Ordered gold (Au) mono-and bilayer structures have been synthesized on a highly reduced
titania surface. The Au bilayer exhibits a significantly higher catalytic activity for carbon …

Gold is an element whose unique properties are strongly influenced by relativistic effects. A
large body of appropriate calculations now exists and its main conclusions are summarized …

The need for efficient and sustainable catalysts to generate clean energy through water
splitting is a requirement of the current era. In this study, TiO 2/CdS heterostructures were …

Gold has traditionally been regarded as inactive as a catalytic metal. However, the advent of
nanoparticulate gold on high surface area oxide supports has demonstrated its high catalytic …

Metal nanoparticles hold great promise for heterogeneous catalysis due to their high
dispersion, large concentration of highly undercoordinated surface sites, and the presence …

Au-based catalysts have great potential because of their unique activity and selectivity for a
variety of important reactions. The special catalytic properties of supported Au nano-particles …

As a promising route for large-scale H 2 production, the water-gas-shift reaction (WGS, CO+
H 2 O→ CO 2+ H 2) on ceria-supported Au catalysts is of enormous potential in efforts to …

Fundamental understanding of support effects and metal–support interaction is critical in
heterogeneous catalysis. In this work, theoretical investigations are carried out to study the …

Nanoparticles of transition metals, particularly noble metals, are widely used in catalysis.
However, enhancing their stability during catalytic reactions has been a challenge that has …

Au catalysis has been one of the hottest topics in chemistry in the last 10 years or so. How
O2 is supplied and what role water plays in CO oxidation are the two challenging issues in …