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Thien GSH, Chan KY, Marlinda AR, Yap BK. Polymer-enhanced perovskite oxide-based photocatalysts: a review. NANOSCALE 2023; 15:19039-19061. [PMID: 37987540 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr03874b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
Abstract
Oxide perovskites (OPs) have emerged as promising photocatalysts for numerous applications, such as energy conversion, renewable fuels, and environmental remediation. Although OPs are gaining traction, their efficacies are still hindered by low charge carrier mobility and poor stability. This study investigated the function of polymers actively participating in OP structures to improve the overall characteristics. An overview of the polymer-enhanced perovskite oxide photocatalyst (PEPOP) field was effectively reviewed. These PEPOPs were demonstrated in photovoltaics, pollutant degradation, and gas conversion and reduction. Nonetheless, additional research is needed to explore the potential of PEPOPs to establish their efficacy in photocatalytic applications. The technological improvements of PEPOPs were hindered by significant challenges related to stability and sensitivity. The urgency of this review was apparent due to the fast-paced nature of research in the field of photocatalysis. Recent breakthroughs and emerging applications highlight the need for a comprehensive overview of PEPOPs and their enhanced catalytic capabilities. Consequently, a broad outlook was provided for the current state of PEPOP-related studies, highlighting the potential of these materials for future applications.
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- Gregory Soon How Thien
- Centre for Advanced Devices and Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia, 63100 Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
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- Centre for Advanced Devices and Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia, 63100 Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
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- Nanotechnology and Catalysis Research Centre (NANOCAT), Universiti Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Electronic and Communications Department, College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Institute of Sustainable Energy, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
- International School of Advanced Materials, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China
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Yu L, Shen Y, Chen L, Zhang Q, Hu X, Xu Q. Molecularly imprinted ultrasensitive cholesterol photoelectrochemical sensor based on perfluorinated organics functionalization and hollow carbon spheres anchored organic-inorganic perovskite. Biosens Bioelectron 2023; 237:115496. [PMID: 37421798 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2023.115496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2023] [Revised: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/10/2023]
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In spite of organic-inorganic perovskite emerging as a novel efficient light-harvesting material owing to their superior optical properties, excitonic properties, and electrical conductivity, the related applications are severely limited for their poor stability and selectivity. Herein, we introduced hollow carbon spheres (HCSs) and 2-(perfluorohexyl) ethyl methacrylate (PFEM) based molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) to dual-functionalize CH3NH3PbI3. HCSs can provide perovskite load conditions, passivate perovskite defects, increase carrier transport and effectively improve its hydrophobicity. The perfluorinated organic compound based MIPs film can not only enhance the water and oxygen stability of perovskite, but also endow it specific selectivity. Moreover, it can reduce the photoexcited electron-hole pair recombination and prolong the electron lifetime. Benefiting from the synergistic sensitization of HCSs and MIPs, an ultrasensitive photoelectrochemical platform (MIPs@CH3NH3PbI3@HCSs/ITO) for cholesterol sensing was acquired with a very wide linear range of 5.0 × 10-14-5.0 × 10-8 mol/L and an extremely low detection limit of 2.39 × 10-15 mol/L. The designed PEC sensor exhibited good selectivity and stability, as well as practicality for real sample analysis. The present work extended the development of the high-performance perovskite and showed its broad application prospect for advanced PEC construction.
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- Liangyun Yu
- School of Light Industry, Beijing Technology and Business University, No. 11 Fucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100048, PR China
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- College of Chemistry and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225002, PR China
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- College of Chemistry and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225002, PR China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, 224051, PR China
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- College of Chemistry and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225002, PR China.
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- College of Chemistry and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225002, PR China.
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Cao Q, Li Y, Zhang H, Yang J, Han J, Xu T, Wang S, Wang Z, Gao B, Zhao J, Li X, Ma X, Zakeeruddin SM, Sha WEI, Li X, Grätzel M. Efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells with very high fill factors via incorporation of star-shaped polymer. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:7/28/eabg0633. [PMID: 34233877 PMCID: PMC8262814 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg0633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Stabilizing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs) at operating conditions remains an unresolved issue hampering its large-scale commercial deployment. Here, we report a star-shaped polymer to improve charge transport and inhibit ion migration at the perovskite interface. The incorporation of multiple chemical anchor sites in the star-shaped polymer branches strongly controls the crystallization of perovskite film with lower trap density and higher carrier mobility and thus inhibits the nonradiative recombination and reduces the charge-transport loss. Consequently, the modified inverted PSCs show an optimal power conversion efficiency of 22.1% and a very high fill factor (FF) of 0.862, corresponding to 95.4% of the Shockley-Queisser limited FF (0.904) of PSCs with a 1.59-eV bandgap. The modified devices exhibit excellent long-term operational and thermal stability at the maximum power point for 1000 hours at 45°C under continuous one-sun illumination without any significant loss of efficiency.
