In this presentation, we will discuss the surprising activity and selectivity of boron nitride materials for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. We will cover how coupled gas-phase and heterogeneous microkinetics can be used as an investigative rather than a predictive tool.

The construction of these microkinetic mechanisms requires accurate data. In the second part of this presentation, we will discuss the requirements for FAIR data and standardized testing, illustrate lessons learned in high-throughput electrocatalysis, and what benefits such approaches have for modelling of catalysis via descriptors obtained from data-scientific approaches in general.

There is strong evidence that electrical conductivity is a good descriptor for catalytic properties. In the final section of this talk, we will discuss how we can measure electrical conductivity under operando conditions, what are the challenges in these measurements, and discuss the instrumentation and computational frameworks that are being currently developed in our lab.