In recent times, the energy function of halide perovskite beyond photovoltaic has been lengthened with excellent results to light-emitting devices,[
207] opportunity for innovative and cutting edges for perovskite based lasers,[
208] light-emitting diodes (LEDs),[
209] and field-effect light-emitting transistors (FETs),[
210] photodetectors, nonlinear emission sources, efficient water, CO
2 and HX splitting, photocatalytic activities, active material in lithium and sodium ion batteries, halide reservoir in catalysis system and piezoelectric generators (Scheme 7), which are the main focus of this section.
7.1. MAPbI3 as a Photocatalytic Material for HI Splitting
The simultaneous oxidation response engaged with HX part delivers esteem included synthetic substances, for example, I
2/I
3-, Br
2/Br
3-, or Cl
2, which have an assortment of employments in the vitality and cleanliness industries.[
211,
212,
213,
214,
215,
216] Indeed, many spearheading works show fruitful HX splitting.[
214,
215,
216,
217] By using a Nafion-isolated silicon micro-wire cathode, HI part has been accomplished with a 0.6% proficiency and unadulterated products.[
218] Furthermore, Park et.al.[
219] utilized MAPbI
3 as a photocatalytic material in unique balance with fluid HI arrangement. The vibrant harmony between the MAPbI
3 hastens and the soaked fluid arrangement is affirmed by means of replacement of I with Br. MAPbI
3 experiences a stage change to hydrated stages or PbI
2 at various particle exercises in the watery arrangement, and is steady just in particular fixation scopes of I
- and H
+. It has been discovered that the MAPbI
3 powder in the watery HI arrangement could adequately part HI into H
2 and I
3- under obvious light illumination, the proficiency of which could be expanded by means of warm toughening in a polar dissolvable environment and by utilizing a Pt cocatalyst.[
219]
Scheme 7.
Energy applications of halide perovskite beyond photovoltaic.
Scheme 7.
Energy applications of halide perovskite beyond photovoltaic.
7.4. Halide Reservoir in Catalysis Applications
From the perspectives of catalysis, it is important to find a material that reserve halides. In supporting this idea, in recent times, perovskite nanoparticles (P-NPs) were prepared at the nanoscale through extraordinary size- and halide-tuned optical properties.[
228,
229] Of curiosity to the synthetic chemist is the apparently effortlessness where P-NPs experience composition alteration by swap using halides, as revealed at bulk[
230] and at nanointerfaces.[
231,
232,
233] Besides, Doane
et.al. at that point found the capability of the P-NPs to continue as halide repositories for Finkelstein operation responses in halide perovskite, which give an uncommon colorimetric report of response kinetics.[
234] Furthermore, it was hypothesized[
234] that P-NPs might have the capacity to (1) fill in as a wellspring of high centralizations of halides synergist reservoir,[
235] (2) screen free halide spotlight alteration of amid halide disposal reactions, [
236] and (3) fill in as a quick subjective/quantitative colorimetric examine of free particles in arrangement.
Figure 13 delineates these thoughts. As a halide supply (
Figure 13a), the P-NP and its dynamic halide−ligand complex[
237] supply halides in nonpolar environment that can respond and operated with halide perovskites, whereas in the meantime demonstrating colorimetric input. As a measure (
Figure 13b), tested responses or questions ions are acquainted by means of P-NPs aliquots of recognized fixation whose shading change can give quantitative colorimetric reaction and consolidating, path a and b can give an immediate methodology toward colorimetric observing of compound responses continuously.
7.6. What Could Happen in the Future of Halide Perovskites?
The future of halide perovskites should answer three challenging issues i.e. 1) will perovskite solar cells achieve new breakthroughs beyond their current status of performance? 2) Will the future mass production and commercialization of these types of materials achieve the three ultimate goals of materials for optoelectronic applications: energy competent, low cost, and environmentally friendly? 3) Will the currently proposed new framework of single and double perovskite materials achieve enough efficiency like the efficiency of CH3NH3PbI3 perovskites with improved stability and toxicity free new research horizon? So that the commercialization and production processes become more economical, sustainable, and environmentally friendly and its application may be realizable too. With these in mind, our question “what will be the future of these materials?” and “will their commercialization and mass production successful in the future with the expected performance or not?” are very important that everyone shall consider and dig for better development and application of the filed. What we believe is the future development of halide perovskites is promising because of the high power conversion efficiency and wide range applications raised from its structure property and simple synthesis and fabrication procedures for mass production. From all most challenges that must be considered are the toxicity of lead and moisture degradation of the organic cage. Because of these two reasons there are doubts whether to eliminate halide perovskites or repair them to be commercialized well is still in progress.
The big doubt is due to the release of lead toxic metal from industrial effulents as shown in
Scheme 8. Furthermore, we hope that the commercialization of perovskite solar cell will be practical but (i) high stability and long lifetime, and (iv) low toxicity, (ii) controllable thin film deposition and growth, (iii) scalable and reproducible process must be realized prior to commercialization.[
239,
240] There are strategies to eliminate and/or minimize the bilogical effect of lead metal released from lead halide perovskite solar cell.
