Gold Nanoparticles in Materials and Catalysis
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 2446
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Interests: nanoparticles; nanostructutres; scanning tunneling microscopy; tunneling spectroscopy; atomic force microscopy; elementary processes; adsorption; desorption
Interests: catalysis; biomass treatment; green diesel; ethanol
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Dear Colleagues,
Gold is a perfect example of a material that is inert in its bulk form and highly active in the nanoscale form. Due to their unique properties, gold nanoparticles attract the attention of a large number of scientists around the world. Materials based on gold nanoparticles are used in electrochemistry, medicine, biophotonics, and sensor technology. However, gold nanoparticles are most widely used in catalysis. The classic works of M. Haruta served as the starting point for thousands of studies on catalysis on gold nanoparticles. For more than 30 years, despite thousands of published articles, interest in this area has not decreased.
The question of why gold shows such extraordinary properties in its nanoscale form is still debatable, and certainly requires additional research. However, materials based on gold nanoparticles are increasingly being used, and no less interesting are the investigations of aspects such as: mechanisms of elementary processes occurring on the surface of gold nanoparticles; controlled modification of gold nanoparticles; investigation of properties of new materials based on gold nanoparticles; bimetallic gold-containing nanostructured systems; functionalization of gold nanoparticles for use in specific conditions; design and synthesis of composite materials based on gold nanoparticles with specified properties; and the search for new applications of materials based on gold nanoparticles.
Dr. Andrey Gatin
Dr. Andrey Chistyakov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gold nanoparticles
- gold nanostructures
- bimetallic gold-containing nanostructures
- materials based on gold nanoparticles
- gold nanocatalysts
- functionalized gold nanoparticles
- size effect
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