Catalysis informatics-desire of researchers developing solid-state catalysts

Abstract

Development of solid-state catalysts has been highly difficult and needed long period researches because the catalysts are intrinsically complicated materials. Development of next solid-state catalysts for demanded but undeveloped catalytic reactions will be even more difficult because necessary catalysts will be more complex in terms of functionality as well as constituent number. One of the most important methodology for solving this situation should be catalysis informatics. For accelerating the catalysis informatics, a few practical examples of solid-state catalyst development will be introduced.