Preface

<正>The past decade has witnessed the significantly increasing impact of the Chinese chemical community worldwide and the Chinese chemists are playing an irreplaceable important role.This is reflected by not only the increased number but also the improved quality of scientific publications.Some top level original works have opened new fields     

Preface

<正>Science generally proceeds based on a mutual interaction between theory and experiment:theory can explain experimental phenomena and propose general rules for the design of new experiments while experiment can verify theoretical predictions and discover new phenomena to improve theories.Yet,the progress of heterogeneous catalysis mainly relied on experimental advances for a long time.In its early days,heterogeneous catalysis was an empirically applied field,in which the tests of reactivity and selectivity for syn-