The phase composition and crystal structure were evaluated by an X-ray diffractometer (Ultima IV, Rigaku) using Cu-K_α radiation as the source with a Ni filter. Nitrogen adsorption–desorption investigation was achieved with a Micromeritics TriStar II: 3020 analyzer to get the textural characteristics of catalysts. The morphology and microstructure of the catalysts were scrutinized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM, Zeiss sigma 500) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM, JEM-F200). Mn 2p, W 4f, Ce 3d, and O 1s binding energies were measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS, PHI-1600 ESCA). H₂-TPR measurements were conducted using AutoChemi II2920 equipment; 0.05 g sample was pretreated in N₂ for 1 h at 300°C, followed by cooling down to 25°C. Thereafter, the flow gas was altered to 10-vol% H₂/N₂ with a maximum temperature of 900°C, and the heat treatment rate was kept at 10°C/min; hydrogen consumption was examined using a thermal conductivity detector (TCD). NH₃-TPD was carried out on a conventional flow apparatus, and 0.05 g sample was heated at 600°C in N₂ atmosphere for 1 h and saturated with 1% NH₃ for 1 h. When the temperature cooled to room temperature, N₂ was used to abolish the feebly attached NH₃. At last, the sample was heated to 600°C at a rate of 10°C/min. In situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform (DRIFT) spectroscopy (Thermo Nicolet Is50 spectrometer) was used to investigate the SCR reaction mechanism of the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst. The catalyst was first purged with NH₃ or NO + O₂ at 200 and 300°C until adsorption was saturated. Then, the NH₃ or NO + O₂ were closed. After that, the reaction system was purged by N₂, and then, the other corresponding reacted gases were introduced into the in situ reaction cell, and the FT-IR spectra were recorded at different times.

A fixed bed reactor was applied to evaluate the performance of the as-prepared catalysts for the simultaneous elimination of PM and NO_x. The reaction gases comprised 1,000 ppm NH₃, 1,000 ppm NO, and 5% O₂; the balance gas was N₂; and the total flow rate of the gases was 100 ml/min. The catalyst (100 mg) and PM (10 mg) were mixed together, and PM was simulated by Printex-U (Degussa). The reacted gas concentrations (including NH₃, N₂O, NO, NO₂, CO, and CO₂) were tested by the infrared spectrometer. An accurate and reliable quantitative method was established to measure the multiple gaseous components (Qin and Cadet, 1997; Valencia et al., 2009; Sinelli et al., 2010; Stec et al., 2011). The catalytic performance of the oxidation PM was evaluated by the value of T_m, which was defined as the temperature for maximum CO₂ concentration released. The NO reduction was defined by the highest conversion of NO to N₂, and the conversion rate was calculated as follows (Zhang et al., 2011): NO   Conversion = [ NO ] inlet − [ NO ] outlet [ NO ] inlet × 100 % , in which [NO]_inlet and [NO]_outlet, respectively, denote the inlet and outlet concentrations of NO under steady-state conditions.

The activities of W_xCeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalysts for the simultaneous elimination of PM and NO_x were evaluated, and the results are shown in Figure 1 and Table 1. The lower T_m of PM oxidation means high catalytic efficiency, which is important for the design and preparation of catalysts. As shown in Figure 1A and Table 1, the T_m value of 3DOM ZrTiO₄ support for the removal of PM is 581°C, indicating that the catalytic activity of the support is very weak. Compared with Mn₂O₃/3DOM ZrTiO₄ and CeO₂/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalysts, the WO₃/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst has the highest T_m value of 559°C. When W is combined with Ce or Mn, the T_m of the bimetallic supported catalysts decreases. The T_m values of the W₁MnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ and W₁CeO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalysts are 536 and 558°C, respectively. Interestingly, for the W_xCeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalysts, the T_m values are all below 500°C. With increasing doping amounts of W, T_m is slightly raised. This indicates that W has a low activity for soot removal, and its activity can be greatly improved by combining with Ce and Mn. Compared with the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM TiO₂ catalyst, the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrO₂ catalyst has a lower T_m value of 453°C, and the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst has the T_m value of 474°C, which indicates that the catalytic activity can be improved by adding Zr to Ti.

