title: Fundamental insights into interfacial catalysis.
abstract: Surface and interfacial catalysis plays a vital role in chemical industries, electrochemistry and photochemical reactions. The challenges of modern chemistry are to optimize the chemical reaction processes and understand the detailed mechanism of chemical reactions. Since the early 1960s, the foundation of surface science systems has allowed the study of surface and interfacial phenomena on atomic/molecular level, and thus brought a number of significant developments to fundamental and technological processes, such as catalysis, material science and biochemistry, just to name a few. This themed issue describes the recent advances and developments in the fundamental understanding of surface and interfacial catalysis, encompassing areas of knowledge from metal to metal oxide, carbide, graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and transition metal dichalcogenides under ultrahigh vacuum conditions, as well as under realistic reaction conditions.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin 300072, China. jlgong@tju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jinlong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, iChEM, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China. xhbao@dicp.ac.cn and Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Xinhe
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Bao