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Correction: Solution based rapid synthesis of AgCuO2 at room temperature
Nagarajan Padmavathya,
Rajagopalan Vijayaraghavan*a and
Giridhar U. Kulkarnib
aCentre for Excellence in Nano Materials, Materials Chemistry Division, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu 632 014, India. E-mail: rvijayaraghavan@vit.ac.in
bChemistry & Physics of Materials Unit and Thematic Unit on Nanochemistry, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore 560 064, India
First published on 25th August 2015
Abstract
Correction for ‘Solution based rapid synthesis of AgCuO2 at room temperature’ by Nagarajan Padmavathy et al., RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 62746–62750.
The authors regret that errors were made in the interpretation of XPS results (Fig. 7 in the original article) and in the conclusions of the original article.
The sentence beginning “Cu 2p3/2 spectrum (Fig. 7c)…” in the Results and Discussion section of the original article should be replaced with the following: “Cu 2p3/2 spectrum (Fig. 7c) shows a peak at 933.8 eV and a shoulder at 934.7 eV, indicating the presence of Cu2+ and Cu3+ respectively. However, the assignment of Cu3+ is not certain, as the XPS signal of Cu3+ could be ambiguous”.
Furthermore, the sentence beginning “The present study has significance…” in the Conclusions section of the original article should be replaced with the following: “The present study has significance as AgCuO2 is an interesting material with low band gap and more importantly, with Cu partly in the unusual 3+ state”.
The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.
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