Halide Perovskites’ Multifunctional Properties: Coordination Engineering, Coordination Chemistry, Electronic Interactions and Energy Applications beyond Photovoltaics
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report (Previous Reviewer 3)
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsIt is a revised version of the former submission. Despite some corrections indicated in color, the paper still suffers from many drawbacks. The paper is not carefully written.
Figures copied and pasted from other sources must be of better quality – e.g., Fig 12 is of not of sufficient resolution. The list of references is written in other lettering than the rest of the paper. Many bibliographic positions are erroneously and careless written (e.g., 182,154-158,143,137,138,135 and many others) – all these must be thoroughly revised.
All recommendations towards an improvement of the paper have been already formulated in the former report. Please refer to them.
The paper still needs corrections before the final decision.
Comments on the Quality of English LanguageThe English language requires verification and some revision. The whole paper needs a proofreading.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer 1
Please find this response cover letter and ensure that we understand your comments and concerns you have to advance our manuscript. Based on your comments, we updated our manuscript to make it more valuable to the scientific community in the research field of halide perovskite research. Here are the point by point responses to your comments.
Regards,
Taame Abraha Berhe, Corresponding author
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Reviewer 2 Report (New Reviewer)
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThe manuscript is a comprehensive review of the current state and prospects of halide perovskite materials mainly concerning the coordination engineering and chemistry as well as electronic interactions. It discusses the coordination chemistry and electronic interactions of halide perovskites, which are critical to understanding and improving these materials for practical applications. The detailed discussion on coordination engineering and the potential for creating new materials with enhanced properties is particularly interesting. It is also important to point out that the manuscript suggests future research directions, posing important questions and suggesting potential studies that could lead to significant advancements in the understanding and utilization of halide perovskites, which is an extremely relevant theme nowadays. Thus, I recommend the manuscript for publication. My only suggestion is to improve the language.
Comments on the Quality of English LanguageThe manuscript needs a good English revision.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer 2,
Please find this response cover letter and ensure that we understand your comments and concerns you have to advance our manuscript. Based on your comments, we updated our manuscript to make it more valuable to the scientific community in the research field of halide perovskite research. Here are the point by point responses to your comments.
Regards,
Taame Abraha Berhe, Corresponding author
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report (Previous Reviewer 3)
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsAuthors have once more corrected the manuscript. However, the paper still suffers from various shortcomings. Still is written not carefully – the lettering in various parts of the text is different (e.g., lines 197/198 – following passages differ in line separation, also in Bibliography the used lettering is different than in the whole text).
Editing of many items in the bibliography list is erroneous. There are errors in the following items [76], [74],[85],[86],[87],[90],[91],[95],[96],[97],[98],[99],[100],[106],[107],[108-111],[113],[114],[115-117],[118-120],[121-124],[127-138],[144-146],[148-149],[151-155],[171-174],[176-188],[217-225],[228-243],[247],[255],[257,258] (writing of names of authors or journals, punctuation and other typos).
Absolutely, all these must be corrected, otherwise the paper should be rejected.
If the problem of the large number of typos and other errors could be solved, I am inclined to approve the manuscript. This is only an illustrative work -- a rewiew paper, without the authors' own contribution. However, the topic is somewhat interesting and if the quality of the presentation would meet the basic requirements, it can be published.
Comments on the Quality of English Languagethe extensive proofreading invcluding language verification is recommended;
avoiding of all typos is necessary
This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThe background section should be more concise. Moreover, it is nearly two pages long but has only 18 references.
In Table 1 there are mentioned various halide perovskites but without any references.
This is a review paper, but most statements in this work are unsupported by any references. Despite the fact, that halide perovskites are intensively investigated nowadays, and the original Kojima et al paper has more than 2000 citations per year (more than 21000 all citations up to date).
Figures are copied from other copyrighted sources without information about reuse permissions.
Authors should avoid words and phrases like Interestingly - in the abstract, "seriously review" in the background section or "fantastic".
Author Response
Response to Reviewer 1
Dear Reviewer 1
We are grateful to all your comments. We believe that our paper is improved. We consider all all your comments. Thanks for your time, energy you invest to improve this manuscript.
Regards,
Taame Abraha Berhe, Corresponding author
Comment 1: The background section should be more concise. Moreover, it is nearly two pages long but has only 18 references.
Response 1: We are grateful to this comment because it can make our paper smart to readers. We really thank them. As per the request to be more concise we make our introduction concise into almost one page and few lines. These lines are made to include more data and references as enough as possible.
Comments 2: In Table 1 there are mentioned various halide perovskites but without any references.
Response 2: We really thank to the reviewer for their constructive comment to improve the quality of our review. Based on the comments, we use references for each materials listed in the table 1. Please check the table 1.
Comment 3: This is a review paper, but most statements in this work are unsupported by any references. Despite the fact that halide perovskites are intensively investigated nowadays, and the original Kojima et al paper has more than 2000 citations per year (more than 21000 all citations up to date).
