The importance of organic ligands in protecting inorganic nanoparticles and thus imparting
the needed stabilization as colloidal dispersions was realised many years ago. Currently …

Metal nanoparticles have received intense scientific attention in the field of catalysis. Precise
engineering of nanomaterials' size, shape and surface composition, including adsorbed …

To achieve high selectivity in enzyme catalysis, nature carefully controls both the catalyst
active site and the pocket or environment that mediates access and the geometry of a …

Due to material gaps and synthesis‐related cross‐correlations in heterogeneous catalysis,
chemists and physicists are constantly motivated to develop novel catalyst preparation …

In this work we present the successful application of functionalizing Pt nanoparticles (NPs)
with hydrophilic organic ligands as a strategy for enhancing their catalytic activity and …

Functional nanomaterials (NM) of different size, shape, chemical composition, and surface
chemistry are of increasing relevance for many key technologies of the twenty-first century …

Composition (metal or metal oxide core and organic coating), size, shape and structure are
the main parameters governing the properties of nano-objects. Driven by their huge …

The preparation of colloidal nanoparticles in alkaline ethylene glycol is a powerful approach
for the preparation of model catalysts and ligand-functionalized nanoparticles. For these …

Surface states—the electronic states arising as a result of the different bonding environment—
are easily contaminated by adsorbed molecules at nanoscale interfaces of metal …

We demonstrate the functionalization of supported nanoparticles (NPs) with ligands as an
approach to bridge the gap between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. The use …