Journal
ACTA PHYSICO-CHIMICA SINICA
Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 1543-1550Publisher
PEKING UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB20110619
Keywords
Nanomaterial; Sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate; Cuprous oxide; Hierarchy structure; Raman spectroscopy
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- National Key Basic Research Program of China (973) [2010CB934700]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50725208, 20973019]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education, China [20091102110035]
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Structural engineering of nanocrystals is of great importance to control the properties of semiconductor oxides. Here, we present a mild wet chemical reduction route to obtain a sub-micron porous jujube-like Cu2O hierarchy structure. Sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (SDBS) is crucial in structural regulation and it acts as a soft template and a capping agent. The jujube-like particle consists of crystal grains less than 10 nm in size as verified by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). A set of time control experiments were carried out to study the evolution of the jujube-like structure. Interestingly, we found that altering the amount of added HCl resulted in a size-tuning effect of changing the size of the particles from approximately 300 to 900 nm. Based on these results, we propose a possible growth-etching competition mechanism to explain the formation of the hollow interior and its porous nature, which also agrees with the sizing-tuning effect. The optical properties were analyzed using Raman spectroscopy. By comparison with a conventional sub-micron solid polyhedral we found a novel Raman property for the porous jujube-like Cu2O. Our research complements the library of Cu2O Raman spectra, which is meaningful for the nondestructive examination of pigments on the surface of antiques by Raman techniques.
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