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Nanocrystalline antimony-doped ([Sb]/([Sb] + [Sn]) = 0–2 at %) SnO2 powders have been synthesized by coprecipitation from solution. The composition, crystal structure, and microstructural parameters of the powders, as well as the antimony distribution in them, have been studied by laser mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, low-temperature nitrogen adsorption measurements, and IR spectroscopy. The reaction of the synthesized materials with oxygen has been studied in situ by electrical conductance measurements. Oxygen chemisorption on the surface of unmodified SnO2 leads to predominant formation of the molecular species O2(ads) -. Increasing the Sb concentration in the SnO2‹Sb› samples increases the fraction of the monatomic species O2(ads) -, which can be explained in terms of a combination of crystal-chemical and electronic factors.
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Original Russian Text © I.A. Petukhov, A.A. Zhukova, M.N. Rumyantseva, L.L. Meshkov, A.M. Gaskov, 2016, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2016, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 3–8.
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Petukhov, I.A., Zhukova, A.A., Rumyantseva, M.N. et al. Effect of antimony on the reaction of nanocrystalline SnO2 with oxygen. Inorg Mater 52, 1–6 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168516010131
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