Perovskite nanocrystals for energy conversion and storage

The high demand for energy consumption in everyday life, and fears of climate change are driving the scientific community to explore prospective materials for efficient energy conversion and storage. Perovskites, a prominent category of materials, including metal halides and perovskite oxides have a...

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Published in:Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) Germany), 2019-10, Vol.8 (10), p.1607-1640
Main Authors: Kostopoulou, Athanasia, Brintakis, Konstantinos, Nasikas, Nektarios K., Stratakis, Emmanuel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Carrier mobility
Charge transport
Current carriers
Energy
Energy consumption
Energy conversion
energy conversion devices
Energy storage
energy storage devices
Halides
Hydrogen storage
Metal halides
Morphology
Nanocrystals
perovskite nanocrystals
Perovskites
Photoluminescence
Photovoltaic cells
Storage batteries
Storage systems
thermoelectrics
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Summary:The high demand for energy consumption in everyday life, and fears of climate change are driving the scientific community to explore prospective materials for efficient energy conversion and storage. Perovskites, a prominent category of materials, including metal halides and perovskite oxides have a significant role as energy materials, and can effectively replace conventional materials. The simultaneous need for new energy materials together with the increased interest for making new devices, and exploring new physics, thrust the research to control the structuring of the perovskite materials at the nanoscale. Nanostructuring of the perovskites offers unique features such as a large surface area, extensive porous structures, controlled transport and charge-carrier mobility, strong absorption and photoluminescence, and confinement effects. These features together with the unique tunability in their composition, shape, and functionalities make perovskite nanocrystals efficient for energy-related applications such as photovoltaics, catalysts, thermoelectrics, batteries, supercapacitor and hydrogen storage systems. The synthesis procedures of perovskite nanostructures in different morphologies is summarized and the energy-related properties and applications are extensively discussed in this paper.
ISSN:2192-8606
2192-8614
DOI:10.1515/nanoph-2019-0119