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Big data sets of thermal CO oxidation and photocatalytic CO2 reduction activities were fully examined for the transition metal-loaded Al2O3 nanosheets. Their physicochemical properties were examined by scanning electron microscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction crystallography, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. It was found that Rh, Pd, Ir, and Pt-loading showed a great enhancement in CO oxidation activity while other metals negated the activity of bare Al2O3 nanosheets. Rh-Al2O3 showed the lowest CO oxidation onset temperature of 172 \u00b0C, 201 \u00b0C lower than that of bare \u03b3-Al2O3. CO2 reduction experiments were also performed to show that CO, CH3OH, and CH4 were common products. Ag-Al2O3 nanosheets showed the highest performances with yields of 237.3 ppm for CO, 36.3 ppm for CH3OH, and 30.9 ppm for CH4, 2.2\u00d7, 1.2\u00d7, and 1.6\u00d7 enhancements, respectively, compared with those for bare Al2O3. Hydrogen production was found to be maximized to 20.7 ppm during CO2 reduction for Rh-loaded Al2O3. The present unique pre-screening test results provided very useful information for the selection of transition metals on Al2O3-based energy and environmental catalysts.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nano11051278","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,14]],"date-time":"2021-05-14T03:28:36Z","timestamp":1620962916000},"page":"1278","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Thermal CO Oxidation and Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction over Bare and M-Al2O3 (M = Co, Ni, Cu, Rh, Pd, Ag, Ir, Pt, and Au) Cotton-Like Nanosheets"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Hee Jung","family":"Yoon","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ju Hyun","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea"},{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"So Jeong","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5052-8960","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Youngku","family":"Sohn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea"},{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea"},{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8815","DOI":"10.1021\/acscatal.0c02253","article-title":"Identification of active sites on high-performance Pt\/Al2O3 catalyst for cryogenic CO oxidation","volume":"10","author":"Chen","year":"2020","journal-title":"ACS Catal."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6916","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.iecr.7b01477","article-title":"CO oxidation on metal oxide supported single Pt atoms: The role of the support","volume":"56","author":"Lou","year":"2017","journal-title":"Indus. 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