“…However, PbS nanocrystals suffer from low stability, abundant surface trap states, and fast charge carrier recombination. ,,,− Various strategies are applied to overcome the drawbacks of semiconductor photocatalysis, such as plasmonics, doping, Z-scheme system, heterojunction, and so on. For instance, PbS–CdS core–shell nanocrystals have been synthesized by cation exchange to improve the rate of electron transport, thereby increasing the incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency. ,,− Moreover, PbS is a p-type semiconductor and CdS is an n-type semiconductor.…”