The word 'catalysts' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to people or things that cause a process or event to happen more quickly. For example, you could say, "The new technology was a catalyst for change in the industry."
The company - which specialises in catalysts to control car emissions, as well as platinum refining - said half year profits climbed 13% to £212.9m.
Organisations such as the modern Olympics, Unesco World Heritage Centre and European Capitals of Culture, all of them founded to promote ideals like friendship among nations and preservation of nature and culture, were soon seen as catalysts of economic growth for cities.
The bank said: We believe two key potential catalysts are not fully priced in: 1) access to China via partner MediaTek presents a play on low-end emerging market smartphone growth; 2) potential design win in the Samsung Galaxy S4 could drive upside.
In other words, if domestic mining of the five gateway metals were curtailed for economic or environmental reasons, the knock-on effect would disrupt the supply of strategic materials needed for clean energy, super-alloys, catalysts, semiconductors, health-care products and flat-panel displays.
A shortage of these could stifle the development of better catalysts for biofuels, lightweight alloys for cars and planes, and synthetic membranes that replicate photosynthesis.This diversity of demand inevitably means some materials have to come from abroad.
It uses viruses to produce templates for materials that work as catalysts to stimulate novel chemical reactions.
So the data cannot shed light on whether institutional investors have been the catalysts of change or merely innocent bystanders, responding to changes that have already happened.A new study* by three economists overcomes this problem by mining a rich but hitherto neglected seam of data.
Two different catalysts are required: one to split water into hydrogen and oxygen; another to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into hydrocarbons.
When the oil price fell, food shortages and fury at the privileges of the elite became catalysts for change.Russia's economy is more flexible than the Soviet one was, but frustration with the unfairness of the system is no less strong.
Nor is a biocatalyst always the best available technology: competing chemical technology must always be evaluated alongside it.Screening (ie, distinguishing useful catalysts from uninteresting ones, or the best of a good crop) is a critical part of discovery.
The club is currently building a separate sports centre, which can be used by local people.Clubs are keen to promote stadiums as "catalysts for regeneration".
