Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Efficacy of Perovskite Photocatalysis: Challenges to Overcome

Journal Article · · ACS Energy Letters
 [1];  [2]
  1. Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
  2. Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States

Not provided.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
FC02-04ER15533
OSTI ID:
1978351
Journal Information:
ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 6; ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (180)

Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Splitting of Water to Hydrogen and Oxygen journal March 1995
Semiconductor Photocatalysis — Past, Present, and Future Outlook journal February 2012
Manipulation of Charge Transfer Across Semiconductor Interface. A Criterion That Cannot Be Ignored in Photocatalyst Design journal February 2012
Designing the Surfaces of Semiconductor Quantum Dots for Colloidal Photocatalysis journal April 2017
Conversion of sunlight into electrical power and photoassisted electrolysis of water in photoelectrochemical cells journal May 1981
Visible-light-induced water cleavage and stabilization of n-type cadmium sulfide to photocorrosion with surface-attached polypyrrole-catalyst coating journal May 1982
Photocatalysis through excitation of adsorbates. 1. Highly efficient N-deethylation of rhodamine B adsorbed to cadmium sulfide journal September 1977
Photosensitization of semiconductors with transition metal complexes - a route to the photoassisted cleavage of water journal May 1985
Heterogeneous photocatalysis journal January 1993
Photochemistry on nonreactive and reactive (semiconductor) surfaces journal January 1993
Environmental Applications of Semiconductor Photocatalysis journal January 1995
Photocatalysis on TiO2 Surfaces: Principles, Mechanisms, and Selected Results journal May 1995
Perovskite Nanocrystal Heterostructures: Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Applications journal August 2020
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides as atomically thin semiconductors: opportunities and challenges journal January 2015
Photocatalysis with CdSe Nanoparticles in Confined Media: Mapping Charge Transfer Events in the Subpicosecond to Second Timescales journal February 2009
CdSe-MoS 2 : A Quantum Size-Confined Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution from Water under Visible Light journal May 2010
Photocatalytic Events of CdSe Quantum Dots in Confined Media. Electrodic Behavior of Coupled Platinum Nanoparticles journal November 2010
Photocatalytic Reduction of CO 2 on TiO 2 and Other Semiconductors journal June 2013
Colloidal Quantum Dots as Photocatalysts for Triplet Excited State Reactions of Organic Molecules journal August 2020
Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production with Tunable Nanorod Heterostructures journal March 2010
Ultrafast Photoinduced Charge Separation in Metal–Semiconductor Nanohybrids journal July 2012
The Effect of the Charge-Separating Interface on Exciton Dynamics in Photocatalytic Colloidal Heteronanocrystals journal August 2012
CdSe/CdS Nanorod Photocatalysts: Tuning the Interfacial Charge Transfer Process through Shell Length journal July 2015
Vectorial Charge Transfer across Bipolar Membrane Loaded with CdS and Au Nanoparticles journal March 2021
Highly Efficient CdS/WO 3 Photocatalysts: Z-Scheme Photocatalytic Mechanism for Their Enhanced Photocatalytic H 2 Evolution under Visible Light journal September 2014
Recent Advances in Quantum Dot Surface Chemistry journal February 2014
A Bipolar CdS/Pd Photocatalytic Membrane for Selective Segregation of Reduction and Oxidation Processes journal November 2021
Making and Breaking of Lead Halide Perovskites journal January 2016
Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical Degradation of Organic Compounds with All-Inorganic Metal Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots journal January 2019
Progress in Perovskite Photocatalysis journal July 2020
Halide Perovskite Nanocrystal Photocatalysts for CO 2 Reduction: Successes and Challenges journal July 2020
Solar-Driven Metal Halide Perovskite Photocatalysis: Design, Stability, and Performance journal March 2020
State of the Art and Prospects for Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals journal June 2021
Solar-to-Chemical Fuel Conversion via Metal Halide Perovskite Solar-Driven Electrocatalysis journal December 2021
