Abstract: Catalysis and surface/interface chemistry is one of the key basic disciplines supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), which plays significant roles on promoting fundamental research and accelerating discipline development. To improve further catalysis and surface/interface chemistry as well as enhance its influence the economic construction, the Department of Chemical Sciences of NSFC held a seminar on the frontier and development strategy of catalysis and surface/interface chemistry in Dalian at the end of October, 2018. The seminar focused on the research frontier, status and developing bottleneck of catalysis and surface/interface chemistry. Moreover, the subjects about talent training and discipline integration were discussed systematically, and the encouraged research frontier topics in the future were proposed.

Key words: catalysis and surface/interface chemistry, research status, research frontier, research directions, development strategy