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Abstract
Indium tin oxide (ITO), a critical n-type semiconductor material, has widely used in the field of photoelectric material due to its significant conductivity and transparency. In addition, it also has excellent gas sensitivity. In this paper, a unique ITO, hollow spherical ITO powders were prepared by hydrothermal method using PEG-4000 & DL-aspartic acid (DLAA) and PEG-400 & ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid (EDTA) as two composite templates. The preparation conditions of the hollow spherical ITO powders with 2.2 μm diameter were obtained: the precipitator is urea, the molar ratio of DLAA and In3+ is 3:1, the temperature of hydrothermal reaction is 120 °C, the time of hydrothermal reaction is 10 h, the molar ratio of PEG-4000 and In3+ is 5:1, the temperature and time of calcination is 450 °C and 3 h respectively. Ultimately, hollow spherical ITO powders were prepared and the resulting samples were analyzed for a range of properties. The properties showed as follow: the specific surface area was 64.107 g/m2, the resistivity is 164.03 Ω.cm. The formation mechanism of the hollow spherical ITO powders was discussed systematically. Significantly, unique ITO powders with hollow spherical have been obtained by template method, which has application potential in the gas sensitivity of ITO powders.
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The primary objective of the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology (JSST), the official journal of the International Sol-Gel Society, is to provide an international forum for the dissemination of scientific, technological, and general knowledge about materials processed by chemical nanotechnologies known as the "sol-gel" process. The materials of interest include gels, gel-derived glasses, ceramics in form of nano- and micro-powders, bulk, fibres, thin films and coatings as well as more recent materials such as hybrid organic-inorganic materials and composites. Such materials exhibit a wide range of optical, electronic, magnetic, chemical, environmental, and biomedical properties and functionalities. Methods for producing sol-gel-derived materials and the industrial uses of these materials are also of great interest.