Derek Miller wins Roland B. Snow award

Congratulations to Derek Miller who entered the ACerS Ceramographic contest and won best of show (Roland B. Snow award) at the 2015 MS&T conference last week! The image was taken on the Sirion SEM located at CEMAS.

SnO2 nanowires were grown from commercial FTO slides using the vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) method forming the backbone of these long strands. These were placed in a microwave-assisted hydrothermal chamber where TiO2 nanorods nucleated radially from the SnO2 nanowire cores. This “nano-tinsel” structure is being investigated for its gas-sensing and photovoltaic properties.