring of Solution-Processed 2D van der Waals Networks for Wafer-Scale, Stretchable Electronics. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2022; 14:57153-57164. [PMID: 36519946 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c16738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are promising for next-generation electronics that are lightweight, flexible, and stretchable. Achieving stretchability with suppressed crack formation, however, is still difficult without introducing lithographically etched micropatterns, which significantly reduces active device areas. Herein, we report a solution-based hierarchical structuring to create stretchable semiconducting films that are continuous over wafer-scale areas via self-assembly of two-dimensional nanosheets. Electrochemically exfoliated MoS2 nanosheets with large lateral sizes (∼1 μm) are first assembled into a uniform film on a prestrained thermoplastic substrate, followed by strain relief of the substrate to create nanoscale wrinkles. Subsequent strain-relief cycles with the presence of soluble polymer films produce hierarchical wrinkles with multigenerational structures. Stretchable MoS2 films are then realized by curing an elastomer directly on the wrinkled surface and dissolving the thermoplastic. Three-generation hierarchical MoS2 wrinkles are resistant to cracking up to nearly 100% substrate stretching and achieve drastically enhanced photoresponsivity compared to the flat counterpart over the visible and NIR regimes, while the flat MoS2 film is beneficial in creating strain sensors because of its strain-dependent electrical response.
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- Dongjoon Rhee
- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
- KIST-SKKU Carbon-Neutral Research Center, SKKU, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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Xu X, Guo T, Hota MK, Kim H, Zheng D, Liu C, Hedhili MN, Alsaadi RS, Zhang X, Alshareef HN. High-Yield Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene-MoS 2 Integrated Circuits. Adv Mater 2022; 34:e2107370. [PMID: 34719808 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202107370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Revised: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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It is very challenging to employ solution-processed conducting films in large-area ultrathin nanoelectronics. Here, spray-coated Ti3 C2 Tx MXene films as metal contacts are successfully integrated into sub-10 nm gate oxide 2D MoS2 transistor circuits. Ti3 C2 Tx films are spray coated on glass substrates followed by vacuum annealing. Compared to the as-prepared sample, vacuum annealed films exhibit a higher conductivity (≈11 000 S cm-1 ) and a lower work function (≈4.5 eV). Besides, the annealed Ti3 C2 Tx film can be patterned through a standard cleanroom process without peeling off. The annealed Ti3 C2 Tx film shows a better band alignment for n-type transport in MoS2 channel with small work function mismatch of 0.06 eV. The MoS2 film can be uniformly transferred on the patterned Ti3 C2 Tx surface and then readily processed through the cleanroom process. A large-area array of Ti3 C2 Tx MXene-MoS2 transistors is fabricated using different dielectric thicknesses and semiconducting channel sizes. High yield and stable performance for these transistor arrays even with an 8 nm-thick dielectric layer are demonstrated. Besides, several circuits are demonstrated, including rectifiers, negative-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) inverters, and voltage-shift NMOS inverters. Overall, this work indicates the tremendous potential for solution-processed Ti3 C2 Tx MXene films in large-area 2D nanoelectronics.
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- Xiangming Xu
- Materials Science and Engineering, Physical Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, Physical Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, Physical Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, Physical Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, Physical Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, Physical Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Core Laboratories, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, Physical Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, Physical Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, Physical Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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Zhang C, Fortner J, Wang P, Fagan JA, Wang S, Liu M, Maruyama S, Wang Y. van der Waals SWCNT@BN Heterostructures Synthesized from Solution-Processed Chirality-Pure Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes. ACS Nano 2022; 16:18630-18636. [PMID: 36346984 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c07128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Single-wall carbon nanotubes in boron nitride (SWCNT@BN) are one-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures that exhibit intriguing physical and chemical properties. As with their carbon nanotube counterparts, these heterostructures can form from different combinations of chiralities, providing rich structures but also posing a significant synthetic challenge to controlling their structure. Enabled by advances in nanotube chirality sorting, clean removal of the surfactant used for solution processing, and a simple method to fabricate free-standing submonolayer films of chirality pure SWCNTs as templates for the BN growth, we show it is possible to directly grow BN on chirality enriched SWCNTs from solution processing to form van der Waals heterostructures. We further report factors affecting the heterostructure formation, including an accelerated growth rate in the presence of H2, and significantly improved crystallization of the grown BN, with the BN thickness controlled down to one single BN layer, through the presence of a Cu foil in the reactor. Transmission electron microscopy and electron energy-loss spectroscopic mapping confirm the synthesis of SWCNT@BN from the solution purified nanotubes. The photoluminescence peaks of both (7,5)- and (8,4)-SWCNT@BN heterostructures are found to redshift (by ∼10 nm) relative to the bare SWCNTs. Raman scattering suggests that the grown BN shells pose a confinement effect on the SWCNT core.
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- Chiyu Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, 8051 Regents Drive, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, 8051 Regents Drive, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, 8051 Regents Drive, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, 8051 Regents Drive, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
- Maryland NanoCenter, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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Chae WH, Patil JJ, Grossman JC. Conformal Encapsulation of Silver Nanowire Transparent Electrodes by Nanosized Reduced Graphene Oxide Leading to Improved All-Round Stability. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2022; 14:34997-35009. [PMID: 35861058 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c08377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Solution-processed silver nanowire (AgNW) networks are promising as next-generation transparent conductive electrodes due to their excellent optoelectronic properties, mechanical flexibility, as well as low material and processing costs. However, AgNWs are prone to thermally induced fragmentation and chemical degradation, necessitating a conformal protective coating typically achieved by low-throughput methods such as sputtering or atomic layer deposition. Herein, we report a facile all-solution-based approach to synthesize a conformally coated AgNW network by nanosized reduced graphene oxide R(nGO). In this method, probe ultrasonication is used to obtain nanosized GO, which is coated on AgNWs by a layer-by-layer approach and then chemically treated to form R(nGO)/AgNW. We show that our transparent electrode has excellent transmittance (85-92%) and sheet resistance (17.5 Ω/sq), combined with outstanding thermal and electrothermal stability, thanks to the conformal nature of the R(nGO) film, and demonstrate its use as a transparent heater with a high maximum temperature. This, in conjunction with improved long-term chemical and mechanical bending stability of R(nGO)/AgNW, indicates that our newly developed process represents an effective and low-cost strategy to improve the overall operational resilience of metal nanowire-based transparent conductive electrodes.
