eng Science and Education Publishing World Journal of Chemical Education 2375-1657 2018-01-27 6 1 72 77 10.12691/wjce-6-1-11 WJCE20186111 article Elena von Hoff 1 Stefanie Waitz 1 Felix Kollenda 1 Thomas Waitz twaitz@gwdg.de 1 Department of Chemistry Education, Georg-August-University G?ttingen, Germany Within this article we present the synthesis of coin metal nanoparticles and nanoporous surfaces by cathodic corrosion as school experiments. We further present two experiments utilizing the obtained materials as catalysts; the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide and the platinum catalyzed chemiluminescence of lucigenin. http://pubs.sciepub.com/wjce/6/1/11/wjce-6-1-11.pdf nanomaterials catalysis school chemistry