Catalyst-Agent: Autonomous heterogeneous catalyst screening with an LLM Agent
The discovery of catalysts for electrochemical applications such as the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR), and CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) remains a central challenge in chemistry and materials science. Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) and graph neural network models now accelerate individual adsorption-energy calculations by orders of magnitude relative to density functional theory. However, true large-scale screening is still blocked by human decisions: selecting candidates, constructing slabs, enumerating adsorption sites, interpreting descriptor failures, and choosing follow-up modifications. Here, we introduce Catalyst-Agent, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server-based, LLM-powered agent that autonomously coordinates closed-loop catalyst screening. Catalyst-Agent searches materials databases through OPTIMADE, constructs slabs, computes adsorption energies using Meta FAIRchem's UMA MLIP within AdsorbML, evaluates reaction-specific descriptors, and applies structural modifications to refine near-miss candidates. In ORR, NRR, and CO2RR campaigns, Catalyst-Agent demonstrates high performance and converges in 1.40-3.41 trials per successful material on average. It identified Sn3Sc, Sn3Y, Tl3La, Pb3Y and In3Y as CO2RR candidates for further validation that were not previously reported in the literature. DFT single-point checks confirmed screening outcomes for representative NRR and CO2RR candidates. Ablations show these gains arise from chemically informed candidate selection and feedback-directed modification rather than brute-force evaluation: fully randomized screening dropped to 13.3%, 16.7%, and 0% success for ORR, NRR, and CO2RR, respectively. These results show that tool-grounded LLM agents can shift catalyst screening from manual trial-and-error toward more autonomous, reproducible and adaptive workflows.
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