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- Woo Hyun Chae
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Lee GH, Woo H, Yoon C, Yang C, Bae JY, Kim W, Lee DH, Kang H, Han S, Kang SK, Park S, Kim HR, Jeong JW, Park S. A Personalized Electronic Tattoo for Healthcare Realized by On-the-Spot Assembly of an Intrinsically Conductive and Durable Liquid-Metal Composite. Adv Mater 2022; 34:e2204159. [PMID: 35702762 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202204159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2022] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Conventional electronic (e-) skins are a class of thin-film electronics mainly fabricated in laboratories or factories, which is incapable of rapid and simple customization for personalized healthcare. Here a new class of e-tattoos is introduced that can be directly implemented on the skin by facile one-step coating with various designs at multi-scale depending on the purpose of the user without a substrate. An e-tattoo is realized by attaching Pt-decorated carbon nanotubes on gallium-based liquid-metal particles (CMP) to impose intrinsic electrical conductivity and mechanical durability. Tuning the CMP suspension to have low-zeta potential, excellent wettability, and high-vapor pressure enables conformal and intimate assembly of particles directly on the skin in 10 s. Low-cost, ease of preparation, on-skin compatibility, and multifunctionality of CMP make it highly suitable for e-tattoos. Demonstrations of electrical muscle stimulators, photothermal patches, motion artifact-free electrophysiological sensors, and electrochemical biosensors validate the simplicity, versatility, and reliability of the e-tattoo-based approach in biomedical engineering.
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- Gun-Hee Lee
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- KAIST Institute for Health Science and Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Dentistry, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- KAIST Institute for Health Science and Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- KAIST Institute for Health Science and Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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Lam D, Lebedev D, Kuo L, Sangwan VK, Szydłowska BM, Ferraresi F, Söll A, Sofer Z, Hersam MC. Liquid-Phase Exfoliation of Magnetically and Optoelectronically Active Ruthenium Trichloride Nanosheets. ACS Nano 2022; 16:11315-11324. [PMID: 35714054 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c04888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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α-RuCl3 is a layered transition metal halide that possesses a range of exotic magnetic, optical, and electronic properties including fractional excitations indicative of a proximate Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL). While previous reports have explored these properties on idealized single crystals or mechanically exfoliated samples, the scalable production of α-RuCl3 nanosheets has not yet been demonstrated. Here, we perform liquid-phase exfoliation (LPE) of α-RuCl3 through an electrochemically assisted approach, which yields ultrathin, electron-doped α-RuCl3 nanosheets that are then assembled into electrically conductive large-area thin films. The crystalline integrity of the α-RuCl3 nanosheets following LPE is confirmed through a wide range of structural and chemical analyses. Moreover, the physical properties of the LPE α-RuCl3 nanosheets are investigated through electrical, optical, and magnetic characterization methods, which reveal a structural phase transition at 230 K that is consistent with the onset of Kitaev paramagnetism in addition to an antiferromagnetic transition at 2.6 K. Intercalated ions from the electrochemical LPE protocol favorably alter the optical response of the α-RuCl3 nanosheets, enabling large-area Mott insulator photodetectors that operate at telecommunications-relevant infrared wavelengths near 1.55 μm. These photodetectors show a linear photocurrent response as a function of incident power, which suggests negligible trap-mediated recombination or photothermal effects, ultimately resulting in a photoresponsivity of ≈2 mA/W.
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- David Lam
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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Li SC, Hu BC, Shang LM, Ma T, Li C, Liang HW, Yu SH. General Synthesis and Solution Processing of Metal-Organic Framework Nanofibers. Adv Mater 2022; 34:e2202504. [PMID: 35580346 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202202504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2022] [Revised: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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By virtue of their extraordinarily high surface areas, ordered pore structures, various compositions, and rich functionality, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are of great interest in diverse fields such as gas separation, sensing, catalysis, energy, environment science, and biomedicine. However, the difficulty in processing MOF crystals and controlling the MOF superstructure is emerging as a critical issue in their application. Herein, it is reported that a robust template, i.e., nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC), can be used for the synthesis of MOF materials with 1D nanofiber morphology. NFC@MOF core-shell nanofibers with a uniform network structure and high aspect ratios can be prepared by use of this template. The small crystal size, flexibility, and good dispersity of the NFC@MOF nanofibers make it convenient for the macroscale assembly and solution processing of MOF materials. A proof-of-concept study is demonstrated wherein freestanding MOF nanofiber membranes represent good performance in applications of water treatment and heterogeneous catalysis reaction. This general synthesis and solution-processing strategy may herald a new era in promoting the industrial application of MOFs.
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- Si-Cheng Li
- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biomimetic Materials and Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biomimetic Materials and Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biomimetic Materials and Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biomimetic Materials and Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biomimetic Materials and Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biomimetic Materials and Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biomimetic Materials and Chemistry, Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic Materials, Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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Staller CM, Gibbs SL, Gan XY, Bender JT, Jarvis K, Ong GK, Milliron DJ. Contact Conductance Governs Metallicity in Conducting Metal Oxide Nanocrystal Films. Nano Lett 2022; 22:5009-5014. [PMID: 35640240 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Although colloidal nanoparticles hold promise for fabricating electronic components, the properties of nanoparticle-derived materials can be unpredictable. Materials made from metallic nanocrystals exhibit a variety of transport behavior ranging from insulators, with internanocrystal contacts acting as electron transport bottlenecks, to conventional metals, where phonon scattering limits electron mobility. The insulator-metal transition (IMT) in nanocrystal films is thought to be determined by contact conductance. Meanwhile, criteria are lacking to predict the characteristic transport behavior of metallic nanocrystal films beyond this threshold. Using a library of transparent conducting tin-doped indium oxide nanocrystal films with varied electron concentration, size, and contact area, we assess the IMT as it depends on contact conductance and show how contact conductance is also key to predicting the temperature-dependence of conductivity in metallic films. The results establish a phase diagram for electron transport behavior that can guide the creation of metallic conducting materials from nanocrystal building blocks.
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- Corey M Staller
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Barrit D, Tang MC, Munir R, Li R, Zhao K, Smilgies DM. Processing of Lead Halide Perovskite Thin Films Studied with In-Situ Real-Time X-ray Scattering. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2022; 14:26315-26326. [PMID: 35639827 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c03153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Lead halide perovskites have been of paramount interest for solution-processable solar cells, reaching power conversion efficiencies larger than 25%. In this spotlight, we will provide a systematic overview of the influence of different solution-based processing routes of lead halide perovskites on their phase transformation and conversion as revealed through in-situ X-ray-scattering experiments. These experiments were performed in conditions closely mimicking thin film processing methods and conditions used for thin film solar cell device fabrication and therefore provide critical information about the mechanism of the phase transformation, its onset, the kinetics, as well as the emergence and disappearance of various (meso)phases along the way. The measurements capture the overall solidification and conversion process of lead halide perovskite inks into solid films via so-called one-step and two-step spin-coating processes as well as blade coating and hot casting. Processing routes are applied to films based on basic components as well as mixtures of different anions and cations, solvents, and antisolvents, all of which deeply affect the thin film microstructure and morphology of the light-absorbing semiconductor and associated solar cell devices.