The catalytic performance of NO reduction was evaluated by an operating temperature window (90% NO conversion). As shown in Figure 1B and Table 1, 3DOM ZrTiO₄ support shows poor performance for NO conversion, and the conversion of over 50% can hardly be obtained on the ZrTiO₄ support. Similarly, the WO₃/ZrTiO₄ catalyst also shows poor NO elimination performance. It is worth noting that the conversion window (90% NO conversion) of the Mn₂O₃/ZrTiO₄ catalyst is only 88°C (157–245°C), and the CeO₂/ZrTiO₄ catalyst has no conversion window over 90%; when W is added to Mn and Ce, respectively, the conversion window of the W₁MnO_δ/ZrTiO₄ catalyst has barely changed, but the conversion window of W₁CeO_δ/ZrTiO₄ has been greatly improved; the W₁CeMnO_δ/ZrTiO₄ catalyst not only exhibits the wide temperature window (250–396°C) but also has high NO conversion, which manifests that the interaction of Ce and W can widen the temperature window, and Mn has the effect of improving the NO conversion. The W_xCeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalysts exhibit good NO conversion performance except for the W₂CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄, indicating that excessive W doping is not beneficial for NO reduction. Compared with W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄, W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM TiO₂ and W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrO₂ exhibit low catalytic activity. Therefore, the synergistic effect between Zr and Ti in ZrTiO₄ support indeed has a positive effect to improve the catalytic performance. Based on the above analysis, W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst not only exhibits the widest temperature window (250–396°C) at a lower temperature for 90% NO conversion but also has the highest NO conversion rate (52%) at the temperature of T_m, which illustrates that the W₁CeMnO_δ/ZrTiO₄ catalyst can be considered as one kind of talented catalysts for the simultaneous elimination of soot particles and nitrogen oxides.

The crystal structures of the as-prepared 3DOM ZrTiO₄ support and it-supported catalysts were characterized by XRD measurements, and the results are exhibited in Figure 2. As shown in Figure 2, the main characteristic peaks at 2θ = 24.75°, 30.51°, 32.82°, 35.66°, 50.27°, and 52.98° can be assigned to the (110), (111), (020), (002), (202), and (221) crystal faces of ZrTiO₄ support (JCPDS No. 80-1783) (Zhang Y. et al., 2015). The peaks at 2θ = 28.50°, 32.76°, 47.82°, and 56.51° of each sample can be assigned to the (111), (200), (220), and (311) crystal faces of cubic CeO₂ (JCPDS PDF# 43-1002) (Lin et al., 2018). The characteristic peaks of manganese and tungsten oxide cannot be observed because the ionic radius of Mn and W are smaller than that of Ce. Therefore, Mn ions and W ions can easily enter the lattice of CeO₂. As shown in Figure 2B, the diffraction peak of W_xCeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalysts shifts to a higher angle with respect to the diffraction peak of the CeO₂/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst (i.e., the peak at 2θ = 28.5° shifts to 28.7°), which confirms the above conclusion. The peaks at 2θ = 32.95°, 55.19°, and 23.13° can be assigned to the crystal faces (222), (440), and (211) of α-Mn₂O₃ for Mn₂O₃/3DOM ZrTiO₄ and W₁MnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalysts (JCPDS No.41-1442) (Saputra et al., 2014). For the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM TiO₂ catalyst, the peaks at 2θ = 25.4°, 37.9°, 48.1°, 53.9°, 55.2°, and 62.8° belong to anatase TiO₂, in which the crystal faces are (101), (004), (200), (105), (211), and (204), respectively (JCPDS No. 21-1272) (Jiao et al., 2017). For the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrO₂ catalyst, the peaks at 2θ = 30.3°, 35.3°, 50.4°, and 60.2° belong to the characteristic peak of ZrO₂ (JCPDS No. 50-1089). For the WO₃/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst, the peaks at 2θ = 23.2°, 23.7°, 24.4°, 28.8°, 34.0°, and 50.2° belong to the characteristic peak of WO₃ (JCPDS No. 20-1323).

