Effects of different factors on the formation of nanorods and nanosheets of silver(I) coordination polymer

•The effects of three factors on formation of Ag(I) nano polymer were investigated.•These three factors are solvent, concentration and ultrasonic irradiations.•Nanorods and nanosheets of Ag(I) CP were synthesized under these conditions.•We arranged the order of these factors upon their importance on formation of them.

In order to evaluation the effects of solvent, concentration of initial reagents and ultrasonic irradiations on formation different morphologies of [Ag2(pta)(H2O)]n (1), [H2pta = phthalic acid], nanostructures, we design some experiments and synthesized six sample of 1 under different conditions. nanorods and nanosheets of a silver(I) coordination polymer, were synthesized under these conditions. These nanostructures were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction, IR spectroscopy and elemental analyses. If we arrange the order of these three factors upon their importance in formation compound 1 nanostructures, first we can select the type of solvent as the effective factor, then the concentration of initial reagents and finally the existence of ultrasonic irradiation which can change the morphology of 1 in low concentration of initial reagents. Thermal stability of these six samples was also studied by thermo gravimetric (TG) and differential thermal analyses (DTA).

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