Lead-free Halide Perovskites for Solar Energy Conversion

Silvia Colella is a researcher at CNR-NANOTEC (Bari, Italy). After receiving her Ph.D. in Nanoscience in 2010, she worked at the “Institut de science et d′ingénierie supramoléculaires” (ISIS) in Strasbourg and with BASF SE in Ludwigshafen, Germany. She was also a researcher at the Physics Department of University of Salento (Lecce, Italy) for 2013 to 2019. Her research activity has always dealt with understanding and controlling the properties of novel photovoltaic and optoelectronic materials, with a special focus, on metal halide perovskites. She has published 80+ papers and was cited more than 3500 times in the field of organic and hybrid optoelectronics.Andrea Listorti is an Associate Professor at the University of Bari, Italy. He previously served as a researcher at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy. He earned his PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2009 from the University of Bologna. Following his doctorate, he conducted research at CNR-ISOF in Bologna, Imperial College London (UK), and the Italian Institute of Technology in Lecce, Italy. Since 2006, he has authored more than 100 scientific publications in the fields of molecular photophysics, solar fuels, and optoelectronic devices. His current research focuses on the fundamental understanding and practical exploitation of organometal halide perovskite materials.

• Part I Introduction and general properties.- Premises of solar energy conversion mediated by lead-free halide perovskites.- Theoretical Modeling of Perovskite for Solar Energy Conversion: Formation, Degradation, Stabilization, and Applications.- Chirality of Lead-Free Organic-Inorganic Metal Halides: A Tool to Enhance Their Solar Harvesting Properties.- Part II Lead-free perovskite solar cells.- Tin perovskite solar cells.- Band alignment and transport layers in tin perovskite solar cells.- Lead-Free Perovskites and Their Derivatives for Indoor Photovoltaic Applications.- Vapor deposition of lead-free perovskites: challenges and opportunities.- Part III Photocatalysis mediated by lead-free perovskites.- Computational approaches to guide the synthesis of lead free perovskite photocatalysts.- Synthesis and characterization of lead-free halide perovskite nanocrystals for photocatalytic applications.- State-of-the-art and prospects for lead-free halide perovskites in photocatalytic CO2 reduction.- Organic Transformation Mediated by Lead-Free Perovskites and Related Materials.