A critical review of different prominent nanotechnologies adapted to catalysis is provided,
with focus on how they contribute to the improvement of selectivity in heterogeneous …

Metal nanoparticles have attracted much attention over the last decade owing to their unique
properties as compared to their bulk metal equivalents, including a large surface‐to‐volume …

The selective hydrogenation of unsaturated aldehydes (UAL) to saturated aldehydes (SAL)
and unsaturated alcohols (UOL) is an important industrial process for producing fine …

Several industrial chemicals were prepared by hydrogenation of furfural over γ-Al 2 O 3-
supported Pt and Pd catalysts. These catalysts were active even at room temperature (25° …

Selective hydrogenation of biomass to value-added products plays a crucial role in the
development of renewable energy resources. Herein, two heterogonous Ni catalysts …

The promotion of hydrogenation reactions by transition-metal-based heterogeneous
catalysts was established many decades ago but is still quite common in the chemical …

The effects of Pt precursors on the performance of Pt/ZSM-22 catalysts for n-hexadecane
hydroisomerization were investigated with 0.5 wt.% platinum loading using three platinum …

The rapid development of materials science now enables tailoring of metal and metal oxide
particles with tunable size and shape at the nanometre level. As a result, nanocatalysis is …

Colloidal and sol-gel procedures have been used to prepare heterogeneous catalysts
consisting of platinum metal particles with narrow size distributions and well defined shapes …

Nanotechnologies have provided new methods for the preparation of nanomaterials with
well‐defined sizes and shapes, and many of those procedures have been recently …