“…These applications include air-purification devices for respirator [1], pollution control devices for reducing industrial and automotive emissions [2], closed-cycle carbon dioxide lasers [3], carbon monoxide gas sensors [4,5], removing trace quantities of CO from the ambient air in sealed cabins and fuel cell [6,7]. Precious metal catalysts, such as Au/TiO 2 , Au/BaCO 3 , Au/ZrO 2 , Au/CeO 2 , Au/La 2 O 3 , Au/CeO 2 /Al 2 O 3 , Pd/ZnO, Pd/CeO 2 -TiO 2 , Pd/CeO 2 , Pt/CeO 2 and Sn-Pt/SiO 2 , have been studied for CO oxidation and showed high activities [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17].…”