title: Structured mesoporous tin oxide with electrical conductivity. Application in electroluminescence.
abstract: Tin oxide nanoparticles (2-5 nm) have been structured using CTAB surfactant into mesoporous mpSnO(2) materials that exhibit lower electrical resistivity than the precursors SnO(2) nanoparticles and over nine orders the magnitude lower than that of mesoporous MCM-41 silica. The superior performance of these conductive mesoporous mpSnO(2) materials as hosts is clearly manifested by the fact that a conjugated polymer with 2,5-dimethoxyphenylenevinylene structure emits light at voltages below 10 V direct current when incorporated in mpSnO(2) materials, but not in analogous mesoporous MCM-41 silica or when adsorbed on the nonporous precursor SnO(2) nanoparticles.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica CSIC-UPV, Av. de los Naranjos s/n, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: Carmela
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aprile
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Teruel
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alvaro
authors.forename: Hermenegildo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Garcia