The SEM images, as shown in Figure 3, demonstrate that all catalysts have highly ordered macropores. From the distributions of macropores’ diameters for the as-prepared catalysts in Figures 3A-1–D-1, it can be seen that the average diameters of macropores are about 290 ± 20 nm. The diameters of macropores are lower than the PMMA diameter (400 nm), which is related to the shrinkage of polymer templates at high calcination temperature (Cheng et al., 2017a). The skeleton around macropores is constructed by uniform periodically arranged windows (marked with red circles in Figure 3), which form the layers through close linkage between the opening windows. Meanwhile, the highly ordered macropores for the as-prepared catalysts indicate the loading process of metal oxides does not destroy 3DOM structures.

TEM and HRTEM images of the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst are exhibited in Figure 4. Figure 4A shows that the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst has an ordered macroporous structure and the macropores are linked together by windows layer to layer. This well agrees with the SEM results. Furthermore, the surface of 3DOM ZrTiO₄ is adhered by well-dispersed nanoparticles (NPs), and no large agglomerated particles can be obtained on the 3DOM skeleton, which indicates that metal oxides are evenly distributed on the surface of ZrTiO₄. HRTEM image of W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ is shown in Figure 4B; as observed from Figure 4B and the insert images of Figure 4B, the lattice fringes with a spacing of 0.32 nm are indexed as (111) planes of CeO₂, and the second lattice fringes with a spacing of 0.36 nm correspond to (011) crystal plane of ZrTiO₄. To study the distribution of W, Ce, Mn, Zr, Ti, and O elements in W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄, the HAADF-STEM images and EDS elemental mappings were obtained, and they are shown in Figure 5. From Figures 5B–D, the elements of O, Ti, and Zr cover the entire 3DOM skeleton because O, Ti, and Zr are the constituent elements of the support. From Figures 5E, F, it can be seen that the elements of W, Ce, and Mn are found throughout the surface of the catalyst, even inside the pores.

The N₂ adsorption–desorption isotherms and pore distribution curves of W_xCeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ samples are presented in Figures 6, 7. The BET data of the as-prepared catalysts are summarized in Table 2. As shown in Figure 6, all the samples present typical II curves with a nearly linear relationship in the low-pressure vicinity. For 3DOM ZrTiO₄ support, the H3 hysteresis loop increases slowly in the P/P₀ range of 0.4–1.0, which may be due to the scraggly surface of the support. When the active components are loaded on the 3DOM ZrTiO₄ support, the H3 hysteresis loop disappeared in the P/P₀ range of 0.4–0.8 and the intensity in the P/P₀ range of 0.8–1.0 increased sharply. This phenomenon may be due to the scraggly surface of the support being covered by the finely dispersed metal oxide, which makes the surface smooth (Xie et al., 2013).

As shown in Figure 7, the as-prepared catalysts exhibit an obvious mesoporous structure. For 3DOM ZrTiO₄ support, the mesopores with a diameter of 2–5 nm belong to the surface gap of the ZrTiO₄ skeleton, and the mesopores with a diameter of 20–35 nm are associated with the accumulation of metal oxide NPs. As shown in Table 2, 3DOM ZrTiO₄ exhibits the biggest surface area of 54.0 m²g⁻¹, which may belong to the scraggly surface of ZrTiO₄. However, the surface area decreased when active components are loaded on the ZrTiO₄ support, which may be due to the covering of finely dispersed metal oxide on the scraggly surface. In addition, the surface area of W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ is larger than that of W₁CeMn/3DOM TiO₂ due to the addition of ZrO₂ to TiO₂, which is in accordance with other reports (Zhang et al., 2012; Zhang Y. et al., 2015). Compared with the W₁MnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst, W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ exhibits a larger surface area, which is attributed to the addition of Ce. The loaded catalysts display a higher total pore volume and average pore size, and this is related to the accumulation effect of active components.

