Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2017 Dec 4;7:16905. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-17295-0

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s) 2017

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

PMC Copyright notice

(a) SEM image of Cu₂O nanocubes showing cubic morphology with an individual isolated nanocube shown in the inset. (b) Size distribution of each of the Cu₂O nanocubes analysed with a peak side length of 293 ± 18 nm. (c) XRD pattern of Cu₂O nanocubes where (111) crystal facet has the highest intensity. (d) XPS Cu2p scan showing Cu 2p 3/2 peak at 932.5 eV and Cu 2p ½ peak at 952.4 eV with satellite peaks at 943.8 eV and 946.3 eV representing the formation of Cu₂O with small amounts of the CuO impurities based on the satellite peaks at 944.3 eV and 963.1 eV.