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Demonstrates enhanced CO2 reduction in a novel heterojunction, suggesting new strategies for efficiency.
The S‐scheme heterojunction enables efficient spatial charge separation while preserving strong redox capabilities in photocatalysis. Yet its interfacial charge dynamics remain inherently constrained by fixed band alignment and a built‐in electric field, limiting further performance gains. Here, we demonstrate that plasmonic Au nanoparticles can fundamentally reconstruct, not merely enhance, the interfacial charge topology of an S‐scheme system. By integrating Cs 3 Bi 2 Br 9 quantum dots (CBBQD) with porous BiOCl and decorating with Au, we fabricate a ternary Au/CBBQD/BiOCl heterojunction that achieves a CO evolution rate of 115.4 µmol g −1 h −1 , 57.7 times higher than pristine BiOCl and 2.3 times beyond the binary CBBQD/BiOCl S‐scheme counterpart. Combined experimental and density functional theory studies reveal that Au not only serves as a localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) hot‐electron injector that redirects photogenerated electrons from CBBQD to the conduction band of BiOCl, thereby shifting the primary CO 2 reduction site and enabling multi‐site hole utilization, but also lowers the Gibbs free energy barrier of the rate‐limiting * CO 2 → * COOH step by 0.36 eV. Our work moves beyond conventional S‐scheme design by establishing plasmonic metals as active architects of interfacial charge flow, offering a general strategy to unlock high‐efficiency CO 2 photoreduction through deliberate manipulation of electron delivery pathways.
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