To investigate the valence state of elements and surface composition of the as-prepared catalysts, XPS measurements were carried out, and the results are shown in Table 3 and Figure 8. The ratios of Mn⁴⁺/Mn³⁺, Ce³⁺/Ce⁴⁺, and (O⁻ + O₂ ⁻)/O^2- of W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ are comparatively higher than those of other catalysts, indicating that tungsten, ceria, manganese, and supports have strong interaction, which leads to the good catalytic performance of the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst.

Figure 8A shows the XPS profiles of Mn 2p for the as-prepared catalysts. The spectra of all the catalysts display two peaks. The peaks at 641.2 and 642.9 eV can be assigned to Mn³⁺ and Mn⁴⁺ (Li et al., 2016), respectively. It was well known that Mn⁴⁺ species are beneficial for low-temperature SCR (Yao et al., 2019; Li et al., 2021). As shown in Table 3, the ratio of Mn⁴⁺/Mn³⁺ of W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ is higher than that of W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM TiO₂. In addition, the ratio of Mn⁴⁺/Mn³⁺ in the W_xCeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalysts is higher than that of the WMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst, which indicates the strong synergistic effects of Mn and Ce. Ce can accelerate the oxidation of Mn³⁺ to Mn⁴⁺; hence, more Mn⁴⁺can be produced.

Figure 8B shows the XPS profiles of Ce 3d. The peaks at about 900.5 and 883.5 eV denoted as u’ and v’ are the major peaks related to the 3d¹⁰4f¹ state of Ce³⁺ ions, and the peaks at about 882.0, 888.8, 897.8, 900.4, 907.1, and 916.2 eV named as v, v’’, v’’’, u, u’’, and u’’’ are related to the 3d¹⁰4f⁰ state ascribed to Ce⁴⁺(Cheng et al., 2014). According to the peak area ratio of Ce³⁺ to Ce⁴⁺, the content of Ce³⁺ of monometallic oxide CeO₂ is lowest in the as-prepared catalysts, indicating that the support and the doping of other metals can promote the production of more Ce³⁺. Meanwhile, the content of Ce³⁺ in W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ is higher than that of W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM TiO₂, which indicates the synergistic effect of Zr and Ti. Similarly, the highest ratio of Ce³⁺/Ce⁴⁺ is also found in W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄, which indicates that the interaction between W and Ce will produce more Ce³⁺.

Figure 8C gives the W 4f_5/2 and W 4f_7/2 peaks at 36.6–37.6 and 34.7–35.7 assigned to W⁶⁺. As shown in Figure 8C, W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ has higher binding energy than other catalysts. The higher binding energy generally represents the lower density of electron cloud, as W⁶⁺ has only four coordination bonds with surrounding O-atoms which can generate excess electrons, so Ce⁴⁺can be substituted by W⁶⁺and produce one or two excess electrons, and the excess electrons will be compensated by producing one or two Ce³⁺; these Ce³⁺ ions play a crucial role in the generation of oxygen vacancy due to its charge imbalance and unsaturated chemisorption bond; thus, it further enhances the catalytic activity greatly (Liu et al., 2020).

