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Lead halide perovskite nanowires stabilized by block copolymers for Langmuir-Blodgett assembly

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The rapid development of solar cells based on lead halide perovskites (LHPs) has prompted very active research activities in other closely-related fields. Colloidal nanostructures of such materials display superior optoelectronic properties. Especially, one-dimensional (1D) LHPs nanowires show anisotropic optical properties when they are highly oriented. However, the ionic nature makes them very sensitive to external environment, limiting their large scale practical applications. Here, we introduce an amphiphilic block copolymer, polystyrene-block-poly(4-vinylpyridine) (PS-P4VP), to chemically modify the surface of colloidal CsPbBr3 nanowires. The resulting core-shell nanowires show enhanced photoluminescent emission and good colloidal stability against water. Taking advantage of the stability enhancement, we further applied a modified Langmuir-Blodgett technique to assemble monolayers of highly aligned nanowires, and studied their anisotropic optical properties.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, under Contract No. DE-AC02-05-CH11231 within the Physical Chemistry of Inorganic Nanostructures Program (KC3103). M. S. acknowledges his support from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE 1752814.

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  1. Hao Liu

    Present address: Present address: Center for Advanced Low-dimension Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China

  2. Yehonadav Bekenstein

    Present address: Present address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion-Israel institute of technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel

  3. Letian Dou

    Present address: Present address: Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907, USA

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    Hao Liu, Martin Siron, Dylan Lu, Yehonadav Bekenstein, Dandan Zhang, Letian Dou, A. Paul Alivisatos & Peidong Yang

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    Martin Siron, Mengyu Gao, A. Paul Alivisatos & Peidong Yang

  3. Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    Hao Liu, Mengyu Gao, Dylan Lu, Yehonadav Bekenstein, Dandan Zhang, Letian Dou, A. Paul Alivisatos & Peidong Yang

  4. Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    Yehonadav Bekenstein, A. Paul Alivisatos & Peidong Yang

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Liu, H., Siron, M., Gao, M. et al. Lead halide perovskite nanowires stabilized by block copolymers for Langmuir-Blodgett assembly. Nano Res. 13, 1453–1458 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2717-9

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