Molecular Structure Tailoring of Organic Spacers for High-Performance Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskite Solar Cells

Pengyun Liu; Xuejin Li; Tonghui Cai; Wei Xing; Naitao Yang; Hamidreza Arandiyan; Zongping Shao; Shaobin Wang; Shaomin Liu

doi:10.1007/s40820-024-01500-7

Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 17, Issue 1, 035(2025)

Molecular Structure Tailoring of Organic Spacers for High-Performance Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskite Solar Cells

Pengyun Liu^1、†, Xuejin Li^1、†, Tonghui Cai^1、†, Wei Xing^1、†,*, Naitao Yang^2、†, Hamidreza Arandiyan^3、†, Zongping Shao^4、†, Shaobin Wang^5、†, and Shaomin Liu^4,6、†,**

Author Affiliations

¹School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, People’s Republic of China

²School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, People’s Republic of China

³Centre for Applied Materials and Industrial Chemistry (CAMIC), School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic 3000, Australia

⁴WA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering (WASM-MECE), Curtin University, Perth, WA 6102, Australia

⁵School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

⁶School of Engineering, Great Bay University, Dongguan 523000, People’s Republic of China

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Pengyun Liu, Xuejin Li, Tonghui Cai, Wei Xing, Naitao Yang, Hamidreza Arandiyan, Zongping Shao, Shaobin Wang, Shaomin Liu. Molecular Structure Tailoring of Organic Spacers for High-Performance Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskite Solar Cells[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2025, 17(1): 035

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Category: Research Articles

Received: May. 7, 2024

Accepted: Aug. 9, 2024

Published Online: Feb. 12, 2025

The Author Email: Xing Wei (xingwei@upc.edu.cn), Liu Shaomin (liushaomin@gbu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1007/s40820-024-01500-7

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