SnO nanofibers prepared by wet spinning using an ordered porous alumina spinneret.

SnO nanofibers with uniform diameters were obtained by wet spinning using ordered anodic porous alumina as a spinneret, followed by heat treatment. Ordered alumina through-hole membrane is a suitable spinneret material for nanofiber spinning owing to its nanohole array structure with uniform-sizes holes. A polymer solution containing a Sn salt was used as a precursor solution for the wet spinning. Polymer nanofibers containing the Sn salt were continuously formed as the precursor passed through the alumina holes into a coagulating solution. Monodisperse nanofiber structures were successfully maintained, even after heat treatment at 600 °C. This process enabled the preparation of monodisperse SnO nanofibers with diameters below 100 nm, as well as the precise control of fiber diameter by changing the hole size of the porous alumina spinneret. The obtained SnO nanofibers will be useful in various functional devices.