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The electronic coupling between a metal electrode and single nano‐entities is of unfading significance which impacts the heterogeneous electron transfer. Herein, we demonstrated a simple optical technique for directly imaging the transient interfacial electronic coupling events during electrochemical oxidation of single Ag nanoparticles on Au electrode. The electronic coupling brings out a dramatic dip behavior of bright field imaging traces, and is conductive to cross the energy barrier of oxidation for single silver nanoparticles. This dip behavior is further verified by in situ vis‐transmission spectroscopy, and the heterogeneity of the Au−Ag electronic coupling down to single‐nanoparticle level is uncovered by unifying the morphology and size of individual silver nanoparticles. These results suggest the interfacial electronic coupling facilitates electron transfer of single nanoparticles, and provide important insight into understanding detailed mechanism of nanoelectrochemistry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Instead of carbon, Mo2C is used to modify the MoO2 material for the first time. The presence of highly conductive and electrochemical inactive Mo2C decreases the resistance of the charge transport and enhances the structural stability of MoO2 nanoparticles upon lithiation and delithiation, ensuring the superior cycling stability and high rate capability of the heteronanotubes. Cycled at 200 and 1000 mA g−1 for 140 cycles, the discharge capacities of the MoO2/Mo2C heteronanotubes remain to be 790 and 510 mAh g−1, respectively. This work demonstrates the potential of the novel heteronanotubes for application as an electrode material for high-performance Li-ion batteries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An abstract of the article "Allyl-Aryl Coupling of Allylic Carbonates With Arylboronic Acids Catalyzed by Palladium Nanoparticles in Ionic Liquid" by J. Xu et al. is presented.

It is found that Pd(OAc)2 is reduced to form Pd-nanoparticles by homo-coupling of phenylboronic acid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]