Novel direct synthesis of mesoporous tin dioxide network intact up to 500°C
Abstract
We present a direct soft templating method to synthesise mesoporous tin dioxide network that maintains a porous structure after calcination at 400 °C and 500 °C and has a relatively high BET surface area of 220 and 100 m2 g-1, respectively. TEM, BET and XRD results confirm that both crystal and pore sizes increase as a result of increasing the temperatures during the calcination step. This method is highly reproducible.
Citation
Aqeel , T , Greer , H F , Zhou , W , Bruce , D W & Bumajdad , A 2016 , ' Novel direct synthesis of mesoporous tin dioxide network intact up to 500°C ' Journal of Nano Research , vol 40 , pp. 79-89 . DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/JNanoR.40.79
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Postprint
Publication
Journal of Nano Research
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1662-5250Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2016, Trans Tech Publications Ltd.. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/JNanoR.40.79
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This project is supported by PAAET project no. BE-‐13-‐08 in collaboration with Kuwait University and the University of York. The support of the research administration of Kuwait University to the XPS instrument (Project No. GS02/08) is acknowledged.
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