Controlled Synthesis and Uniform Anchoring of Hollow Cu x O Nanocubes on Carbon Nanofiber for Enhanced Se(S)-Se(S) Bond Activation

Balaji Mohan; Kyung Hee Oh; Kyeongmun Park; Mohammad Yusuf; Ji Chan Park; Kang Hyun Park; Buhyun Youn

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01860

Controlled Synthesis and Uniform Anchoring of Hollow Cu _x O Nanocubes on Carbon Nanofiber for Enhanced Se(S)-Se(S) Bond Activation

Inorg Chem. 2023 Aug 7;62(31):12573-12581. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01860. Epub 2023 Jul 27.

Authors

Balaji Mohan^{1

2

3}, Kyung Hee Oh^{4

5}, Kyeongmun Park³, Mohammad Yusuf³, Ji Chan Park⁴, Kang Hyun Park³, Buhyun Youn¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea.
² Department of Chemistry, Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science, Madanapalle 517325, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India.
³ Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea.
⁴ Clean Fuel Research Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research, Daejeon 34129, Korea.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.

PMID: 37498117
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01860

Abstract

In the present study, we fabricated hollow cubic Cu_xO nanoparticles (∼23 nm) incorporated with CNF (HC-Cu_xO/CNF) through controlled thermal oxidation of solid cubic Cu₂O nanoparticles (∼21 nm) supported on carbon nanofibers (SC-Cu₂O/CNF) under airflow, exploiting the nanoscale Kirkendall effect. These hollow Cu_xO nanocubes with increased surface areas exhibited outstanding catalytic activity for unsymmetrical chalcogenide synthesis under ligand-free conditions.