Recent insights into nanostructured core-shell reactivities and surprising
findings of catalytic activities of oxide-supported gold nanoparticles sugg
est that the deliberate tailoring of nanoparticles supported on oxides, dis
persed in dendrimers, and encapsulated in monolayers could generally lead t
o novel catalytic applications. The Figure shows an AFM image of a core-she
ll assembled gold nanoparticle sample.