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- Dounya Barrit
- Physical Science and Engineering Division, KAUST Solar Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
- Perovskite and Novel Photovoltaic Technologies Group, Green Energy Park (IRESEN/UM6P), Benguerir 43150, Morocco
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, KAUST Solar Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, KAUST Solar Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, KAUST Solar Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
- National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education; Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Advanced Energy Devices; Shaanxi Engineering Lab for Advanced Energy Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing and Materials Science and Engineering Program, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902, United States
- R. F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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D'Antona NR, Orban P, Walsh NH, Durastanti DG, Donahue EM, Canfield GM, Hendley CT, Kerr AT, Townsend TK. Room-Temperature Postannealing Reduction via Aqueous Sodium Borohydride and Composition Optimization of Fully Solution-Processed Indium Tin Oxide Films. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2022; 14:13516-13527. [PMID: 35266703 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c01092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Solution-processed transparent conductive oxides offer the advantages of low-cost, high-throughput fabrication of electronic devices compared to the specific requirements of vacuum deposition techniques. However, adapting the current state of the art to ink deposition calls for optimization of the precursor ink composition and the postdeposition process. Solution processing of indium tin oxide films can be accomplished at reduced temperatures (250-400 °C) by annealing soluble precursor metal salts together with a fuel/oxidizer, causing an exothermic reaction with elevated local temperatures. Following layer-by-layer cycles of deposition and annealing, a postprocessing step is required via heating (300 °C) under a 5% H2 reducing atmosphere. To address the discrepancy between the versatility of ink deposition and the limitations of controlled atmosphere postprocessing, here we investigate the effects of postprocess dipping in aqueous sodium borohydride at room temperature as an alternative, which allows for a completely solution-based process from ink to film. In addition to postprocessing, the solution composition was also optimized by removing the fuel additive and by adjusting the In/Sn content. Indium tin oxide (ITO) films were spin-coated and annealed in air at 250, 300, and 400 °C and characterized by UV/vis spectroscopy to obtain optical transmittance, atomic force microscopy to obtain film thickness and surface morphology, and a Hall effect system for electrical parameters. Additional data from X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) indicate that crystallinity is affected by the reducing environment. Results revealed an order-of-magnitude improvement of the Haacke figure of merit (FOM) from 4.3 × 10-4 Ω-1, 382 Ω/□ sheet resistance (Rs), and 84% transmittance (%T) for the traditional 9:1 In/Sn precursor ink with fuel additive followed by 300 °C of 5% H2-furnace post-treatment compared to that of the optimized fully solution-processed 8.5:1.5 In/Sn ink without fuel followed by an ambient air at 25 °C dipping in aqueous sodium borohydride, leading to 3.0 × 10-3 Ω-1 FOM, 84.5 Ω/□ Rs, and 87%T including the glass substrate.
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- Nicholas R D'Antona
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 47645 College Dr, St. Mary's City, Maryland 20686, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 47645 College Dr, St. Mary's City, Maryland 20686, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 47645 College Dr, St. Mary's City, Maryland 20686, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 47645 College Dr, St. Mary's City, Maryland 20686, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 47645 College Dr, St. Mary's City, Maryland 20686, United States
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- Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division, 3196 Deep Point Ct., Indian Head, Maryland 20640, United States
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- Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division, 3196 Deep Point Ct., Indian Head, Maryland 20640, United States
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- Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division, 3196 Deep Point Ct., Indian Head, Maryland 20640, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 47645 College Dr, St. Mary's City, Maryland 20686, United States
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Salles P, Guzmán R, Zanders D, Quintana A, Fina I, Sánchez F, Zhou W, Devi A, Coll M. Bendable Polycrystalline and Magnetic CoFe 2O 4 Membranes by Chemical Methods. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2022; 14:12845-12854. [PMID: 35232015 PMCID: PMC8931725 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c24450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 02/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The preparation and manipulation of crystalline yet bendable functional complex oxide membranes has been a long-standing issue for a myriad of applications, in particular, for flexible electronics. Here, we investigate the viability to prepare magnetic and crystalline CoFe2O4 (CFO) membranes by means of the Sr3Al2O6 (SAO) sacrificial layer approach using chemical deposition techniques. Meticulous chemical and structural study of the SAO surface and SAO/CFO interface properties have allowed us to identify the formation of an amorphous SAO capping layer and carbonates upon air exposure, which dictate the crystalline quality of the subsequent CFO film growth. Vacuum annealing at 800 °C of SAO films promotes the elimination of the surface carbonates and the reconstruction of the SAO surface crystallinity. Ex-situ atomic layer deposition of CFO films at 250 °C on air-exposed SAO offers the opportunity to avoid high-temperature growth while achieving polycrystalline CFO films that can be successfully transferred to a polymer support preserving the magnetic properties under bending. Float on and transfer provides an alternative route to prepare freestanding and wrinkle-free CFO membrane films. The advances and challenges presented in this work are expected to help increase the capabilities to grow different oxide compositions and heterostructures of freestanding films and their range of functional properties.
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- Pol Salles
- ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain
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- School
of Physical Sciences and CAS Key Laboratory of Vacuum Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Inorganic
Materials Chemistry, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 150, Bochum 44801, Germany
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- ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain
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- School
of Physical Sciences and CAS Key Laboratory of Vacuum Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Inorganic
Materials Chemistry, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 150, Bochum 44801, Germany
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- ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain
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Kim J, Rhee D, Song O, Kim M, Kwon YH, Lim DU, Kim IS, Mazánek V, Valdman L, Sofer Z, Cho JH, Kang J. All-Solution-Processed Van der Waals Heterostructures for Wafer-Scale Electronics. Adv Mater 2022; 34:e2106110. [PMID: 34933395 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202106110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Revised: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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2D van der Waals (vdW) materials have been considered as potential building blocks for use in fundamental elements of electronic and optoelectronic devices, such as electrodes, channels, and dielectrics, because of their diverse and remarkable electrical properties. Furthermore, two or more building blocks of different electronic types can be stacked vertically to generate vdW heterostructures with desired electrical behaviors. However, such fundamental approaches cannot directly be applied practically because of issues such as precise alignment/positioning and large-quantity material production. Here, these limitations are overcome and wafer-scale vdW heterostructures are demonstrated by exploiting the lateral and vertical assembly of solution-processed 2D vdW materials. The high exfoliation yield of the molecular intercalation-assisted approach enables the production of micrometer-sized nanosheets in large quantities and its lateral assembly in a wafer-scale via vdW interactions. Subsequently, the laterally assembled vdW thin-films are vertically assembled to demonstrate various electronic device applications, such as transistors and photodetectors. Furthermore, multidimensional vdW heterostructures are demonstrated by integrating 1D carbon nanotubes as a p-type semiconductor to fabricate p-n diodes and complementary logic gates. Finally, electronic devices are fabricated via inkjet printing as a lithography-free manner based on the stable nanomaterial dispersions.
