Interplay of Charge Trapping, Charge Separation, and Chemical Reactivity in Photocatalytic ZnSe-Based Semiconductor-Metal Hybrid Nanoparticles.
Sustainable energy conversion technologies demand efficient, stable, and environmentally compatible photocatalysts. Here, we report heavy-metal-free ZnSe/ZnS─Au hybrid nanoparticles (HNPs) with controlled shell architecture and tunable Au-domain properties. These HNPs are designed to overcome intrinsic limitations of Z...