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Facile Synthesis of SnO2 Nanotube Arrays by Using ZnO Nanorod Arrays as Sacrificial Templates

Yafang Tu1), Qiuming Fu2), Xiaojuan Niu1), Jianping Sang1,3), Zhijie Tan3), Xianwu Zou3)   

  1. 1) Department of Physics, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China
    2) School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430073, China
    3) Department of Physics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
  • Received:2012-05-02 Revised:2012-10-15 Online:2013-11-30 Published:2013-11-06
  • Contact: J. Sang
  • Supported by:

    Scientific Research Foundation of Jianghan University (No. 2009008), the Science & Technology Program of Wuhan City (No. 201150699189-19), the Youth Science Foundation of Wuhan Institute of Technology (No. Q201006), the Scientific Research Foundation of Wuhan Institute of Technology (No. 11105021) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61240056).

Abstract:

SnO2 nanotube arrays have been synthesized by means of a simple and low-cost method. The ZnO nanorod arrays prepared by aqueous chemical growth method were used as templates. By liquid phase deposition, SnO2 nanotubes were obtained with proper deposition time. Scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction were used to characterize the morphologies and structures of the products, and the formation mechanism was discussed according to the experimental results.

 

Key words: Nanostructure, Zinc oxide, Tin oxide