Carbon-based Metal-free Catalysis: An Emerging Field with Great Potential

催化是一个重要的领域，贵金属催化剂在可再生能源技术、化学和环境过程中起着关键作用。然而，贵金属的稀缺性和高成本造成了可持续性问题。自从这位获奖申请者发现了第一个用于能源的无金属碳催化剂以来，基于碳的无金属催化迅速成为一个有前途的新兴领域，但许多科学问题仍未解决。在该计划中，将开发创新的方法来生产前所未有的催化活性中心，这些中心具有可控的位置和结构，以便从机理上理解，以使未来在无金属催化和具有广泛应用范围的广泛技术方面取得突破。

Catalysis is a major field and noble metal catalysts play a key role in renewable energy technologies, chemical and environmental processes. However, the scarcity and high cost of noble metals have caused sustainability problems. Since this Laureate applicant discovered the first metal-free carbon catalyst for energy, carbon-based metal-free catalysis rapidly became a promising emerging field, but many scientific questions remain unsolved. In this program, innovative approaches will be developed to produce never-before-realized catalytic active centres of a controlled location and structure for mechanistic understanding to enable future breakthroughs in metal-free catalysis and a broad range of technology with far ranging applications.