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Low melting Metal Catalysed Growth of Tin Disulfide Nanotubes
Aswani YellaWolfgang TremelUte KolbEnrico MugnaioliMartin Panthoefersubject
Materials sciencePolymer characterizationAnalytical chemistrychemistry.chemical_elementCatalysisBismuthMetalchemistryChemical engineeringTransmission electron microscopyvisual_artvisual_art.visual_art_mediumTube furnaceTinHigh-resolution transmission electron microscopydescription
AbstractWe report here the synthesis of tin disulfide nanotubes by a vapour liquid solid growth using bismuth, a low melting metal, as a catalyst. The reaction was carried out in a single step process by heating SnS2 and bismuth in a horizontal tube furnace at 800oC. TEM analysis allowed proposing a plausible mechanism for the formation of SnS2 nanotubes. Pure material could be obtained by optimizing the reaction based on a product analysis using powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) combined with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX).
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2009-01-01 |