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Article

Solid-State Construction of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 Nanocomposite with Abundant Surface CuOx Species and Oxygen Vacancies to Promote CO Oxidation Activity

by
Baolin Liu
1,2,†,
Hao Wu
3,†,
Shihao Li
3,
Mengjiao Xu
2,
Yali Cao
2,* and
Yizhao Li
1,3,*
1
Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Huzhou 313001, China
2
State Key Laboratory of Chemistry and Utilization of Carbon Based Energy Resources, College of Chemistry, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
3
College of Chemical Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23(12), 6856; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijms23126856
Submission received: 21 May 2022 / Revised: 17 June 2022 / Accepted: 18 June 2022 / Published: 20 June 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanoparticle for Catalysis)
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Abstract

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Carbon monoxide (CO) oxidation performance heavily depends on the surface-active species and the oxygen vacancies of nanocomposites. Herein, the CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 were fabricated via solid-state strategy. It is manifested that the construction of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposite can produce abundant surface CuOx species and a number of oxygen vacancies, resulting in substantially enhanced CO oxidation activity. The CO is completely converted to carbon dioxide (CO2) at 75 °C when CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposites were involved, which is higher than individual CuOx, MnOx, and Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. Density function theory (DFT) calculations suggest that CO and O2 are adsorbed on CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 surface with relatively optimal adsorption energy, which is more beneficial for CO oxidation activity. This work presents an effective way to prepare heterogeneous metal oxides with promising application in catalysis.

1. Introduction

Transition metal oxide catalysts for eliminating carbon monoxide (CO) at lower temperatures have attracted enormous attention in the past decades for their inexpensive cost and wide applications in catalytic applications and environmental protection [1,2,3]. Many techniques, such as morphology control [4,5,6,7], engineering defects [8,9,10], and construction of composite oxides [11,12,13] have been developed to improve the CO oxidation performance of transition metal oxide catalysts. Particularly, heterogeneous metal oxides that have exhibited excellent performances in CO oxidation fields [14,15,16] are the most widely studied because of their interactions of components [17]. Previous works have gradually demonstrated that heterogeneous metal oxides with synergistic interactions between two components are crucial for promoting catalytic performances [12,18,19]. The catalytic activity of nanocomposites depends significantly on surface active species and oxygen vacancies [20]. Therefore, the manipulation of the surface-active species and the oxygen vacancies of nanocomposites by simple strategy to optimize their catalytic performance is of great importance to meet the application in practice.
In the past few decades, many transition metal oxide catalysts have been developed, mainly including CeO2 [13,21,22], MnO2 [23,24,25], Co3O4 [26,27,28], CuO [29,30,31], Fe2O3 [32,33,34] et al., Co3O4-CeO2−x [16,35], Cu-Mn [36], Ce-Cu [37,38], and Ce-Mn [39,40] composite oxides. Different active metals and carriers will result in different interactions between metals and carriers and different exposed active sites, thus making them have different reactivity for CO catalytic oxidation. Yu [16] synthesized the catalyst of Co3O4-CeO2 nanocomposite, which showed good catalytic activity due to its special hollow multishell structure and the interaction between the two components. Chen [41] constructed CuOx-CeO2 nanorods and explained the relationship between reduction treatment and catalytic activity, indicating that reduction treatment accelerates the generation of active sites. In our previous works, we fabricated a CuOx-CeO2 catalyst via the solid-state method [22], and investigated the influence of heating rate on catalytic performance. It was demonstrated that the heating rate can regulate the surface dispersion of CuOx on CeO2 surface, resulting in enhanced catalytic performance. Copper-manganese mixed oxide catalyst is a typical transition metal-based catalyst in the CO oxidation reaction, which is known for its high activity at high temperature and low cost [36,42]. However, current commercial copper–manganese catalysts exhibit relatively low catalytic activity at low temperatures for CO oxidation. Furthermore, specific deactivation frequently occurs during the catalytic process [43,44]. The catalytic performance of heterogeneous catalysts is closely associated with their synergistic interactions and oxygen vacancies. In addition, many controllable synthetic strategies, such as direct calcination [30] and hydrothermal/solvothermal synthesis [45,46], have been developed for the fabrication of heterogeneous catalysts with the active two-phase interface, controllable size, shape, and composition in view of the purpose of improving catalytic performance. These synthetic routes are usually low-producing, time-consuming, and high-energy-consuming [47,48]. Solid-state synthesis integrated the advantages of low cost, eco-friendly and large-scale and have aroused wide concern in recent years [49,50,51,52,53].
Herein, a solid-state synthesis was developed to fabricate the CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, which was implemented by the straightforward grinding of copper salt, manganese salt, and potassium hydroxide at ambient conditions. The metal oxide catalysts fabricated by solid-state synthesis are considered a simple and economical approach because they are without complicated procedures and organic solvents. The as-prepared CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 exhibit significant advantages compared to other methods. The catalytic performance was obviously promoted, which can be attributed to the surface CuOx species and the number of oxygen vacancies. More importantly, this work presents us with an effective way to prepare heterogeneous metal oxides with outstanding catalytic performance.

