A team from Israel's Technion Institute of Technology has announced the development of self-healing perovskite nanocrystals.
Having to frequently replace electronics due to malfunctioning of materials is unavoidable today, since every device suffers from degradation as a result of defects that accumulate during use over time. This generates, in addition to customer frustration and costs, a heavy environmental footprint.
An international research team from TU Dortmund University, the Russian Academy of Sciences and ETH Zürich has discovered that the electron dynamics in perovskite crystals are largely determined by lead. This discovery suggests that replacing this element could enable better control of the crystals’ material properties.
TU Dortmund University Professor Dmitri Yakovlev's group investigated ultrafast interaction processes between optically excited charge carriers and their surroundings in perovskite crystals. The team was able to show that the magnetic properties can be regulated on an ultrafast time scale through the use of optical pulses with a duration of trillionths of a second. This proof that they can be controlled is of particular interest for possible new applications.
Researchers from University of North Carolina, North Carolina State University and Chinese Academy of Sciences have fabricated a mini perovskite solar module using a novel encapsulation technique based on the use of a self-healable, lead-adsorbing ionogel that prevents lead leakage and improves stability. The solar module has an area of 31.5cm2 and has a reported efficiency of 22.9%.
Ionogel microstructure and lead adsorption mechanism. Image from article
The scientists explained that ionogel sealants were applied on the panel's front glass and between electrode and encapsulation glass, with the 100μm-thick inonogel being able to hold the shattered glass together even if the glass breaks. This is claimed to effectively suppress lead leakage from broken modules after hail test or compression by car wheels, and soaking in water for 45 days.
Unlike the narrow band emission based on free excitons in lead-perovskite nanocrystals (NCs), the low electronic dimensionality in lead-free double perovskite NCs can lead to self-trapped excitons (STEs), generating a broadband emission. To date, how the singlet/triplet STEs influence the photoluminescence properties and whether triplet STEs can generate efficient emission in double-perovskite NCs has been unclear.
A research team, led by Prof. Han Keli and Yang Bin from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently synthesized double perovskite nanocrystals with bright photoluminescence emission based on triplet STEs.
A research group, led by Prof. Han Keli from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. Miao Xiangyang's group from Shanxi Normal University, recently explored the colloidal synthesis of all-inorganic rare-earth-based double perovskite NCs with NIR emission, and revealed their exciton dynamics.
Previous studies mainly focused on the photoluminescence (PL) in the visible region, and those on the near-infrared (NIR) PL of lead-free perovskite NCs are rare.