Recently, Advanced Materials has published a research paper entitled "Suppressing Vacancy Defects and Grain Boundaries via Ostwald Ripening for High-Performance and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells" by Professor Wu Jihuai's group. It is a top-level journal of John Wiley & Sons Inc., with a current impact factor of 25.809.

Figure 1: Schematic Illustration of GdF₃-aminobutanol Assisted Ostwald Ripening

Figure 2: J-V Curve of Photovoltaic Performance of PVSC

Under the guidance of Professor Wu (corresponding author), the research was jointly accomplished by PhD students, from College of Materials Science and Engineering, including Yang Yuqian (first author), Wang Xiaobing, Guo Qiyao and Liu Xuping. The research was supported by Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Cross-Straits Science Foundation (Key Program) (U1705256), and the NSFC programs (21771066, 51972123).

Link to the paper:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/adma.201904347