2. Results and Discussion

The preparation process of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 is schematically illustrated in Scheme 1. The CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 can be efficiently synthesized by the solvent-free strategy. The corresponding X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) patterns of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 are exhibited in Figure 1. The peaks detected at 2θ = 18.55, 30.51, 35.94, 37.60, 43.69, 54.23, 57.81, and 63.51 degrees were indexed to Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 spinel solid solution (JCPDS No:70-0262). The diffraction peak at 38.92 degrees attributes to the isolated CuO phases. These results demonstrate the successful synthesis of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposites by solid-state strategy. As shown in Figure 1b, compared with individual CuO species, the major diffraction peaks of the products with different Cu/Mn mole ratios were slightly shifted to a higher degree, which can be ascribed to the change of the lattice parameters. In addition, XRD patterns show the characteristic peaks of CuO and MnOx, as shown in Figure S1. The ratios of Cu2+/Cu+ in Cu2O/CuO can be controlled by adjusting the types of copper salts. The energy-dispersive X-ray spectrum (EDS) mapping analyses was implemented to identify the elementary composition of the CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. The Cu/Mn molar ratio in the as-prepared samples is close to 1.0 (Figure S2), which has no significant difference compared to the theoretical value during synthesis.
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscopes (TEM) images as shown in Figure 2 further prove that the nanoparticles with 11–16 nm (Figure 2e) existed in CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. Additionally, the interplanar spacing of 0.250 nm and 0.232 nm, revealed by the high-resolution transmission electron microscopes (HRTEM) image (Figure 2i), correspond to (311) and (111) planes of Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 and CuO, respectively. The element mapping results are exhibited in Figure 2, confirming that the Cu and Mn elements are uniformly dispersed on the surface of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. These results further confirm the successful synthesis of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 by solid-state strategy. Furthermore, the morphologies of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 prepared by adjusting the molar ratios of Cu/Mn were also acquired (Figure S3), displaying agglomerated nanoparticles. The morphologies of CuO, Cu2O-CuO, and MnOx are shown in Figures S4–S6, which also exhibit ir-regular nanoparticles.
The CO catalytic performance of the as-obtained CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 were firstly evaluated. As shown in Figure S7a,b, the best CO catalytic activity is CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 with Cu/Mn molar ratio of 1:1 calcined at 400 °C. The CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 can completely convert CO to CO2 at 75 °C, especially at low temperatures. T50 (the temperature of 50% of CO conversion) is only 41 °C. The CO2 yield in the CO oxidation has been shown in Figure S8a, which presents nearly 100% yield. Moreover, they have been compared with previous works (Table S1), which also presents a better catalytic property. Other samples exhibit a relatively lower catalytic activity performance with higher T100 (the temperature of 100% of CO conversion) and T50 (the temperature of 50% of CO conversion) in Figure 3. The 100% CO conversion was accomplished for individual CuO, Cu2O-CuO, and MnOx samples at 140 °C, 130 °C, and 200 °C, respectively. The individual CuOx and MnOx particles show poorer performance than CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, implying that the synergistic effect between CuOx and MnOx may promote its catalytic activity that is not presented in the individual components. As shown in Figure S8b, the sample of physical mixing of CuOx + MnOx was also prepared, which exhibits the poor catalytic performance for CO oxidation. The stability of the CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 was also tested at 60 °C. The negligible decline of activity can be observed during 30 h testing from Figure S9, which implies the excellent stability of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 for CO oxidation reaction.
The X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS) were used to investigate the chemical states of samples. The XPS spectrum in Figure 4 and Figure S10 indicate the coexistence of the Cu, Mn, and O elements. Two peaks at about 931.1 and 950.9 eV, respectively, shown in Figure 4a refer to the Cu+ or Cu° due to the fact that their binding energies are basically the same [31,54]. Cu° is unstable at room temperature and easily oxidized to copper oxide. The CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposites were acquired after being calcined at high temperature in air. Therefore, the peak is assigned to Cu+ because of the successful synthesis of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposites. The two main peaks have small shoulder peaks that appeared at 933.3 and 953.4 eV, relating to the Cu2+ [55,56,57,58]. The XPS