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Chemistry World March 24, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Producing powerful palladium particles US scientists have found a way to clean up the production of palladium nanoparticles - doubling their performance as catalysts for fuel cells.
Chemistry World June 11, 2009 Lewis Brindley	'Electronic glue' makes nanocrystals connect American chemists have developed an 'electronic glue' to link nanocrystals together - allowing groups of the crystals to be highly conductive.
Chemistry World February 18, 2009 Nina Notman	Single Nanocatalyst Behaviour Revealed Before you can design the perfect nanoparticle catalyst, you first need to understand the fundamental science that governs their reactivity. U.S. Scientists have said they have done just that.
Chemistry World June 4, 2009 Nina Notman	Nanocrystal growth process revealed Research by US scientists has shed light on precisely how nanocrystals grow, providing key information that could help improve fuel cells of the future.
Chemistry World April 11, 2011 Mike Brown	One catalyst, two reactions Researchers in the US have designed a novel material that can catalyse two separate, sequential reactions to produce industrially relevant intermediates in one pot.
Chemistry World June 27, 2013 Emma Eley	Sustainable iron catalyst for clean hydrogenation An international team of chemists has reported a clean and green way to perform one of the most important industrial reactions for pharmaceutical and petrochemical synthesis.
Chemistry World April 18, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Shaping crystals with bio-tools Researchers in the US have developed a new approach for controlling crystal growth, borrowing tools from biology.
Chemistry World February 2, 2011 Elinor Richards	Gold going it alone Spanish scientists have proved that gold alone can catalyse cross-coupling reactions following a claim made last year that palladium impurities in the gold are essential for the catalysis.
Chemistry World October 30, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	A Better Catalyst for Fuel Cells? Alloy nanoparticles that efficiently catalyse oxygen's conversion into water - the energy-releasing reaction that occurs in fuel cells - have been discovered. The particles are up to six times more active than pure platinum, the material typically used in current fuel cells.
Chemistry World December 4, 2009 James Urquhart	Easier ester synthesis Researchers in the US have shown how oxygen-coated gold nanoparticles can selectively oxidise a variety of alcohols and aldehydes.
Chemistry World May 8, 2015 Michaela Muehlberg	Polymers curl up and take control Scientists in Germany have successfully collapsed single polymer chains into dense nanoparticles, to make single-chain nanoparticles, by adding palladium.
Chemistry World November 15, 2011 Phillip Broadwith	Creating a toolbox for nanoparticle synthesis Hybrid nanoparticles made from several different materials that can be built up in a controlled and directed manner have been created by chemists in the US.
Chemistry World June 5, 2011 James Mitchell Crow	Nanoparticles scrub up a treat in hot water bath Upping the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles can be as simple as a good wash in hot water, UK chemists have shown.
Chemistry World May 1, 2012 David Bradley	A colorful way to size up nanoparticles Researchers in China have now developed a straightforward light-scattering technique to estimate the size of gold nanoparticles in the 35 to 110nm range.
Chemistry World September 2, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Nanoparticles Paint a Finer Picture Swiss scientists have developed a process that can print detailed images using nanoparticles as 'ink', while maintaining their catalytic and optical properties.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Fuel Cells: Progress With Platinum Research demonstrates method to improve metal's efficiency as a catalyst.
Chemistry World October 10, 2007 Ned Stafford	Catalytic Converters go Nano Mazda Motor Corporation has unveiled a new generation of catalytic converters that use 70 to 90 per cent less of the precious metals which help to purify exhaust emissions.
Chemistry World November 12, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Microscope Reveals Catalyst Secrets A promising technique for watching catalysts in action could provide new insights into how they work, report scientists in the Netherlands.
Chemistry World March 19, 2008 Kira Welter	'Designer' Catalyst Fights Fuel Cell Poisoning US scientists have designed a contaminant commonly found in hydrogen used to run fuel cells from first principles nanoparticles that efficiently oxidize carbon monoxide (CO)
Chemistry World February 28, 2014 Tim Wogan	Fuel cells put in the frame with catalysts that need far less platinum US scientists have created an exceptional fuel cell catalyst that contains far less platinum -- conventional catalysts need 36 times more platinum to hit the same levels of activity.
Chemistry World April 25, 2010 Hayley Birch	New strategy yields best ever catalyst for ammonia decomposition US researchers have developed a new strategy for predicting bimetallic catalysts.
Chemistry World October 9, 2014 James Urquhart	Designer nanoparticles cast in DNA molds German researchers have developed a DNA origami approach to produce custom-made inorganic nanoparticles with programmable, pre-designed shapes.
Chemistry World March 28, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Copper catalysis sees the light Researchers in the US have shown that the oxide coating on copper nanoparticles can be stripped away by light, exposing the metallic, catalytic copper core.
Chemistry World December 8, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Molecular Suitcases Created by Corrosion Hollow spheres, cubes and cylinders could be useful as inorganic 'molecular suitcases' to carry drugs or catalysts.
