1 Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis for Sustainability, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia. thomas.maschmeyer@sydney.edu.au.
Herein, we report the first successful encapsulation of metal nanoparticles within a Type I porous liquid. We found that the presence of thiol groups was critical to both the encapsulation and the stabilisation of the metal nanoparticles.