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Investigation of Structural, Optical and Antibacterial Activity of ZnS Nanoparticles

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Zinc sulfide (ZnS) nanoparticles have been successfully prepared by sol–gel precipitation method. The successful formation of cubic structure is ensured by XRD analysis and Debye Scherrer’s equation is used to determine the crystallite size which was found to be 36 nm for ZnS sample annealed at 200 °C. Surface morphology was studied using HRSEM as well as HRTEM and lattice parameters of the samples were obtained from SAED pattern which was found to have close resemblance to values attained from XRD pattern. Further elemental mapping of ZnS nanoparticles is confirmed by EDX studies. Further Kubelka Munk function was employed to estimate the band gap value which was seen lying within 3.58 to 3.64 eV. Further the antibacterial activity of ZnS is investigated and it is found to be an antibacterial agent of Escherichia coli and staphylococcus aurous, further it can be employed as an antimicrobial agent for prohibiting implant linked infections.

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The authors acknowledge the Adhiyamaan College of Engineering for providing the infrastructure to perform this work.

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  1. Department of Physics, Govt. Arts College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, 641 018, India

    S. Vijayan & G. Umadevi

  2. Department of Physics, MGR College, Hosur, Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, 635 130, India

    S. Vijayan

  3. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, 752050, India

    Chandra Sekhar Dash

  4. PG & Research Department of Physics, Paavendhar College of Arts & Science, M.V. South, Attur, Salem, Tamil Nadu, 636 121, India

    M. Sundararajan

  5. Department of Physics, Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, 635 130, India

    R. Mariappan

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Vijayan, S., Dash, C.S., Umadevi, G. et al. Investigation of Structural, Optical and Antibacterial Activity of ZnS Nanoparticles. J Clust Sci 32, 1601–1608 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10876-020-01923-3

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