Synthesis of organic ligand passivated zinc selenide nanorods via wet chemical route

Abstract

Zinc selenide (ZnSe) nanorods have been synthesized by simple and inexpensive wet chemical method using N-Methylaniline as a capping agent. The morphologies and structure of ZnSe nanorods have been characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The SEM and TEM reveal the formation of nanorods. XRD shows the cubic structure with the lattice constant of 5.633 Å. Strong “blue shift” absorption is observed from UV–visible spectrophotometry. The enhanced luminescence property is measured from photoluminescence spectrophotometry. The presence of N-Methylaniline in the ZnSe nanorods is confirmed by the Fourier transformed infrared spectrum.