Catalysis is a core area of contemporary science posing major fundamental and conceptual challenges, while being at the heart of the chemical industry - an immensely successful and important part of the overall global economy. In the context of Global Challenges, a new generation of catalytic processes and advanced catalytic materials are needed to achieve net zero emissions and fight global warming. This research topic inaugurates our new section of
Catalytic Reactions and Chemistry by celebrating the success of catalytic technologies as essential enablers to pursue the transition towards sustainable societies.
The spirit of this research topic is to showcase successful stories in the field of catalysis as cornerstone to drive social well-being. Being one of the most interdisciplinary fields, catalysis plays a critical role in environmental protection and industrial development. Nowadays, due to the consecration of highly-qualified researchers, in addition to the strong collaboration, industry-academy catalysis represents a central technology to achieve the transition towards a low-carbon future.
With the aim of increasing the visibility and outreach of these novel research ideas in catalysis, the
Frontiers in Chemistry journal is delighted to present this very special Research Topic: Catalytic Materials and Processes for a Low-Carbon Future, displaying articles of several research groups working in diverse catalytic areas like homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, sustainability processes and energy applications, reactor engineering, and computational modelling.
Hopefully, the contributions to this research topic inspire new approaches to combat global warming, paving the way towards a modern sustainable society.
We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini-Review and Perspective articles on themes including, but not limited to:
• Catalysts design, synthesis, characterisation and optimisation
• Homogenous catalysis
• Heterogeneous catalysis
• Catalysis for sustainability
• Catalysis for energy applications
• Catalytic reactors and reactor Engineering
• Computational catalysis
• Catalysis for environmental applications
• CO
2 capture and CO
2 conversion processes
• CO
2 valorisation
