Fabrication of octahedral Atacamite microcrystals via a hydrothermal route
Fabrication of octahedral Atacamite microcrystals via a hydrothermal route
- Author(s): Jie Zhang ; Jiasheng Xu ; He Zhang ; Xiangyu Yin ; Jianhua Qian ; Lianli Liu ; Dongjiang Yang ; Xiaoyang Liu
- DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2010.0217
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- Author(s): Jie Zhang 1 ; Jiasheng Xu 1, 2 ; He Zhang 1 ; Xiangyu Yin 1 ; Jianhua Qian 1 ; Lianli Liu 1 ; Dongjiang Yang 3 ; Xiaoyang Liu 2
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Affiliations:
1: Center of Science and Technology Experiment, Liaoning Province Research Center for Silicon Materials Engineering Technology, Liaoning Province Key Laboratory for Synthesis and Application of Functional Compounds, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Food Safety, Bohai University, Jinzhou, People's Republic of China
2: State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China
3: Environmental Futures Centre and Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Australia
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Affiliations:
1: Center of Science and Technology Experiment, Liaoning Province Research Center for Silicon Materials Engineering Technology, Liaoning Province Key Laboratory for Synthesis and Application of Functional Compounds, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Food Safety, Bohai University, Jinzhou, People's Republic of China
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Volume 6, Issue 3,
March 2011,
p.
119 – 121
DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2010.0217 , Online ISSN 1750-0443
Octahedral Atacamite (Cu2Cl(OH)3) microcrystals have been successfully fabricated via a convenient hydrothermal route in the absence of any external inorganic additives or organic structure-directing agents. Powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy spectra are used to characterise various properties of the obtained Atacamite microcrystals. It is found that the morphologies of Atacamite microcrystals strongly depend on the hydrothermal conditions, in which urea plays an important role during the whole process. This work has provided a simple and effective method to synthesise Atacamite in aqueous solution, which may also be applicable to the preparation of other copper-based compounds.
Inspec keywords: scanning electron microscopy; chlorine compounds; Fourier transform spectra; infrared spectra; copper compounds; X-ray diffraction; materials preparation
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Subjects: Other methods of preparation of materials; Infrared and Raman spectra in inorganic crystals
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