Templateless, surfactantless, electrochemical route to a cuprous oxide microcrystal: from octahedra to monodisperse colloid spheres

Shaojun Guo; Youxing Fang; Shaojun Dong; Erkang Wang

doi:10.1021/ic7016193

Templateless, surfactantless, electrochemical route to a cuprous oxide microcrystal: from octahedra to monodisperse colloid spheres

Inorg Chem. 2007 Nov 12;46(23):9537-9. doi: 10.1021/ic7016193. Epub 2007 Oct 20.

Authors

Shaojun Guo¹, Youxing Fang, Shaojun Dong, Erkang Wang

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, Jilin, China.

PMID: 17949086
DOI: 10.1021/ic7016193

Abstract

Herein we report a simple electrochemical route for the controlled synthesis of a Cu2O microcrystal from perfect octahedra to monodisperse colloid spheres via control of the electrodeposition potential without the introduction of any template or surfactant. Perfect Cu2O octahedra and monodisperse colloid spheres have been obtained in high yield (approximately 100%).