Composition and functionality of perovskite solar cells Perovskites are versatile materials known for their exceptional compositional flexibility, making them suitable for various high-tech applications beyond solar cells, such as memory chips and ultrasound machines.
Moreover, perovskites can be a potential material for the electrolytes to improve the stability of batteries. Additionally, with an aim towards a sustainable future, lead-free perovskites have also emerged as an important material for battery applications as seen above.
GCL Group Holdings, a major Chinese solar materials maker, has begun building Suzhou’s world’s largest perovskite solar cell factory. Swift Solar plans to establish a factory in the US within two to three years to manufacture thin-film solar using perovskite tandem photovoltaics.
Moreover, perovskite materials have shown potential for solar-active electrode applications for integrating solar cells and batteries into a single device. However, there are significant challenges in applying perovskites in LIBs and solar-rechargeable batteries.
In contrast, perovskite materials can be solution processed, enabling low-embedded energy manufacturing using commercial coating technologies. Compared to silicon solar cells, some emerging solar cells, such as organic solar cells (OSCs), tend to be more cost-effective and wet-processable.
Since the last decades, perovskite materials are gaining much attention in various electronics applications, especially in solar cells and light emitting diodes. But these are not well explored in energy storage applications.