Phase investigation on zinc–tin composite crystallites†
Abstract
Zinc–tin composite crystallites (cubes and octahedra) synthesized by conventional methods in earlier literature, were proved to have ZnSn(OH)6 structures rather than perovskite structure ZnSnO3 as reported. Furthermore, according to the tolerance factor t introduced by Goldschmidt, ZnSnO3 can not exist as a perovskite structure.