As shown in Figure 8D, O 1s peaks are fitted into two peaks at 528.0–530.0 and 530.0–532.0eV (according to Gaussian bands), and those peaks are ascribed to lattice oxygen (O²⁻, denoted as O_β) and chemically adsorbed oxygen (O₂ ⁻ and/or O⁻, denoted as O_α), respectively (Zhang S. et al., 2015). Generally speaking, O_α is active oxygen species that has higher mobility than lattice oxygen, and it is the determining factor for low-temperature NH₃-SCR reaction and soot oxidation. Because gas-phase NO is more easily obtained and reacts with active oxygen species and forms NO₂, NO₂ will react with NO and NH₃ in the fast-SCR mode and react with soot directly. Hence, the rates for NH₃-SCR and soot oxidation reactions were enhanced. Based on the results in Table 3 and Figure 1, the O_α/O_β ratio of monometallic oxide Mn₂O₃, CeO₂, and WO₃ is lower than that of other as-prepared catalysts, which manifest the effect of supports and other doping metals. W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ has the highest O_α/O_β ratio of 51.5% among the as-prepared catalysts and shows the highest NO conversion rate at temperature T_m. Therefore, the high ratio of O_α/O_β plays an important role in the simultaneous catalytic elimination of PM and NO_x.

Catalysts with excellent redox properties are required in the simultaneous removal reaction. H₂-TPR is usually applied for measuring the redox ability of catalysts. Figure 9 gives the H₂-TPR results of the as-prepared catalysts. As shown in Figure 9A, the 3DOM ZrTiO₄ support has almost no reduction peak, indicating that the redox capacity of the support is very weak. CeO₂/3DOM ZrTiO₄ has one reduction peak at 618°C, which is related to the reduction of surface oxygen species of ceria (Ma et al., 2012), since the reduction of bulk ceria occurred only above 750°C (Andreeva et al., 2004; Ndifor et al., 2007). When W is added into CeO₂/3DOM ZrTiO₄, the shoulder peak at 618°C belongs to the reduction of surface CeO₂, and the peaks at 695°C are assigned to the reduction of surface WO_x (Ma et al., 2012). When Mn is doped into CeO₂/ZrTiO₄, three reduction peaks can be obtained. The first peak at 365°C is associated with the reduction of MnO₂ to Mn₂O₃, the peak at 465°C is related to the reduction of surface Mn₂O₃ to Mn₃O₄, and the third shoulder peak at 531°C belongs to the reduction of surface Mn₃O₄ to MnO (Yu et al., 2014).

As shown in Figure 9E, W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM TiO₂ displays one reduction peak at 490 °C, which belongs to the overlapped reduction of surface oxygen. For W_xCeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalysts, the TPR curves display two broad peaks, the former can belong to the reductions of the MnO₂ to Mn₂O₃ and Mn₂O₃ to Mn₃O₄, and the latter may be related to the reductions of Mn₃O₄ to MnO, CeO₂ to Ce₂O₃, and WO_x to W. Among the W_xCeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalysts, the peaks of the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst shift to lower temperatures and the peak in the lower temperature has a wider reduction peak area, indicating that the 3DOM W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst has strong reduction ability and much Mn⁴⁺ species. The Mn⁴⁺/Mn³⁺ ionic couple have proper redox characteristics and easily deliver more active sites for improving activity; therefore, the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst shows good simultaneous removal activity.

Surface acidity plays a significant role in NH₃-SCR reaction (Xu et al., 2016; Xu et al., 2017). NH₃-TPD was used to evaluate the amount and strength of surface acid sites. Therefore, the NH₃-TPD profiles of the as-prepared catalysts were tested, and the results are shown in Figure 10. All the catalysts have broad peaks in the temperature range of 50–350°C, which is related to the desorption of NH₃ on the weak and medium acid sites. Interestingly, these peaks are nearly at the same location, and no significant difference can be observed. Compared with the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM TiO₂ catalyst, the peak area of the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst is larger, which indicates that the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst has more acid sites due to the doping of Zr in the ZrTiO₄ support. In comparison with W₁MnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst, more acid sites can be seen in W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄, and these acid sites may come from the electron-unsaturated W⁶⁺, as W⁶⁺enter the CeO₂ lattice, leading to lower coordination between W⁶⁺ and surrounding oxygen, so it needs to share more electrons to balance the charge transfer. Therefore, the above analyses verify the experimental results that the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst has the highest NO removal activity.

