Preparation and characterization of SnO nanowhiskers

In this paper, some single-crystalline Stannous oxide (SnO) nanowhiskers were successfully prepared by a wet method using SnCl2·2H2O as raw material and cetyltrimethylammoniumbromide (CTAB) as surfactant. The morphologies, purity and sizes of the products were characterized by transmission electron microscopy, powder X-ray diffractmetry and standard selected area electron diffraction. The results showed that the diameter and the length of the particles were 10–30 and 200–400 nm, respectively. The influence of some reaction parameters, including the pressure, the temperature, the surfactant and the reaction duration, on the formation, morphology and particle size of SnO crystallite is discussed.