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Copper and copper oxide nanoparticles in a cellulose support studied using anomalous small-angle X-ray scattering

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Microcrystalline cellulose is a porous natural material which can be used both as a support for nanoparticles and as a reducer of metal ions. Cellulose supported nanoparticles can act as catalysts in many reactions. Cu, CuO, and Cu2O particles were prepared in microcrystalline cellulose by adding a solution of copper salt to the insoluble cellulose matrix and by reducing the copper ions with several reducers. The porous nanocomposites were studied using anomalous small angle X-ray scattering (ASAXS), X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction. Reduction of Cu2+ with cellulose in ammonium hydrate medium yielded crystalline CuO nanoparticles and the crystallite size was about 6–20 nm irrespective of the copper concentration. The size distribution of the CuO particles was determined with ASAXS measurements and coincided with the crystallite sizes. Using sodium borohydrate or hydrazine sulfate as a reducer both metallic Cu and Cu2O nanoparticles were obtained and the crystallite size and the oxidation state depended on the amount of reducer.

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  1. Division of X-ray Physics, Department of Physical Sciences, P.O. Box 64, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    U. Vainio, K. Pirkkalainen, K. Kisko & R. Serimaa

  2. Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Postfach 1913, 52425, Jülich, Germany

    G. Goerigk

  3. Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoy pr. 31, St. Petersburg, 199004, Russia

    N. E. Kotelnikova

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Vainio, U., Pirkkalainen, K., Kisko, K. et al. Copper and copper oxide nanoparticles in a cellulose support studied using anomalous small-angle X-ray scattering. Eur. Phys. J. D 42, 93–101 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2007-00015-y

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