and the pressure is on the order of ambient atmosphere to several atmospheres for optimum oxide oxide bonds the carrier material 314 is chosen to correspond to the material of which the support 365 a or 3658 is comprised by way of example if the carrier material 314 is alumina then the support 365 a or 364 b preferably comprises alumina although dissimilar oxides are also contemplated due to the physical and chemical bond between the supports 365 a and 365 b and the nanoparticles 400 islands of nanoparticles that are bonded fixed or otherwise pinned to the surfaces of the supports 365 a or 365 b will not migrate and coalesce during catalytic conversion the surface area for catalysis remains high and therefore the catalytic activity remains high in effect operations such as fine chemical plants and oil refineries will not be required to stop operations and swap out ineffective catalyst supports with fresh catalyst supports with the same frequency as existing processes thereby increasing throughput at the plants and refineries and reducing their overall cost of operation nanopowder with composition 3 4 w w platinum and balance aluminum oxide was produced according to the process of fig3 a vial was charged with 0 5 g of coatex dv 250 coatex 0 1 g of tris hydroxymethyl aminomethane aldrich and 8 9 g of deionized water and shaken to form a solution to this solution was added 0 5 g of the aforementioned nanopowder this mixture was sonicated for 30 min using a sonicator 3000 misonix equipped with.