Nanocatalysis

“Nanomania” has reached the area of heterogeneous catalysis.
Nanosized catalyst constituents are important for functions that
require structural control over several scales of dimension. Nanocatalysis
may be understood as a redefinition of catalyst synthesis:
multidimensional structural control is exerted by considering catalysts
as inorganic polymers rather than as close-packed crystals. Primary,
secondary, and tertiary structural hierarchies translate into molecular
building blocks and linkers, the defect structure of crystals, and particle
morphology. High-throughput techniques and in situ synthetic analysis
are the tools required to arrive at better defined catalytic materials
that can fulfil the high expectations created by the incorporation of
catalysts into the “nano” research field.
The above abstract is interesting one from the journal and thanks to the journal
R. Schl gl and S. B. Abd Hamid Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 1628 –1637