Soot combustion is the reaction of gas–solid–solid, and the contact efficiency between catalyst and soot is a significant factor for controlling the catalytic activity. 3DOM catalysts have highly ordered macroporous structures with diameter higher than 100 nm (SEM results). Because the diameter of soot particles (≈25 nm) is smaller than that of macropores, the large pores can capture soot particles and transfer soot particles to the inner active sites so that the active sites of catalysts can be fully utilized. Meanwhile, the diffusion resistance is reduced due to highly ordered macropores. Some previous work also confirmed the effect of the macroporous structure on improving catalytic activity (Yu et al., 2019; Yu X. et al., 2021).

In addition, the effects of NPs also play important roles in removing soot particles, such as the quantum size effects and surface effects. In this work, the active components are formed nanoparticles on the surface of 3DOM ZrTiO₄ support. From the TEM results, it can be found that the diameter of active components is well falling into the scale of NPs. At the same time, gaseous reactants are more easily absorbed due to a lot of NPs on the surface of 3DOM ZrTiO₄ supports, thus improving the efficiency of the catalytic reaction.

To more deeply understand the reaction essence of simultaneous deSoot and deNO_x, according to the results in this work and previous reports, the possible reaction mechanisms are also speculated and described in Scheme 1.

For the reaction of deSoot, based on the results of XPS (Figure 8) and H₂-TPR (Figure 9), the 3DOM W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst has more Mn⁴⁺, Ce³⁺, and O_α than other as-prepared catalysts, which indicates that it has more active sites, so gas-phase O₂ molecules are more easily to be adsorbed and activated on the active sites (oxygen vacancies). On the one hand, adsorbed O₂ forms active oxygen species, then soot traps the active oxygen species and forms surface oxygen–carbon complexes (SOC), and finally, the SOC further decomposes and produces CO₂ and CO. On the other hand, these active oxygen species react with NO to form NO₂; NO₂ has stronger oxidation capacity than active oxygen species, so it can react with soot directly and changes the reaction path from gas–solid–solid to gas–gas–solid, thus accelerating the process of soot combustion. Therefore, the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst has a lower T_m value of 474°C ( Figure 1).

For the reaction of deNO_x, in order to investigate the SCR reaction mechanism of the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst, in situ DRIFTS were measured at 200 and 300°C, and the results are shown in Figure 11. As shown in Figure 11A, after being purged by N₂, several absorbance bands were observed. The bands centered at 1,198 and 1,633 cm ⁻¹ are ascribed to adsorbed NH₃ on Lewis acidic sites, and the bands at 1,396 cm⁻¹ belong to the coordinated NH⁴⁺on Bronsted acid sites, while the bands at 3,100–3,500 cm⁻¹ are attributed to N-H stretching vibration of coordinated ammonia (Tan et al., 2018; Liu et al., 2020). When NO + O₂ was introduced into the in situ reaction cell, all the bands belonging to the ammonia species are reduced gradually in their intensities with increasing time, and the IR bands (1,198 and 3,100–3,500 cm⁻¹) disappear after 20 min. At the same time, the nitrate species including bidentate nitrate (1,273 cm⁻¹) and monodentate nitrate (1,520 cm⁻¹) begin to appear on the surface of the catalyst, including bidentate nitrate (1,273 cm⁻¹) and monodentate nitrate (1,520 cm⁻¹). These results indicate that the gas phase NO reacts with the coordinated NH₃ on the surface of the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst through the E-R mechanism.

