Nanoscale excitations in emergent materials NEEM 2015

In the present work, we present a cost effective method for the mass production of high-purity ZnO nanorods (NRs) with uniform size distribution, based on the combination of thermal decomposition of zinc acetate dihydrate and probe sonication in acetone. The quality of the produced ZnO NRs, (which already showed antimicrobial properties in a previous study ) is assessed through various characterization techniques including field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL) and validated by comparison with ZnO microrods (MRs) and ZnO-nanoparticles (NPs).