Issue 24, 2012
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CrystEngComm

Controlled synthesis of silver phosphate crystals with high photocatalytic activity and bacteriostatic activity†

Jin-Ku Liu,*a   Chong-Xiao Luo,a   Jian-Dong Wang,a   Xiao-Hong Yangb  and  Xin-Hua Zhonga  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, P.R. China
E-mail: jkliu@ecust.edu.cn

b Department of Chemistry, Chizhou University, Chizhou, P. R. China

Abstract

Symmetrical silver phosphate (Ag3PO4) crystals with porous structure were grown by a facile controllable route in aqueous solution. The Ag3PO4 crystals have a cubic-type structure and the morphologies are distinctive under different conditions. The crystals had high purity, were well-crystallized and were free of secondary phases by powder X-ray diffraction, IR, Raman spectra, scan electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and selected area electron diffraction (SAED). It is interesting that the different crystal faces of the crystals have high physical–chemical–biological activity and large surface areas, so as to act as high activity micro-reactors (HAMs). The HAMs can effectively improve the photocatalytic activity and bacteriostatic activity of the Ag3PO4 crystals. Furthermore, we proposed a possible growth mechanism and detailed morphology transformation process of Ag3PO4 crystals with different properties.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CE25604E
Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 Apr 2012
Accepted
17 Oct 2012
First published
18 Oct 2012

CrystEngComm, 2012,14, 8714-8721

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Controlled synthesis of silver phosphate crystals with high photocatalytic activity and bacteriostatic activity

J. Liu, C. Luo, J. Wang, X. Yang and X. Zhong, CrystEngComm, 2012, 14, 8714 DOI: 10.1039/C2CE25604E

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