New Directions in Catalysis Science and Technology

美国国家科学院物理科学、数学和资源委员会化学科学与技术委员会（BCST）的一项研究将确定催化科学与技术的研究前沿，该奖由化学学部特别项目办公室提供资金，用于部分支持该研究。近年来，美国在催化科学和技术方面的领导地位日益受到日本和西欧研究人员的挑战。在此期间，美国科学家和工程师越来越多地认识到，催化方面的研究机会正在变得不那么及时和有趣。人们普遍认为，美国在催化研究方面的总体努力的规模和活力尚未达到有效满足未来国家需求和国际挑战所需的水平。BCST认为，进一步发展催化的科学基础是强大的，一份对研究前沿进行实质性讨论的高可见度报告可以大大有助于将注意力集中在该领域的新方向上，并为广泛的全国受众提供关于有前途的研究领域的简要指南。该项目由美国国家科学基金会化学部、化学和热系统部、美国陆军研究办公室、美国能源部和其他部门联合支持，将汇集大约8位杰出的学术和工业研究人员，从化学、生物化学、化学工程、分子生物学、化学和化学等领域汲取意见。固体物理学和材料科学界吸收了这些输入，并制作了一份40页的报告，该报告将被广泛宣传并分发给学术和工业研究人员。

This award from the Office of Special Projects of the Division of Chemistry provides funds for the partial support of a study by the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (BCST) of the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources of the National Academy of Sciences that will identify research frontiers in catalysis science and technology. In recent years, United States leadership in the catalysis science and technology has been increasingly challenged by researchers in Japan and Western Europe. During this period, there has been a growing perception among U.S. scientists and engineers that research opportunities in catalysis are becoming less timely and interesting. It is widely acknowledged that the size and vigor of the general U.S. effort in catalysis research is not at the level needed to effectively meet future national needs and international challenges. The BCST believes that the scientific basis for further advances in catalysis is strong, and that a high-visibility report offering a substantive discussion of research frontiers could do much to focus attention on new directions in the field and to serve as a brief guide to promising research areas for a broad national audience. This project, which is jointly supported by the Division of Chemistry and the Division of Chemical and Thermal Systems of the NSF, the U.S. Army Research Office, the U.S. Department of Energy, and other sources, will bring together some eight distinguished academic and industrial researchers to draw input from the chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, molecular biology, solid state physics, and materials science communities, assimilate that input, and craft a forty-page report that will be widely publicized and distributed to academic and industrial researchers.