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- Jihyun Kim
- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Nanophotonics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, Prague 6, 166 28, Czech Republic
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, Prague 6, 166 28, Czech Republic
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, Prague 6, 166 28, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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Kim J, Jung M, Lim DU, Rhee D, Jung SH, Cho HK, Kim HK, Cho JH, Kang J. Area-Selective Chemical Doping on Solution-Processed MoS 2 Thin-Film for Multi-Valued Logic Gates. Nano Lett 2022; 22:570-577. [PMID: 34779637 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Multi-valued logic gates are demonstrated on solution-processed molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) thin films. A simple chemical doping process is added to the conventional transistor fabrication procedure to locally increase the work function of MoS2 by decreasing sulfur vacancies. The resulting device exhibits pseudo-heterojunctions comprising as-processed MoS2 and chemically treated MoS2 (c-MoS2). The energy-band misalignment of MoS2 and c-MoS2 results in a sequential activation of the MoS2 and c-MoS2 channel areas under a gate voltage sweep, which generates a stable intermediate state for ternary operation. Current levels and turn-on voltages for each state can be tuned by modulating the device geometries, including the channel thickness and length. The optimized ternary transistors are incorporated to demonstrate various ternary logic gates, including the inverter, NMIN, and NMAX gates.
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- Jihyun Kim
- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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Liu Y, Calcabrini M, Yu Y, Lee S, Chang C, David J, Ghosh T, Spadaro MC, Xie C, Cojocaru-Mirédin O, Arbiol J, Ibáñez M. Defect Engineering in Solution-Processed Polycrystalline SnSe Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance. ACS Nano 2022; 16:78-88. [PMID: 34549956 PMCID: PMC8793148 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c06720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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SnSe has emerged as one of the most promising materials for thermoelectric energy conversion due to its extraordinary performance in its single-crystal form and its low-cost constituent elements. However, to achieve an economic impact, the polycrystalline counterpart needs to replicate the performance of the single crystal. Herein, we optimize the thermoelectric performance of polycrystalline SnSe produced by consolidating solution-processed and surface-engineered SnSe particles. In particular, the SnSe particles are coated with CdSe molecular complexes that crystallize during the sintering process, forming CdSe nanoparticles. The presence of CdSe nanoparticles inhibits SnSe grain growth during the consolidation step due to Zener pinning, yielding a material with a high density of grain boundaries. Moreover, the resulting SnSe-CdSe nanocomposites present a large number of defects at different length scales, which significantly reduce the thermal conductivity. The produced SnSe-CdSe nanocomposites exhibit thermoelectric figures of merit up to 2.2 at 786 K, which is among the highest reported for solution-processed SnSe.
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- Yu Liu
- IST
Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- RWTH
Aachen, I. Physikalisches Institut (IA), Sommerfeldstraße 14, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- IST
Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- IST
Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Catalan
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- IST
Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Catalan
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department
of Physics, INTE & Barcelona Multiscale Res. Center, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Avda. Eduard Maristany 16, 08930 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
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- RWTH
Aachen, I. Physikalisches Institut (IA), Sommerfeldstraße 14, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Catalan
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- ICREA, Pg. Lluis Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- IST
Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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Trifiletti V, Luong S, Tseberlidis G, Riva S, Galindez ESS, Gillin WP, Binetti S, Fenwick O. Two-Step Synthesis of Bismuth-Based Hybrid Halide Perovskite Thin-Films. Materials (Basel) 2021; 14:7827. [PMID: 34947425 DOI: 10.3390/ma14247827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Revised: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Lead halide perovskites have been revolutionary in the last decade in many optoelectronic sectors. Their bismuth-based counterparts have been considered a good alternative thanks to their composition of earth-abundant elements, good chemical stability, and low toxicity. Moreover, their electronic structure is in a quasi-zero-dimensional (0D) configuration, and they have recently been explored for use beyond optoelectronics. A significant limitation in applying thin-film technology is represented by the difficulty of synthesizing compact layers with easily scalable methods. Here, the engineering of a two-step synthesis in an air of methylammonium bismuth iodide compact thin films is reported. The critical steps of the process have been highlighted so that the procedure can be adapted to different substrates and application areas.
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Petrov AA, Ordinartsev AA, Fateev SA, Goodilin EA, Tarasov AB. Solubility of Hybrid Halide Perovskites in DMF and DMSO. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26247541. [PMID: 34946624 PMCID: PMC8706401 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26247541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2021] [Revised: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Solution methods remain the most popular means for the fabrication of hybrid halide perovskites. However, the solubility of hybrid perovskites has not yet been quantitively investigated. In this study, we present accurate solubility data for MAPbI3, FAPbI3, MAPbBr3 and FAPbBr3 in the two most widely used solvents, DMF and DMSO, and demonstrate huge differences in the solubility behavior depending on the solution compositions. By analyzing the donor numbers of the solvents and halide anions, we rationalize the differences in the solubility behavior of hybrid perovskites with various compositions, in order to take a step forward in the search for better processing conditions of hybrid perovskites for solar cells and optoelectronics.
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- Andrey A. Petrov
- Laboratory of New Materials for Solar Energetics, Faculty of Materials Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1 Lenin Hills, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.P.); (A.A.O.); (S.A.F.); (E.A.G.)
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- Laboratory of New Materials for Solar Energetics, Faculty of Materials Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1 Lenin Hills, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.P.); (A.A.O.); (S.A.F.); (E.A.G.)
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- Laboratory of New Materials for Solar Energetics, Faculty of Materials Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1 Lenin Hills, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.P.); (A.A.O.); (S.A.F.); (E.A.G.)
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- Laboratory of New Materials for Solar Energetics, Faculty of Materials Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1 Lenin Hills, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.P.); (A.A.O.); (S.A.F.); (E.A.G.)
- Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1 Lenin Hills, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratory of New Materials for Solar Energetics, Faculty of Materials Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1 Lenin Hills, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.P.); (A.A.O.); (S.A.F.); (E.A.G.)
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Liu Y, Calcabrini M, Yu Y, Genç A, Chang C, Costanzo T, Kleinhanns T, Lee S, Llorca J, Cojocaru-Mirédin O, Ibáñez M. The Importance of Surface Adsorbates in Solution-Processed Thermoelectric Materials: The Case of SnSe. Adv Mater 2021; 33:e2106858. [PMID: 34626034 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202106858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Solution synthesis of particles emerges as an alternative to prepare thermoelectric materials with less demanding processing conditions than conventional solid-state synthetic methods. However, solution synthesis generally involves the presence of additional molecules or ions belonging to the precursors or added to enable solubility and/or regulate nucleation and growth. These molecules or ions can end up in the particles as surface adsorbates and interfere in the material properties. This work demonstrates that ionic adsorbates, in particular Na+ ions, are electrostatically adsorbed in SnSe particles synthesized in water and play a crucial role not only in directing the material nano/microstructure but also in determining the transport properties of the consolidated material. In dense pellets prepared by sintering SnSe particles, Na remains within the crystal lattice as dopant, in dislocations, precipitates, and forming grain boundary complexions. These results highlight the importance of considering all the possible unintentional impurities to establish proper structure-property relationships and control material properties in solution-processed thermoelectric materials.
