Nanostructuring gold wires as highly durable nanocatalysts for selective reduction of nitro compounds and azides with organosilanes

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1365-1372

  Guo, Huifang ^a   Yan, Xiuling ^c   Zhi, Yun ^a   Li, Zhiwen ^c   Wu, Cai ^a   Zhao, Chunliang ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Yu, Zhixin ^d   Ding, Yi ^b,c   He, Wei ^a   Li, Yadong ^e  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

catalysis; gold; nanocatalyst; reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939956192     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0703-4     Document Type: Article

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