Chemistry World October 1, 2010 Hayley Birch	On-off catalyst mimics enzyme function US and Japanese researchers have created an enzyme-like catalyst whose activity can be switched on or off using small molecules.
Chemistry World April 7, 2015 Hugh Cowley	The Goldilocks of heterogeneous catalysis An international team of scientists has tethered palladium to a metal -- organic framework support using thiol groups normally associated with catalyst poisoning
Chemistry World December 23, 2015 Karl Collins	Scratching chiral surfaces There are numerous challenges to developing reactions that exploit chiral surfaces, or employ molecular modifiers (ligands) to create a chiral surface environment and control the stereoselectivity of a transformation.
Chemistry World May 9, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Stan Golunski: Sustaining catalytic collaborations Stan Golunski is a professor of catalysis and deputy director of the Cardiff Catalysis Institute. His research is in areas of heterogeneous catalysis that can be applied both synthetically and for environmental control.
Chemistry World February 22, 2012 Nina Notman	Mapping the reactivity of single nanocatalysts 'Using super resolution imaging we can map out where catalytic reactions occur on a single nanocatalyst,' says Peng Chen, the lead researcher based at Cornell University.
Chemistry World June 2, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Reactions in a crystal Crystals that can alter their composition without changing the structure of their solid lattice have been developed by US researchers.
Chemistry World May 31, 2006 Jon Evans	Carbon Joins the Dots Carbon could soon replace cadmium as the material of choice for quantum dots, following the development of fluorescent carbon nanoparticles by scientists.
Chemistry World March 12, 2013 Andy Extance	'Plasmonic smart dust' conjures kinetics clues Researchers exploited gold's ability to trap and concentrate light, creating oscillations in the electron cloud at its surface called surface plasmons.
Chemistry World August 21, 2012 James Mitchell Crow	Watching single nanoparticles work By shining laser light on the modified tip of an atomic force microscope), researchers in Germany and the Netherlands have been able to watch a catalytic reaction in real time, zoomed right in to the nanoscale.
Chemistry World May 21, 2009 James Urquhart	Catalyst kinetics revealed French and UK scientists have developed a spectroscopy technique that has elucidated the reaction mechanism of a silver-alumina catalyst.
Chemistry World June 4, 2013 Emily Skinner	Homogeneous catalysis for nanoscale surface designs Scientists in France have combined homogeneous catalysis and atomic force microscopy to create intricate surface patterns.
Chemistry World March 8, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Carbon nanotubes - a boon for chiral catalysts Researchers in China have created a new catalyst that could help in the production of chiral molecules for medical drugs. The catalyst, which consists of platinum nanoparticles encapsulated in carbon nanotubes, is the most active of its type ever reported.
Chemistry World September 23, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Catalyst improves prospects for fuel cells Chemists in the US have developed a new catalyst that could help in a key reaction used to generate hydrogen for fuel cells.
Chemistry World December 10, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Platinum plating at the flick of a switch Atom thick catalytic layers of platinum can be deposited on surfaces from solution rapidly and cheaply thanks to a new technique developed by US scientists.
Chemistry World October 19, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Nanoparticles brought to order US researchers have developed a process that could bring the unusual properties of nanoparticles to a larger scale, by using small molecules to evenly space nanoparticles in a polymer composite.
Chemistry World January 30, 2008 Jonathan Edwards	DNA Helps Nanoparticles Crystallize Two papers in Nature have each shown a simple way to build designer crystals from nanoparticles, using DNA as 'glue'. Both methods show promise as a cheap way of mass-producing complex materials like photonic crystals.
Chemistry World August 9, 2012 Jon Cartwright	'Genetic code' guides nanoparticle growth Researchers in the US and China have demonstrated that DNA can also be used as a blueprint for the creation of non-biological structures. Their 'genetic code' could pave the way for tailored nanoparticles -- fit for use as catalysts, or in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
Chemistry World April 18, 2012 Elinor Richards	Homogeneous Catalyst Recovery Made Easier Scientists have now found a way to recover homogeneous catalysts at the end of a chemical reaction that doesn't suffer from the slow reaction rates that affect current catalyst recovery systems.
Chemistry World September 23, 2013 Raphael Levy	Gold nanoparticles for physics, chemistry and biology The varied perspectives in this textbook combine to give an agreeable read and a solid foundation in this topic.
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Chemistry World March 20, 2014 James Urquhart	Nanoparticle composites make colorful magnetic crystals Incorporating nanoparticles into single crystal materials can imbue them with new properties, such as color and magnetism, thanks to gel crystallization techniques developed independently by UK and Chinese research groups.
Chemistry World May 28, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Changing the face of a water splitting catalyst Australian chemists have grown crystals of the water-splitting catalyst titanium dioxide that are many times more reactive than usual.
Chemistry World January 13, 2011 Mike Brown	Palladium helps gold catalyst go green Researchers have developed a catalyst that efficiently converts toluene into a useful industrial intermediate in a much greener process than traditional methods.