Issue 9, 2019

Fabrication of highly emissive and highly stable perovskite nanocrystal-polymer slabs for luminescent solar concentrators

Abstract

The high-performance light-management slabs made of low-cost, highly emissive, and ultra-stable nanocrystal (NC)-polymer composites are desirable for application in large-area luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs). However, although the reported photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY) of NCs in solution is up to 90%, PL QY of NCs in a polymer matrix is usually low, which limits the performance of LSCs. Herein, we demonstrated a new strategy for the synthesis of formamidinium lead bromide (FAPbBr3) NCs via room-temperature solvent-induced reprecipitation using dicarboxylic acids as ligands and the preparation of NC-polymer composite slabs for LSCs. Due to the strong binding of dicarboxylic acids, the as-synthesized decanedioic acid (DA)-capped FAPbBr3 NCs displayed high PL QY (90 ± 5%), increased chemical yield, and improved stability as compared to monocarboxylic oleic acid (OA)-capped NCs (PL QY of 80 ± 5%) synthesized in the same conditions. Furthermore, in the presence of toluene as the solvent, these DA-capped NCs exhibited good compatibility with polystyrene (PS); thus, the NCs-PS slurry exhibited appropriate viscosity. Therefore, it was convenient to deposit the slurry onto commercially available polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) slabs with a standard doctor blade. The optimized NCs-PS-PMMA slabs with PL QY of 92 ± 5% were sustained for over 1000 hours under high-temperature (60 °C) and high-humidity (relative humidity, RH = 90%) environments. The results show that the perovskite NC-based slabs developed in this study have the advantages of low cost, high emissivity, and good stability and may contribute to the field of LSCs.

Graphical abstract: Fabrication of highly emissive and highly stable perovskite nanocrystal-polymer slabs for luminescent solar concentrators

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
17 Dec 2018
Accepted
01 Feb 2019
First published
01 Feb 2019

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019,7, 4872-4880

Fabrication of highly emissive and highly stable perovskite nanocrystal-polymer slabs for luminescent solar concentrators

J. Tong, J. Luo, L. Shi, J. Wu, L. Xu, J. Song, P. Wang, H. Li and Z. Deng, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 4872 DOI: 10.1039/C8TA12149D

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