Magnetron sputtering is a widely used physical vapor deposition technique for deposition and formation of nanocatalyst thin films and clusters. Nevertheless, so far only few studies investigated this formation process at the fundamental level. We here review atomic scale molecular dynamics simulations aimed at elucidating the nanocatalyst growth process through magnetron sputtering. We first in...

A novel and redox-active nanocatalyst, Au(III)-promoted polyaniline gold nanosphere (GPANG), was designed as the nanolabel for highly efficient electrochemical immunoassay of human IgG by coupling with electrocatalytic recycling of self-produced reactants.

In this work, an efficient and green procedure for the synthesis of various substituted 1,5-benzodiazepine derivatives via a one-pot three-component catalytic reaction has been described. The reaction was conducted between o-phenylenediamine, dimedone and aldehyde derivatives in the presence of CuFe2O4 nanoparticles as a magnetic heterogeneous nanocatalyst under ball-milling conditions at room ...

Two thermoresponsive polymers based on alkyl modified poly-vinylpyrrolidone (PVP) that exhibit very sensitive and reversible temperature-dependant water solubility are described. The application of these polymers as Au nanocatalyst stabilizers leads to a "smart" thermoresponsive Au nanoparticle catalyst.

Magnetic Cellulose/Fe3O4/Co3O4 nanocomposite as a new catalyst was synthesized and characterized by FT-IR, XRD, TGA, SEM, TEM, ICP-AES and VSM techniques. The catalytic activity of this heterogeneous catalyst was studied through one-pot synthesis of 1-((benzo[d]thiazol-2-ylamino)(aryl)-methyl)naphthalen-2-ol derivatives from three component reactions of aromatic aldehydes, 2-aminobenzothiazole,...

In the present study, robust, versatile and straightforward strategy for the diversity-oriented convergent synthesis of a vast range of highly functionalized and biologically effective chromenes is introduced with the reaction of malononitrile, dimedone/cyclohexadione/4-hydroxycoumarin and benzaldehydes in the presence of [γ-Fe2O3@HAp-Si(CH2)3BF4@DMIM] as the catalyst. The structures of all the...

ni2+ supported on hydroxyapatite-core@shell γ-fe2o3 nanoparticles (γ-fe2o3@hap-ni2+) was found to be a useful catalyst for the synthesis of benzimidazole derivatives from o-phenylenediamine and aldehydes under solvent and solvent-free conditions at 80 °c. this reaction affords the corresponding benzimidazole derivatives compared with the classical reactions this method consistently gives a high...

Platinum-cerium oxide hybrid nanocatalysts (CeO(2)-Pt) were for the first time designed as bionanolabels for highly efficient electrochemical immunosensing of low-abundance proteins coupling nanocatalyst-based redox cycling with in situ signal amplification strategy.