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Vol. 16, Issue 1, 183 (2024)

Manipulating Crystal Growth and Secondary Phase PbI2 to Enable Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells with Natural Additives

Yirong Wang^1,2, Yaohui Cheng³, Chunchun Yin¹, Jinming Zhang^1,*..., Jingxuan You^1,2, Jizheng Wang^1,2,**, Jinfeng Wang⁴ and Jun Zhang^1,2|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

³Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, People’s Republic of China

⁴Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, 430200, People’s Republic of China

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Yirong Wang, Yaohui Cheng, Chunchun Yin, Jinming Zhang, Jingxuan You, Jizheng Wang, Jinfeng Wang, Jun Zhang. Manipulating Crystal Growth and Secondary Phase PbI2 to Enable Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells with Natural Additives[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 183 Copy Citation Text

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