New CoO-SiO
2-sol pillared montmorillonite (Co-SiM) is synthesized by interlamellarhydrolysis and condensation of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) in the presence of Co
2+ ionvia an alkylammonium intercalated montmorillonite. The silicate layers of Na
+-montmorillonite are expanded in advance with hexadecyltrimethylammonium cation up to ~22 Å,followed by reaction with a mixed sol solution of TEOS and CoCl
2·6H
2O in the presence of
n-dodecylamine as a cotemplate. A microporous Co-SiM is obtained after removing theorganic templates at 550
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C. The nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherm for the pillaredsample reveals that a large number of micropores are created between the silicate layers,giving rise to a high BET specific surface area (
SBET = ~570 m
2/g) and a pore volume (
V =~0.65 mL/g). According to the X-ray photoelectron and X-ray absorption spectroscopy, theincorporated cobalt species is found to be CoO, which is homogeneously dispersed on thesurface of the SiO
2 pillars. The Co-SiM exhibits an excellent NO conversion rate of ca. 50%at 200
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C, which continuously increases up to 80% at 500
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C.