Technical support

催化是当代科学的核心领域，提出了重大的基础和概念挑战，同时也是化学工业的核心-这是整个英国经济中非常成功和重要的一部分（每年产生超过500亿英镑）。英国催化科学目前具有强大的影响力，但学术和工业领域的竞争激烈，英国工业活动需要转向新的创新领域，为未来带来重大挑战。鉴于这些挑战，催化科学中心努力成为国内和国际上该领域的领先机构，并协调，促进和推动英国催化研究组合。该中心位于RAL校园内，这将使我们能够与中心设施密切合作，该项目也将促进其发展，并与更广泛的科学界互动并为之做出贡献。近年来，在催化材料的原位表征方面取得了重大进展，这对于解决催化科学所带来的复杂科学问题具有极其重要的意义。因此，中心将在开展催化科学的广泛研究计划时，开发最先进的原位设施，用于在钻石、同步加速器辐射、ISIS中子散射和中央激光设施。这些实验将使我们能够在分子水平上探测催化剂在其操作过程中的结构和演变;但是它们的有效性将需要在线研究与综合体中的离线实验相结合，催化科学中心的主要研究领域是可持续催化剂技术，有机转化、替代燃料的催化以及环境保护中的催化。催化科学中心将建立合作研究计划，以解决这些重大主题，并利用该联盟在催化剂设计，测试和表征方面无与伦比的集体专业知识。此外，该中心将能够通过与ISIS和Diamond的科学家密切合作，有效利用RAL校园内世界领先的设施，从而取得实质性进展。

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 UK economy (generating in excess of £50 billion per annum). UK catalytic science currently has a strong presence, but there is intense competition in both academic and industrial sectors, and a need for UK industrial activity to shift towards new innovative areas posing major challenges for the future. In light of these challenges the Centre for Catalytic Science endeavours to become a leading institution, both nationally and internationally, in the field and acts to coordinate, promote and advance the UK catalysis research portfolio. The Centre is located on the RAL campus which will allow us both to work closely with the central facilities, to whose development the project will also contribute, and to interact with and contribute to the broader scientific community. The major developments in the in situ characterisation of catalytic materials that have taken place in the recent years have been of immense importance in addressing the complex scientific problems posed by catalytic science The Centre will therefore in pursuing a wide ranging programme of research in catalytic science, develop state-of-the art in situ facilities that will be used for experiments to be conducted at the Diamond, Synchrotron Radiation, ISIS Neutron Scattering and Central Laser Facilities. Such experiments will allow us to probe the structure and evolution of catalysts at the molecular level during their operation; but their effectiveness will require the on-line studies to be integrated with off line experimentation in the Complex, within which we will establish a broad range of experimental facilities.The research areas that have been outlined as major themes within the Centre for Catalytic Science are sustainable catalyst technologies for organic transformations, catalysis for alternative fuels, and catalysis in the protection of the environment. The Centre for Catalytic Science will set-up collaborative research programmes to tackle these major themes and exploit the unrivalled collective expertise the consortium has in catalyst design, testing and characterisation. Moreover, the Centre will be able to make substantial advances by working closely with scientists from ISIS and Diamond to effectively utilise the world-leading facilities present on the RAL campus.