Perovskites are attracting an increasing interest in the wide community of photovoltaics, optoelectronic, and detection, traditionally relying on lead-based systems. This Minireview provides an overview of the current status of experimental and computational results available on Ge-containing 3D and lowdimensional halide perovskites. While stability issues analogous to those of tin-based materials are present, some strategies to afford this problem in Ge metal halide perovskites (MHPs) for photovoltaics have already been identified and successfully employed, reaching efficiencies of solar devices greater than 7 % at up to 500 h of illumination. Interestingly, some Gecontaining MHPs showed promising nonlinear optical responses as well as quite broad emissions, which are worthy of further investigation starting from the basic materials chemistry perspective, where a large space for properties modulation through compositions/alloying/fnanostructuring is present.
We report the synthesis and characterization of nanocrystals of a novel fully inorganic
lead-free zero-dimensional perovskite, Cs
4
SnBr
6
. Samples are made
of crystals with an average size of ∼20 nm with green emission centered around
530 nm. Interestingly, both colloidal suspensions and thin films show an enhanced air
stability with respect to that of any other previous tin-based nanocrystalline system,
with emission persisting for tens of hours under laboratory air.
The elucidation of the structure-property correlation in 2D metal halide perovskite is a key issue to understand the dependence of optical properties on structural distortions and to design novel tailored...
The role of templating the formation of 2D metal halide perovskites has been investigated by considering the 1,3-phenylenediammonium (1,3-PDA), 1,3-xylylenediamimonium (1,3-XDA), 1,4-phenylenediammonium (1,4-PDA), and 1,4-xylylenediamimonium (1,4-XDA) cations in lead bromide...
This review summarizes the current status of the application of metal halide perovskites (MHPs) as photocatalysts in organic syntheses/transformations. It is shown that the optimal and unique electronic properties of MHPs can be advantageously used in several reaction types providing pros with respect to traditional photocatalysts. While still being at infancy, such field of application of MHPs as effective photocatalysts will for sure become a central research topic in the forthcoming years, thanks also to their rich structural and chemical tunability, which may provide tailored materials for most of the envisaged organic reactions.
Tin-based metal halide perovskites with a composition
of ASnX3 (where A= MA or FA and X = I or Br) have been
investigated
by means of X-ray total scattering techniques coupled to pair distribution
function (PDF) analysis. These studies revealed that that none of
the four perovskites has a cubic symmetry at the local scale and that
a degree of increasing distortion is always present, in particular
when the cation size is increased, i.e., from MA to FA, and the hardness
of the anion is increased, i.e., from Br– to I–. Electronic structure calculations provided good agreement
with experimental band gaps for the four perovskites when local dynamical
distortions were included in the calculations. The averaged structure
obtained from molecular dynamics simulations was consistent with experimental
local structures determined via X-ray PDF, thus highlighting the robustness
of computational modeling and strengthening the correlation between
experimental and computational results.
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