journal article·2026-03Open access

Nanoscale Colloids Engineering for Minimizing Efficiency Loss in Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells

Zhiwei Li, Kaiyu Wang, Xiaozheng Duan, Guang Yang, Haotian Zhang, Tengfei Pan, Qing Yao, Tai Li, Xingyu Gao, Qingxun Guo, Zhelu Hu, Lingfeng Chao, Yingdong Xia, Yonghua Chen

Advanced Materials· Volume 38· Issue 15

Abstract

ABSTRACT Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have achieved significantly high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), approaching the performance of silicon‐based solar cells. However, scaling up PSCs while maintaining high‐efficiency remains a significant challenge. Here, we report a negligible efficiency loss in scalable PSCs by formate anions stabilized colloids. The formate anions enhance the charge density on colloidal surfaces, strengthening electrostatic repulsion and preventing particle aggregation. This significantly reduces colloidal size to around 30 nm and promotes homogeneous nucleation, allowing the scalable fabrication of high‐quality perovskite thin films from a small area to mini module size in ambient air. As a result, PSCs achieved PCEs of 24.30% (1 cm 2 ) and 24.10% (12.6 cm 2 , 5 cm × 5 cm mini module), with negligible efficiency loss upon scaling. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the highest efficiency reported for mini‐modules. Most importantly, the encapsulated mini module retained 95% of their initial efficiency after 1000 h of operation at maximum power point tracking in ambient air.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Perovskite Materials and Applications · TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells · Chemical and Physical Properties of Materials

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Affiliations

State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (LoFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) School of Flexible Electronics (Future Technologies) Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech) Nanjing P. R. China

State Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun P. R. China

School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering University of Science and Technology of China Hefei P. R. China

Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai P. R. China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China · National Key Research and Development Program of China

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