Highly symmetric polyhedral Cu2O crystals with controllable-index planes

Shaodong Sun; Chuncai Kong; Shengchun Yang; Liqun Wang; Xiaoping Song; Bingjun Ding; Zhimao Yang

doi:10.1039/C0CE00679C

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Highly symmetric polyhedral Cu₂O crystals with controllable-index planes†

Shaodong Sun,^a Chuncai Kong,^a Shengchun Yang,^a Liqun Wang,^a Xiaoping Song,^a Bingjun Ding^a and Zhimao Yang*^a

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^a School of Science, MOE Key Laboratory for Non-Equilibrium Synthesis and Modulation of Condensed Matter, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, ShaanXi, People's Republic of China
E-mail: zmyang@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

Abstract

Novel highly symmetric multi-faceted polyhedral Cu₂O crystals enclosed by controllable high-index facets and different low-index facets have been synthesized via a template-free complex-precursor solution route. The formation and evolution of these polyhedral shapes can be attributed to the aggregation and ripening mechanism with face-selective adsorption. The appearance of these novel polyhedral architectures further enriches the current morphologies of Cu₂O crystals, and might become useful for the fundamental study of crystals design.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CE00679C
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 28 Sep 2010
Accepted: 03 Feb 2011
First published: 18 Feb 2011

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CrystEngComm, 2011,13, 2217-2221

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Highly symmetric polyhedral Cu₂O crystals with controllable-index planes

S. Sun, C. Kong, S. Yang, L. Wang, X. Song, B. Ding and Z. Yang, CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 2217 DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00679C

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