Synthesis and characterization of sno2 nanomaterials and its binary metal oxide nanocomposites

Abstract

Metal oxide nano structured particles are of profound interest due to their optical, electronic and magnetic behaviour. These unique properties depends upon the size and shape and frequent monitoring of shape, size distribution that makes the nanostructures more suitable for the applications. Fabrication of narrow dispersed metal oxide nano structures with enhanced morphology has fascinated with great interest because of their challenging properties and prominent applications in several areas including material science, catalytic behaviour, spintronics, microelectronic devices, gas sensors, fuel cells, transparent conducting oxides coatings, catalysts, optoelectronic devices, and environmental sanitization etc, which attributes a significant interest in the preparation of metal oxide nanomaterials now a days. They depicts metallic, semiconducting or insulating nature because of the difference in electronic structure. Wide energy band gap semiconducting oxides, such as SnO2, ZnO and TiO2 are utilized for a vast number of applications, including transparent conducting oxides, gas sensors, and optical components. Also reduced graphene oxides, is a material of surprising properties such as high surface area and larger charge species mobility, has lead to numerous domain areas of research and attributes the graphene attractive for manufacturing nanocomposites, that are utilized in solar cells, gas sensors, transparent electrodes for displays, capacitors, ultra high-speed and radio frequency based devices, thermally and electrically conductive reinforced composites, transparent conducting oxides shielding and photocatalytic applications newline