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Lead-binding biogenic polyelectrolyte multilayer coating for lead retention in perovskite solar cells

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RSC ADVANCES
卷 12, 期 53, 页码 34381-34392

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2ra05692e

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  1. Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism of Baden-Wuerttemberg [AZ 3-4332.62-ZSW/55]

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Perovskite solar cells have the potential for high efficiency at low cost. A new approach using biopolymers to generate a lead binding coating has been developed to reduce lead leakage risk. Increasing the thickness of the coating enhances its lead binding capacity, and it can be successfully applied to various substrates. The coating reduces lead release after damage to the cell's encapsulation, without affecting overall efficiency, thus limiting the inherent risk of lead leakage in perovskite solar cells.
Perovskite solar cells promise to deliver high efficiencies at low manufacturing costs. Yet on their way towards commercialization, they have to face the associated risk of potential lead leakage into the environment after damage to the cell's encapsulation. Here we present a new approach to generate a lead binding coating, based on a layer-by-layer deposition of biopolymers. A lead-adsorbing functionality was shown after subsequent crosslinking, demonstrating a high binding capacity. The lead binding capabilities could be further enhanced by increasing the thickness of the coatings, analyzed both in the supernatant and on the surface of the coated material. The thin-layered coating had a thickness of less than one micrometer, was stable even under low pH conditions and could successfully be transferred onto different substrates, ranging from silicon, gold and glass substrates to polymeric nonwoven materials with high surface areas, further increasing its lead binding capacity. This newly described coating was applied within perovskite solar cell stacks without impeding the overall efficiency but strongly reducing the amount of lead released after simulated rain tests on devices with damaged encapsulation. Accordingly, incorporation of lead-binding polyelectrolyte multilayers inside the encapsulation of perovskite solar cells shows great potential to limit the perovskite solar cells inherent risk of lead leakage in a sustainable manner.

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