journal article·2025-06Open access

Ambient‐Printed Methylammonium‐Free Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by Multiple Molecular Interactions

Lei Lang, Zicheng Ding, Yachao Du, Nan Wu, Pengchi Liu, Ru Qin, Shuang Wang, Zhichao Wang, Yongchao Tu, Xiujie Liu, Zheng Zhang, Yongshuai Gong, Dongxue Liu, Kui Zhao, Shengzhong (Frank) Liu

Advanced Energy Materials· Volume 15· Issue 21

Abstract

Abstract The ambient printing of high‐performance and stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is crucial for enabling low‐cost and energy‐efficient industrial fabrication. However, producing high‐quality perovskite films via ambient printing remains challenging due to direct exposure to air, which easily induces additional stacking defects and triggers perovskite degradation compared to films fabricated by traditional spin‐coating under inert conditions. Here, a multiple molecular interaction strategy is introduced to address this challenge by incorporating a 2‐thiazole formamidine hydrochloride (TC) additive, effectively suppressing defect formation during ambient printing. The specific interactions between TC and precursor components, i.e., multiple hydrogen bonds and coordination interactions, could promote the crystallization of α‐phase perovskites and reduce cation and anion vacancies simultaneously when drying in air. These endows high‐quality ambient‐printed perovskite films with large crystalline grains with eliminated nanovoids and low trap‐densities, which improve charge carrier dynamics and prevent perovskite decomposition and hydration under thermal/humidity stress during long‐term annealing/ambient storage. The unencapsulated PSCs show a high efficiency of 23.72% with good stability, i.e., realizing 92% and 95% efficiency retention after 672 h of annealing at 85 °C in a N 2 atmosphere and after 2088 h of storage in ambient air.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Perovskite Materials and Applications · Conducting polymers and applications · Advanced battery technologies research

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Affiliations

Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry Ministry of Education Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Advanced Energy Devices Shaanxi Engineering Lab for Advanced Energy Technology School of Materials Science and Engineering Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710119 P. R. China

Science and Technology Research Institute Three Gorges Corporation Beijing 101199 P. R. China

Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Conversion and Utilization of Solar Energy Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Dalian Liaoning 116023 P. R. China

Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China · Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

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