“…In this respect, nickel based catalysts attract particular attention as they are known to exhibit excellent catalytic performance; the drawback is that they suffer from the aforementioned problems Charisiou et al, 2016b;Elsayed et al, 2017). In theory, coke deposition can be avoided by: (i) altering the electronic properties of metal-support interactions, (ii) influencing the size of metallic particles and, (iii) improving the oxygen storage capacity and mobility within supporting material (Roh et al, 2006;Kumar et al, 2007;Chen et al, 2008;Goula et al, 2014;Yentekakis et al, 2015Yentekakis et al, , 2016Han et al, 2017). Thus, the attempts that have been undertaken to improve the stability of DRM nickel catalysts have focused on the use of different oxides as supports (e.g., Al 2 O 3 , SiO 2 , La 2 O 3 , CeO 2 , ZrO 2 ) (Pompeo et al, 2007;Bereketidou and Goula, 2012;Li et al, 2016) or the use of a variety of dopants that include transition metals (e.g., Fe, Co, Sn) (Ay and Uner, 2015;Theofanidis et al, 2015;Zhao et al, 2016), noble metals (e.g., Ag, Pt, Pd, Ir) Yentekakis et al, 2015;Yu et al, 2015), lanthanide metals (e.g., La, Ce, Pr) (Goula et al, 2016a;Vasiliades et al, 2016;Xiang et al, 2016) and alkaline earth metals (e.g., Sr, Ca, Ba) (Bellido et al, 2009;Sutthiumporn and Kawi, 2011).…”