metal NPs have relatively high surface energy, and thus easily agglomerate and oxidize. [10] This can lead to unexpected performance losses in practical applications. In addition, bare metal NPs are limited in complex functions, such as modulated carrier transport, enhanced molecular capture, and strong charge separation. In comparison, functional material-wrapped metal NPs have promising reductions in aggregation and can offer more complex functions. [11][12][13][14][15] Among these wrapped metal NPs, microporous shell-[such as silica, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)] coated systems have abundant micropores and a large specific surface area. They have great potential applications in molecular catalysis and gas sensing. [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] For example, a recent work reported by He, et al. shows that the MOF-5 wrapped Au NPs have a strong enrichment effect of CO 2 gas, thus enabling the detection of CO 2 gas via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) effect of the Au core. [22] To date, the microporous materials wrapped on a plasmonic metal NPs mainly include MOFs and microporous silica. Microporous silica has only the value as a carrier, stabilizer (for anti-agglomeration or anti-oxidization), and linking ligand. Therefore, microporous-silica-wrapped metal NPs are difficult to offer complex functions (such as strong gas-solid interaction). In contrast, MOF-wrapped metal NPs can likely achieve more functions due to their relatively high chemical activity and other properties. [18][19][20][21][22] However, most MOFs have wide band gaps and are insulators, thus, it is difficult to achieve applications in carrier transport (such as photoelectric conversion and conductometric gas sensing). In addition, the MOF micropores are easily destroyed by acidic gases and even water vapor due to their relatively low structural stability, thus resulting in dramatic performance declines in practical applications.Microporous metal oxides such as titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ), tin oxide (SnO 2 ), and cerium oxide (CeO 2 ) [24][25][26][27] have good chemical stability, strong interactions with many kinds of gas molecules, and tunable carrier transport properties. Therefore, the microporous metal-oxide-wrapped plasmonic metal NPs are This work proposes a novel and simple synthesis method for microporous-ceria-wrapped gold (Au@mp-CeO 2 ) nanoparticles (NPs) based on linker molecule-induced stacking of ultrafine CeO 2 particles (or beads) on the surface of pre-prepared gold NPs. The resulting NPs have a uniform size and microporous CeO 2 shells with a mean thickness of 28 nm and porosity of 42%. The shell is highly tunable from about 4 to 30 nm thick.