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Low Melting Metal Catalysed Growth of Tin Disulfide Nanotubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Aswani Yella ,
Enrico Mugnaioli ,
Martin Panthoefer ,
Ute Kolb  and
Wolfgang Tremel
Aswani Yella
Affiliation:
yella@uni-mainz.de, Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Mainz, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany
Enrico Mugnaioli
Affiliation:
mugnaiol@uni-mainz.de, Insitute for Physical Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Martin Panthoefer
Affiliation:
panthoef@uni-mainz.de, Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Mainz, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany
Ute Kolb
Affiliation:
kolb@uni-mainz.de, Insitute for Physical Chemistry, Mainz, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany
Wolfgang Tremel
Affiliation:
tremel@uni-mainz.de, Universität Mainz, Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Analytische Chemie, Mainz, Germany
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Abstract

We 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).

Keywords

catalyticscanning electron microscopy (SEM)transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

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