Novel direct synthesis of mesoporous tin dioxide network intact up to 500°C

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 . https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/JNanoR.40.79

Publication

Journal of Nano Research

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/JNanoR.40.79

ISSN

1662-5250

Type

Journal article

Rights

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

Description

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.

Collections

University of St Andrews Research

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8632