Designing chemical catalysts: There’s an app for that
Designing chemical catalysts: Theres an app for that - A big reason for publishing scientific results is to inform others who can then use your data and conclusions to make additional discoveries, technologies or products. But what good are findings if they are, well, hard to find—buried in tables in the pages of technical journals? Five scientists from the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University's Department of Chemical Engineering, have a solution for those who design new chemical catalysts: They made an app. Their creation, called CatApp, displays reaction and activation energies for reactions occurring on catalytic metal surfaces. These factors are important in predicting how fast and completely a catalyzed reaction will proceed.
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