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immersed the substrates in dry toluene under a constant flow in the absorption spectra is consistent with the production of
of dry oxygen and illumination, thus excluding moisture. iodine, as the detected absorption spectrum resembles the
Similar to the HE probe experiments, mp-Al2O3-based films absorption of iodine.[14] The addition of sodium thiosulfate,
were immersed in dry toluene and then a constant flow of dry which can reduce iodine to iodide, turned the solution
oxygen and illumination were used to create the controlled colorless, which further supports the identification of the
degradation conditions. It was noted that after 72 h exposure product as iodine.
to both light and oxygen the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite films To further analyze the compositional change in the aged
changed color from dark brown to yellow and the toluene films, scanning electron microscopy energy-dispersive X-ray
solution turned light pink, most likely due to the formation of spectroscopy (SEM-EDX) measurements were performed.
iodine. UV/Vis spectroscopy was used to monitor the EDX analysis showed the Pb/I ratio to deplete from 1:3 to 1:2
evolution of iodine in the solution (Figure 3 a). The change in the fresh and degraded samples respectively, as illustrated
in Figure 3 b.
An X-ray diffraction analysis of the samples shows the
characteristic peaks of methylammonium lead iodide in the
fresh sample (Figure 4).[15, 16] These peaks are largely dimin-
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