Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Room-Temperature Formation of Hollow Cu2O Nanoparticles

Room-Temperature Formation of Hollow Cu<sub>2</sub>O Nanoparticles: "

Monodisperse Cu and Cu2O nanoparticles (NPs) are synthesized using tetradecylphosphonic acid as a capping agent. Dispersing the NPs in chloroform and hexane at room temperature results in the formation of hollow Cu2O NPs and Cu@Cu2O core/shell NPs, respectively. The monodisperse Cu2O NPs are used to fabricate hybrid solar cells with efficiency of 0.14% under AM 1.5 and 1 Sun illumination.

[Communication]
Ling-I Hung, Chia-Kuang Tsung, Wenyu Huang, Peidong Yang
Adv. Mater., February 26, 2010, DOI: 10.1002/adma.200903947. Read article.

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