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- - Halide perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) are promising for visible-light photocatalysis due to their high absorption, ability to handle defects, and adjustable band structure, but they struggle with sensitivity to environmental factors like humidity and heat.
- - The study explores embedding PNCs into polymeric ionic liquids to create composites that improve stability for photocatalytic applications like degrading organic dyes.
- - The results showed that these embedded PNCs had enhanced resistance to light, moisture, water, and heat for about 200 days, improving their viability in solar-driven processes.
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Halide perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) have emerged as potential visible-light photocatalysts because of their outstanding intrinsic properties, including high absorption coefficient and tolerance to defects, which reduces non-radiative recombination, and high oxidizing/reducing power coming from their tuneable band structure. Nevertheless, their sensitivity to humidity, light, heat and water represents a great challenge that limits their applications in solar driven photocatalytic applications. Herein, we demonstrate the synergistic potential of embedding PNCs into polymeric ionic liquids () to fabricate suitable composites for photodegradation of organic dyes. In this context, the stability of the PNCs after polymeric encapsulation was enhanced, showing better light, moisture, water and thermal stability compared to pristine PNCs for around 200 days.
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