“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report so far on gold loading into exotemplated manganese oxide supports. In fact the Au/Mn x O y combination itself is not very common in the literature [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21], when compared with the extensive work carried out in other supports, such as TiO 2 and CeO 2 (see reviews [22,23]). Also not much has been reported on MnO x catalysts, either pure [24][25][26][27] or with Au [9-11, 13, 14, 16-18, 20, 21] for CO oxidation.…”