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- Yu Liu
- IST Austria, Am Campus 1, Klosterneuburg, 3400, Austria
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- RWTH Aachen, I. Physikalisches Institut (IA), Sommerfeldstraße 14, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, İzmir Institute of Technology, İzmir, 35430, Turkey
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- IST Austria, Am Campus 1, Klosterneuburg, 3400, Austria
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- IST Austria, Am Campus 1, Klosterneuburg, 3400, Austria
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- Institute of Energy Technologies, Department of Chemical Engineering and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, 08019, Spain
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- RWTH Aachen, I. Physikalisches Institut (IA), Sommerfeldstraße 14, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- IST Austria, Am Campus 1, Klosterneuburg, 3400, Austria
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Spiers ME, Nielsen DJ, Pavey KD, Truong YB, Rutledge GC, Kingshott P, Eldridge DS. Conductive, Acid-Doped Polyaniline Electrospun Nanofiber Gas Sensing Substrates Made Using a Facile Dissolution Method. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2021; 13:52950-52959. [PMID: 34723480 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c08136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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A novel dissolution method that allows for the total solvation of high-concentration, high-molecular-weight polyaniline (PANi) doped with (+)-camphor-10-sulfonic acid (CSA) is reported. Preparation of 12-16 wt % 65,000 Da PANi solutions in N,N-dimethylformamide is achievable using a simple one-pot method. Doped polyaniline solutions in common organic solvents were processed into nanofibers using a convenient single-nozzle electrospinning technique. The electrospinning of PANi-CSA into nanofibrous membranes generated substrates that were subsequently employed in colorimetric gas sensing. These substrates demonstrated linearity of response upon exposure to 50-5500 ppm ammonia at ambient (50 ± 10% RH) and high (80% RH) humidity.
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- Defence Science and Technology Group, Fishermans Bend 3207, Australia
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- Defence Science and Technology Group, Fishermans Bend 3207, Australia
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- Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organization, Clayton 3168, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Australia
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Zhang X, Yang W, Niu W, Adams P, Siol S, Wang Z, Tilley SD. Thiol-Amine-Based Solution Processing of Cu 2 S Thin Films for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. ChemSusChem 2021; 14:3967-3974. [PMID: 34324265 PMCID: PMC8518488 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202101347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Revised: 07/28/2021] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Cu2 S is a promising solar energy conversion material owing to its good optical properties, elemental earth abundance, and low cost. However, simple and cheap methods to prepare phase-pure and photo-active Cu2 S thin films are lacking. This study concerns the development of a cost-effective and high-throughput method that consists of dissolving high-purity commercial Cu2 S powder in a thiol-amine solvent mixture followed by spin coating and low-temperature annealing to obtain phase-pure crystalline low chalcocite Cu2 S thin films. After coupling with a CdS buffer layer, a TiO2 protective layer and a RuOx hydrogen evolution catalyst, the champion Cu2 S photocathode gives a photocurrent density of 2.5 mA cm-2 at -0.3 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (VRHE ), an onset potential of 0.42 VRHE , and high stability over 12 h in pH 7 buffer solution under AM1.5 G simulated sunlight illumination (100 mW cm-2 ). This is the first thiol-amine-based ink deposition strategy to prepare phase-pure Cu2 S thin films achieving decent photoelectrochemical performance, which will facilitate its future scalable application for solar-driven hydrogen fuel production.
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- Xi Zhang
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of ZurichWinterthurerstrasse 1908057ZurichSwitzerland
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of ZurichWinterthurerstrasse 1908057ZurichSwitzerland
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of ZurichWinterthurerstrasse 1908057ZurichSwitzerland
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of ZurichWinterthurerstrasse 1908057ZurichSwitzerland
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- Surface Science and Coating TechnologiesEmpa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and TechnologyÜberlandstrasse 1298600DübendorfSwitzerland
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of ZurichWinterthurerstrasse 1908057ZurichSwitzerland
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of ZurichWinterthurerstrasse 1908057ZurichSwitzerland
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Gaviria Rojas WA, Beck ME, Sangwan VK, Guo S, Hersam MC. Ohmic-Contact-Gated Carbon Nanotube Transistors for High-Performance Analog Amplifiers. Adv Mater 2021; 33:e2100994. [PMID: 34270835 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202100994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Revised: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The growing demand for ubiquitous data collection has driven the development of sensing technologies with local data processing. As a result, solution-processed semiconductors are widely employed due to their compatibility with low-cost additive manufacturing on a wide range of substrates. However, to fully realize their potential in sensing applications, high-performance scalable analog amplifiers must be realized. Here, ohmic-contact-gated transistors (OCGTs) based on solution-processed semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes are introduced to address this unmet need. This new device concept enables output current saturation in the short-channel limit without compromising output current drive. The resulting OCGTs are used in common-source amplifiers to achieve the highest width-normalized output current (≈30 µA µm-1 ) and length-scaled signal gain (≈230 µm-1 ) to date for solution-processed semiconductors. The utility of these amplifiers for emerging sensing technologies is demonstrated by the amplification of complex millivolt-scale analog biological signals including the outputs of electromyography, photoplethysmogram, and accelerometer sensors. Since the OCGT design is compatible with other solution-processed semiconducting materials, this work establishes a general route to high-performance, solution-processed analog electronics.
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- William A Gaviria Rojas
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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O'Kane ME, Smith JA, Alanazi TI, Cassella EJ, Game O, van Meurs S, Lidzey DG. Perovskites on Ice: An Additive-Free Approach to Increase the Shelf-Life of Triple-Cation Perovskite Precursor Solutions. ChemSusChem 2021; 14:2537-2546. [PMID: 33872471 PMCID: PMC8251910 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202100332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Revised: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The development of stable perovskite precursor solutions is critical if solution-processable perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are to be practically manufacturable. Ideally, such precursors should combine high solution stability without using chemical additives that might compromise PSC performance. Here, it was shown that the shelf-life of high-performing perovskite precursors could be greatly improved by storing solutions at low-temperature without the need to alter chemical composition. Devices fabricated from solutions stored for 31 days at 4 °C achieved a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 18.6 % (97 % of original PCE). The choice of precursor solvent also impacted solution shelf-life, with DMSO-based solutions having enhanced solution stability compared to those including DMF. The compositions of aged precursors were explored using NMR spectroscopy, and films made from these solutions were analysed using X-ray diffraction. It was concluded that the improvement in precursor solution stability is directly linked to the suppression of an addition-elimination reaction and the preservation of higher amounts of methylammonium within solution.
