Metal-halide perovskite nanocrystals have emerged as one of the promising photocatalysts in the photocatalysis field owing to their low-cost and excellent optoelectronic properties. However, this type of nanocrystals generally displays low activity in photocatalytic CO 2 reduction owing to the lack of intrinsic catalytic sites and insufficient charge separation. Herein, we functionalized CsPbBr 3 nanocrystals with graphitic carbon nitride, containing titanium-oxide species (TiO-CN) to develop an efficient composite catalyst system for photocatalytic CO 2 reduction using water as the electron source.Compared to its congener with pristine CsPbBr 3 , the introduction of TiO-CN could not only increase the number of active sites, but also led to a swift interfacial charge separation between CsPbBr 3 and TiO-CN due to their favorable energy-offsets and strong chemical bonding behaviors, which endowed this composite system with an obviously enhanced photocatalytic activity in the reduction of CO 2 to CO with water as the sacrificial reductant. Over 3-fold and 6-fold higher activities than those of pristine CsPbBr 3 nanocrystals and TiO-CN nanosheets, respectively, were observed under visible light irradiation.Our study provides an effective strategy for improving the photocatalytic activity of metal-halide perovskite nanocrystals, thus promoting their photocatalytic application in the field of artificial photosynthesis. Fig. 4 (a) Photoluminescence spectra of CsPbBr 3 and CsPbBr 3 @TiO-CN. (b) Time-resolved photoluminescence decays of CsPbBr 3 and CsPbBr 3 @TiO-CN. The gray curves are the fitting lines based on a multi-exponential function.This journal is Chem. Rev., 2019, 119, 3962-4179. Fig. 5 (a) The yields of CO generated from the photocatalytic CO 2 reduction reactions with TiO-CN, CsPbBr 3 , CsPbBr 3 @g-C 3 N 4 and CsPbBr 3 @TiO-CN photocatalysts after 10 h of irradiation under a 300 W Xe-lamp with the light intensity of 100 mW cm À2 . Gas chromatograms and mass spectra (GC-MS) of the solar-driven (b) reduction of 13 CO 2 to 13 CO (m/z ¼ 29) and (c) oxidation of H 2 18 O to 18 O 2 (m/z ¼ 36) using CsPbBr 3 @TiO-CN as the photocatalyst.34346 | RSC Adv., 2019,9,[34342][34343][34344][34345][34346][34347][34348] This journal is