The strength of metal-support bonding in heterogeneous catalysts determines their thermal stability, therefore, a tremendous amount of effort has been expended to understand metal-support interactions. Herein, we report the discovery of an anomalous "strong metal-support bonding" between gold nanoparticles and "nano-engineered" FeO substrates by in situ microscopy. During in situ vacuum annealing of Au-FeO dumbbell-like nanoparticles, synthesized by the epitaxial growth of nano-FeO on Au nanoparticles, the gold nanoparticles transform into the gold thin films and wet the surface of nano-FeO, as the surface reduction of nano-FeO proceeds. This phenomenon results from a unique coupling of the size-and shape-dependent high surface reducibility of nano-FeO and the extremely strong adhesion between Au and the reduced FeO. This strong metal-support bonding reveals the significance of controlling the metal oxide support size and morphology for optimizing metal-support bonding and ultimately for the development of improved catalysts and functional nanostructures.
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