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(Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research)
Soft and flexible materials called halide perovskites could make solar cells more efficient at significantly less cost, but they are too unstable to use. A Purdue University-led research team has found a way to make halide perovskites stable enough by inhibiting the ion movement that makes them rapidly degrade, unlocking their use for solar panels and electronic devices. A perovskite is made up of components that an engineer can individually replace at the nanometer scale to tune the material's properties.
