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Our new article on the "Gold nanoparticles with tailored size through ligand modification for catalytic applications " has just appeared, open access, in (), and can be read .

In this article, we have reported a facile approach to synthesise gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) using various gold precursors. The core size of these AuNPs can be precisely tailored by varying the steric hindrance imposed by bound ligands. These materials can be used for various technological applications and their catalytic applications are demonstrated in this article. This work is the result of excellent collaboration with researchers from the UCL Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering (CNIE) and , who also funded this project.

The team consisted of PhD student Nidhi Kapil (just successfully defended her PhD thesis), MSc student (now a Process Engineer at ), former post-doctoral fellow (now a researcher at ), senior researcher Dr Panagiotis Trogadas, Chief Scientist (SABIC Europe), former post-doctoral fellow (now Assistant Professor at the ) and CNIE Director Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens. Congratulations to the entire team!

N.Kapil, F.Cardinale, T.Weissenburger, P.Trogodas, T.A.Nijhuis, M.Nigra, and M.-O. Coppens, 2021, Gold nanoparticles with tailored size through ligand modification for catalytic applications. Chem.Comm. DOI: 10.1039/D1CC04165G (open access).