BACKGROUND: The emission of NO x can causes serious environmental pollution and endangers human health. In recent years, the selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH 3 (NH 3 -SCR) technology has been widely studied and adopted to reduce the production and emissions of NO x during many technologies.RESULTS: A series of Mn-Ce-Co x /Ti-C,N catalysts were prepared by the impregnation method, and low-temperature NH 3 -SCR was studied. The results show that support modification (Ti-C,N) can broaden the operation temperature window of the catalyst (NO conversion >95%: Mn-Ce/TiO 2 catalyst, 160-320 °C; Mn-Ce/Ti-C,N catalyst, 140-320 °C). The doping of Co further improves the low-temperature NH 3 -SCR of the catalyst. When n(Co):n(Ti) = 0.05, the catalyst has the best catalytic performance with the NO conversion reaches 100% at 100 °C.CONCLUSION: Temperature-programmed reduction (H 2 -TPR) and temperature-programmed desorption (NH 3 -TPD) results showed that Ti-C,N can improve the redox ability but reduces the surface acidity. Co-doping has no effect on surface acidity, but the redox ability is further improved. A suitable amount of Co-doping is beneficial to the optimal catalytic activity of Mn-Ce-Co 0.05 /Ti-C,N catalyst. This suggests a balance between redox properties and surface acidity. Especially for the strong redox ability, it can promote the oxidation of NO to NO 2 , and promote low-temperature NH 3 -SCR through the 'fast SCR' pathway. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results of the highest chemisorbed oxygen (O ⊍ ) concentration and relative atomic ratio (Mn 4+ /Mn n+ , Ce 3+ /Ce n+ and Co 3+ /Co n+ ) confirmed the above conclusion. Both the Langmuir-Hinshelwood (L-H) and Eley-Rideal (E-R) mechanisms occurred in the NH 3 -SCR reaction over the Mn-Ce-Co 0.05 /Ti-C,N catalyst.