• DOI:10.1038/nature07194
Corpus ID: 4355469

Selective oxidation with dioxygen by gold nanoparticle catalysts derived from 55-atom clusters

@article{Turner2008SelectiveOW,
  title={Selective oxidation with dioxygen by gold nanoparticle catalysts derived from 55-atom clusters},
  author={M. Turner and V. Golovko and O. Vaughan and Pavel Abdulkin and A. Berenguer-Murcia and M. Tikhov and B. Johnson and R. Lambert},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2008},
  volume={454},
  pages={981-983}
}

M. Turner, V. Golovko, +5 authors R. Lambert

Published 2008

Chemistry, Medicine

Nature

Supported gold nanoparticles have excited much interest owing to their unusual and somewhat unexpected catalytic properties, but the origin of the catalytic activity is still not fully understood. Experimental work on gold particles supported on a titanium dioxide (110) single-crystal surface has established a striking size threshold effect associated with a metal-to-insulator transition, with gold particles catalytically active only if their diameters fall below ∼3.5 nm. However, the… CONTINUE READING

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