3: Current Challenges in Catalysis

As catalysis spans a wide range and involves many disciplines, this chapter does not aim to line out all current challenges. Many of those challenges are related to environmental issues and the urgent need for more sustainable production methods, next to important persisting fundamental questions. We want to create the mindset that is needed to tackle those challenges and give examples of recent developments. A common feature is the integration of knowledge and disciplines that goes along with vanishing disciplinary boundaries that, anyway, only exist in our heads.