Interplay of Kinetic and Thermodynamic Reaction Control Explains Incorporation of Dimethylammonium Iodide into CsPbI 3 .
Aditya MishraDominik Józef KubickiAriadni BozikiRohit D ChavanMathias DanklMarko MladenovićDaniel ProchowiczClare P GreyUrsula RöthlisbergerLyndon EmsleyPublished in: ACS energy letters (2022)
CsPbI 3 is a promising material for optoelectronics owing to its thermal robustness and favorable bandgap. However, its fabrication is challenging because its photoactive phase is thermodynamically unstable at room temperature. Adding dimethylammonium (DMA) alleviates this instability and is currently understood to result in the formation of DMA x Cs 1- x PbI 3 perovskite solid solutions. Here, we use NMR of the 133 Cs and 13 C local structural probes to show that these solid solutions are not thermodynamically stable, and their synthesis under thermodynamic control leads to a segregated mixture of yellow one-dimensional DMAPbI 3 phase and δ-CsPbI 3 . We show that mixed-cation DMA x Cs 1- x PbI 3 perovskite phases only form when they are kinetically trapped by rapid antisolvent-induced crystallization. We explore the energetics of DMA incorporation into CsPbI 3 using first-principles calculations and molecular dynamics simulations and find that this process is energetically unfavorable. Our results provide a complete atomic-level picture of the mechanism of DMA-induced stabilization of the black perovskite phase of CsPbI 3 and shed new light on this deceptively simple material.
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