January 19, 2012 A big reason for publishing scientific results is to inform others who can then use your data and conclusions to make additional discoveries, technologies or products. But what good are findings if they are, well, hard to find – buried in tables in the pages of technical journals?Five scientists from the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford's Department of Chemical Engineering, have a solution for those who design new chemical catalysts: They made an app. Full story Jens S. Hummelshøj, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Felix Studt, Thomas Bligaard, Jens K. Nørskov Publications: CatApp: A Web Application for Surface Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis Research Areas: Analytical applications, Dimensional data warehouse, Theoretical method development, Catalysis informatics Press