There is currently a strong drive in hetereogeneous catalysis to replace precious metals with low Earth abundance with more sustainable materials. Cu/CeO2 is a promising new material in the area of NOX reduction and as such the interaction of the Cu component with the oxide support is of fundamental instance. In the publication related to this work we use a combination of experimental XANES and EXAFS alongside DFT calculations to understand the fundamental bonding between Cu atoms and the CeO2(110) surface. In this data set the structures reported are contained as co-ordinate files in the common crystallography data base .cif format. The structures are logically organised into folders following the structure types discussed in the paper.

Research results based upon these data are published at http://doi.org/10.1039/c7cp04144f