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- Qi Cao
- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Center for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
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- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Center for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Center for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Electronic Devices and Smart Systems of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Center for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Center for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Center for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Center for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
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- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Electronic Devices and Smart Systems of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Center for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.
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- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Collavini S, Cabrera-Espinoza A, Delgado JL. Organic Polymers as Additives in Perovskite Solar Cells. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Silvia Collavini
- POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Avenida de Tolosa 72 & Faculty of Chemistry, P. Manuel Lardizabal 3, 20018 Donostia−San Sebastián, Spain
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- POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Avenida de Tolosa 72 & Faculty of Chemistry, P. Manuel Lardizabal 3, 20018 Donostia−San Sebastián, Spain
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- POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Avenida de Tolosa 72 & Faculty of Chemistry, P. Manuel Lardizabal 3, 20018 Donostia−San Sebastián, Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Spain
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Ouedraogo NAN, Yan H, Han CB, Zhang Y. Influence of Fluorinated Components on Perovskite Solar Cells Performance and Stability. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2021; 17:e2004081. [PMID: 33522104 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202004081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Revised: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Several valuable scientific investigations have been conducted these last few years in materials design and device engineering for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) to make them competitive compared to traditional silicon-based photovoltaic technologies. Consequently, high power conversion efficiency beyond 25% is nowadays reported. However, their long-term stability remains a significant challenge to overcome. Herein, the influence of fluorinated compounds on each layer of PSCs devices and their impact on the resulted device performances and stability is spotlighted. The fluorinated compounds exhibit attractive properties due to their very high electronegativity attributed to the fluorine atom, and their strong hydrophobicity. Thus, the introduction of these compounds is found to be a successful strategy to positively suppress the surface trap states, enhancing charge collection and reducing interfacial charge recombination. Besides, a better film quality and better energy level alignment is obtained, resulting in the improvement of device photovoltaic parameters such as the open-circuit voltage (Voc ), short-circuit current (Jsc ), and fill factor (FF), and then, the device's overall power conversion efficiency (PCE). Their long-term stability is also found to further be improved.
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- Nabonswende Aida Nadege Ouedraogo
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
- The Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, 100124, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
- The Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, 100124, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
- The Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, 100124, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
- The Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, 100124, China
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Frolova LA, Davlethanov AI, Dremova NN, Zhidkov I, Akbulatov AF, Kurmaev EZ, Aldoshin SM, Stevenson KJ, Troshin PA. Efficient and Stable MAPbI 3-Based Perovskite Solar Cells Using Polyvinylcarbazole Passivation. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:6772-6778. [PMID: 32689804 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Hybrid perovskite solar cells attract a great deal of attention due to the feasibility of their low-cost production and their demonstration of impressive power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) exceeding 25%. However, the insufficient intrinsic stability of lead halides under light soaking and thermal stress impedes practical implementation of this technology. Herein, we show that the photothermal aging of a widely used perovskite light absorber such as MAPbI3 can be suppressed significantly by using polyvinylcarbazole (PVC) as a stabilizing agent. By applying a few complementary methods, we reveal that the PVC additive leads to passivation of defects in the absorber material. Introducing an optimal content of PVC into MAPbI3 delivers a PCE of 18.7% in combination with a significantly improved solar cell operational lifetime: devices retained ∼70% of the initial efficiency after light soaking for 1500 h, whereas the control samples without PVC degraded almost completely under the same conditions.
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- Lyubov A Frolova
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, bld. 1, Moscow 121205, Russia
- IPCP RAS, Semenov Prospect 1, Chernogolovka 142432, Russia
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- Institute of Physics and Technology, Ural Federal University, Mira st. 19, Yekaterinburg 620002, Russia
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- Institute of Physics and Technology, Ural Federal University, Mira st. 19, Yekaterinburg 620002, Russia
- M. N. Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, S. Kovalevskoi st. 18, Yekaterinburg 620990, Russia
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, bld. 1, Moscow 121205, Russia
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, bld. 1, Moscow 121205, Russia
- IPCP RAS, Semenov Prospect 1, Chernogolovka 142432, Russia
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