analysis results imply that Cu+ and Cu2+ coexist on the surfaces of the CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. As shown in Figure 4b, the asymmetrical Mn 2p spectra of individual MnOx catalysts could be fitted into four components based on their binding energies. The binding energies of 640.2 eV, 641.2 eV, 642.5 eV, and 646.0 eV correspond to Mn2+, Mn3+, Mn4+ species, and the satellite peak, respectively [59]. The O 1s XPS spectrum of samples can be divided into three single peaks (Figure 4c), corresponding to surface lattice oxygen (Oα), surface adsorbed oxygen (Oβ), and adsorbed molecular water species (Oγ), respectively [14,60,61,62]. The CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 demonstrates the highest surface adsorbed oxygen, which is beneficial to the adsorption of O2 molecules, and thus help to improve catalytic performance.
As shown in Figure 5a, the reduction property of prepared samples was investigated by hydrogen temperature-programmed reduction (H2-TPR). A peak at 200 °C–400 °C was presented for an individual CuO sample, attributing to the gradual reduction of copper oxide [30]. In addition, two H2 reduction peaks at 245 °C and 364 °C occurred for an MnOx sample, which correspond to the gradual reduction of MnO2 → Mn3O4 → MnO [23,39,59]. For CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposite, the first peak at below 158 °C refers to the reduction of fine CuO to Cu or MnO2 to Mn3O4. Other peaks at 174 °C and 201 °C correspond to the gradual reduction of Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 oxides [63]. The lower reduction temperature for CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 compared with individual CuOx and MnOx indicates the strong synergistic effect between CuOx and MnOx. The strong interactions in CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 are often related to the abundant oxygen vacancies, which can promote catalytic performance. The oxygen storage capacity (OSC) of catalysts was assessed by oxygen temperature-programmed desorption (O2-TPD). In Figure 5b, the temperature below 200 °C is due to the desorption of surface oxygen species (Oβ) [64]. The second peak, appearing at 250–550 °C, corresponds to the overflow of surface lattice oxygen (Oα). The high-temperature zone at above 550 °C is related to the bulk lattice oxygen species [63]. The CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 shows the highest amount of adsorbed oxygen species compared with other samples, confirming the higher oxygen capacity that is conducive to the promotion of catalytic performance.
To elucidate the effects of surface CuOx species and the oxygen vacancies in CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 in detail, the Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 was fabricated by changing the types of copper salt in the synthesis process to investigate the structure-activity relationships. The Cu2+ and Mn4+ proportion was evaluated by XPS (Figure 6d). It indicates that the ratio of Cu2+ and Mn4+ in CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 is higher than Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 sample. The higher contents of Cu2+ and Mn4+ are beneficial to the formation of Cu2+-O2−Mn4+ entities at the two-phase interface [36]. As reported in the studies [63,65], the presence of abundant Mn4+ proportion can create many adsorbed oxygen species [63]. In addition, the ratios of Cu+/Cu2+ in different samples show a change by altering the types of copper salts in the synthetic process (Table S2). The CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 exhibits a higher Cu2+ ratio than Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, which corresponds to XRD results that the CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 shows the higher intensity of the CuO diffraction peaks. The XPS results indicate that the Cu2+ and Mn4+ proportion can be engineered by changing the component of Cu-based oxides in the synthetic process.
As shown in Figure 7a, there are obvious differences in catalytic performance after changing the copper salts. The Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 exhibits poor catalytic activity compared with CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 at the same condition. Herein, the performance of catalysts can be meaningfully boosted by altering the surface CuOx species and the oxygen vacancies in CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. As shown in Figure S11a,b, the Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 exhibited ir-regular nanoparticles morphology. The Cu and Mn elements are homogeneously dispersed on the surface of Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, and their molar ratio is close to 1.0 (Figure S2), which has no significant difference with CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. The XRD diffraction patterns indicate the formation of Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 containing some CuOx (Figure 7b), while the catalytic performance showed obvious differences. The CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 exhibits the higher intensity of the CuO diffraction peaks than Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. In our previous work [31], the individual Cu2O/CuO nanocomposites and CuO can be fabricated by