Room temperature synthesis of indium tin oxide nanotubes with high precision wall thickness by electroless deposition

• Mario Boehme,
• Emanuel Ionescu,
• Ganhua Fu and
• Wolfgang Ensinger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 119–126, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.14

• development of applications in optoelectronics, sensors and biomedical sciences [4][5][6]. Miscellaneous methods for the fabrication of ITO nanostructures, such as the post calcination method [7], alkaline hydrolysis [8] or pulsed laser ablation [9] have been developed and used. For fabricating metal

• nanostructures, the template deposition method, pioneered by C.R. Martin [10][11], is one of the most important processes. So far, various types of nanostructures obtained by electroless deposition have been successfully fabricated using chemical and physical methods [12][13][14]. However, the synthesis of ITO