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If that holds, it could shorten the search for better catalysts.","findings":["GNNs are reviewed for accelerating material screening, performance prediction, reaction pathway analysis and mechanism modelling.","The review highlights databases important for catalysis research and applications in thermo-, electro-, photo- and biocatalysis.","It proposes future directions: dynamic frameworks for real-time conditions, hierarchical models, multi-task networks and interpretability mechanisms."],"terms":[{"term":"graph convolution","means":"A way for a neural network to learn from a molecule drawn as a graph of atoms (nodes) and bonds (links) by combining information from each atom's neighbours."},{"term":"symmetry constraints","means":"Rules built into a model so its predictions stay the same when a structure is rotated, moved or has identical atoms swapped, as physical laws require."},{"term":"generative models","means":"AI models that propose new candidates, here new catalyst structures, rather than only predicting properties of existing ones."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"crossref","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-18T04:00:53.576Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-18T04:00:53.576Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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