Photocatalytic production of solar fuels from CO2 is a promising strategy for addressing
global environmental problems and securing future energy supplies. Although extensive …

Sunlight as the most abundant renewable energy holds the promise to make our society
sustainable. However, due to its low power density and intermittence, efficient conversion …

Understanding charge transfer dynamics and carrier separation pathway is challenging due
to the lack of appropriate characterization strategies. In this work, a crystalline …

Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (fs-TAS) is a powerful technique for
monitoring the electron transfer kinetics in photocatalysis. Several important works have …

The current semiconductor photocatalysts only exhibit unsatisfactory photocatalytic
efficiency due to the easy recombination of photogenerated carriers. Regulating the …

Photocatalysis, as one of the hopeful technologies to overcome the issues of energy
shortage and environmental pollution, has increasingly attracted attention. In situ …

In this work, we demonstrated the practical use of Au@ Cu2O core–shell and Au@ Cu2Se
yolk–shell nanocrystals as photocatalysts in photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting and …

Photocatalytic CO 2 reduction technology appears one of the most prospective paths
because it directly utilizes green and renewable solar energy to efficiently convert CO 2 into …

Z-scheme heterojunctions are fundamentally promising yet practically appealing for
photocatalytic hydrogen (H2) production owing to the enhanced redox power, spatial …

Plasmon‐induced chemical reaction is an emerging field but its development faces huge
challenges because of low quantum efficiency. Herein, we report that the solar energy …