“…Furthermore, their large-scale application is hindered by a reduction in catalytic activity due to particle aggregation. To overcome these disadvantages, metal nanocomposite catalysts have been immobilized onto solid supports such as inorganic oxide [89,90,93,100,106,109,110], ion exchange resins [70,71,87], alumina [88,108], titania [11], polymer microspheres [78,91,[97][98][99], polystyrene [5,72,76,77,79,92,96,104,105], nanotubes [103], carbon spheres [101,102], and biomolecule beads [58]. Th ese supports must not take part in the catalytic mechanism, i.e., they must be inert.…”