“…Owning to the high fuel efficiency and low emission of CO 2 , diesel engines have been widely considered as the future for transport and remote power generation. , However, the abatement of NO x in lean-burn engine exhausts, which leads to the formation of acid rain and photochemical smog, remains a major challenge. As a potential alternative, the selective catalytic reduction of NO x by hydrocarbon (HC-SCR) has proven to be an effective and economical technique for the removal of NO x originating from mobile sources, which can eliminate NO x and unburnt hydrocarbons simultaneously. − C 3 H 6 -SCR under lean-burn conditions has attracted a great deal of attention during the past few decades, although its current performance is not sufficient for commercial application, especially its low-temperature performance. ,,, By considering the efficacy and cost, copper-based catalysts have been explored widely to obtain more appropriate catalysts to elevate the low-temperature performance of the C 3 H 6 -SCR reaction. , We have synthesized the Cu/Ti 0.7 Zr 0.3 O 2 catalyst successfully in a recent work, which exhibited excellent low-temperature SCR activity under lean-burn conditions compared to that of Cu/TiO 2 , while the mechanism for the activity promotion on this catalyst from the view of intermediates has not been clarified.…”