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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2010, Article ID 403197, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2010/403197 Research Article Effects of Current on Arc Fabrication of Cu Nanoparticles M. Z. Kassaee,1 F. Buazar,2 and E. Motamedi1 1 Department of Chemistry, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-175, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Marine Chemistry, Khoramshahr Marine Science and Technology University, P.O. Box 669, Khoramshahr, Iran Correspondence should be addressed to M. Z. Kassaee, kassaeem@modares.ac.ir and F. Buazar, buazar@modares.ac.ir Received 3 May 2009; Revised 17 August 2009; Accepted 8 January 2010 Academic Editor: Lian Gao Copyright © 2010 M. Z. Kassaee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Arc-fabricated copper nanoparticles (Cu Nps) size, morphology and the crystalline structure, as well as the yields of Nps appear sensitive to the applied currents (50–160 A) in distilled water. The results indicate that the sizes of Cu Nps are directly proportional to the currents employed. At 50 A, TEM, XRD, and SEM analyses show fabrication of relatively purest, the most dispersed, face- centered cubic (fcc) brown Cu Nps with rather smallest average size of 20 nm. At the same current, the TGA-DTA analysis reveals neither weight loss nor gain, indicating thermal stability of the fabricated Cu Nps. 1. Introduction We have also reported syntheses of the low-cost Cu Nps and Cu2 O Nps preparation through explosion of copper wires There is a significant interest in the