New Directions in Catalysis Science and Technology

该奖项由该司特别项目办公室颁发， 化学提供资金，部分支持一项研究， 委员会化学科学和技术委员会 自然科学，数学和国家资源 科学院将确定研究前沿， 催化科学与技术 近年来，美国 在催化科学和技术的领导地位， 越来越多的日本和西方研究人员的挑战 欧洲 在此期间， 在美国科学家和工程师中， 催化作用正变得越来越不及时和有趣。 人们普遍 承认，美国在这方面的努力的规模和力度， 催化研究还没有达到有效满足 未来的国家需求和国际挑战。 BCST 认为，科学基础的进一步发展， 催化作用很强，一份高知名度的报告提供了一个 对研究前沿进行实质性讨论， 关注该领域的新方向，并作为 一个广泛的国家有前途的研究领域的简要指南 观众 该项目由人口司联合支助， 化学和化学与热系统司 NSF，美国陆军研究办公室，美国能源部， 和其他来源，将汇集一些八个杰出的 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， 固体物理学和材料科学社区， 吸收这些信息，并起草一份40页的报告， 广泛宣传并分发给学术界和工业界 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.