Pt-CsPbBr<sub>3</sub> Perovskite Nanocrystal Heterostructures: All Epitaxial
Rakesh Kumar Behera, Koushik Jagadish, Sanjib Shyamal, Narayan Pradhan
Abstract
Designing heterostructures of soft ionic nanocrystals with metallic or covalent nanostructures having epitaxial junctions in solution poses several fundamental challenges. Hence, in spite of large successes in developing lead halide perovskite nanocrystals, the chemistry of formation of their facet-directive epitaxial growth of noble metals cannot be explored yet. To address this, herein, epitaxial heterostructures of orthorhombic CsPbBr 3 and cubic Pt in multiple directional approaches are reported. Appropriate facets of perovskite nanocrystals and high-temperature reaction are the key parameters for obtaining such nanocrystal heterostructures. Interfacial planes at the junctions having ideal lattice matching helped in establishing the epitaxial relations of (110) of orthorhombic (space group Pbnm ) CsPbBr 3 with {020} of cubic Pt and again (011) of CsPbBr 3 with {111} of Pt. These results provided strong fundamental insights that ionic halide perovskite nanostructures and materials having different crystal phases can be placed in a single building block with continuous sublattice structures.