Issue 12, 2022

Insertion of metal cations into hybrid organometallic halide perovskite nanocrystals for enhanced stability: eco-friendly synthesis, lattice strain engineering, and defect chemistry studies

Abstract

In this work, we developed a facile and environmentally friendly synthesis strategy for large-scale preparation of Cr-doped hybrid organometallic halide perovskite nanocrystals. In the experiment, methylammonium lead bromide, CH3NH3PbBr3, was efficiently doped with Cr3+ cations by eco-friendly method at low temperatures to grow crystals via antisolvent-crystallization. The as-synthesized Cr3+ cation–doped perovskite nanocrystals displayed ∼45.45% decrease in the (100) phase intensity with an enhanced Bragg angle (2θ) of ∼15.01° compared to ∼14.92° of pristine perovskites while retaining their cubic (221/Pm-cm, ICSD no. 00-069-1350) crystalline phase of pristine perovskites. During synthesis, an eco-friendly solvent, ethanol, was utilized as an antisolvent to grow nanometer-sized rod-like crystals. However, Cr3+ cation-doped perovskite nanocrystals display a reduced crystallinity of ∼67% compared to pristine counterpart with ∼75% crystallinity with an improved contact angle of ∼72° against water in thin films. Besides, as-grown perovskite nanocrystals produced crystallite size of ∼48 nm and a full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) of ∼0.19° with an enhanced lattice-strain of ∼4.52 × 10−4 with a dislocation-density of ∼4.24 × 1014 lines per m2 compared to pristine perovskite nanocrystals, as extracted from the Williamson–Hall plots. The as-obtained stable perovskite materials might be promising light-harvesting candidates for optoelectronic applications in the future.

Graphical abstract: Insertion of metal cations into hybrid organometallic halide perovskite nanocrystals for enhanced stability: eco-friendly synthesis, lattice strain engineering, and defect chemistry studies

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 jan 2022
Accepted
11 mai 2022
First published
12 mai 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale Adv., 2022,4, 2729-2743

Insertion of metal cations into hybrid organometallic halide perovskite nanocrystals for enhanced stability: eco-friendly synthesis, lattice strain engineering, and defect chemistry studies

M. Nazim, A. A. Parwaz Khan, F. Khan, S. K. Cho and R. Ahmad, Nanoscale Adv., 2022, 4, 2729 DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00053A

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