Catalytic oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) is of great importance in many different fields of industry. Until now it still remains challenging to use non-noble metal based catalysts to oxidize CO at low temperature. Herein, we report a new class of nanoporous, uniform, and transition metal-doped cerium (IV) oxide (ceria, CeO2) microsphere for CO oxidation catalysis. The porous and uniform micr...

David Andersson et al. report calculations revealing how doped oxides with cubic fluorite structures become effective ionic conductors. Cubic fluorite structures, such as ceria (CeO2), can become effective ionic conductors when doped with cations of lesser valence than the host cations. Doped ceria thus has potential as an electrolyte for environmentally friendly solid oxide fuel cells. Anderss...

This review article summarizes the contents of the keynote lecture with the same tittle presented at the 7 th edition of the International Conference on Environmental Catalysis hold in Lyon (France) in September 2012. Different aspects of the ceria-catalyzed Diesel soot combustion reactions have been critically discussed, such as the high catalytic activity of ceria for Diesel soot combustion i...

Particulate matter and NO x emissions from diesel exhaust remains one of the most pressing environmental problems. We explore the use of hierarchically ordered mixed Fe-Ce-Zr oxides for the simultaneous capture and oxidation of soot and reduction of NO x by ammonia in a single step. The optimized material can effectively trap the model soot particles in its open macroporous structure and oxidiz...

Nanostructured doped ceria is a prospective material for catalytic applications such as the construction of membranes with mixed electronic and ionic conductivity for effective syngas production. In this article, the surface properties of nanostructured ceria doped with praseodymium have been studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, secondary ion mass spectrometry, and Fourier transform inf...

The surface exchange and bulk transport of oxygen are highly relevant to ceria-based redox materials, which envisaged for the solar thermochemical splitting carbon dioxide in future. Experimental investigations isotope on CeO2-δ, Ce0.9M3+0.1O1.95-δ (with M3+ = Y, Sm) Ce0.9M4+0.1O2-δ M4+ Zr) samples were carried out first time utilizing oxygen-isotope-enriched C18O2 gas atmospheres as tracer sou...

The catalytic activity of nanocrystalline doped ceria and Cuand Ag-modified ceria for the complete oxidation of methane was studied in this work. The catalyst structure was studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and related to the availability of low-temperature oxygen species. Selected samples were also analyzed by STEM/EDX, HRTEM, and XPS. Temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) by H2 and CH4, as ...

The grain coarsening in dense nanocrystalline gadolinia-doped ceria (CGO) and CeO2 was studied for the grain size regime from 10 to 250 nm. Dense ceria-based thin films were prepared by spray pyrolysis and pulsed laser deposition on sapphire substrates. The small grain-sized CGO and CeO2 microstructures were surprisingly stable and showed self-limited grain growth and relaxation of the microstr...

We have studied the electronic states in three different ceria thin film surfaces prepared on a Cu(111) single-crystal surface by vapor deposition at different conditions: at 250 °C, at room temperature and finally Au-doped ceria film obtained by simultaneous deposition of Au and CeO2 at room temperature (RT). Electronic properties of the layers and interaction of gold with CeO2 were investigat...

As the pursuit towards emissions reduction intensifies with growing interest and nascent technologies, solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) remain an illustrious candidate for achieving our goals. Despite myriad advantages, SOFCs are still too costly for widespread deployment, even as unprecedented materials developments have recently emerged. This suggests that, in addition to informed materials sel...