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Colloidal Metal Nanocatalysts: Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Applications

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Metal nanoparticles are key materials in heterogeneous catalysis due to their high catalytic activity and selectivity to the desired product. Accordingly, they are playing a pivotal role in most heterogeneous catalytic reactions that are steeply growing with the development of a colloidal synthetic protocol that enables fine control of size, shape, morphology and composition of metal nanoparticles at an atomic level. These colloidal metal nanoparticles can be dispersed on a rigid support such as mesoporous silica, metal oxide and zeolite, which utilizes metal nanoparticles as model heterogeneous catalysts in industrially important processes involving hydrogenation/dehydrogenation, isomerization and cracking. In this review article, we highlight the recent progress on general colloidal synthetic routes with technological advances in characterization tools that enable the atomic-scale observation of metal nanoparticles. Structure-dependent contributions on the control of product selectivity and turnover rate are also discussed by combining advanced ex situ and in situ surface characterization tools that can monitor the structural change of metal nanocatalysts as well as the evolution of reaction intermediates under the reaction conditions.

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This work was funded by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, and the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. KN thanks to the financial support from Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2012R1A6A3A03039602). QZ thanks the support of Prof. A. Paul Alivisatos and financial support from the Dow Chemical Company (20120984).

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    Kyungsu Na, Qiao Zhang & Gabor A. Somorjai

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Na, K., Zhang, Q. & Somorjai, G.A. Colloidal Metal Nanocatalysts: Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Applications. J Clust Sci 25, 83–114 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10876-013-0636-6

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