Fast Synthesis of Stable Cubic Copper Nanocages in the Aqueous Phase
Fast Synthesis of Stable Cubic Copper Nanocages in the Aqueous Phase
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DOI:
10.1021/jp074550w
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发表时间:
2007-09
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Xiaodan Su;Jing-zhe Zhao;H. Bala;Yanchao Zhu;Ye Gao;Shanshan Ma;Zichen Wang
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作者:
Xiaodan Su;Jing-zhe Zhao;H. Bala;Yanchao Zhu;Ye Gao;Shanshan Ma;Zichen Wang
We report here a fast approach to the synthesis of cubic Cu nanocages in higher yield through a wet chemical reductive procedure. The performing reductive reactions from Cu(II) to Cu(0) in the aqueous phase can be finished in just 3 min at the low temperature of 80 °C in the presence of sodium oleate (SOA) as a stabilizer. Both transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) results indicate that the resultant cubic Cu cages are aggregates of Cu nanoparticles with 200 nm in edge lengths and the inclusive nanoparticles are about 20 nm in size. According to the inspection of the Cu nanostructure-forming mechanism, we suggest that the reduction intermediate of roughly solid Cu2O cubes formed in this strategy served as a spontaneous shape-controlled template and the cubic structure of the Cu nanostructures was evolved by morphology heredity from them. As we detected, this cubic morphology of Cu aggregates is preserved at varied reaction times, from 3 min to 2 h; ...