title: Single-step co-deposition of nanostructured tungsten oxide supported gold nanoparticles using a gold-phosphine cluster complex as the gold precursor.
abstract: The use of a molecular gold organometallic cluster in chemical vapour deposition is reported, and it is utilized, together with a tungsten oxide precursor, for the single-step co-deposition of (nanostructured) tungsten oxide supported gold nanoparticles (NPs). The deposited gold-NP and tungsten oxide supported gold-NP are highly active catalysts for benzyl alcohol oxidation; both show higher activity than SiO2supported gold-NP synthesized via a solution-phase method, and tungsten oxide supported gold-NP show excellent selectivity for conversion to benzaldehyde.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AJ London, UK; Department of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
authors.forename: Anara
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Molkenova
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AJ London, UK.
authors.forename: Rozie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sarip
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AJ London, UK.
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sathasivam
authors.affiliation: Solid State Physics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Polona
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Umek
authors.affiliation: Solid State Physics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia; SIX Research Center, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology, Technicka 12, CZ-61600 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Stella
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vallejos
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AJ London, UK; London Centre for Nanotechnology, 17-19 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH London, UK.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blackman
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AJ London, UK; Department of Chemistry, King's College London,Britannia House, 7 Trinity Street, SE1 1DB London, UK.
authors.forename: Graeme
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hogarth
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AJ London, UK.
authors.forename: Gopinathan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sankar
keywords: CVD; catalyst; nanoparticle