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- Mary E. O'Kane
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of SheffieldHicks Building, Hounsfield RoadSheffieldS3 7RHUK
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of SheffieldHicks Building, Hounsfield RoadSheffieldS3 7RHUK
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of SheffieldHicks Building, Hounsfield RoadSheffieldS3 7RHUK
- Department of PhysicsCollege of ScienceNorthern Border UniversityArar73222 (Kingdom ofSaudi Arabia
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of SheffieldHicks Building, Hounsfield RoadSheffieldS3 7RHUK
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of SheffieldHicks Building, Hounsfield RoadSheffieldS3 7RHUK
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of SheffieldDainton Building, 13 Brook HillSheffieldS3 7HFUK
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of SheffieldHicks Building, Hounsfield RoadSheffieldS3 7RHUK
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Jo S, Cho S, Yang UJ, Hwang GS, Baek S, Kim SH, Heo SH, Kim JY, Choi MK, Son JS. Solution-Processed Stretchable Ag 2 S Semiconductor Thin Films for Wearable Self-Powered Nonvolatile Memory. Adv Mater 2021; 33:e2100066. [PMID: 33929062 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202100066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2021] [Revised: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Compared with the large plastic deformation observed in ductile metals and organic materials, inorganic semiconductors have limited plasticity (<0.2%) due to their intrinsic bonding characters, restricting their widespread applications in stretchable electronics. Herein, the solution-processed synthesis of ductile α-Ag2 S thin films and fabrication of all-inorganic, self-powered, and stretchable memory devices, is reported. Molecular Ag2 S complex solution is synthesized by chemical reduction of Ag2 S powder, fabricating wafer-scale highly crystalline Ag2 S thin films. The thin films show stretchability due to the intrinsic ductility, sustaining the structural integrity at a tensile strain of 14.9%. Moreover, the fabricated Ag2 S-based resistive random access memory presents outstanding bipolar switching characteristics (Ion /Ioff ratio of ≈105 , operational endurance of 100 cycles, and retention time >106 s) as well as excellent mechanical stretchability (no degradation of properties up to stretchability of 52%). Meanwhile, the device is highly durable under diverse chemical environments and temperatures from -196 to 300 °C, especially maintaining the properties for 168 h in 85% relative humidity and 85 °C. A self-powered memory combined with motion sensors for use as a wearable healthcare monitoring system is demonstrated, offering the potential for designing high-performance wearable electronics that are usable in daily life in a real-world setting.
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- Seungki Jo
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
- KIURI Institute, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 44610, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
- Center for Future Semiconductor Technology (FUST), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
- Center for Future Semiconductor Technology (FUST), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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Mariani P, Najafi L, Bianca G, Zappia MI, Gabatel L, Agresti A, Pescetelli S, Di Carlo A, Bellani S, Bonaccorso F. Low-Temperature Graphene-Based Paste for Large-Area Carbon Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2021; 13:22368-22380. [PMID: 33969983 PMCID: PMC8289184 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c02626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Carbon perovskite solar cells (C-PSCs), using carbon-based counter electrodes (C-CEs), promise to mitigate instability issues while providing solution-processed and low-cost device configurations. In this work, we report the fabrication and characterization of efficient paintable C-PSCs obtained by depositing a low-temperature-processed graphene-based carbon paste atop prototypical mesoscopic and planar n-i-p structures. Small-area (0.09 cm2) mesoscopic C-PSCs reach a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.81% while showing an improved thermal stability under the ISOS-D-2 protocol compared to the reference devices based on Au CEs. The proposed graphene-based C-CEs are applied to large-area (1 cm2) mesoscopic devices and low-temperature-processed planar n-i-p devices, reaching PCEs of 13.85 and 14.06%, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, these PCE values are among the highest reported for large-area C-PSCs in the absence of back-contact metallization or additional stacked conductive components or a thermally evaporated barrier layer between the charge-transporting layer and the C-CE (strategies commonly used for the record-high efficiency C-PSCs). In addition, we report a proof-of-concept of metallized miniwafer-like area C-PSCs (substrate area = 6.76 cm2, aperture area = 4.00 cm2), reaching a PCE on active area of 13.86% and a record-high PCE on aperture area of 12.10%, proving the metallization compatibility with our C-PSCs. Monolithic wafer-like area C-PSCs can be feasible all-solution-processed configurations, more reliable than prototypical perovskite solar (mini)modules based on the serial connection of subcells, since they mitigate hysteresis-induced performance losses and hot-spot-induced irreversible material damage caused by reverse biases.
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- Paolo Mariani
- CHOSE—Centre
for Hybird and Organic Solar Energy, University
of Rome Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- BeDimensional
S.p.A., Via Lungotorrente
Secca 3D, 16163 Genova, Italy
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- Graphene
Labs, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università
degli Studi di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 31, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- BeDimensional
S.p.A., Via Lungotorrente
Secca 3D, 16163 Genova, Italy
- Department
of Physics, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci cubo 31/C, 87036 Rende, Cosenza, Italy
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- BeDimensional
S.p.A., Via Lungotorrente
Secca 3D, 16163 Genova, Italy
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- CHOSE—Centre
for Hybird and Organic Solar Energy, University
of Rome Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- CHOSE—Centre
for Hybird and Organic Solar Energy, University
of Rome Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- CHOSE—Centre
for Hybird and Organic Solar Energy, University
of Rome Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
- ISM-CNR,
Istituto di Struttura della Materia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- BeDimensional
S.p.A., Via Lungotorrente
Secca 3D, 16163 Genova, Italy
- Graphene
Labs, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy
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Kim J, Kim S, Cho YS, Choi M, Jung SH, Cho JH, Whang D, Kang J. Solution-Processed MoS 2 Film with Functional Interfaces via Precursor-Assisted Chemical Welding. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2021; 13:12221-12229. [PMID: 33657809 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c00159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) presents fascinating properties for next-generation applications in diverse fields. However, fully exploiting the best properties of MoS2 in largescale practical applications still remains a challenge due to lack of proper processing methods. Solution-based processing can be a promising route for scalable production of MoS2 nanosheets, but the resulting assembled film possesses an enormous number of interfaces that significantly compromise the intrinsic electrical properties. Herein, we demonstrate the solution processing of MoS2 and subsequent precursor-assisted chemical welding to form defective MoS2-x at the nanosheet interfaces. The formation of defective MoS2-x significantly reduces the electrical contact resistances, and thus the chemically welded MoS2 film exhibits more than 2 orders of magnitude improved electrical conductivity. Furthermore, the chemical welding provides MoS2-x interface induced additional defect originated functionalities for diverse applications such as broadband photodetection over the near-infrared range and improved electrocatalytic activity for hydrogen evolution reactions. Overall, this precursor-assisted chemical welding strategy can be a facile route to produce high-quality MoS2 films with low-quality defective MoS2-x at the interfaces having multifunctionalities in electronics, optoelectronics, and electrocatalysis.
