More than 100 years ago, Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Rudyard Kipling, wrote his poem “Cold Iron” with the following refrain: “But Iron - Cold Iron - is master of them all”. Indeed, iron appears in many facets of our lives and has claimed an irreplaceable position. After years of waning interest, more and more scientists are rediscovering iron and finding themselves amazed by its properties. A century later, the refrain of Kipling has not changed except for one word—currently iron is not cold but, rather, a hot research topic in catalysis.

There has been a resurgence of research into iron-containing materials due to their exciting properties, making them ideal for a wide range of applications. A vast number of products can be generated, including hydrogen, plastics, alcohols, pharmaceuticals, feed-stock chemicals, and other materials. Iron-based catalysts or materials can be/have been employed either industrially or at the research level for several processes:

• Reforming reactions for syngas production;
• Catalytic oxidation;
• Water–gas shift reaction;
• Alkane dehydrogenation reactions (oxidative or not);
• CO₂ utilization processes;
• The Fischer–Tropsch process.

This Special Issue of Catalysis will be a collaborative effort to combine current catalysis research on iron, including experimental and theoretical perspectives on both heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysts. We welcome contributions from the catalysis community on catalyst characterization, kinetics, reaction mechanism, reactor development, theoretical modeling, and surface science.

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Galvita
Dr. Stavros Theofanidis
Guest Editors

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• Reforming reactions for syngas production
• Catalytic oxidation
• Water–gas shift reaction
• Alkane dehydrogenation reactions (oxidative or not)
• CO2 utilization processes
• Fischer–Tropsch process