As shown in Figure 11B, after being purged by N₂, bidentate nitrates (1,565 cm⁻¹) and bridging nitrates (1,649 cm⁻¹) (Liu et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2020) were formed on the surface of the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst because the mixture of NO + O₂ was adsorbed on the surface of the catalyst. When NH₃ was introduced into the in situ reaction cell, the bands related to nitrate species decreased gradually in the first 10 min, and no adsorption peaks were found for NH₃ species, indicating that the gas phase NH₃ reacts with the nitrate species. After 20 min, the bands belonging to NH₃ species begin to appear, indicating the existence of ammonia on the surface of the catalyst; the bands at 1,189 and 1,672 cm ⁻¹ belong to the adsorbed NH₃ on Lewis acidic sites; the bands at 1,422 cm⁻¹ belong to the coordinated NH⁴⁺on Bronsted acid sites; and the peaks at 3,100–3,500 cm⁻¹ belong to N-H stretching vibration of coordinated ammonia. Interestingly, the bands at 1,565cm⁻¹ (bidentate nitrates) begin to shift after 5 min and decrease slowly within 15 min. After 15 min, the peak at 1,565 cm⁻¹ (bidentate nitrates) disappeared and the peak belonged to the NH₃ species increased gradually, so the IR band at 1,672 cm⁻¹ may be caused by the overlap of the bidentate nitrates (1,565 cm⁻¹), bridging nitrates (1,649 cm⁻¹), and the coordinated NH₃ adsorbed on the Lewis acid site (1,672 cm⁻¹). Based on the above results and discussion, it can be found that bidentate nitrate (1,565 cm⁻¹) and active NH₃ can coexist on the surface of the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst and the SCR reaction mechanism of the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst can be both E-R mechanism and L-H mechanism at 200°C.

Figures 11C, D show the in situ DRIFT spectra of the W₁CeMnO_δ/3DOM ZrTiO₄ catalyst measured at 300°C. As shown in Figure 11C, similarly, the catalyst was first treated by NH₃. After being purged by N₂, the bands centered at 1,633 cm ⁻¹ are ascribed to the adsorbed NH₃ on Lewis acidic sites, and the bands at 3,100–3,500 cm⁻¹ are attributed to N-H stretching vibration of coordinated ammonia. When NO + O₂ was introduced into the in situ reaction cell, the intensities of all the bands belonging to the ammonia species gradually reduced, and the IR bands (3,100–3,500 cm⁻¹) disappeared after 20 min. The bands, which belong to nitrate species, appear; the band centered at 1,232 cm ⁻¹ is ascribed to bridging nitrate; and the band at 1,362 cm⁻¹ is attributed to bidentate nitrate. These results indicate that gas phase NO reacts with coordinated NH₃ also through the E-R mechanism at 300°C.

As shown in Figure 11D, the catalyst was first treated with NO + O₂. After purging with N₂, the bands assigned to bridging nitrates (1,204 cm⁻¹) and monodentate nitrates (1,283 cm⁻¹) were detected to demonstrate the formation of these nitrate species on the surface of the catalyst. When NH₃ was introduced, the band intensity related to nitrate species decreased gradually in the first 10 min, and no adsorption peaks were found for NH₃ species. After 20 min, several bands began to appear; the bands at 1,214 cm⁻¹ are ascribed to adsorbed NH₃ on Lewis acidic sites, and the bands at 3,100–3,500 cm⁻¹ are attributed to N-H stretching vibrational of coordinated ammonia. Similar to the case at 200°C, the bands at 1,204 cm⁻¹ were shifted after 5 min and band intensity decreased slowly. After 15 min, the peaks at 1,204 and 1,283 cm⁻¹ disappeared, and the intensity of the peak belonging to the NH₃ species was increased gradually. The IR band at 1,214 cm⁻¹ may be the overlap of the bridging nitrates (1,204 cm⁻¹), monodentate nitrates (1,283 cm⁻¹), and the adsorbed NH₃ species. These results indicate that the reaction at 300°C is similar to the reaction at 200°C.

To sum up, the reaction mechanism for the simultaneous deSoot and deNO_x is a complex mechanism that mixes two reactions together. In this work, four mechanisms, including the active oxygen mechanism, NO₂-assisted mechanism, L-H mechanism, and E-R mechanism, were proposed, and these four mechanisms work together in the simultaneous elimination reaction.