stir under nitrogen atmosphere for another 12 h. The solid cata-
lyst was then filtered through G-3 sintered glass funnel, washed
thoroughly with double distilled water and then with acetone. It
was then oven dried at 70 °C to obtain NAP-Mg–Au(0) as a
dark purple coloured powder. Similar synthetic procedures
Laboratory at the Institute for Solid State Physics, University of
Tokyo, is gratefully acknowledged. The XAFS measurements
were performed at KEK-IMSS-PF with the approval of the
Photon Factory Advisory Committee (project 2010G109).
were adopted for meso-HAP–Au(0) and meso-CeO –Au(0)
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catalysts.
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