Armored with plastic ‘hair’ and silica, new perovskite nanocrystals show more durability

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(Funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy)

Perovskite nanocrystals hold promise for improving a wide variety of optoelectronic devices, but problems with their durability still limit the material's broad commercial use. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a novel approach aimed at addressing the material's durability problem: encasing the perovskite inside a double-layer protection system made from plastic and silica.