Preface to the Special Issue of the International Symposium on Single-Atom Catalysis (ISSAC-2016)

摘要

Catalysis is one of the most important chemical processes for production of goods and for environmental remediation.Almost 80% of chemical manufacturing involves eitherheterogeneous or homogeneous catalysts, mostly consisting of expensive noble metals. Designing highly active, selective and stable catalysts with most efficient use of rare and expensive metals becomes Grand Challenge of heterogeneous catalysis and is critical to the sustainable development of our planet.