Ligand exchange engineering of FAPbI3 perovskite quantum dots for solar cells

Wentao Fan; Qiyuan Gao; Xinyi Mei; Donglin Jia; Jingxuan Chen; Junming Qiu; Qisen Zhou; Xiaoliang Zhang

doi:10.1007/s12200-022-00038-z

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