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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24614-7
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- National Key Research Projects [2016YFA0202402]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22161142003, 61911530158, 52002260, 51803144]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China [BK20200872]
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology
- 111 Project
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- NIU start-up fund
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [16H03824, 19H02534]
- MEXT KAKENHI [17H03536, 20H02565]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H03824, 17H03536, 20H02565, 19H02534] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Surfaces sensitive to the ambient environment are often covered with water, which has a significant impact on colloidal quantum dot semiconductor electronics. The interaction between water and CQDs can lead to changes in nanostructures and carrier dynamics. Introducing the meniscus-guided-coating technique can mitigate CQD fusion triggered by water adsorption, improving device performance and thermal stability.
Almost all surfaces sensitive to the ambient environment are covered by water, whereas the impacts of water on surface-dominated colloidal quantum dot (CQD) semiconductor electronics have rarely been explored. Here, strongly hydrogen-bonded water on hydroxylated lead sulfide (PbS) CQD is identified. The water could pilot the thermally induced evolution of surface chemical environment, which significantly influences the nanostructures, carrier dynamics, and trap behaviors in CQD solar cells. The aggravation of surface hydroxylation and water adsorption triggers epitaxial CQD fusion during device fabrication under humid ambient, giving rise to the inter-band traps and deficiency in solar cells. To address this problem, meniscus-guided-coating technique is introduced to achieve dense-packed CQD solids and extrude ambient water, improving device performance and thermal stability. Our works not only elucidate the water involved PbS CQD surface chemistry, but may also achieve a comprehensive understanding of the impact of ambient water on CQD based electronics. Surface of colloidal quantum dot is sensitive to water, and the interaction could potentially alter its chemical environments. Here, Shi et al. investigate how the interaction effects the nanostructures and carrier dynamic in CQDs, and subsequently introduce meniscus-guided coating technique to mitigate CQD fusion triggered by water adsorption.
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