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Catalyzing sustainability in the Asia-Pacific

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The tenth Asia-Pacific Congress on Catalysis and fourth International Symposium on Single-Atom Catalysis convened more than 1,000 global participants in Singapore, spotlighting atomic-scale design, electrified processes and cross-disciplinary innovations for sustainable fuels, chemicals and materials.

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APCAT-10 was co-chaired by W. Liu (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore) and ISSAC-4 was co-chaired by T. Zhang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, China) and J. Pérez-Ramirez (ETH Zürich, Switzerland). The local organizing committee comprised L. Chen (Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), A*STAR, Singapore), T. S. Choksi (NTU, Singapore), Q. He (National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore), Z. Judeh (NTU, Singapore), Z. Li (NUS, Singapore), Y. Liu (ISCE2, A*STAR, Singapore), K. Zhou (Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), Singapore), J. Zhang (Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR, Singapore), L. Zhang (ISCE2, A*STAR, Singapore), Y. Zhang (ISCE2, A*STAR, Singapore) and B. S. J. Yeo (NUS, Singapore). Symposium chairs at APCAT-10 were Y. Cao (Nanjing Agricultural University, China), L. Chen (ISCE2, A*STAR, Singapore), T. S. Choksi (NTU, Singapore), S. Ding (Beijing Forestry University, China), F. Fan (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, China), N. Govindarajan (NTU, Singapore), C. He (Tampere University, Finland), Q. He (NUS, Singapore), Y. H. Lim (ISCE2, A*STAR, Singapore), J. Lim (Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore), F. Liu (University of California, Riverside, USA), Y. Liu (ISCE2, A*STAR, Singapore), J. Lu (NUS, Singapore), Y. Lum (NUS, Singapore), H. Li (NTU, Singapore), T. Li (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany), Z. Li (NUS, Singapore), M. Tan (ISCE2, A*STAR, Singapore), P. Ou (NUS, Singapore), S. Kozlov (NUS, Singapore), W. Shan (Institute of Urban Environment, CAS, China), B. Wang (University of Oklahoma, USA), L. Wang (NUS, Singapore), A. Wong (NUS, Singapore), D. Wu (NTU, Singapore), S. Xi (ISCE2, A*STAR, Singapore), Z. Xu (NTU, Singapore), R. Xu (NTU, Singapore), Y. Yan (Ganjiang Innovation Academy, CAS, China), Y. Yao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China), I. Yu (NUS, Singapore), G. Zhan (Huaqiao University, China), L. Zhang (ISCE2, A*STAR, Singapore), J. Zhang (IHPC, A*STAR, Singapore) and K. Zhou (SIT, Singapore). I also thank J. Chang (NUS, Singapore) and K. Saradima (NUS, Singapore) for their support in the preparation of the meeting report.

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Yan, N. Catalyzing sustainability in the Asia-Pacific. Nat Chem Eng 2, 733–735 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44286-025-00320-9

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