Abstract & Overview
Abstract Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructure (NS) materials with different shapes were synthesis via pulsed laser ablation in water. The characterizations were done using X-ray diffraction XRD, and scanning electron microscopy SEM. The XRD results proved the presence of the (100) and (002) patterns, referring to the ZnO NS. The SEM images show that the structures were changed from flakes with a thickness of about 10-50 nm to spherical like structures with diameter from 24 - 42 nm and high agglomerated. Also, the antibacterial activity of ZnO NS was studied and the results manifested that the inhibition zone inStaphylococcus aureus (S.aureus)is higher than inEscherichia coli (E.coli),which showed an inhibition zone againstS. aureus(21mm), as well as againstE.coliwas (15mm) for ZnO NS prepared at 25 laser pulses, and these activities increased with an increased number of laser pulses for both type of bacteria. Therefore the ZnO NS materials are recommended as a powerful Anti-bacterial material