Enzymes lower the activation energy necessary to transform a reactant into a product. On the left is a reaction that is not catalyzed by an enzyme (red), and on the right is one that is (green).

the activation energy is reduced. This makes more of the collisions successful at a given temperature. So a catalyst increases the rate of reaction by lowering the minimum energy required for ...

potentially leading to lower activation energy for oxide-ion conductivity. Based on this idea, the researchers first performed a computational screening of 475 Rb-containing oxides using bond ...