“…With the supply of NO and O 2 mixture, the bands at 1741,1697,1648,1627,1559,1508, and 1457 cm -1 were clearly observed. These bands could be assigned to N 2 O 4 (a) (1741 and 1697 cm -1 ) (Zhou et al, 2011), bridging nitrate species (1648 and 1627 cm -1 ) (Kijlstra et al, 1997a;Zhao et al, 2009), bidentate nitrate (1559 cm -1 ) (Liu and He, 2010;Wu et al, 2010;Zhou et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2013a), monodentate nitrate (1539 cm -1 ) (Zhang et al, 2013a), and nitrite species (1508 and 1457 cm -1 ) (Kijlstra et al, 1997a;Jin et al, 2010). When NO and O 2 were absorbed onto the surface of MnO x /MWCNTs catalysts for about 15 min, the intensity of bands at 2236 and 2221 cm -1 were detected and became larger afterwards.…”