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- Jihyun Kim
- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
- SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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Perinot A, Giorgio M, Mattoli V, Natali D, Caironi M. Organic Electronics Picks Up the Pace: Mask-Less, Solution Processed Organic Transistors Operating at 160 MHz. Adv Sci (Weinh) 2021; 8:2001098. [PMID: 33643784 PMCID: PMC7887599 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202001098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Revised: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Organic printed electronics has proven its potential as an essential enabler for applications related to healthcare, entertainment, energy, and distributed intelligent objects. The possibility of exploiting solution-based and direct-writing production schemes further boosts the benefits offered by such technology, facilitating the implementation of cheap, conformable, bio-compatible electronic applications. The result shown in this work challenges the widespread assumption that such class of electronic devices is relegated to low-frequency operation, owing to the limited charge mobility of the materials and to the low spatial resolution achievable with conventional printing techniques. Here, it is shown that solution-processed and direct-written organic field-effect transistors can be carefully designed and fabricated so to achieve a maximum transition frequency of 160 MHz, unlocking an operational range that was not available before for organics. Such range was believed to be only accessible with more performing classes of semiconductor materials and/or more expensive fabrication schemes. The present achievement opens a route for cost- and energy-efficient manufacturability of flexible and conformable electronics with wireless-communication capabilities.
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- Andrea Perinot
- Center for Nano Science and Technology@PoliMiIstituto Italiano di TecnologiaMilan20133Italy
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- Center for Nano Science and Technology@PoliMiIstituto Italiano di TecnologiaMilan20133Italy
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- Center for Micro‐BioRoboticsIstituto Italiano di TecnologiaPontedera56025Italy
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- Center for Nano Science and Technology@PoliMiIstituto Italiano di TecnologiaMilan20133Italy
- Department of ElectronicsInformation and BioengineeringPolitecnico di MilanoMilan20133Italy
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- Center for Nano Science and Technology@PoliMiIstituto Italiano di TecnologiaMilan20133Italy
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Cranston RR, Vebber MC, Berbigier JF, Rice NA, Tonnelé C, Comeau ZJ, Boileau NT, Brusso JL, Shuhendler AJ, Castet F, Muccioli L, Kelly TL, Lessard BH. Thin-Film Engineering of Solution-Processable n-Type Silicon Phthalocyanines for Organic Thin-Film Transistors. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2021; 13:1008-1020. [PMID: 33370100 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c17657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Metal and metalloid phthalocyanines are an abundant and established class of materials widely used in the dye and pigment industry as well as in commercial photoreceptors. Silicon phthalocyanines (SiPcs) are among the highest-performing n-type semiconductor materials in this family when used in organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) as their performance and solid-state arrangement are often increased through axial substitution. Herein, we study eight axially substituted SiPcs and their integration into solution-processed n-type OTFTs. Electrical characterization of the OTFTs, combined with atomic force microscopy (AFM), determined that the length of the alkyl chain affects device performance and thin-film morphology. The effects of high-temperature annealing and spin coating time on film formation, two key processing steps for fabrication of OTFTs, were investigated by grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) to elucidate the relationship between thin-film microstructure and device performance. Thermal annealing was shown to change both film crystallinity and SiPc molecular orientation relative to the substrate surface. Spin time affected film crystallinity, morphology, and interplanar d-spacing, thus ultimately modifying device performance. Of the eight materials studied, bis(tri-n-butylsilyl oxide) SiPc exhibited the greatest electron field-effect mobility (0.028 cm2 V-1 s-1, a threshold voltage of 17.6 V) of all reported solution-processed SiPc derivatives.
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- Rosemary R Cranston
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, 110 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5C9
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
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- Donostia International Physics Center, 4 Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 20018 Donostia, Euskadi, Spain
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
- Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
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- Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
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- Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, Université de Bordeaux, 351 Cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence, France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, Université de Bordeaux, 351 Cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence, France
- Department of Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna, 4 Viale Risorgimento, 40136 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, 110 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5C9
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Ave. Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
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Liu J, Ye G, Potgieser HGO, Koopmans M, Sami S, Nugraha MI, Villalva DR, Sun H, Dong J, Yang X, Qiu X, Yao C, Portale G, Fabiano S, Anthopoulos TD, Baran D, Havenith RWA, Chiechi RC, Koster LJA. Amphipathic Side Chain of a Conjugated Polymer Optimizes Dopant Location toward Efficient N-Type Organic Thermoelectrics. Adv Mater 2021; 33:e2006694. [PMID: 33306230 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202006694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2020] [Revised: 11/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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There is no molecular strategy for selectively increasing the Seebeck coefficient without reducing the electrical conductivity for organic thermoelectrics. Here, it is reported that the use of amphipathic side chains in an n-type donor-acceptor copolymer can selectively increase the Seebeck coefficient and thus increase the power factor by a factor of ≈5. The amphipathic side chain contains an alkyl chain segment as a spacer between the polymer backbone and an ethylene glycol type chain segment. The use of this alkyl spacer does not only reduce the energetic disorder in the conjugated polymer film but can also properly control the dopant sites away from the backbone, which minimizes the adverse influence of counterions. As confirmed by kinetic Monte Carlo simulations with the host-dopant distance as the only variable, a reduced Coulombic interaction resulting from a larger host-dopant distance contributes to a higher Seebeck coefficient for a given electrical conductivity. Finally, an optimized power factor of 18 µW m-1 K-2 is achieved in the doped polymer film. This work provides a facile molecular strategy for selectively improving the Seebeck coefficient and opens up a new route for optimizing the dopant location toward realizing better n-type polymeric thermoelectrics.
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- Jian Liu
- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, the Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, the Netherlands
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, the Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, the Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, the Netherlands
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Norrköping, SE-601 74, Sweden
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, the Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, the Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, the Netherlands
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Norrköping, SE-601 74, Sweden
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, the Netherlands
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, The Netherlands
- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-(S3), Ghent, B-9000, Belgium
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, the Netherlands
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, NL-9747 AG, the Netherlands
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Yang R, Cheng F, Zhao Y, Ye S. Probing the Dielectric Effects on the Colloidal 2D Perovskite Oxides by Eu 3+ Luminescence. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2020; 12:44961-44969. [PMID: 32914954 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c12558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Solution-processing technique of two-dimensional (2D) materials requires the knowledge of the dielectric effects on mutual interaction of each component and the layer structure variation. This research uses the magnetic dipole (MD) transition of intentionally doped Eu3+, which is dependent on the dielectric environments, as an optical probe to study the dielectric effects on the colloidal charge-bearing [Ca1.8Eu0.1Na0.1Nb3O10]- perovskite nanosheets (NSs) in various solvents. Results reveal that the solvent molecules with longer alkyl chain could more easily impact the ligands on the surface of the NSs, leading to a weaker interaction between the ligands and the NSs as well as less distortion of Eu3+ site (Ca2+ site) at the inner layer of the NSs. The large-sized ligands would impede the stacking of the NSs, while H+ would make the H+-modified NSs restack more easily. With the assistance of density functional theory (DFT) simulation, it is found that the ligands or the dielectric solvents could distort or relax the surface covalent polyhedra [NbO6]7- to a larger extent than the inner polyhedra. Small-sized ligands and a large thickness with more atomic layers of the NSs can resist structural variation caused by solvents. The acquired knowledge in this research benefits the understanding of the solution-processing technique for industrial application of 2D materials.
