“…During the last decades, Cu/Ce based materials have attracted much attention in catalysis, especially in the field of selective CO oxidation [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20], water gas shift reaction [21,22], NOx and/or SOx reduction [23,24], methanol stream reforming [25], VOCs oxidation [26][27][28][29], syngas production [30]. Indeed, the relative abundance and the moderate cost of copper and cerium, that can surpass precious metals in efficiency, make them very attractive in catalysis [31]. It is now recognized that the association of CuO and CeO 2 favors the electron transfer at the metal oxides interface resulting in strong interactions between copper and cerium [18,24,32,33] due to the co-existence of copper and cerium species with different environments and/or oxidation states, and the formation of oxygen vacancies [19,29].…”