Catalyst discovery through AI agent collaboration
Cheng Wang
Nature Water, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s44221-026-00637-6 Catalytic technologies play a pivotal role in wastewater treatment, yet identifying high-performance catalysts through conventional approaches remains challenging. A multi-agent artificial intelligence system has been developed to enable application-oriented catalyst discovery by coordinating tasks typically distributed among human experts.