Ceria Nanolayers on Metal Surfaces

Cerium oxides are outstanding oxide materials for catalytic purposes, and they are used in many catalytic applications, for example, for the oxidation of CO, the removal of SOx from fluid catalytic cracking flue gases, the water gas shift reaction, or in the oxidative coupling reaction of methane [155, 156]. Ceria is also widely used as an active component in the three-way catalyst for automotive exhaust pollution control, 

High-quality resolved images and atomic details of surface features on Ce02(l 11) in various oxidation states have also been obtained recently by dynamic AFM measurements by Gritschneder et al. [162], 

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