Water-Dispersible Small Monodisperse Electrically Conducting Antimony Doped Tin Oxide Nanoparticles
Water-Dispersible Small Monodisperse Electrically Conducting Antimony Doped Tin Oxide Nanoparticles
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DOI:
10.1021/cm504409k
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发表时间:
2015-01
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8.6
通讯作者:
K. Peters;P. Zeller;G. Štefanić;V. Skoromets;H. Němec;P. Kužel;D. Fattakhova‐Rohlfing
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K. Peters;P. Zeller;G. Štefanić;V. Skoromets;H. Němec;P. Kužel;D. Fattakhova‐Rohlfing
We describe the fabrication of crystalline electrically conducting antimony-doped tin oxide (ATO) nanoparticles highly dispersible in polar solvents such as water and ethanol without any stabilizing agents. Nonagglomerated monodisperse ATO nanoparticles with different doping levels are obtained by a facile solvothermal reaction in tert-butanol, leading to the formation of monodisperse nanocrystals with a size of about 3 nm directly after synthesis. Electrical conductivity of ATO nanoparticles strongly increases due to the substitutional doping with antimony, reaching 6.8 × 10–2 S cm–1 for the as-synthesized nanoparticles prepared with 3–5 mol % Sb. This increase stems from transition from hopping in the undoped samples to band-like conduction in the doped samples as revealed by terahertz (THz) spectroscopy measurements describing transport on nanometer distances. The dc conductivity of the doped nanoparticles increases by about 3 orders of magnitude up to 62 S cm–1 after annealing in air at 500 °C. The el...