Wei Jia, Yuxi Liu, Pengfei Hu, Rong Yu, Yu Wang, Lei Ma, Dingsheng Wang and Yadong Li
Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 8817-8820
DOI:
10.1039/C5CC02480C,
Communication
Ultrathin copper oxide (CuO) nanorods with diameters of ∼3.6 nm were obtained in one step using oleylamine (OAm) as both the solvent and the surface controller. The oriented attachment is responsible for the formation of the ultrathin CuO nanorods. Furthermore, this ultrathin nanostructure catalyst exhibited excellent activity and high styrene oxide yields in styrene epoxidation.