Chemical Pathways Connecting Lead(II) Iodide and Perovskite via Polymeric Plumbate(II) Fiber

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• 作者：Yunlong Guo ; Kazutaka Shoyama ; Wataru Sato ; Yutaka Matsuo ; Kento Inoue ; Koji Harano ; Chao Liu ; Hideyuki Tanaka ; Eiichi Nakamura
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 23, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：137
• 期：50
• 页码：15907-15914
• 全文大小：737K
• ISSN：1520-5126

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Despite tremendous progress in optoelectronic devices using lead perovskite (CH₃NH₃⁺PbI₃^–), there has been a paucity of mechanistic information on how photoactive micron-sized crystals of lead perovskite grow from a mixture of a layered crystal of lead(II) iodide and methylammonium iodide mediated by a polar solvent, DMSO or DMF. We report here that the whole process of the lead perovskite synthesis consists of a series of equilibria driven by reversible solvent participation involving a polymeric strip of plumbate(II) oligomer as a key intermediate. A significant finding includes quick decomposition of perovskite crystal upon exposure to DMSO or DMF at room temperature, where the solvent molecules act as a base to remove acidic ammonium iodide from the perovskite crystal. This observation accounts for the difficulty in controlling perovskite solar cell fabrication. Overall, the polar solvent is indispensible first to degrade a 2-D sheet of crystals of lead(II) iodide into 1-D fibrous intermediates and then to promote Oswald ripening of perovskite crystals. The detailed chemical information provided here will help to rationalize the photovoltaic device studies that have so far remained empirical and to open a new venue to a developing field of microscale lead perovskite devices, as illustrated by fabrication of photovoltaic devices and photodetectors.