Abstract
Novel silver clusters have been prepared by simply carrying out the silver mirror reaction on certain reactive substrates. Leaflike fractal silver microstructures and perpendicularly aligned silver nanosheets were produced on a commercially available copper foil and sandpaper-rubbed copper foil, respectively. The surface features of copper foils and the chemical state of Cu atoms play important roles in regulating the morphological structures of the resulting silver clusters. Silver nanoclusters with various morphologies ranging from the leaflike to flowerlike hierarchical structures can be produced from the silver mirror reaction on commercially available copper foils after being treated with a dilute aqueous HCl solution under different conditions. The aqueous solution of silver nanosheets shows an optical absorption spectrum with a broad light-scattering peak at about 350 nm, compared to a corresponding surface plasmon absorption band around 430 nm for silver nanoparticles from the conventional silver mirror reaction on glass.
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