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LANGMUIR
Volume 20, Issue 15, Pages 6476-6481Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la0493060
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We report simple hydrothermal routes to prepare thermally stable SnO2 particles having high specific surface areas and mesoporosity. The preparation method includes a new combination of synthetic processes: hydrolysis of tin(IV) chloride at 95 degreesC in the absence of alkaline solutions (aqueous NH3 or NaOH), formation of nanocrystalline SnO2, and subsequent hydrothermal treatments at temperatures between 100 and 200 degreesC. After annealing treatments of the hydrothermally treated SnO2 particles at 400 or 500 degreesC, their crystallite sizes remained smaller than 7.7 nm and their specific surface areas were still higher than 110 m(2)/g, indicative of the high thermal stability against particle growth and sintering. Furthermore, mesoporosity evolved with a relatively narrow pore size distribution typically in the range of 3.0-4.3 nm. The effects of the hydrothermal treatment were explained by uniformization of the particle size that was beneficial to the suppression of particle growth.
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