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Hydrothermal Synthesis of Tin Oxide Nanoparticles

ZHANG Jian-Rong; GAO Lian   

  1. State Key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure; Shanghai Institute of Ceramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai 20050; China
  • Received:2003-08-19 Revised:2003-10-09 Published:2004-09-20 Online:2004-09-20

Abstract: Nanocrystalline tin oxide particles were synthesized by the hydrothermal method from the starting
material tin nitrate, free from the widely used tin chlorides. The obtained nanoparticles were characterized by means of FT-IR, XRD and
TEM. FT-IR shows that the particles are well crystallized at the hydrothermal temperatures. XRD shows that the obtained particles are
in the cassiterite structure (SnO2), and the diffraction peaks are considerably broadened and the broadening becomes narrower as the hydrothermal temperature
turns higher. The unit cell volume of the SnO2 nanoparticles shrinks with the growth of the particles. TEM shows the particles are all monodispersed and have narrow size distributions.

Key words: SnO2, nanoparticle, hydrothermal synthesis

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