title: Copper hydroxide nano and microcrystal: facile synthesis, shape evolution and their catalytic properties.
abstract: In this paper, the morphology of copper hydroxide nano/microcrystals is finely controlled by adjusting the concentration of surfactant and NH(4)Cl as well as the reaction temperature, to provide plates, belts, wires, rods and urchin-like spheres, among others. A tree-type multiple head surfactant, bis (amidoethyl-carbamoylethyl) octadecylamine (C18N3), was used to prepare the copper hydroxide nano/microcrystals and it acted as a face-selective additive in the reaction system. The morphology of the Cu(OH)(2) microcrystals could be transformed from elliptical plates into truncated square plates as the NH(4)Cl concentration was increased. The results showed that the Cu(OH)(2) crystals were better than the amorphous type of Cu(OH)(2) in catalyzing the oxidation of resorcinol with H(2)O(2). Additionally, an investigation of the formation process of the nano/microcrystals was performed, which we believe is valuable for a precise understanding of the formation and fabrication of other metal hydroxides and metal oxides.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Colloids and Surfaces, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.
authors.forename: Guanhua
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Wenfeng
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Wensheng
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Long
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiang