Interfacial hydrothermal synthesis of SnO₂ nanorods towards photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange

Highlights: • Efficient interfacial hydrothermal strategy was developed. • 1D SnO₂ nanorods as an advanced photocatalyst. • SnO₂ nanorods exhibit photocatalytic degradation of the MO. - Abstract: One-dimensional (1D) SnO₂ nanorods (NRs) have been successfully synthesized by means of an efficient interfacial hydrothermal strategy. The resulting product was physically characterized by X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscope, etc. The as-fabricated SnO₂ NRs exhibited excellent photocatalytic degradation of the methyl orange with high degradation efficiency of 99.3% with only 60 min ultra violet light irradiation. Meanwhile, the 1D SnO₂ NRs exhibited intriguing photostability after four recycles