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- Ruirui Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fiber Laser Materials and Applied Techniques, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fiber Laser Materials and Applied Techniques, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fiber Laser Materials and Applied Techniques, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fiber Laser Materials and Applied Techniques, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
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Evans AM, Bradshaw NP, Litchfield B, Strauss MJ, Seckman B, Ryder MR, Castano I, Gilmore C, Gianneschi NC, Mulzer CR, Hersam MC, Dichtel WR. High-Sensitivity Acoustic Molecular Sensors Based on Large-Area, Spray-Coated 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks. Adv Mater 2020; 32:e2004205. [PMID: 32939866 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202004205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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2D covalent organic frameworks (2D COFs) are a unique materials platform that combines covalent connectivity, structural regularity, and molecularly precise porosity. However, 2D COFs typically form insoluble aggregates, thus limiting their processing via additive manufacturing techniques. In this work, colloidal suspensions of boronate-ester-linked 2D COFs are used as a spray-coating ink to produce large-area 2D COF thin films. This method is synthetically general, with five different 2D COFs prepared as colloidal inks and subsequently spray-coated onto a diverse range of substrates. Moreover, this approach enables the deposition of multiple 2D COF materials simultaneously, which is not possible by polymerizing COFs on substrates directly. When combined with stencil masks, spray-coated 2D COFs are rapidly deposited as thin films larger than 200 cm2 with line resolutions below 50 µm. To demonstrate that this deposition scheme preserves the desirable attributes of 2D COFs, spray-coated 2D COF thin films are incorporated as the active material in acoustic sensors. These 2D-COF-based sensors have a 10 ppb limit-of-quantification for trimethylamine, which places them among the most sensitive sensors for meat and seafood spoilage. Overall, this work establishes a scalable additive manufacturing technique that enables the integration of 2D COFs into thin-film device architectures.
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- Austin M Evans
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, International Institute of Nanotechnology, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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Xia P, Lu Y, Li Y, Zhang W, Shen W, Qian J, Wu Y, Zhu W, Yu H, Liu L, Deng L, Chen S. Solution-Processed Quasi-Two-Dimensional/Nanoscrystals Perovskite Composite Film Enhances the Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2020; 12:39720-39729. [PMID: 32816445 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c07547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Solution-processed quasi-two-dimensional (Q-2D)/colloidal perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) perovskite composite films are first prepared as the emitting layers of perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs). The subsequent multi-spin-coating of PNCs not only fills the gully-like fluctuations of the nanocrystal pinning-prepared Q-2D perovskite films and decreases their surface roughness but also transforms the bilayer perovskite nanosheets into multilayer ones, thus improving the charge transport and reducing the hole-injection barrier in the composite films. More importantly, the bromide vacancies and Pb defects in the Q-2D perovskites are removed via Br- supply and Pb-OOC-R interaction, in which the Br ions and COO- groups (from oleic acid) come from the PNC solution, and the radiation recombination is significantly enhanced. Based on the Q-2D/PNCs perovskite composite emitter, the PeLEDs achieve a maximum luminescence of ∼2.0 × 104 cd/m2 and a peak current efficiency of 27.5 cd/A, showing 175 and 337% enhancements compared to the control device with the pristine Q-2D perovskite emitter. The lifetime for the luminance decaying to 50% of the initial intensity increases by a factor of 13.8, demonstrating that the device stability is also improved by the Q-2D/PNCs perovskite composite film.
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- Pengfei Xia
- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
- College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
- College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
- Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Xi'an Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE) and Xi'an Institute of Biomedical Materials & Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an 710072, China
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Zhu H, Liu A, Shim KI, Hong J, Han JW, Noh YY. High-Performance and Reliable Lead-Free Layered-Perovskite Transistors. Adv Mater 2020; 32:e2002717. [PMID: 32584475 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202002717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Revised: 06/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Perovskites have been intensively investigated for their use in solar cells and light-emitting diodes. However, research on their applications in thin-film transistors (TFTs) has drawn less attention despite their high intrinsic charge carrier mobility. In this study, the universal approaches for high-performance and reliable p-channel lead-free phenethylammonium tin iodide TFTs are reported. These include self-passivation for grain boundary by excess phenethylammonium iodide, grain crystallization control by adduct, and iodide vacancy passivation through oxygen treatment. It is found that the grain boundary passivation can increase TFT reproducibility and reliability, and the grain size enlargement can hike the TFT performance, thus, enabling the first perovskite-based complementary inverter demonstration with n-channel indium gallium zinc oxide TFTs. The inverter exhibits a high gain over 30 with an excellent noise margin. This work aims to provide widely applicable and repeatable methods to make the gate more open for intensive efforts toward high-performance printed perovskite TFTs.
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- Huihui Zhu
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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Timmerman MA, Xia R, Le PTP, Wang Y, ten Elshof JE. Metal Oxide Nanosheets as 2D Building Blocks for the Design of Novel Materials. Chemistry 2020; 26:9084-9098. [PMID: 32077166 PMCID: PMC7496187 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201905735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2019] [Revised: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
Abstract
Research into 2-dimensional materials has soared during the last couple of years. Next to van der Waals type 2D materials such as graphene and h-BN, less well-known oxidic 2D equivalents also exist. Most 2D oxide nanosheets are derived from layered metal oxide phases, although few 2D oxide phases can be also made by bottom-up solution syntheses. Owing to the strong electrostatic interactions within layered metal oxide crystals, a chemical process is usually needed to delaminate them into their 2D constituents. This Review article provides an overview of the synthesis of oxide nanosheets, and methods to assemble them into nanocomposites, mono- or multilayer films. In particular, the use of Langmuir-Blodgett methods to form monolayer films over large surface areas, and the emerging use of ink jet printing to form patterned functional films is emphasized. The utilization of nanosheets in various areas of technology, for example, electronics, energy storage and tribology, is illustrated, with special focus on their use as seed layers for epitaxial growth of thin films, and as electrochemically active electrodes for supercapacitors and Li ion batteries.
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- Melvin A. Timmerman
- MESA+ Institute for NanotechnologyUniversity of TwenteP.O. Box 2177500AEEnschedeThe Netherlands
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- MESA+ Institute for NanotechnologyUniversity of TwenteP.O. Box 2177500AEEnschedeThe Netherlands
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- MESA+ Institute for NanotechnologyUniversity of TwenteP.O. Box 2177500AEEnschedeThe Netherlands
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- MESA+ Institute for NanotechnologyUniversity of TwenteP.O. Box 2177500AEEnschedeThe Netherlands
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- MESA+ Institute for NanotechnologyUniversity of TwenteP.O. Box 2177500AEEnschedeThe Netherlands
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