“…These attractive properties have inspired the development of both physical and chemical methods to fabricate Cu 2 O nanoparticles. Oxygen plasma‐assisted molecular beam epitaxy, 13 the activated reactive evaporation technique, 14,15 the evaporation method followed by annealing, 11,16–18 and magnetron sputtering 19 are known as physical methods for the fabrication of Cu 2 O nanoparticles. Some of these methods allow for the fabrication of Cu 2 O nanoparticles of <10 nm in size, 11,14,18,19 which is favorable for the investigation of the quantum confinement effect.…”