Tandem-Layered Quantum Dot Solar Cells: Tuning the Photovoltaic Response with Luminescent Ternary Cadmium Chalcogenides journal December 2012
Origin of the Enhanced Photoluminescence from Semiconductor CdSeS Nanocrystals journal June 2010
Fast Anion-Exchange in Highly Luminescent Nanocrystals of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites (CsPbX 3 , X = Cl, Br, I) journal July 2015
Nanocrystals of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites (CsPbX 3 , X = Cl, Br, and I): Novel Optoelectronic Materials Showing Bright Emission with Wide Color Gamut journal February 2015
Material Dimensionality Effects on Electron Transfer Rates Between CsPbBr 3 and CdSe Nanoparticles journal June 2018
Why Do Perovskite Nanocrystals Form Nanocubes and How Can Their Facets Be Tuned? A Perspective from Synthetic Prospects journal December 2020
Brightly Luminescent and Color-Tunable Colloidal CH 3 NH 3 PbX 3 (X = Br, I, Cl) Quantum Dots: Potential Alternatives for Display Technology journal February 2015
A CsPbBr 3 Perovskite Quantum Dot/Graphene Oxide Composite for Photocatalytic CO 2 Reduction journal April 2017
Enhancing the Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Activity of Mixed-Halide Perovskite CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3– x I x Achieved by Bandgap Funneling of Charge Carriers journal September 2018
Transforming Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskites by Rapid Halide Exchange journal March 2015
Reversible Halide Exchange Reaction of Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Colloidal Nanocrystals for Full-Range Band Gap Tuning journal July 2015
Transformation of Sintered CsPbBr 3 Nanocrystals to Cubic CsPbI 3 and Gradient CsPbBr x I 3– x through Halide Exchange journal June 2016
Bidirectional Halide Ion Exchange in Paired Lead Halide Perovskite Films with Thermal Activation journal July 2019
Switchable Anion Exchange in Polymer-Encapsulated APbX 3 Nanocrystals Delivers Stable All-Perovskite White Emitters journal July 2021
Carbon Dioxide as a Raw Material: The Synthesis of Formic Acid and Its Derivatives from CO2 journal November 1995
A Local Proton Source Enhances CO 2 Electroreduction to CO by a Molecular Fe Catalyst journal October 2012
Proton-coupled electron transfer in the electrocatalysis of CO 2 reduction: prediction of sequential vs. concerted pathways using DFT journal January 2017
Tuning the Optical Properties of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals by Anion Exchange Reactions journal August 2015
To Exchange or Not to Exchange . Suppressing Anion Exchange in Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites with PbSO 4 –Oleate Capping journal March 2018
Suppressed Halide Ion Migration in 2D Lead Halide Perovskites journal April 2020
High efficiency perovskite quantum dot solar cells with charge separating heterostructure journal June 2019
Crown Ethers Enable Room-Temperature Synthesis of CsPbBr 3 Quantum Dots for Light-Emitting Diodes journal February 2018
Tuning the Surface-Passivating Ligand Anchoring Position Enables Phase Robustness in CsPbI 3 Perovskite Quantum Dot Solar Cells journal September 2020
Effect of Surface Ligand on Charge Separation and Recombination at CsPbI 3 Perovskite Quantum Dot/TiO 2 Interfaces journal August 2019
Superlattices are Greener on the Other Side: How Light Transforms Self-Assembled Mixed Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals journal April 2020
Metal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Post-Synthesis Modifications, and Their Optical Properties journal February 2019
Origin of the Substitution Mechanism for the Binding of Organic Ligands on the Surface of CsPbBr 3 Perovskite Nanocubes journal September 2017
What Happens to Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals on TEM Grids upon Year-Long Ambient Storage? Surface Ligands versus Crystal Stability journal January 2022
Stable Ligand Coordination at the Surface of Colloidal CsPbBr 3 Nanocrystals journal June 2019
Solvent Polarity: How Does This Influence the Precursor Activation, Reaction Rate, Crystal Growth, and Doping in Perovskite Nanocrystals? journal March 2019
Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals in the Research Spotlight: Stability and Defect Tolerance journal August 2017
Highly Dynamic Ligand Binding and Light Absorption Coefficient of Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanocrystals journal January 2016
Transformation of Perovskite Nanoplatelets to Large Nanostructures Driven by Solvent Polarity journal December 2021
