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CRYSTENGCOMM
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 867-877Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2ce26216a
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- National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [51272209, 51071116]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province [2011JZ008]
- Youth Foundation of Shaanxi Province of China [2012JQ6007]
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We have demonstrated the significant evidence on a green synthesis for the ordered-aggregation-driven growth from surfactant-free one-dimensional (1D) CuO nanosubunits into dimension-controlled mesostructures (three-dimensional (3D) mesospindles and two-dimensional (2D) mesoplates) by an additive-free complex-precursor solution route. Structural and morphological evolutions were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). The formation of CuO mesostructures here is essentially determined by the characteristic of [Cu(OH)(4)](2-) precursors, and an oriented nanoparticle aggregation with tailoring shapes in different dimensions can be achieved in different concentration of reactants at higher reaction temperature. The 3D layer-by-layer growth of mesostructural CuO spindles is successfully synthesized in low concentrations of reagents, while the 2D shoulder-by-shoulder growth of mesostructural CuO plates is obtained in high concentrations of reagents. The study is of great importance in the bottom-up assembly of controllable ordering architectures, and offers a good opportunity to understand the fundamental significance for the investigation of the formation mechanism and growth process of surfactant-free CuO mesostructures with controllable aggregation-based behaviours. Additionally, we further demonstrated that such CuO mesocrystals could serve as a potential photocatalyst for the degradation of rhodamine B (RhB) under visible light irradiation in the presence of hydroxide water (H2O2). The results also suggest that these 3D mesostructural CuO spindles exhibit a higher adsorption and photocatalytic degradation of RhB than that of 2D mesostructural CuO plates.
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