The phrase "function as a catalyst" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing something that facilitates or accelerates a process or change.
Example: "The new policy is expected to function as a catalyst for innovation within the organization."
Alternatives: "act as a catalyst" or "serve as a catalyst."
Rugoff, who is staging the Deller show and an exhibition of the wry sketches of David Shrigley, is clear that art should not be regarded as "a nice sedative we can take together … What it can do, though, is function as a catalyst and bring people together.
Therefore, nanoparticles can function as a catalyst and an energy carrier, as well.
Emotion reappraisal can function as a catalyst for well-being when the situation goes against one's wishes (Gross & John, 2003).
Thanks to its ability to function as a catalyst, the wave will arrive sooner rather than later.
The role of rights is primarily the enhancement of capabilities, and rights function as a catalyst for integration efforts.
Policies of multiculturalism are therefore assumed to function as a catalyst to achieve integration by enabling a positive dynamic between individual migrants and the receiving society (Fig. 3).
"He is functioning as a catalyst to embrace the development of technology in the state," said the association president, George Scalise.
Phosphomolybdic acid (PMA, H3PMo12O40) functioned as a catalyst for reactions of secondary propargylic alcohols and nucleophiles.
In this introduction to the special issue, we describe how the EvoS Consortium functions as a catalyst in a matter-of-fact sense.
FT-IR confirmed that water molecules are present in donepezil HCl, which functioned as a catalyst (Bertuzzi, 2009) to induce premature effervescence during compounding and accelerated storage.
When both colliding micelles contain particles, the reaction occurs in the micelle containing the larger particle, which has a larger surface, and so increasing the probability of it functioning as a catalyst.
