Issue 10, 2011
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CrystEngComm

Porous SnO2nanowire bundles for photocatalyst and Li ion battery applications†

Yutao Han,a   Xiang Wu,*a   Yulin Ma,b   Lihong Gong,a   Fengyu Qua  and  Hongjin Fan*c  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Design and Synthesis of Functional Materials and Green Catalysis, Colleges of Heilongjiang Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, P. R. China
E-mail: wuxiang05@gmail.com

b College of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China

c Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371 Singapore
E-mail: fanhj@ntu.edu.sg

Abstract

In this work, we report the synthesis of porous SnO2 nanowire bundles with high yield through a simple solution approach. The bundles are composed of porous SnO2 nanowires with overall diameters in the range of 80–120 nm. Growth control of the sample morphology is demonstrated by adjusting the dose of Sn precursor. Functional tests of the nanowire bundles include photocatalytic effect in the degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB), and electrochemical properties as a Li-ion battery anode. The electrochemical test reveals that the as-synthesized product shows a very high reversible capacity and Coulombic efficiency in the initial cycles, as well as reasonably good cycling performance compared with other SnO2 nanostructures. Such porous SnO2 nanostructures synthesized by the simple and cheap method are expected to have application potential in waste water treatment and/or energy storage.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CE05171G
Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 Feb 2011
Accepted
01 Mar 2011
First published
16 Mar 2011

CrystEngComm, 2011,13, 3506-3510

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Porous SnO2 nanowire bundles for photocatalyst and Li ion battery applications

Y. Han, X. Wu, Y. Ma, L. Gong, F. Qu and H. Fan, CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 3506 DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05171G

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