“…Metallic copper as well as cupric oxide (CuO), cuprous oxide (Cu 2 O) or cuprous chloride (CuCl) nanoparticles, named as copper-based nanoparticles (Cu-based NPs) are commonly synthesized by using different copper salts as precursor such as CuCl 2 [2,3], CuSO 4 [4], Cu(NO 3 ) 2 [5], Cu(CH 3 COO) 2 [6] and different reducing agents such as acid ascorbic [5,6], hydrazine [2,7], potassium borohydride [8], sodium hypophosphite [9] together with solvent systems of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) [2], polyethylene glycol [4], glycerin [7,8], etc. Studies on the preparation of nano-sized CuCl have been already reported by several authors [3,[10][11][12]. In Vietnam, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no research on the synthesis of nano-sized CuCl reported so far.…”