Amine-releasable Mediator In situ Repair Perovskites for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
Ruonan Zhao
Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang⋅, 330022 China
Contribution: Data curation (lead), Formal analysis (lead), Funding acquisition (supporting), Investigation (lead), Methodology (equal), Visualization (lead), Writing - original draft (lead)
Search for more papers by this authorProf. Licheng Tan
Institute of Polymers and Energy Chemistry (IPEC)/ Film Energy Chemistry for Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory (FEC), Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031 China
Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, 60 Chongzhou Avenue, Nantong, 226010 China
Contribution: Conceptualization (supporting), Formal analysis (equal), Funding acquisition (equal), Methodology (supporting), Project administration (lead), Resources (equal), Supervision (lead), Validation (equal), Visualization (supporting), Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorXiao Luo
Institute of Polymers and Energy Chemistry (IPEC)/ Film Energy Chemistry for Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory (FEC), Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031 China
Contribution: Data curation (equal), Investigation (equal), Methodology (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorJiacheng He
Institute of Polymers and Energy Chemistry (IPEC)/ Film Energy Chemistry for Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory (FEC), Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031 China
Contribution: Data curation (supporting), Formal analysis (equal), Investigation (equal), Methodology (supporting), Writing - original draft (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorRunying Dai
Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang⋅, 330022 China
Contribution: Formal analysis (supporting), Funding acquisition (supporting), Methodology (supporting), Resources (supporting), Software (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorChuizheng Feng
Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang⋅, 330022 China
Contribution: Investigation (supporting), Methodology (supporting), Visualization (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorQingguo Zhang
Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang⋅, 330022 China
Contribution: Investigation (supporting), Methodology (supporting)
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Jia Yang
Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang⋅, 330022 China
Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Data curation (supporting), Formal analysis (equal), Investigation (equal), Methodology (lead), Project administration (supporting), Supervision (lead), Validation (equal), Visualization (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (lead)
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Prof. Yiwang Chen
Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang⋅, 330022 China
Institute of Polymers and Energy Chemistry (IPEC)/ Film Energy Chemistry for Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory (FEC), Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031 China
Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, 60 Chongzhou Avenue, Nantong, 226010 China
Contribution: Data curation (supporting), Formal analysis (supporting), Funding acquisition (lead), Methodology (equal), Project administration (lead), Resources (equal), Supervision (lead), Validation (equal), Visualization (supporting), Writing - original draft (supporting), Writing - review & editing (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorRuonan Zhao
Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang⋅, 330022 China
Contribution: Data curation (lead), Formal analysis (lead), Funding acquisition (supporting), Investigation (lead), Methodology (equal), Visualization (lead), Writing - original draft (lead)
Search for more papers by this authorProf. Licheng Tan
Institute of Polymers and Energy Chemistry (IPEC)/ Film Energy Chemistry for Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory (FEC), Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031 China
Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, 60 Chongzhou Avenue, Nantong, 226010 China
Contribution: Conceptualization (supporting), Formal analysis (equal), Funding acquisition (equal), Methodology (supporting), Project administration (lead), Resources (equal), Supervision (lead), Validation (equal), Visualization (supporting), Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorXiao Luo
Institute of Polymers and Energy Chemistry (IPEC)/ Film Energy Chemistry for Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory (FEC), Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031 China
Contribution: Data curation (equal), Investigation (equal), Methodology (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorJiacheng He
Institute of Polymers and Energy Chemistry (IPEC)/ Film Energy Chemistry for Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory (FEC), Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031 China
Contribution: Data curation (supporting), Formal analysis (equal), Investigation (equal), Methodology (supporting), Writing - original draft (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorRunying Dai
Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang⋅, 330022 China
Contribution: Formal analysis (supporting), Funding acquisition (supporting), Methodology (supporting), Resources (supporting), Software (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorChuizheng Feng
Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang⋅, 330022 China
Contribution: Investigation (supporting), Methodology (supporting), Visualization (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorQingguo Zhang
Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang⋅, 330022 China
Contribution: Investigation (supporting), Methodology (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Jia Yang
Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang⋅, 330022 China
Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Data curation (supporting), Formal analysis (equal), Investigation (equal), Methodology (lead), Project administration (supporting), Supervision (lead), Validation (equal), Visualization (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (lead)
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Prof. Yiwang Chen
Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang⋅, 330022 China
Institute of Polymers and Energy Chemistry (IPEC)/ Film Energy Chemistry for Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory (FEC), Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031 China
Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, 60 Chongzhou Avenue, Nantong, 226010 China
Contribution: Data curation (supporting), Formal analysis (supporting), Funding acquisition (lead), Methodology (equal), Project administration (lead), Resources (equal), Supervision (lead), Validation (equal), Visualization (supporting), Writing - original draft (supporting), Writing - review & editing (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorGraphical Abstract
Amine-releasable mediator methylammonium pyridine-2-carboxylic (MAPyA) is demonstrated to in situ repair the imperfections in perovskite film. The specific mechanism is that MAPyA-released methylamine gifts a crystal reconstruction environment by inducing liquid intermediate phase, thus reconvert the microcrystals and residual PbI2 to perfect perovskites in situ. The optimized device exhibits efficiency of 24.06 % and excellent photostability.
Abstract
Residual lead iodide (PbI2) is deemed to a double-edged sword in perovskite film as small amounts of PbI2 are beneficial to the photovoltaic performance, but excessive will cause degradation of photovoltaic performance and stability. Herein, an in situ repair strategy has been developed by introducing amine-releasable mediator (methylammonium pyridine-2-carboxylic, MAPyA) to eliminate over-residual PbI2 and regulate the crystal quality of perovskite film. Notably, MAPyA can be partially decomposed into methylamine (MA) gas and pyridine-2-carboxylic (PyA) during high temperature annealing. The released MA can locally form liquid intermediate phase, facilitating the reconstruction of perovskite microcrystals and residual PbI2. Moreover, the leftover PyA is confirmed to effectively passivate the uncoordinated lead ions in final perovskite film. Based upon this, superior perovskite film with optimized crystal structure and holistic negligible PbI2 is acquired. The assembled device realizes outstanding efficiency of 24.06 %, and exhibits a remarkable operational stability that maintaining 87 % of its origin efficiency after continuous illumination for 1480 h. And the unencapsulated MAPyA-treated devices present significant uplift in humidity stability (maintaining ~93 % of the initial efficiency over 1500 h, 50–60 % relative humidity). Furthermore, the further optimization of this strategy with nanoimprint technology proves its superiority in the amplificative preparation for perovskite films.
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