Response 3: We thank the reviewer for their concern of limited references since our paper is review article. Based on the comments, appropriate references are additionally added and our reference number rose from 150 into 299. Hence, we believe that there are enough references cited for this review.
Comment 4: Figures are copied from other copyrighted sources without information about reuse permissions.
Response 4: Yes, the reviewer is correct and we thank them for their comment. All the permissions are done and confirmed in every figure taken from other reference sources. Please check each figure.
Comment 5: Authors should avoid words and phrases like Interestingly - in the abstract, "seriously review" in the background section or "fantastic".
Response 5: Thanks to the reviewer for their comment. We have deleted all the words not necessarily used.
Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThe manuscript submitted by Taame Abraha Berhe and co-workers reported In this manuscript, the current development of halide perovskite families, both lead halide perovskites and lead free halide perovskites were reviewed. Moreover, all the concerns of the fundamental ideas of coordination chemistry and electronic interactions that are keys in forming the halide perovskite structures were detailly discussed Interestingly, in this manuscript the recent potential energy applications beyond photovoltaic were discussed and this review has completed with an essential and open question: ‘what could happen in the future of halide perovskites?’ in order to excite commercial enterprises and research institutions again as well as to get motivating new predictions on the future continuity of this field. But there existed some problems as follows,
(1) The currently reported families of halide perovskites in Table 1 are confusing. It is recommended to classify the halide perovskites with same metal-based according to the organic cation.
(2) Author reviewed the coordination chemistry and electronic interactions of currently reported families of halides perovskites structure. However, author fail to analyze the properties of different halides perovskites structure which play a guiding role in the future development of perovskite. Author have mentioned two question in abstract “what will be the future of these materials?” and “will their commercialization and mass production successful in the future with the expected performance or not?” Whether the author can deeply analyze these two questions? and how to solve this two problem?
(3) Please correct the syntax error in this manuscript. The first letter of the sentence on Lines 116-117 needs to be capitalized. And there is an error in the sentence on Line 335.
(4) The related latest referecence need to be added and updated.
Based on the above analysis, I recommend it for publication after minor revision.
Comments on the Quality of English LanguageModerate editing of English language required.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer 2
We are grateful to all your comments. We believe that our paper is improved. We consider all all your comments. Thanks for your time, energy you invest to improve this manuscript.
Regards,
Taame Abraha Berhe, Corresponding author
Response to Reviewer 2
Comment 1: Quality of English Language
( ) I am not qualified to assess the quality of English in this paper
( ) English very difficult to understand/incomprehensible
( ) Extensive editing of English language required
(x) Moderate editing of English language required
( ) Minor editing of English language required
( ) English language fine. No issues detected
Response 1: we are grateful to the reviewer for their rate of moderate editing English language required. Based on their thankful comment we have edited the manuscript extensively considering the comments of all reviewers too.
Comment 2: The currently reported families of halide perovskites in Table 1 are confusing. It is recommended to classify the halide perovskites with same metal-based according to the organic cation.
Response 2: We thank the reviewer for their nice comment to make Table 1 easy to understand. Based on the comment we classify the perovskites in to two groups: hybrid organic inorganic halide perovskite and inorganic halide perovskite. The required references are also cited for the betterment of the review.
Comment 3: Author reviewed the coordination chemistry and electronic interactions of currently reported families of halides perovskites structure. However, author fails to analyze the properties of different halides perovskites structure, which play a guiding role in the future development of perovskite. Author have mentioned two question in abstract “what will be the future of these materials?” and “will their commercialization and mass production successful in the future with the expected performance or not?” Whether the author can deeply analyze these two questions? and how to solve this two problem?
Response 3: This comment is highly vital to our review and we really give great thank to the reviewer. Based on the comments we have added important points focusing on 1) properties of peroveskite structure, 2) the way forward for future development possibilities and 3) possible solution for solving the bottleneck challenge in the development trend of peroveskite solar cell though it is still open question for researchers and commercial enterprises. Generally extensive revision and new concepts are added to this manuscript as highlighted by the green color in the main manuscript. We invite all reviewers and editors to visit it. Yellow colors are used to indicate English editions.
Comment 4: Please correct the syntax error in this manuscript. The first letter of the sentence on Lines 116-117 needs to be capitalized. And there is an error in the sentence on Line 335.
Response 4: Thanks to our reviewer for identifying errors in lines 116-117 and line 335. We correct the errors based on the comments. ‘halide’ is corrected to be ‘Halide’ and ‘PbI2’ is corrected to be PbI2. Not only these corrections but also the whole manuscript is extensively corrected.
Comment 5: The related latest reference need to be added and updated.
Response 5: We are grateful to the comments of the reviewer for their constructive comments. Based on the request we added as many references as possible by increasing from 150 into 299 in number. This was done to improve the quality of this review.
