Abstract
Self-healing (SH) of (opto)electronic material damage can have a huge impact on resource sustainability. The rising interest in halide perovskite (HaP) compounds over the past decade is due to their excellent semiconducting properties for crystals and films, even if made by low-temperature solution-based processing. Direct proof of self-healing in Pb-based HaPs is demonstrated through photoluminescence recovery from photodamage, fracture healing and their use as high-energy radiation and particle detectors. Here, the question of how to find additional semiconducting materials exhibiting SH, in particular lead-free ones is addressed. Applying a data-mining approach to identify semiconductors with favorable mechanical and thermal properties, for which Pb HaPs are clear outliers, it is found that the Cs2AuIAuIIIX6, (X = I, Br, Cl) family, which is synthesized and tested for SH. This is the first demonstration of self-healing of Pb-free inorganic HaP thin films, by photoluminescence recovery.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2309107 |
Journal | Advanced Functional Materials |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 11 |
Early online date | 30 Nov 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published Online - 30 Nov 2023 |
Funding
Omer Yaffe for fruitful discussions. A.P.R., P.S., J.F.G., P.S., S.K., and D.C. gratefully acknowledge support from a Weizmann‐CNRS grant and thank Omer Yaffe for fruitful discussions. D.C. thanks Igor Lubomirsky for a seminal early discussion. A.P.R., P.S., and J.F.G. gratefully acknowledge the support of the IPVF technological platform. D.O. and D.C. gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Weizmann Sustainability and Energy Research Initiative, SAERI. D.C. and P.S. thank the Minerva Centre for Self‐Repairing Systems for Energy & Sustainability and the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Nanoscale Science for support. Y.S. was supported by the Ariane de Rothschild Women Doctoral Program. D.R.C. thanks the European Union's Horizon 2020 research & innovation program under a Marie Sklodowska‐Curie grant agreement, No. 893194. D.O. is the incumbent of the Harry Weinrebe Professorial Chair of laser physics. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Advanced Functional Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- General Chemistry
- Biomaterials
- General Materials Science
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Electrochemistry