Contents
1 Ligand-Free Sub-Nanometer Metal Clusters in Catalysis . . . . . . . .
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Judit Oliver–Meseguer and Antonio Leyva–Pérez
2 Atomically Precise Nanoclusters as Electrocatalysts . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Site Li and Rongchao Jin
3 Catalysts via Atomic Layer Deposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Rong Chen, Bin Shan, Xiao Liu, and Kun Cao
4 MNP Catalysis in Ionic Liquids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Muhammad I. Qadir, Nathália M. Simon, David Rivillo,
and Jairton Dupont
5 Covalent Assemblies of Metal Nanoparticles—Strategies
for Synthesis and Catalytic Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Yuanyuan Min, M. Rosa Axet, and Philippe Serp
6 Catalysis with MNPs on N-Doped Carbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Rajenahally V. Jagadeesh
7 Catalysis by Metal Nanoparticles Encapsulated
Within Metal–Organic Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Amarajothi Dhakshinamoorthy and Hermenegildo Garcia
8 Earth-Abundant d-Block Metal Nanocatalysis for Coupling
Reactions in Polyols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Marc Camats, Daniel Pla, and Montserrat Gómez
9 Metal Nanoparticles for Hydrogen Isotope Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . 281
A. Palazzolo, J. M. Asensio, D. Bouzouita, G. Pieters, S. Tricard,
and B. Chaudret
10 Progress in the Selective Semi-hydrogenation of Alkynes
by Nanocatalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Jorge A. Delgado and Cyril Godard
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