Rapid Acidic Media Growth of Cs 3 Bi 2 Br 9 Halide Perovskite Platelets for Photocatalytic Toluene Oxidation journal May 2021
Direction-Specific Interactions Control Crystal Growth by Oriented Attachment journal May 2012
A Unified Description of Attachment-Based Crystal Growth journal June 2014
Oriented Attachment of Perovskite Cesium Lead Bromide Nanocrystals journal April 2019
Temperature-Driven Transformation of CsPbBr 3 Nanoplatelets into Mosaic Nanotiles in Solution through Self-Assembly journal January 2020
The impact of ligands on the synthesis and application of metal halide perovskite nanocrystals journal January 2021
Highly Efficient Perovskite-Quantum-Dot Light-Emitting Diodes by Surface Engineering journal August 2016
Combined NMR and Isothermal Titration Calorimetry Investigation Resolves Conditions for Ligand Exchange and Phase Transformation in CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals journal August 2021
Essentially Trap-Free CsPbBr 3 Colloidal Nanocrystals by Postsynthetic Thiocyanate Surface Treatment journal May 2017
Rationalizing and Controlling the Surface Structure and Electronic Passivation of Cesium Lead Halide Nanocrystals journal November 2018
Room-Temperature Triple-Ligand Surface Engineering Synergistically Boosts Ink Stability, Recombination Dynamics, and Charge Injection toward EQE-11.6% Perovskite QLEDs journal June 2018
Ligand Assisted Transformation of Cubic CsPbBr 3 Nanocrystals into Two-Dimensional CsPb 2 Br 5 Nanosheets journal November 2017
In Situ Photocatalyzed Polymerization to Stabilize Perovskite Nanocrystals in Protic Solvents journal January 2022
CsPbBr 3 /ZnS Core/Shell Type Nanocrystals for Enhancing Luminescence Lifetime and Water Stability journal May 2020
Core–Shell CsPbBr 3 @CdS Quantum Dots with Enhanced Stability and Photoluminescence Quantum Yields for Optoelectronic Devices journal July 2020
One-Pot Synthesis of Highly Stable CsPbBr 3 @SiO 2 Core–Shell Nanoparticles journal July 2018
Iodine Migration and its Effect on Hysteresis in Perovskite Solar Cells journal January 2016
Unravelling the role of vacancies in lead halide perovskite through electrical switching of photoluminescence journal November 2018
Halide Heterogeneity Affects Local Charge Carrier Dynamics in Mixed-Ion Lead Perovskite Thin Films journal April 2019
Interplay of Mobile Ions and Injected Carriers Creates Recombination Centers in Metal Halide Perovskites under Bias journal May 2018
Probing the ionic defect landscape in halide perovskite solar cells journal November 2020
Trap States, Electric Fields, and Phase Segregation in Mixed‐Halide Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices journal January 2020
Mixed Halide Perovskite Solar Cells. Consequence of Iodide Treatment on Phase Segregation Recovery journal August 2018
Large tunable photoeffect on ion conduction in halide perovskites and implications for photodecomposition journal March 2018
The Nature of Ion Conduction in Methylammonium Lead Iodide: A Multimethod Approach journal May 2017
Photo‐Effect on Ion Transport in Mixed Cation and Halide Perovskites and Implications for Photo‐Demixing** journal November 2020
Solid-State Ionics of Hybrid Halide Perovskites journal April 2019
Reversible photo-induced trap formation in mixed-halide hybrid perovskites for photovoltaics journal January 2015
Lead halide perovskites: Crystal-liquid duality, phonon glass electron crystals, and large polaron formation journal October 2017
Electrochemical Hole Injection Selectively Expels Iodide from Mixed Halide Perovskite Films journal June 2019
Modulation of Photoinduced Iodine Expulsion in Mixed Halide Perovskites with Electrochemical Bias journal March 2021
TiO 2 -Assisted Halide Ion Segregation in Mixed Halide Perovskite Films journal February 2020
Light-Induced Phase Segregation in Halide-Perovskite Absorbers journal November 2016
Defect-Assisted Photoinduced Halide Segregation in Mixed-Halide Perovskite Thin Films journal May 2017
Photoinduced Anion Segregation in Mixed Halide Perovskites journal April 2020
Electronic Traps and Phase Segregation in Lead Mixed-Halide Perovskite journal November 2018
Tracking Dynamic Phase Segregation in Mixed‐Halide Perovskite Single Crystals under Two‐Photon Scanning Laser Illumination journal May 2019
Preventing phase segregation in mixed-halide perovskites: a perspective journal January 2020
Halide Segregation in Mixed-Halide Perovskites: Influence of A-Site Cations journal February 2021
