Fabricating high-performance perovskite solar cells under ambient conditions — without strict humidity or atmospheric controls — paves the way for scalable, low-cost photovoltaics. However, achieving such fabrication requires deeper materials insights into how moisture and oxygen influence precursor solution chemistry and guide perovskite film crystallization.
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The authors acknowledge the financial support of the National Key Research and Development Program of China (grant 2022YFB4200503), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (numbers 52173153, 12174013 and 62475002) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2024M761964). M.W. acknowledges the support of the National University of Singapore Presidential Young Professorship (A-0010046-00-00; A-0010046-01-00).
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Zou, Y., Yu, W., Qu, B. et al. Ambient fabrication of perovskites for photovoltaics. Nat Rev Mater 10, 400–402 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-025-00813-2
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