Imperial College London
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Prof Milo Shaffer

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Professor of Materials Chemistry
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5825m.shaffer Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mr John Murrell +44 (0)20 7594 2845

 
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Location

 

401BMolecular Sciences Research HubWhite City Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Pike:2017:10.1021/acsnano.6b07694,
author = {Pike, SD and White, ER and Regoutz, A and Sammy, N and Payne, DJ and Williams, CK and Shaffer, MSP},
doi = {10.1021/acsnano.6b07694},
journal = {ACS Nano},
pages = {2714--2723},
title = {Reversible Redox Cycling of Well-Defined, Ultrasmall Cu/Cu2O Nanoparticles},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b07694},
volume = {11},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Exceptionally small and well-defined copper (Cu) and cuprite (Cu2O) nanoparticles (NPs) are synthesized by the reaction of mesitylcopper(I) with either H2 or air, respectively. In the presence of substoichiometric quantities of ligands, namely, stearic or di(octyl)phosphinic acid (0.1–0.2 equiv vs Cu), ultrasmall nanoparticles are prepared with diameters as low as ∼2 nm, soluble in a range of solvents. The solutions of Cu NPs undergo quantitative oxidation, on exposure to air, to form Cu2O NPs. The Cu2O NPs can be reduced back to Cu(0) NPs using accessible temperatures and low pressures of hydrogen (135 °C, 3 bar H2). This striking reversible redox cycling of the discrete, solubilized Cu/Cu(I) colloids was successfully repeated over 10 cycles, representing 19 separate reactions. The ligands influence the evolution of both composition and size of the nanoparticles, during synthesis and redox cycling, as explored in detail using vacuum-transfer aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and visible spectroscopy.
AU  - Pike,SD
AU  - White,ER
AU  - Regoutz,A
AU  - Sammy,N
AU  - Payne,DJ
AU  - Williams,CK
AU  - Shaffer,MSP
DO  - 10.1021/acsnano.6b07694
EP  - 2723
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1936-0851
SP  - 2714
TI  - Reversible Redox Cycling of Well-Defined, Ultrasmall Cu/Cu2O Nanoparticles
T2  - ACS Nano
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b07694
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000398014900038&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/48951
VL  - 11
ER  -
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