To study the synthesis mechanism and structural properties of nickel doped SnO2 nanostructured materials with variation of dopant concentration

Abstract

Nanocomposites are those materials which contain multiple domains with the combination of two or more different materials and possessing minimum one phase domain lying in the nanometer range (1nm-100nm). Nanocomposites materials possess so many novel and challenging properties. In present work, nanocomposites of tin oxide doped with nickel oxide were synthesized by simple chemical route method via co precipitation method. Various characterization techniques were employed to characterize the as-synthesized and calcined samples of Ni doped SnO2 nanostructured materials using diffraction by X-ray analysis, Fourier infrared spectroscopy (IR). The crystallite size of samples is determined by using Debye Scherer formulation and with considering the most intense peak. The FTIR spectrograph reveals that different peaks of metal oxides correspond to SnO2 and NiO were present in samples.