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NATURE REVIEWS CHEMISTRY
Volume 2, Issue 8, Pages 160-173Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41570-018-0024-8
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2014CB239402, 2017YFA0206903]
- National Science Foundation of China [21390404, 21861132004, 21603248]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science [XDB17000000]
- Key Research Program of Frontier Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [QYZDY-SSW-JSCO29]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences [2018031]
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Sunlight is our most abundant, clean and inexhaustible energy source. However, its diffuse and intermittent nature makes it difficult to use directly, suggesting that we should instead store this energy. One of the most attractive avenues for this involves using solar energy to split H2O and afford H-2 through artificial photosynthesis, the practical realization of which requires low-cost, robust photocatalysts. Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) of IIB-VIA semiconductors appear to be an ideal material from which to construct highly efficient photocatalysts for H-2 photogeneration. In this Review, we highlight recent developments in QD-based artificial photosynthetic systems for H-2 evolution using sacrificial reagents. These case studies allow us to introduce strategies-including size optimization, structural modification and surface design-to increase the H-2 evolution activities of QD-based artificial photosystems. Finally, we describe photocatalytic biomass reforming and unassisted photoelectrochemical H2O splitting-two new pathways that could make QD-based solar-to-fuel conversion practically viable and cost-effective in the near future.
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