Top-Down Fabrication of Stable Methylammonium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals by Employing a Mixture of Ligands as Coordinating Solvents

He Huang, Qi Xue, Bingkun Chen, Yuan Xiong, Julian Schneider, Chunyi Zhi, Haizheng Zhong, Andrey L. Rogach*

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Abstract

A top-down method is demonstrated for the fabrication of CH3NH3PbBr3 and CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite nanocrystals, employing a mixture of ligands oleic acid and oleylamine as coordinating solvents. This approach avoids the use of any polar solvents, skips multiple reaction steps by employing a simple ultrasonic treatment of the perovskite precursors, and yields rather monodisperse blue-, green-, and red-emitting methylammonium lead halide nanocrystals with a high photoluminescence quantum yield (up to 72 % for the green-emitting nanocrystals) and remarkably improved stability. After discussing all relevant reaction parameters, the green-emitting CH3NH3PbBr3 nanocrystals are employed as a component of down-conversion white-light-emitting devices.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9571-9576
Number of pages6
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume56
Issue number32
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2017

Keywords

  • coordinating solvents
  • lead halide perovskites
  • methylammonium
  • nanocrystals
  • ultrasonication

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