The role of halide oxidation in perovskite halide phase separation journal September 2021
Phase segregation due to ion migration in all-inorganic mixed-halide perovskite nanocrystals journal March 2019
Halide Ion Migration in Perovskite Nanocrystals and Nanostructures journal January 2021
Interfacial Charge Transfer between Excited CsPbBr 3 Nanocrystals and TiO 2 : Charge Injection versus Photodegradation journal September 2018
Iodine (I) Expulsion at Photoirradiated Mixed Halide Perovskite Interface. Should I Stay or Should I Go? journal May 2020
Controlling the Phase Segregation in Mixed Halide Perovskites through Nanocrystal Size journal November 2018
Rationalizing the light-induced phase separation of mixed halide organic–inorganic perovskites journal August 2017
Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites with Improved Stability for Tandem Solar Cells journal February 2016
Photovoltaic mixed-cation lead mixed-halide perovskites: links between crystallinity, photo-stability and electronic properties journal January 2017
Thermodynamic Stabilization of Mixed-Halide Perovskites against Phase Segregation journal August 2020
Lattice Compression Increases the Activation Barrier for Phase Segregation in Mixed-Halide Perovskites journal September 2020
Controlling competing photochemical reactions stabilizes perovskite solar cells journal May 2019
Evidence for ion migration in hybrid perovskite solar cells with minimal hysteresis journal December 2016
Catalysis with TiO 2 /Gold Nanocomposites. Effect of Metal Particle Size on the Fermi Level Equilibration journal April 2004
Photophysical, Photochemical and Photocatalytic Aspects of Metal Nanoparticles journal August 2002
Role of Metal Nanoparticles in TiO2/Ag Nanocomposite-Based Microheterogeneous Photocatalysis journal June 2004
Heterogeneous photocatalytic preparation of supported catalysts. Photodeposition of platinum on titanium dioxide powder and other substrates journal June 1978
Interparticle Electron Transfer in Metal/Semiconductor Composites. Picosecond Dynamics of CdS-Capped Gold Nanoclusters journal September 1997
Charge Separation and Catalytic Activity of Ag@TiO 2 Core−Shell Composite Clusters under UV−Irradiation journal March 2005
Au–CsPbBr 3 Hybrid Architecture: Anchoring Gold Nanoparticles on Cubic Perovskite Nanocrystals journal December 2016
Light Induced Processes in CsPbBr3–Au Hybrid Nanocrystals: Electron Transfer and Expulsion of Au journal August 2021
Photoinduced Ultrafast Charge Separation in Plexcitonic CdSe/Au and CdSe/Pt Nanorods journal October 2013
Ultrafast and Hot Electron Transfer in CdSe QD–Au Hybrid Nanostructures journal December 2019
Efficient Hot Electron Transfer from Small Au Nanoparticles journal May 2020
Visualizing Ultrafast Electron Transfer Processes in Semiconductor–Metal Hybrid Nanoparticles: Toward Excitonic–Plasmonic Light Harvesting journal January 2021
Au Exchange or Au Deposition: Dual Reaction Pathways in Au–CsPbBr 3 Heterostructure Nanoparticles journal August 2017
Lead-Free Silver-Bismuth Halide Double Perovskite Nanocrystals journal March 2018
Charge Injection from Excited Cs 2 AgBiBr 6 Quantum Dots into Semiconductor Oxides journal November 2019
Large Cation Engineering in Two-Dimensional Silver–Bismuth Bromide Double Perovskites journal May 2021
The Role Silver Nanoparticles Plays in Silver-Based Double-Perovskite Nanocrystals journal March 2021
Photoinduced Transformation of Cs2Au2Br6 into CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals journal March 2022
Halide Perovskite Heteroepitaxy: Bond Formation and Carrier Confinement at the PbS–CsPbBr3 Interface journal November 2017
Mechanism of charge redistribution at the metal–semiconductor and semiconductor–semiconductor interfaces of metal–bilayer MoS2 junctions journal June 2020
General atomistic approach for modeling metal-semiconductor interfaces using density functional theory and nonequilibrium Green's function journal April 2016
Metal Halide Perovskites for Solar‐to‐Chemical Fuel Conversion journal April 2020
Perovskite as Recyclable Photocatalyst for Annulation Reaction of N-Sulfonyl Ketimines journal December 2021
Ultrafast Reaction Mechanisms in Perovskite Based Photocatalytic C–C Coupling journal January 2020
C(sp 3 )–H Bond Activation by Perovskite Solar Photocatalyst Cell journal December 2018
Efficient and Selective Photocatalytic Oxidation of Benzylic Alcohols with Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskite Materials journal February 2018
