22-05-2013 | Baojiang Jiang; Zhongwei Hou; Chungui Tian; Wei Zhou; Xian-Fa Zhang; Aiping Wu; Guohui Tian; Kai Pan; Zhiyu Ren; Hon ..., CrystEngComm, 2013

A facile and green route for the two-dimensional (2D) TiO2@Ag heterojunction structure had been developed for improving the visible light photocatalytic activity. The edible corn crispy was selected as the biomass template to fabricate 2D-TiO2@Ag heterojunction composites. The various ...

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22-05-2013 | Chenyan Wang; Zhen Fang; Fan Fan; Xiaona Dong; Yin Peng; Shenhua Hao; Liuyang Long, CrystEngComm, 2013

A simple strategy to synthesize monodispersed and high-homogeneous Cu39S28 micro/nano-crystals via a solvothermal method was reported. The structure, morphology and size of the products were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction, X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy, scanning electron ...

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22-05-2013 | Qinghong Zhang; Li Zhang; Yaogang Li; Hongzhi Wang, CrystEngComm, 2013

Hierarchically nanostructured TiO2/WO3 photocatalyst was synthesized via the subsequent hydrothermal treatment of electrospun TiO2 nanofibers in the presence of tungstic acid. With a uniform WO3 seed layer providing growth sites, the nucleation on the nanofibers was uniform, thus uniform WO3 ...

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22-05-2013 | Xu-Jia Hong; Ming-Fang Wang; Hong-Guang Jin; Qingguang Zhan; Yi-Ting Liu; Hong-Yang Jia; Xiang Liu; Prof. Yue-Peng Cai, CrystEngComm, 2013

The temperature-driven single-crystal to single-crystal transformation of a new erbium(III) coordination polymer with ligand benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylic acid (H2bidc), {[Er(bidc)(ClO4)((H2O)3]·3H2O}n (1) to [Er(bidc)(ClO4)]n (2), has been reported and structures of 1 and 2 were determined ...

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22-05-2013 | Ke-Zhao Du; Mei-Ling Feng; Jian-Rong Li; Xiao-ying Huang, CrystEngComm, 2013

Two cluster chalcohalide compounds, namely [Cr7S8Cl2(NH3)14.5(H2O)1.5]Cl3•H2O (1) and [Emim]2[Sn2As2S4(S2)2Br2.43Cl1.56] (Emim = 1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium) (2), have been ionothermally synthesized and characterized. The structure of 1 features a corner-shared double-cubane-like cationic ...

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22-05-2013 | Josip Bronic; Ana Palčić; Boris Subotic; Valentin Valtchev, CrystEngComm, 2013

Various factors affect the process of zeolite formation and thus the characteristrics of ultimate material. The present study is devoted to the influence of the density of the starting aluminosilicate hydrogels, i.e. the amount of the solid phase in the system, on the characteristics of the ...

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22-05-2013 | Koichi Kagesawa; Eiji Hosono; Masashi Okubo; Jun Kikkawa; Daisuke Nishio-Hamane; Tetsuichi Kudo; HaoShen Zhou, CrystEngComm, 2013

High power Li ion batteries have been strongly demanded for the application to electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Nano-structuring of the cathode materials is one of the most effective to realize the high power, because the short Li-ion diffusion length and the large surface area ...

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22-05-2013 | Bin Liu, CrystEngComm, 2013

An investigation of the reaction conditions influence on the self-assembling Ru2(CO3)43- paddle-wheel precursors and Co2+ ions in aqueous solution has resulted in a series of Co(II)-Ru2(II,III) hetero-metallic complexes with different composition and dimensionality, namely ...

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22-05-2013 | Shuai Ding; Yanfei Gao; Yufei Ji; Yanqin Wang; Zhiliang Liu, CrystEngComm, 2013

Homochiral crystallizations of single-stranded helical coordination polymers were constructed using V-shaped bridging ligand dicyanamide (1,5-dca-) and chelate auxiliary ligands. The enantiomeric nature of 1 and 2 is directly induced by the chirality of the auxiliary ligands. Whereas, the ...

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22-05-2013 | Chunmei Duan; Daibing Luo; Rui Shang; Zhien Lin, CrystEngComm, 2013

Three manganese phosphate-oxalate hybrid solids, Mn2(2,2’-bpy)2(H2PO4)2(C2O4) (1), Mn2(phen)2(H2PO4)2(C2O4) (2), and (4,4’-H2bpy)0.5Mn(H2PO4)(C2O4) (3), have been prepared under solvent-free conditions. These compounds have chain-like or layered structures exhibiting photoluminescence and ...

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