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Hydrothermal route to VO2 (B) nanorods: controlled synthesis and characterization

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One-dimensional vanadium dioxides have attracted intensive attention owing to their distinctive structure and novel applications in catalysis, high energy lithium-ion batteries, chemical sensors/actuators and electrochemical devices etc. In this paper, large-scale VO2 (B) nanorods have been successfully synthesized via a versatile and environment friendly hydrothermal strategy using V2O5 as vanadium source and carbohydrates/alcohols as reductant. The obtained samples are characterized by XRD, FT-IR, TEM, and XPS techniques to investigate the effects of chemical parameters such as reductants, temperature, and time of synthesis on the structure and morphology of products. Results show that pure B phase VO2 with homogeneous nanorod-like morphology can be prepared easily at 180 °C for 3 days with glycerol as reluctant. Typically, the nanorod-like products are 0.5–1 μm long and 50 nm width. Furthermore, it is also confirmed that the products are consisted of VO2, corresponding to the B phase. More importantly, this novel approach is efficient, free of any harmful solvents and surfactants. Therefore, this efficient, green, and cost-saving route will have great potential in the large-scale fabrication of 1D VO2 (B) nanorods from the economic and environmental point of view.

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This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51706166, No. 51773163, No. 51273157), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WUT: 2017-ZY-002), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2016CFA008).

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  1. Center for Smart Materials and Device Integration, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, People’s Republic of China

    Shaokun Song, Qiwei Huang & Wanting Zhu

  2. Research and Test Center of Materials, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, People’s Republic of China

    Wanting Zhu

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Song, S., Huang, Q. & Zhu, W. Hydrothermal route to VO2 (B) nanorods: controlled synthesis and characterization. J Nanopart Res 19, 353 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-017-4051-z

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