1. Deposition-reduction / Catherine Louis -- 2. Immobilization of preformed gold nanoparticles / Carine E. Chan-Thaw, Alberto Villa, and Laura Prati -- 3. Solvated metal atoms in the preparation of supported gold catalysts / Claudio Evangelisti, Eleonora Schiavi, Laura Antonella Aronica, Rinaldo Psaro, Antonella Balerna, and Gianmario Martra -- 4. Microgels as exotemplates in the preparation of Au nanoclusters / Andrea Biffis and Paolo Centomo -- 5. Miscellaneous / Carine E. Chan-Thaw, Laura Prati, and Alberto Villa -- 6. Transmission electron microscopy on Au-based catalysts / Di Wang -- 7. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy characterization of gold catalysts / Gabriel M. Veith -- 8. FTIR techniques for the characterization of Au(-ceria)-based catalysts / Maela Manzoli and Floriana Vindigni -- 9. Determination of dispersion of gold-based catalysts by selective chemisorption / Michela Signoretto, Federica Menegazzo, Valentina Trevisan, and Francesco Pinna -- 10. New findings in CO oxidation / Yoshiro Shimojo and Masatake Haruta -- 11. The role of gold catalysts in C-H bond activation for the selective oxidation of saturated hydrocarbons / Sarwat Iqbal, Gemma L. Brett, and Graham J. Hutchings -- 12. Liquid-phase oxidation using Au-based catalysts / Nikolaos Dimitratos, Ceri Hammond, and Peter P. Wells -- 13. Supported gold nanoparticles as heterogeneous catalysts for C-C coupling reactions / Ana Primo and Hermenegildo Garci?a -- 14. Toward chemoselectivity : the case of supported Au for hydrogen-mediated reactions / Fernando C rdenas-Lizana and Mark A. Keane -- 15. Homogenous gold catalysis / David Zahner, Matthias Rudolph, and A. Stephen K. Hashmi.