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Highly symmetric polyhedral Cu2O crystals with controllable-index planes

  • Shaodong Sun
  • , Chuncai Kong
  • , Shengchun Yang
  • , Liqun Wang
  • , Xiaoping Song
  • , Bingjun Ding
  • , Zhimao Yang
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2217-2221
Number of pages5
JournalCrystEngComm
Volume13
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Apr 2011

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