Photocatalysis: Spontaneous Formation of Noble‐ and Heavy‐Metal‐Free Alloyed Semiconductor Quantum Rods for Efficient Photocatalysis (Adv. Mater. 39/2018)

Benchmark hetero-nanostructures for photocatalysis generally contain both highly toxic cadmium and expensive noble metals. In article number 1803351, Guohua Jia and co-workers develop a facile colloidal chemical approach to spontaneously produce noble- and heavy-metal alloyed semiconductor quantum rods that can be directly used as efficient photocatalysts in the oxygen evolution reaction for water splitting.