Franklin (Feng) Tao, PhD, is a tenure-track assistant professor of chemistry. After receiving a PhD from Princeton University and being a postdoctoral fellow at UC-Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, he started his independent career in 2010. He was elected fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013. Currently, he is leading a research group focusing on synthesis, evaluation of catalytic performance, and in-situ and operando characterization of catalytic materials in catalytic reactions for chemical and energy transformations toward fundamental understanding of catalytic processes at molecular level. He published about 100 peer-reviewed publications and three books with Wiley and RSC.

• Introduction;Nanocatalysis: Definition and Case Studies;Strategies to Fabricate Nanostructured Colloidal and Supported Metal Nanoparticles and Their Efficient Catalytic Applications;Organometallic Approach for the Synthesis of Noble Metal Nanoparticles: Towards Application in Colloidal and Supported Nanocatalysis;Nickel Nanoparticles in the Transfer Hydrogenation of Functional Groups;Ammonium Surfactant-capped Rh(0) Nanoparticles for Biphasic Hydrogenation;Pd Nanoparticles in C-C Coupling Reactions;Metal Salt-based Gold Nanocatalysts;Catalysis with Colloidal Metallic Hollow Nanostructures: Cage Effect;Nanoreactor Catalysis;Theoretical Insights into Metal Nanocatalysts;Nanoparticle Mediated Clock Reaction: A Redox Phenomena;Porous Cryptomelane Type Manganese Oxide Octahedral Molecular Sieves (OMS-2): Synthesis, Characterization and Applications in Catalysis;

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