With the advent of aberration-corrected instrumentation, single gold atoms can be resolved and we now know that catalytic activity can be associated with very small gold clusters, containing as ...

Their stability also enables surface functionalization with various ligands ... as reducing and stabilizing agents. Gold nanoparticles exhibit excellent catalytic activity for various chemical ...

However, researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and the Max Planck Institutes for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF) and for Sustainable Materials (MPI-SusMat) have shown that the catalytic ...