Solid-state mechanochemical conversion of one-dimensional pencil shaped sodium coordination polymer nanorods to corrugated tape silver coordination polymer nanoparticles

Irreversible solid-state conversion of Na coordination polymer nanorods with rarely seen pencil shaped structure, prepared by sonochemical procedure, to nanoparticles of corrugated tape silver polymer has been observed upon mechanochemical reaction of compound [Na(μ2-Hdcpa)(μ3-dcpa)]n (1), [Hdcpa = 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid] with AgNO3.89