Electronic Supplementary Information for Mesoporous strong base supported cobalt oxide as the catalyst for the oxidation of ethylbenzene Song Shi, a,b Chen Chen, a Min Wang, a Jiping Ma, a Jin Gao, a and Jie Xu a* a State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian, 116023, P. R. China. b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China *Corresponding author: E-mail: xujie@dicp.ac.cn Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Catalysis Science & Technology. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2014