Project description
Unleashing the full potential of perovskites in all their glory
When Gustav Rose discovered a new calcium titanate-based mineral in the Ural Mountains in 1839, the sudden rise to stardom of this family of materials in the 2010s could hardly have been foreseen. As one of the most promising materials for highly efficient solar cells and optoelectronics, halide perovskites have taken the world by storm. The efficiencies of halide perovskite solar cells have increased nearly five times over the last decade, and films of halide perovskites are a hot area of research thanks to enhanced knowledge of their physics and control over their processing. The EU-funded perovskites-NMR project will carry out atomic-level structural and functional characterisation of numerous perovskite-based materials, giving a significant boost to their application.
Objective
This project proposes to study the molecular structure of timely photovoltaic materials: 2D, quasi-3D, hollow 3D perovskites and 3D perovskites doped with organic molecular modifiers. The understanding of order, disorder and dynamics in these complex systems is the first and most important step towards more rational design of new stable perovskites for solar cell applications. The project will address this problem by employing multi-nuclear solid-state NMR and the protocols that have been recently developed to study multi-component perovskites by the applicant. 1H, 2H, 13C, 15N, 14N, 133Cs, 115In, 209Bi and 109Ag solid-state MAS NMR will be applied to study structure and dynamics of lead (2D, quasi-3D, hollow 3D), tin (hollow 3D) halide perovskites, silver-indium and silver-bismuth double perovskites and 3D lead halide perovskites doped with amino acid molecular modifiers. The structural details will be related back to the optoelectronic behaviour studied using techniques such as confocal time-resolved photoluminescence, electroluminescence, and PL quantum yield measurements when these materials are incorporated into thin film architectures. The results are expected to provide an unprecedented level of detail on the atomic-level organisation which will also be the first comprehensive description of the structure-optoelectronic activity relationship in these complex organic-inorganic materials. The developed protocols are expected to encourage the routine application of solid-state NMR to perovskite materials research. The impact of this research is expected to go well beyond the scientific community as there is currently considerable industrial interest in developing stable perovskite-based solar cells.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry post-transition metals
- engineering and technology materials engineering coating and films
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry amines
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2018
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CB2 1TN CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom
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