Dear Colleagues,

Modern chemical industry is progressively focusing its attention on more advanced and specific chemical moieties and molecules within the challenging field of the production of high-added-value products. Furthermore, new environmental challenges are capturing the attention of the scientific community and pushing its efforts towards the direction of a greener chemistry. In order to achieve these targets, we need to improve the efficiency of industrial processes rationally designing brand new catalysts as well as modifying existing catalysts. The aim of this Special Issue on “Advanced Nanostructured Materials for Catalytic Applications towards Fine Chemicals Production” is to gather the state of the art knowledge about novel nanomaterials and/or their novel preparation methods, innovative characterization techniques and catalyst testing, proving the novelty of the obtained material in the direction of a better catalytic performance, such as in the case of multisite catalytic materials, thus producing a clear improvement in economic and environmental terms. Submissions to this Special Issue of original research about bottom–up/top–down synthetic methodologies that are selectively effective on specific functional groups at the surface of the catalysts, characterization techniques in both in situ and in operando conditions devoted to demonstrating the nature of the active phase, studies about structure–activity relationships, and elucidation of catalytic reaction mechanisms will be gladly considered.

This Special Issue will cover but will not be limited to the following topics:

• Engineered nanomaterials;
• Metal organic framework;
• Carbon nanoparticles;
• Porous organic polymers;
• Multisite hybrid organic–inorganic nanospheres;
• Chiral hybrid catalysts;
• Multifunctional lamellar hybrid materials;
• Metallic nanoclusters;
• Composite polyoxometalate materials;
• Operando characterization;
• Reaction mechanism.

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Research papers, communications or short reviews are welcome.

Prof. Marcello Crucianelli
Dr. Andrea Lazzarini
Guest Editors

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• Engineered nanomaterials
• Metal organic framework
• Carbon nanoparticles
• Porous organic polymers
• Multisite hybrid organic–inorganic nanospheres
• Chiral hybrid catalysts
• Multifunctional lamellar hybrid materials
• Metallic nanoclusters
• Composite polyoxometalate materials
• Operando characterization
• Reaction mechanism