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Nature Materials 5, 847 - 848 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nmat1767

Computational methods: A search engine for catalysts

Manos Mavrikakis1

  1. Manos Mavrikakis is in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. e-mail: manos@engr.wisc.edu


Trial and error has been the traditional method of finding the best catalyst for a reaction. A computational approach can reduce the lab work required.

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