Green Synthesis of Inorganic Perovskites for Energy and Environmental Applications

This project is aimed to synthesis inorganic perovskite materials using simple wet chemical and cost-effective methods that can be potentially used for energy and environmental applications. Recently, with the evolution of nanotechnology, various nanomaterials, such as semiconductors, plasmonic materials, carbon based materials, polymers etc. have been investigated for energy and environmental applications. Especially, recent reports on high efficiency solar cells with organometallic perovskite materials have attracted attention of several research groups across the world, encouraging the development of organometallic perovskite materials. However synthesis of organometallic perovskites requires sophisticated setups since most of the organometallic perovskites are sensitive to moisture, which makes it difficult to synthesize the material cost-effectively. Therefore here in this project we are focusing to synthesize inorganic perovskite materials using low temperature based wet chemical processes, such as sol-gel technique or hydrothermal process. These synthesis routes can be carried out without any sophisticated setups in a laboratory and can be easily scaled up for industrial production. Additionally inorganic perovskite materials also show good photo as well as thermal stability that can be a potential alternative to commonly used organometallic perovskite materials.