Lead-Halide Perovskites for Photocatalytic α-Alkylation of Aldehydes journal January 2019
A Nanocrystal Catalyst Incorporating a Surface Bound Transition Metal to Induce Photocatalytic Sequential Electron Transfer Events journal July 2021
A Multi-Dimensional Perspective on Electronic Doping in Metal Halide Perovskites journal March 2021
Doping of Soft Semiconductors journal March 2022
Photocatalytic Polymerization of 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene over Cesium Lead Iodide Perovskite Quantum Dots journal August 2017
Surface Modification for Improving the Photocatalytic Polymerization of 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene over Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots journal December 2019
Directing Energy Transfer in Halide Perovskite–Chromophore Hybrid Assemblies journal November 2021
Selective Valorization of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-Diformylfuran Using Atmospheric O 2 and MAPbBr 3 Perovskite under Visible Light journal December 2020
All Solution-Processed Lead Halide Perovskite-BiVO 4 Tandem Assembly for Photolytic Solar Fuels Production journal January 2015
Wireless Solar Water Splitting Device with Robust Cobalt-Catalyzed, Dual-Doped BiVO 4 Photoanode and Perovskite Solar Cell in Tandem: A Dual Absorber Artificial Leaf journal October 2015
Photocatalytic hydrogen generation from hydriodic acid using methylammonium lead iodide in dynamic equilibrium with aqueous solution journal December 2016
Multidimensional Perovskite for Visible Light Driven Hydrogen Production in Aqueous HI Solution journal December 2021
Composite of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 with Reduced Graphene Oxide as a Highly Efficient and Stable Visible-Light Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution in Aqueous HI Solution journal January 2018
Halide Perovskite Materials for Photo(Electro)Chemical Applications: Dimensionality, Heterojunction, and Performance journal May 2021
Systematic Assessment of Solvent Selection in Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction journal August 2021
Undesired Role of Sacrificial Reagents in Photocatalysis journal September 2013
Semiconductor Photocatalysis: “ Tell Us the Complete Story! journal February 2018
Do Sacrificial Donors Donate H2 in Photocatalysis? journal December 2021
Photoluminescence of CdSe Nanoparticles in the Presence of a Hole Acceptor:  n-Butylamine journal March 2001
Is Graphene a Stable Platform for Photocatalysis? Mineralization of Reduced Graphene Oxide With UV-Irradiated TiO 2 Nanoparticles journal July 2014
Perovskite Photocatalysis. Methyl Viologen Induces Unusually Long-Lived Charge Carrier Separation in CsPbBr 3 Nanocrystals journal December 2019
Probing Perovskite Photocatalysis. Interfacial Electron Transfer between CsPbBr 3 and Ferrocene Redox Couple journal September 2019
Sacrificial Agent Gone Rogue: Electron-Acceptor-Induced Degradation of CsPbBr3 Photocathodes journal December 2021
Stereoselective C−C Oxidative Coupling Reactions Photocatalyzed by Zwitterionic Ligand Capped CsPbBr 3 Perovskite Quantum Dots journal October 2020
The Role of Surface Termination in Halide Perovskites for Efficient Photocatalytic Synthesis journal May 2020
Ultrafast Charge Separation in Two-Dimensional CsPbBr 3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets journal January 2019
Surface Chemistry Matters. How Ligands Influence Excited State Interactions between CsPbBr 3 and Methyl Viologen journal May 2020
Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Perovskite Nanocrystal Heterostructures journal June 2020
Halide Perovskite–Lead Chalcohalide Nanocrystal Heterostructures journal January 2021
Enhanced Stability and Tunable Photoluminescence in Perovskite CsPbX 3 /ZnS Quantum Dot Heterostructure journal April 2017
Managing photoinduced electron transfer in AgInS2–CdS heterostructures journal May 2022
A universal synthesis strategy for stable CsPbX3@oxide core–shell nanoparticles through bridging ligands journal January 2021
Synthesis of Luminescent Thin-Film CdSe/ZnSe Quantum Dot Composites Using CdSe Quantum Dots Passivated with an Overlayer of ZnSe journal January 1996
Chemical Production Using Light: Are Sustainable Photons Cheap Enough? journal February 2022
Quantum Dots Photocatalyze Intermolecular [2 + 2] Cycloadditions of Aromatic Alkenes Adsorbed to their Surfaces via van der Waals Interactions journal March 2022