tuning the types of copper salt in the synthesis. The Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 with different surface CuOx types were fabricated by altering the types of copper salts (+1, +2 valence state) in the synthetic process. Therefore, the different surface types in Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 depend on the types of copper salts (+1, +2 valence state) in the synthetic process used. The higher content of CuO in CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 can significantly enhance redox reaction between Cu and Mn species, promoting charge transfer in nanocomposites, and thus achieving a stronger interaction. From Figure 7c, the CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 shows a lower reduction temperature than Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, implying the better reducibility. The peak areas for different samples were estimated from the H2-TPR results. In Table S3, the higher peak areas of first peak α is presented for CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, indicating the ratio of Cu2+ and Mn4+ in CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, which is consistent with XPS results. Therefore, we can confirm that CO oxidation activity is heavily dependent on the surface CuOx species in CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. In addition, as shown in Figure 7d, the amounts of oxygen desorption (Oβ) over the obtained CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 are greatly changed by adjusting the surface CuOx species. The CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 shows the highest amount of adsorbed oxygen species compared with Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, confirming the higher oxygen capacity that is conducive to the promotion of catalytic performance. The H2-TPR analysis results indicate that the interaction of nanocomposites could be manipulated by changing the surface compositions of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. The O2-TPD results further identify the presence of abundant surface-adsorbed oxygen on the surface of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. Therefore, the construction of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 with abundant surface CuOx species not only strengthens the interactions in CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, but also facilitates the absorption and activation of surface oxygen species.
Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were implemented to understand the intrinsic reason about the mechanism of CO and O2 adsorption and the subsequent oxidation process for CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. The adsorption configurations of CO and O2 molecules on the CuO, Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, and CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 are shown in Figure 8. It is found that CO is adsorbed on the surface of CuO and Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 with the adsorption energy of −0.316 eV and −0.164 eV, respectively. The adsorption energy of CO molecules adsorbed at the CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 surface is −1.346 eV, which are lower than that on CuO and Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. In addition, the adsorption energy of O2 molecules on CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 surface is −1.018 eV, which is much lower than the 0.026 eV and −0.962 eV for CuO and Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. The lower adsorption energy indicates that gas molecules are easier to adsorb on the surface of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4. In summary, DFT calculation showed that construction of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposite with abundant surface CuOx species and oxygen vacancies significantly improved the adsorption capacity of CO and O2 molecules, and thus is more beneficial for CO oxidation activity.
The effects of surface CuOx species and the oxygen vacancies in composite oxide can be clarified based on the above results. In Figure 9, the catalytic property of the CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 is improved compared to Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, which confirms the important role of surface CuOx species and oxygen vacancies. After construction of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposite with abundant surface CuOx species and oxygen vacancies, the abundant Cu2+ and Mn4+ proportions in CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 are higher than in Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, which facilitated the formation of more (Cu2+-O2−-Mn4+) entities at the two interfaces. In addition, the construction of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposites is beneficial for enhancing the synergetic interaction between MnOx species and CuOx species, which promotes the massive production of surface adsorbed oxygen species [36]. In CO oxidation, surface CuOx species and oxygen vacancies play significant roles in catalytic activity. The abundant surface CuOx species and oxygen vacancies could preferentially adsorb CO and O2 molecules [22], and the adsorbed O2 reacts with CO to form CO2, which ultimately enhances catalytic activity.

