Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Biological impact of lead from halide perovskites reveals the risk of introducing a safe threshold

  • Junming Li,
  • Hai-Lei Cao,
  • Wen-Bin Jiao,
  • Qiong Wang,
  • Mingdeng Wei,
  • Irene Cantone,
  • Jian Lü,
  • Antonio Abate

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13910-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Halide perovskites are promising for next generation photovoltaic technology but their environmental impact has not been fully evaluated. Here Li et al. show that the lead from perovskites is ten times more dangerous than lead-containing electronics while tin perovskites are much less bioavailable.