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A gallium nitride nanowire/silicon solar cell photocathode for the photoreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) is demonstrated. Such a monolithically integrated nanowire/solar cell photocathode offers several unique advantages, including the absorption of a large part of the solar spectrum and highly efficient carrier extraction. With the incorporation of copper as the co-catalyst, the devices exhibit a Faradaic efficiency of about 19 % for the 8e(-) photoreduction to CH4 at -1.4 V vs Ag/AgCl, a value that is more than thirty times higher than that for the 2e(-) reduced CO (ca. 0.6 %).

In article number 1500345, G. Zhao, A. Vomiero, F. Rosei, and co‐workers develop a new hybrid photoelectrochemical photoanode to generate H2 from water, composed of a TiO2 mesoporous frame functionalized by colloidal core@shell quantum dots (QDs) followed by CdS and ZnS capping layers. Saturated photocurrent density as high as 11.2 mA cm−2 is obtained in a solar‐cell‐driven PEC system using near infrared QDs.

A new hybrid photoelectrochemical photoanode is developed to generate H2 from water. The anode is composed of a TiO2 mesoporous frame functionalized by colloidal core@shell quantum dots (QDs) followed by CdS and ZnS capping layers. Saturated photocurrent density as high as 11.2 mA cm−2 in a solar‐cell‐driven photoelectrochemical system using near‐infrared QDs is obtained.