1) Chemical replacement strategy, which is responsible for the development of lead free halide perovskite solar cells.[
241,
242,
243,
244]
2) Lead detoxification strategy is the second one that can minimize toxicity of halide perovskites.[
245,
246,
247] 3)
Chelation strategy,[248] which is responsible to apply coordination bonding of organic molecules with lead metal to remove from industrial effluents during mass production of halide perovskites solar cells. 4)
Lead uptake by plants strategy,[249] which applies plants to uptake lead metal released from the industrial effluents during manufacturing of lead halide perovskites. Plants are selected to store lead metal inside by absorbing it from the soil. This prevents the pollution of agricultural land from being polluted by lead released from industrial effluent.
5) Antioxidants strategy,[250] which is implemented by making reactive oxygen species interacting with lead ion.
The most important application of halide peroveskite materials is photovoltaic[
252] and are superior in this application.[
253,
254] To realize this truth, the stability issue shall be improved to the extent that it can give confidence of practicing. Moreover, perovskite-perovskite tandem solar cell is reported as promising cell for large scale production.[
255] Besides, MASnI
3–xBr
x based perovskite tandem solar cell with power conversion efficiency of 30.7% is reported, overcoming the toxicity problem of perovskite solar cells.[
256] Many works also reported the path towards enhanced stability for commercialization by using strategies such as
encapsulation,[
257,
258,
259,
260,
261,
262]
chemical replacement approach[262,263,264,265] and
protective layers[266,267,268,269,270,271,272] such as molybdenum oxide, vanadium oxide to protect exposure from oxygen, moisture, high temperature and sunlight exposure,[
273] fabrication of perovskite tandem solar module[
274,
275,
276,
277,
278,
279,
280,
281] while others stated scalability of module efficiency, achieving durability and stability, and process control, yield, etc. of manufacturing are vital for practical validations.[
239] there are different strategic choices to enhance efficiency of peroveskite solar cells:
monolithic single junction solar cell,[
4]
Tandem peroveskite solar cell,[
280,
282]
quantum dot solar cell[
283,
284,
285,
286,
287,
288] and
metal nanoparticles with Plasmon effect deposited on the photoactive surface induced metalized perovskite solar cell.[
204,
205,
289,
290] These possibilities are developed to overcome the limit that rapid growth of perovskite solar cell lacks suitable charge selective contacts.[
291] Implementing Tandem perovskite solar cell is aimed to enhance power conversion efficiency compared to single junction perovskite solar cell though it retain low cost of manufacturing.[
292,
293,
294]
As shown in
Figure 14a the bifacial tandem solar cell absorbs both the direct sunlight and albedo light. While the bifacial single junction peroveskite solar cells work under front irradiation and only rear illuminations, the bifacial tandem solar cells work from illumination from both sides. If illuminated from only one side there happen large current mismatch among the subcells.
Figure 14b shows the scanning electron microscope image of all-perovskite tandem solar cells with embedded structure of light trapping properties of the device architecture.
Figure 14c indicates increased external quantum efficiency (EQE) due to the light trapping structure obtained from front illumination while
Figure 14d indicated illumination from the rear side.
Figure 14e shows the J-V curve obtained from the bifacial tandem solar cell and Pb-Sn cell.
Figure 14f shows the stability of efficiency (29.3%) up to 100 seconds obtained from the Tandem solar cell under illumination with 30% of albedo light.
The bifacial tandem all provskite solar cells give EQE curve under front illumination and rear-side albedo light as shown from
Figure 14g. Equivalent efficiency and J-V curve are indicated by
Figure 14h-i. All these reliable data are great indications of illumination from both side induced Performance of bifacial all-perovskite tandem solar cells with embedded light-trapping structure. From these results, bifacial tandem solar cell is an excellent alternative for commercialization of peroveskite solar cell. This bifacial tandem solar cell also requires encapsulation for long term stability during practical application.[
280] This tandem structure gives increased efficiency as shown in
Figure 14f.
Tandem perovskite solar cell to be comercializable it requires to confirm thermal, moisture, oxygen and light stability.[
295,
296,
297,
298,
299] In order to solve all these concerns, coordinationengineering and coordination chemistry of the various organic and inorganic halid materials structure forming both single and double perovskites with their related electronic interactions should be carefully studied. Moreover, the strategic coordination engineering frameworks stated in this review article (section 3) should get especial attention.
Another wondering thing in these halide perovskite materials that make them possible for future development is their wide range new applications! It is highly applicable in photovoltaic devices to meet the aim of energy demand, electronic devices such as lasers, photodetectors, phototransistors, LED and nonlinear emission sources to meet the goal of optoelectronic engineering, such as efficient water, CO2 and HX splitting to meet photocatalytic goals, energy storage devices such as battery, and in efficient catalysis in order to achieve the purpose of halide reservoirs.
After all, which field of study is not enjoying with the application of these highly essential materials? Since halide anions are excellent redox mediators, halide perovskites may also be important in fields of membrane and reaction engineering due to their ability as halide reservoir. Moreover, they can be useful to reduce global warming by reducing and splitting CO2. On the other hand, if we rise applications in biological system and life science in addition to the physical and chemical sciences: Growth of microorganism which need materials that can absorb light at infrared and near infrared regions, halide perovskites fulfill this criterion. But the lead atom is toxic and may affect the growth of microorganism. Other environmentally friendly metal atoms, which could be important to achieve this goal, should replace this toxic metal atom. On another account, being toxic should also be important for some reasons. For instance, it would also be wondering that if halide perovskite materials are applicable for agricultural aspects such as pesticides for killing some insects and organisms since lead atom is toxic, indicating that halide perovskites are not only used as halide reservoirs but also toxic metal such as lead metal reservoirs.