Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 115, Issue 5, Pages 1793-1799Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp110483z
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- ConocoPhillips
- DOE [P200A060218]
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering [EEC 0851849]
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We report the synthesis of monodisperse colloidal copper nanocrystals and subsequent solvent-dependent oxidation to form copper(I) oxide nanoparticles. The oxidation process was monitored by optical spectroscopy in the visible spectrum with the Cu nanocrystals exhibiting a surface plasmon feature that was replaced over time by an excitonic feature corresponding to the band gap of the Cu2O nanocrystals. The initial intensity of the copper plasmon was strongly dependent on the properties of the ! solvent used to form the nanocrystal dispersion; solvents with pi-bonds significantly reduced (by >3-fold) the plasmon intensity and this effect was attributed to electron sharing between the solvent and the copper surface. The damped plasmon only recovered to its solvent-independent intensity once the nanocrystal surface oxidized and eliminated the solvent-Cu surface interactions. Solvents without pi-bonds induced only a very small damping of the plasmon, and at longer time scales all solvents caused similar changes in the optical properties as oxidation converted the nanocrystals from metallic copper to semiconducting copper oxide.
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