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Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) can serve as large-area sunlight collectors, are suitable for applications in high-efficiency and cost-effective photovoltaics (PVs), and provide adaptability to the needs of architects for building-integrated PVs, which makes them an attractive option for transforming buildings into transparent or non-transparent electricity generators. Compared with traditional organic dyes, colloidal semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) are excellent candidates as emitters for LSCs because they exhibit wide size/shape/composition-tunable absorption spectra ranging from ultraviolet to near infrared, significantly overlapping with the solar spectrum. They also feature narrow emission spectra, high photoluminescence quantum yields, high absorption coefficients, solution processability and good photostability. Most importantly, QDs can be engineered to provide a minimal overlap between …