In recent years, gold nanoparticles have demonstrated excellent enzyme-mimicking
activities which resemble those of peroxidase, oxidase, catalase, superoxide dismutase or …

Noble metal nanoparticles (NMNPs), which spring up like mushrooms, are gaining
momentum owing to their unique physicochemical characteristics. Cucurbiturils, a class of …

The development of functional hydrogel materials for applications in catalysis has attracted
great research interest, especially in aqueous phase catalysis. However, preparation of new …

Anisotropic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have very important and unique applications in a
wide range of fields, including optical sensing, biomedicine, and chemical catalysis, among …

The dyes and nitroaromatic pollutants from wastewater have attracted much attention due to
their huge safety risks to human society. At present, nanomaterials as catalysts of …

In recent years, nanoscience and nanotechnology have emerged as promising fields in
materials science. Spectroscopic techniques like scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic …

Organic dyes and nitrophenols in the textile industry are wastewater pollutants. In order to
develop an efficient nanocatalysts to remove organic pollutants in wastewater, the trimetallic …

Bacterial pathogens represent a safety concern in the food industry, and this is amplified by
the lack of sensing devices that can be applied on-site by non-trained personnel. In this …

In the last decade, several engineered gold-based nanomaterials, such as spheres, rods,
stars, cubes, hollow particles, and nanocapsules have been widely explored in biomedical …

Gold nanostars (AuNSs) are nanoparticles with intricate three-dimensional structures and
shape-dependent optoelectronic properties. For example, AuNSs uniquely display three …