VICAR: Volcanoes In Catalysis Avoided by Resonance.

非均相（固体）催化剂是化学制造的核心，用于所有化学工业过程的80-90%，产生1.5万亿美元的全球销售额；仅在英国，商品化学品的年营业额就高达184亿英镑。催化加速反应目前为我们提供了几乎所有最宝贵的资源，包括燃料、肥料、药品和清洁产品、基本化学品、清洁空气和聚合物，以及用于环境修复。传统上，这些反应受到所谓的“Sabatier极限”的限制，但在这个项目中，我们的目标是首次验证最近的提议（2019/2020），即通过展示使用外部动态刺激来加速催化反应，使其超过这些常规极限。理论上提出了催化速率的数量级共振增强，但没有实验验证。我们建议使用现有的催化剂促进效果类型，可以“打开/关闭”来创造所需的动态刺激。证明这种催化作用将对设计许多催化过程（不仅仅是当前项目中作为原型选择的那些）具有深远的意义，并有助于科学家和技术人员开发更具活性和选择性的催化剂。

Heterogeneous (solid) catalysts are core to chemical manufacturing, used in 80-90% of all chemical-based industrial processes and generating global sales of $1.5 trillion; commodity chemicals in the UK alone turnover £18.4bn per annum. Catalytic acceleration of reactions currently provides access to almost all our most precious resources, including fuel, fertilizer, medicines and cleaning products, basic chemicals, clean air, and polymers, as well as being used for environmental remediation. Conventionally these reactions are limited by the so called "Sabatier limit" - however in this project we aim to validate for the first time the recent proposal (2019/2020) that it is possible to accelerate catalytic reactions beyond these conventional limits by demonstrating the use of external dynamic stimulation. Order-of-magnitude resonant enhancement of catalytic rate has been proposed theoretically, but not experimentally validated. We propose to use types of existing catalyst promotion effects that can be "swtiched on/off" to create the required dynamic stimulation for the first time. Demonstrating this catalysis effect would have far-reaching implications for designing many catalytic processes (not just those selected as prototypes in the current project) and aid scientists and technologists in developing more active and selective catalysts.