Coffee‐Ring‐Engineered Interfacial Layer Enables Fluid‐Locking for Scalable Perovskite Photovoltaics

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as a promising photovoltaic technology, offering outstanding power conversion efficiency and significant potential for large-scale deployment. However, during printed fabrication, the intrinsic coffee-ring effect induces heterogeneous deposition of colloidal particles, leading to non-uniform crystallization that critically limits the performance of large-area devices. This issue not only complicates the crystallization dynamics of perovskite films but also impedes the development of a universal fluidic control strategy applicable across device scales. In this work, we harnessed the mechanisms of coffee-ring formation and employed rapid drying combined with droplet fragmentation to construct a size-tunable flow-locking network at the buried interface. This network effectively confines the disordered migration of perovskite colloidal particles throughout the flowing and drying stages, suppressing the formation of macroscopic coffee rings and mitigating their detrimental impact on device crystallization and performance. As a result, the optimized PSCs deliver a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 26.61%, while a large-area module (100 cm<sup>2</sup>) maintains an impressive PCE of 21.39%, demonstrating excellent scalability and device uniformity.

Authors

Institutions

Publication Details

Journal
Advanced Materials
Published
2026-01-08
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202518582
Primary Topic
Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
Type
article
Field-Weighted Citation Impact
0.00

Funders

Controls
|||
ALL TIME
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
article

Coffee‐Ring‐Engineered Interfacial Layer Enables Fluid‐Locking for Scalable Perovskite Photovoltaics

Chenxiang Gong, Xiaotian Hu, Muhammad Bilal Khan Niazi, Baojin Fan et al.
Advanced Materials
Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
article

Coffee‐Ring‐Engineered Interfacial Layer Enables Fluid‐Locking for Scalable Perovskite Photovoltaics

Chenxiang Gong, Xiaotian Hu, Muhammad Bilal Khan Niazi, Baojin Fan, C X Wang, Xiangchuan Meng, Hongxiang Li, Yiwang Chen, Shaohua Zhang, Siyi Shi, Hao Yuan
article en

Abstract

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as a promising photovoltaic technology, offering outstanding power conversion efficiency and significant potential for large-scale deployment. However, during printed fabrication, the intrinsic coffee-ring effect induces heterogeneous deposition of colloidal particles, leading to non-uniform crystallization that critically limits the performance of large-area devices. This issue not only complicates the crystallization dynamics of perovskite films but also impedes the development of a universal fluidic control strategy applicable across device scales. In this work, we harnessed the mechanisms of coffee-ring formation and employed rapid drying combined with droplet fragmentation to construct a size-tunable flow-locking network at the buried interface. This network effectively confines the disordered migration of perovskite colloidal particles throughout the flowing and drying stages, suppressing the formation of macroscopic coffee rings and mitigating their detrimental impact on device crystallization and performance. As a result, the optimized PSCs deliver a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 26.61%, while a large-area module (100 cm<sup>2</sup>) maintains an impressive PCE of 21.39%, demonstrating excellent scalability and device uniformity.

Advanced MaterialsVol. 38(11)
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (SA), Nanchang University (CN), Integrated Optoelectronics (Norway) (NO), Ingenierie des Materiaux polymeres (FR), Jiangxi Normal University (CN), Xiamen University of Technology (CN), Xi'an Jiaotong University (CN)
National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, National Key Research and Development Program of China
Affordable and clean energy
Openalex Percentile: Top 94%
Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
AI Navigator

Ask Laika to Summarize, Analyze, and Connect papers live on the map.

Summarize Papers & Methodologies

Extract key findings, datasets, and comparative methods across publications.

Benchmark Rankings & Visual Analytics

Rank top research institutions, authors, funders, topics, and journals by Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) and paper volume with instant charts.

Connect Distant Disciplines

Bridge topological clusters on the map to find hidden collaborative intersections.