Facile Synthesis of 1D and 2D Zinc Sulfide Nanostructures on Multi-Layered Graphene

Al-Ruqeishi SM^*, Al-Shukaili H, Mohiuddin T, Karthikeyan S and Al- Busaidi R

Department of Physics, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khoudh, Sultanate of Oman, Oman

*Corresponding Author : Majid S Al-Ruqeishi
Department of Physics, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khoudh, Sultanate of Oman
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E-mail: majidruq@squ.edu.om

Received: November 30, 2018 Accepted: February 07, 2019 Published: February 13, 2019

Citation: Al-Ruqeishi SM, Al-Shukaili H, Mohiuddin T, Karthikeyan S, Al-Busaidi R (2019) Facile Synthesis of 1D and 2D Zinc Sulfide Nanostructures on Multi-Layered Graphene. J Nanomater Mol Nanotechnol 8:2. doi: 10.4172/2324-8777.1000266

ZnS nanostructures have been fabricated over multi-layered graphene substrate via chemical vapor deposition technique. A controllable morphology of grown ZnS nanostructures, including (1D) nanowires, (2D) discs and nano-flakes were achieved by direct carbo-thermal evaporation of (1:1) ZnS and graphite powders mixture. The substrate location and therefore its temperature was found as a crucial growth parameter, which controls the morphology of the grown ZnS Nanostructures. The average diameter of the ZnS 1-D nanowires, at T= 400 °C, 2-D planar filling nano-discs, at T=300 °C, are 0.418 ± 0.007 μm, 0.600 ± 0. 020 μm respectively. At lower substrate temperature, <300 °C, a periodic round shaped features or flakes with some nanowire at their edges were formed due to nanodiscs amalgamation. This is because at a lower temperature, higher liquid instability leads to more nucleation sites and high conversion rate from liquid to solid state and therefore small nano-discs will merge to form larger flake structure. All products are cubic sphalerite ZnS in structure and with preferentially intense (111) planes. The lattice parameter for (220) planes was 5.72 Å with 5.92% strain % clearly indicate that they are in tensile stress region. Raman was utilized to define the existence of graphene layers and the ZnS nanostructures (Magnified range100-700 cm-1) on top of multigraphene layers before and after growth process. In addition, ZnS nanostructures PL emissions of violet and cyan-blue centered at 3.23ev and (2.41-2.53ev) respectively were detected and attributed to defects such as Zn2+ vacancies, S2− interstitials, and dislocations. Graphene-based inorganic hybrid nanostructures deliver several potential applications in optoelectronics and nanoscale electronics such as photodetectors, photovoltaic and optical devices.