DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.almips.2021.015
Publication date: 23rd September 2021
Halide perovskites have become extremely competitive optoelectronic materials because of their high sunlight-harvesting efficiency and notable charge carrier generation/transfer capabilities. These features have been recognized as the key factors for enhancing photoconversion efficiencies in solar photovoltaic devices. Furthermore, their fascinating photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) especially in the case of colloidal nanocrystals, induced by a low nonradiative carrier recombination effect, can explain the expansion of their applicability in the wide optoelectronic field. The outstanding PLQY of perovskite nanocrystals is the clear evidence of the significant reduction of non-radiative recombination pathways. Consequently, after photoexcitation, these systems present a pool of photoexcited carriers whose extra energy can be used in an efficient radiative emission or taken advantage of in different ways, such as providing work in solar cells or driving diverse chemical reactions. Here, we shown the application of inorganic halide perovskite nanocrystals in the photocatalytical and photoelectrochemical degradation of Organic compounds, highlighting the potentiality to drive both oxidation and reduction reactions.