| Abstract
| - Although synthetic investigations of inorganic nanomaterials had been carried out extensively over the past decade, the rapid synthesis of crystalline microporous nanostructures with a high surface−volume ratio is still a significant challenge. In this work, by combining the excellent properties of both microwave heating and surfactant, we developed for the first time a novel surfactant-assisted microwave heating route for the rapid synthesis of crystalline microporous SnO2 with a very high sensitivity to ethanol. The formation mechanism of the as-prepared microporous SnO2 was been investigated and discussed in this paper. Furthermore, this synthetic route was shown to be a general and rapid method for the shape-controlled synthesis of metal oxide nanostructures.
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