Catalysis-hub.org: An Open Electronic Structure Database for Surface Reactions

We present a new open repository for chemical reactions on catalytic surfaces, available at https://www.catalysis-hub.org. The featured Surface Reactions database contains more than 100,000 chemical adsorption and reaction energies obtained from electronic structure calculations, and is continuously being updated with new datasets. In addition to providing quantum-mechanical results for a broad range of reactions and surfaces from different publications, the database features a systematic, large-scale study of chemical adsorption and hydrogenation on bimetallic alloy surfaces. The database contains reaction specific information, such as the surface composition and reaction energy for each reaction, as well as the atomic surface geometries used in the calculations together with the calculation parameters and output, which are essential for data reproducibility. Data can be accessed from the web-interface as well as from a Python API providing direct access from a local workstation. This enables researchers to efficiently use the data as a basis for further calculations and to generate surrogate models for accelerating the discovery of catalytic materials for sustainable energy applications.