title: Heterogeneous catalysis.
abstract: A heterogeneous catalyst is a functional material that continually creates active sites with its reactants under reaction conditions. These sites change the rates of chemical reactions of the reactants localized on them without changing the thermodynamic equilibrium between the materials.
authors.affiliation: Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin (Germany) http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de http://www.cec.mpg.de; Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim a.d. Ruhr (Germany). acsek@fhi-berlin.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schlögl
keywords: heterogeneous catalysis; reaction kinetics; surface chemistry