3. Materials and Methods

3.1. Materials

Copper (II) chloride (CuCl2, AR), cuprous (I) chloride (CuCl, AR), manganese (II) chloride (MnCl2, AR), and potassium hydroxide (KOH, AR) were purchased from Tianjin Zhiyuan Chemical Reagents Co., Ltd. (Tianjin, China), which were used without further refinement.

3.2. The Preparation of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 Nanocomposite with Various Surface CuOx Species and the Oxygen Vacancies

As shown in Scheme 1, in a typical procedure, 1.70 g of CuCl2 (10 mmol) and 1.25 g of MnCl2 (10 mmol) were mixed well in an agate mortar by grinding. Then 4.49 g of KOH (60 mmol) was added into the agate mortar. After continuous grinding for about 1 h, the resulting solid products were sufficiently washed with deionized water and anhydrous ethanol to clear the residual Cl or K species, and then dried at ambient temperature overnight. The final CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposites were acquired after calcining the mixtures in the air at 400 °C for 2 h (5 °C/min). In addition, the CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 with different Cu/Mn mole ratios (Cu/Mn = 1:2 and 2:1) were calcined at 300 °C or 500 °C.
The Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposite (containing some CuO) was also obtained, and only the CuCl2 was replaced by CuCl during the solvent-free synthesis route.

3.3. The Preparation of MnOx

As a comparison, the individual MnOx particles were also fabricated by straightforward grinding MnCl2 with KOH under a similar process.

3.4. The Preparation of Cu2O/CuO and CuO

The Cu2O/CuO nanocomposite was fabricated according to our previous work [31]. The 0.99 g of CuCl (10 mmol) and 1.68 g of KOH (30 mmol) were ground in the agate mortar for 1 h. The other parameters are consistent with the CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposite above.
In addition, the CuO was also prepared by mixing CuCl2 and KOH in the agate mortar. The sample of physical mixing of CuOx + MnOx was also prepared by straightforward grinding CuO and MnOx, and then calcining the mixtures in the air at 400 °C for 2 h (5 °C/min).

3.5. The Characterization and Testing Processes of Catalyst

XRD, SEM, HRTEM, EDS, XPS, H2-TPR, and O2-TPD were implemented to investigate the morphology and structure of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposites. Detailed characterization and testing processes are presented in the Supplementary Materials.

4. Conclusions

In summary, the Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 with different surface CuOx types were fabricated by altering the types of copper salts (+1, +2 valence state) in the synthetic process. The higher content of CuO in CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 can significantly enhance redox reaction between Cu and Mn species, promoting charge transfer in nanocomposites, thus achieving a stronger interaction. In addition, the higher ratio of Cu2+ and Mn4+ is beneficial to the formation of Cu2+-O2−-Mn4+ entities at the two-phase interface, which produced abundant surface CuOx species and oxygen vacancies. DFT calculations suggest that CO and O2 molecules are adsorbed on the CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 surface with relatively optimal adsorption energy, resulting in the highest CO oxidation activity. The as-synthesized CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 delivers excellent CO catalytic performance compared with individual CuOx and MnOx particles. The CO is completely converted to CO2 at 75 °C when CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 is involved. This work opens new avenues for the efficient and sustainable production of heterogeneous metal oxides with an outstanding catalytic performance.

