10th Anniversary of Catalysts: Achievements in Computational Catalysis Techniques and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

 In 2021, Catalysts will reach a significant milestone in its history by welcoming its tenth anniversary. In order to celebrate this special occasion, we will be launching a Special Issue in the Computational Catalysis subsection entitled “10th Anniversary of Catalysts: Achievements in Computational Catalysis Techniques and Applications.” We will be editing a Special Issue of comprehensive reviews and particularly impactful original articles. Computational catalysis has emerged as one of the fastest growing research fields in the last decade, and it now represents a critical tool for the analysis of chemical mechanisms and active sites. As the field of computational catalysis continues to expand, the gap between models and reality is beginning to narrow. We are particularly interested in articles that investigate the secondary effects influencing catalysis and reaction mechanisms. This includes the role of structural defects, the solvation environment or neighbor-neighbor effects, deactivation events, and work that incorporates system features encountered at finite temperatures. Furthermore, we are interested in new techniques and applications that enable extended time scale analyses, as well as high throughput screening techniques that involve machine learning or descriptor-based protocols.

We would like to thank all our Editorial Board Members, Editors, Reviewers, and Authors for their great contributions and continuous support over the last decade. Please help us to celebrate our 10^th Anniversary and participate by submitting your work to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. C. Heath Turner
Prof. Dr. Tibor Szilvási
Prof. Dr. Wei An
Prof. Dr. Yaqiong Su
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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