This file Read_Me was created on 2026-06-05 by: Ing. Rudolf Ricka Ph.D., pozice (VSB-TUO, CEET Ctr. rudolf.ricka@vsb.cz). Last update: 2026-06-05 --------------------------- Basic information --------------------------- 1. Dataset: Mo-CeO2 Photocatalysts on MICROSCAFS(R): Defect and Support Engineering for Enhanced CO2 Photoconversion 2. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20558089 3. Contact information Name: Ing. Rudolf Ricka, Ph.D. Institution: VSB-Technical University of Ostrava E-mail: rudolf.ricka@vsb.cz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7424-0643 4. Dataset archiving (publication) date: 2026-06-05 5. Place of archiving (publication): Ostrava, Czech republic 6. Dataset description: CSV/DAT/TXT data from research within the project „Waste as an alternative source of energy“. CeO2 - FTIR Correlation analysis data MSs - FTIR Mo-CeO_MSs - FTIR Mo-CeO2_NPs - FTIR Photoelectrochemical analysis READ_ME XRD UV-Vis DRS 7. Funding: This research was financially supported by the Large Research Infrastructure ENREGAT (project No. LM2023056), European Union´s Horizon Europe project SAN4Fuel (Grant No. HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03–01: 101079384), European Union under the REFRESH - Research Excellence For Region Sustainability and High-tech Industries (project No. CZ.10.03.01/00/22_003/0000048) via the Operational Programme Just Transition, the project „Waste as an alternative source of energy“, reg. nr. CZ.02.01.01/00/23_021/0008590 under the Programme Johannes Amos Comenius, and the grant programme “Support for Science and Research in the Moravia-Silesia Region 2022” (RRC/12/2022). The authors gratefully acknowledge Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the support of CERENA (Strategic Project FCT-UIDB/04028/2025 and FCT-UIDP/04028/2025), and the FCT project http://doi.org/10.54499/PTDC/EQU-EQU/1056/2020 (SOLAR2CLEAN - Engineered solar light driven photocatalytic systems for wastewater purification). We would like to acknowledge Prof. Teresa Duarte for making available the equipment for XRD analysis and Dr. Kamil Gorecki for performing SEM analysis.