In this CrystEngComm Hot Article, Shaodong Sun et al. prepared polyhedral 50-facet cuprous oxide crystals with high-index planes using a seed-mediated solution phase route.
Cuprous oxide is a p-type semiconductor with potential applications including solar energy conversion, catalysis, gas sensors and lithium-ion batteries.
The authors studied the growth mechanism of the crystals, which will aid the design and synthesis of new polyhedral cuprous oxide architectures.
They also studied the photocatalytic activity of the crystals in the degradation of Methyl Orange dye. The crystals with high-index facets exhibited higher catalytic activity than crystals with low-index facets.
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Seed-mediated synthesis of polyhedral 50-facet Cu2O architectures
Shaodong Sun, Dongchu Deng, Chuncai Kong, Yang Gao, Shengchun Yang, Xiaoping Song, Bingjun Ding and Zhimao Yang
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05243H, Communication
