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Vol. 6 No. 3 (2014)

Doping Induced Tailoring in the Morphology, Band-Gap and Ferromagnetic Properties of Biocompatible ZnO Nanowires, Nanorods and Nanoparticles

https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03353788
Javed Iqbal
Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Tariq Jan
Laboratory of Nanoscience and Technology, Department of Physics, International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan
Yu Ronghai
Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Sajjad Haider Naqvi
Karachi University, Karachi, Pakistan
Ishaq Ahmad
Nanational Center for Physics (NCP), Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Corresponding Author: Javed Iqbal

javed.saggu@iiu.edu.pk

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 6 No. 3 (2014), Article Number: 242-251

Abstract

The modification of nanostructured materials is of great interest due to controllable and unusual inherent properties in such materials. Single phase Fe doped ZnO nanostructures have been fabricated through simple, versatile and quick low temperature solution route with reproducible results. The amount of Fe dopant is found to play a significant role for the growth of crystal dimension. The effect of changes in the morphology can be obviously observed in the structural and micro-structural investigations, which may be due to a driving force induced by dipole-dipole interaction. The band gap of ZnO nanostructures is highly shifted towards the visible range with increase of Fe contents, while ferromagnetic properties have been significantly improved. The prepared nanostructures have been found to be nontoxic to SH-SY5Y Cells. The present study clearly indicates that the Fe doping provides an effective way of tailoring the crystal dimension, optical band-gap and ferromagnetic properties of ZnO nanostructure-materials with nontoxic nature, which make them potential for visible light activated photocatalyst to overcome environmental pollution, fabricate spintronics devices and biosafe drug delivery agent.

Keywords

ZnO Fe doping Dipole-dipole interaction Band-gap tailoring Ferromagnetism Cytotoxicity
Iqbal, Javed, Tariq Jan, Yu Ronghai, Sajjad Haider Naqvi, and Ishaq Ahmad. 2014. “Doping Induced Tailoring in the Morphology, Band-Gap and Ferromagnetic Properties of Biocompatible ZnO Nanowires, Nanorods and Nanoparticles”. Nano-Micro Letters 6 (3):242-51. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03353788.
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