Reviewer 3 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThe paper is an overview of the chemistry and applications of perovskites, with particular emphasis on attempts to minimize the harmfulness (toxicity) and durability of these materials. Although the authors' own contribution is small, the review may have some value and would probably be published. Nevertheless, it requires some revision of the presentation. The most important and promising application direction of perovskites is photovoltaics, and efforts to avoid hazardous components (lead) should be presented in more detail with appropriate references. The comparison of the composition and parameters of perovskite materials for PV applications has been extensively studied and reported (cf. e.g., Materials 2022, 15, 2254. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15062254) towards a practical manufacturing and demonstration of solar cells exceeding the efficiency limits for conventional p-n junction solar cells (Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit), by using plasmonic nanoelements (Nano Energy 75 (2020) 104751), or QD particles, or by changing perovskite composition to other than with lead, or with a tandem architecture. Some comments on protective layers that increase the durability of perovskite solar cells would also be useful, including recent attempts (and trials) to use perovskite cells in space, where lead hazards and the destructive role of oxygen or moisture are not important.
The possible applications of perovskites beyond the PV only should be described in the paper more detailed.
The whole paper needs an extensive linguistic correction. Moreover, a proofreading is required (for example in line 933 and similar mistakes). The quality of majority of graphics in figures (those copped from other papers) is insufficient and must be improved (as well as a proper identification of their source, permision etc. must be placed in an uniform manner in figure captions).
Comments on the Quality of English Languagethe quality of used language is poor -- an extensive correction is required
Author Response
Dear Reviewer 3
We are grateful to all your comments. We believe that our paper is improved. We consider all all your comments. Thanks for your time, energy you invest to improve this manuscript.
Regards,
Taame Abraha Berhe, Corresponding author
Response to Reviewer 3
Comment 1: Quality of English Language
( ) I am not qualified to assess the quality of English in this paper
( ) English very difficult to understand/incomprehensible
(x) Extensive editing of English language required
( ) Moderate editing of English language required
( ) Minor editing of English language required
( ) English language fine. No issues detected
Response 1: we gratefully thank the reviewer for the need to extensively edit English language. This clearly helps us improve the English language to make easy, simple and readable manuscript. Because we believe on this truth, we extensively revised our review paper as clear as possible. The whole manuscript is edited and formatted to avoid all errors.
Comment 2: The paper is an overview of the chemistry and applications of perovskites, with particular emphasis on attempts to minimize the harmfulness (toxicity) and durability of these materials. Although the authors' own contribution is small, the review may have some value and would probably be published. Nevertheless, it requires some revision of the presentation. The most important and promising application direction of perovskites is photovoltaics, and efforts to avoid hazardous components (lead) should be presented in more detail with appropriate references. The comparison of the composition and parameters of perovskite materials for PV applications has been extensively studied and reported (cf. e.g., Materials 2022, 15, 2254. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15062254) towards a practical manufacturing and demonstration of solar cells exceeding the efficiency limits for conventional p-n junction solar cells (Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit), by using plasmonic nanoelements (Nano Energy 75 (2020) 104751), or QD particles, or by changing perovskite composition to other than with lead, or with a tandem architecture. Some comments on protective layers that increase the durability of perovskite solar cells would also be useful, including recent attempts (and trials) to use perovskite cells in space, where lead hazards and the destructive role of oxygen or moisture are not important.
Response 2: We really appreciated all the comments and suggestions of the reviewer. Constructive points are commented to improve our review. Based on the comments we revised the presentation of our review to incorporate all the comments. Appropriate references are also cited including Materials 2022, 15, 2254 and Nano Energy 75 (2020) 104751) to improve this review paper. Moreover, most important and promising application direction of perovskites i.e. photovoltaic and efforts to avoid hazardous components (lead) are clearly discussed although the aim of this review is to discuss issues beyond photovoltaic. The reviewers and editors can also visit subsection 7.6 highlighted by green color. Not only this section but also many sections are revised to incorporate useful concepts that can attract the readership. Edited concepts are indicated by yellow colors but newly added concepts are indicated by green colors.
Comment 3: The possible applications of perovskites beyond the PV only should be described in the paper more detailed.
Response 3: we thank the reviewer for the guidance and advice that help us present our paper as comprehensive as possible. Based on the comments we discussed possible applications beyond photovoltaic more detailed as shown in section 7.
Comment 4: The whole paper needs an extensive linguistic correction. Moreover, a proofreading is required (for example in line 933 and similar mistakes). The quality of majority of graphics in figures (those copped from other papers) is insufficient and must be improved (as well as a proper identification of their source, permission etc. must be placed in an uniform manner in figure captions).
Response 4: we thank the reviewer for their constructive comments. Based on the comments we extensively correct the linguistic errors and enhance the proofreading. The error in 933 identified by the reviewer is corrected and now located in line 1533 due to increased number of references. Similar errors are corrected too.
Comment 5: the quality of used language is poor -- an extensive correction is required
Response 6: We thank the reviewer for their concern on the quality of language. We revised the article extensively as shown in yellow highlighted part of the manuscript. Green highlighted part of the manuscript indicated new ideas added to improve the presentation of the article. Thank you for your time and energy you invest to improve our review paper!