Supplementary Materials

The following supporting information can be downloaded at: https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/article/10.3390/ijms23126856/s1. References [66,67,68] are cited in Supplementary Materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, B.L. and Y.L.; methodology, B.L.; software, H.W.; validation, B.L., Y.L. and S.L.; formal analysis, B.L.; investigation, B.L.; resources, Y.L. and Y.C.; data curation, M.X.; writing—original draft preparation, B.L.; writing—review and editing, B.L. and Y.L.; visualization, B.L.; supervision, Y.L. and Y.C.; project administration, Y.L. and Y.C.; funding acquisition, Y.L. and Y.C. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21766036 and 52100166), the Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang Province (No. 2019D04005), the Graduate Innovation Project of Xinjiang Province (No. XJ2021G037), and the Key Research and Development Project of Xinjiang Province (No. 2020B02008).

Institutional Review Board Statement

This study did not require ethical approval.

Informed Consent Statement

This study did not involve humans.

Data Availability Statement

The study did not report any data, we choose to exclude this statement.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Scheme 1. Schematic illustration of the construction of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposite with different surface CuOx species.
Scheme 1. Schematic illustration of the construction of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 nanocomposite with different surface CuOx species.
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Figure 1. (a) The powder XRD patterns of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4; (b) partially enlarged profiles.
Figure 1. (a) The powder XRD patterns of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4; (b) partially enlarged profiles.
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Figure 2. (a,b) the SEM images; (d,e,h) TEM images; (i) HRTEM image; and (c,f,g,j) the corresponding element mapping patterns of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4.
Figure 2. (a,b) the SEM images; (d,e,h) TEM images; (i) HRTEM image; and (c,f,g,j) the corresponding element mapping patterns of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4.
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Figure 3. (a,b) The CO conversion performances on various catalysts.
Figure 3. (a,b) The CO conversion performances on various catalysts.
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Figure 4. (a) Cu 2p; (b) Mn 2p; (c) O 1s spectra of MnOx, CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, and CuO catalysts, respectively.
Figure 4. (a) Cu 2p; (b) Mn 2p; (c) O 1s spectra of MnOx, CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, and CuO catalysts, respectively.
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Figure 5. (a) H2-TPR; (b) O2-TPD profiles of MnOx, CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, and CuO catalysts, respectively.
Figure 5. (a) H2-TPR; (b) O2-TPD profiles of MnOx, CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, and CuO catalysts, respectively.
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Figure 6. (a) Cu 2p; (b) Mn 2p; (c) O 1s spectra; (d) the contents of Cu2+ and Mn4+ in Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, and CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, respectively.
Figure 6. (a) Cu 2p; (b) Mn 2p; (c) O 1s spectra; (d) the contents of Cu2+ and Mn4+ in Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, and CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, respectively.
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Figure 7. (a) The CO conversion performances; (b) the powder XRD patterns; (c) H2-TPR; (d) O2-TPD profiles of Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 and CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, respectively.
Figure 7. (a) The CO conversion performances; (b) the powder XRD patterns; (c) H2-TPR; (d) O2-TPD profiles of Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 and CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, respectively.
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Figure 8. The side views of CO and O2 adsorption on the surfaces of CuO, Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, and CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, respectively.
Figure 8. The side views of CO and O2 adsorption on the surfaces of CuO, Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, and CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4, respectively.
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Figure 9. Reaction mechanisms of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 toward CO oxidation.
Figure 9. Reaction mechanisms of CuOx/Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 toward CO oxidation.
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